SMART JOURNAL OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDIES VOL. 11 NO. 1 PAPER 8
 
RECRUITING THE RIGHT RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT FOR A SOFTWARE COMPANY - THE KEY PARAMETERS
 
Poorani .T* and Thiyagarajan .S**
*     Research Scholar, Department of Management Studies, Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, India
**   Assistant Professor, Department of International Business, Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, India
 
Outsourcing has become one of the most necessary and vital aspects in Human Resource Management. The growing trend in Recruitment Consultancy, with respect to meeting the industry demands, has made the software companies predominately dependent on them. Thus, software companies face a big challenge in choosing the right one who could cater to their recruitment needs in a timely and cost effective manner from the whole pool of recruitment consultants. This paper aims at focusing the expectations of the software companies with respect to the selection of suitable recruitment consultants for their company, with the key parameters that would suffice any software company to ensure that they choose the right recruitment consultant to cater to their recruitment needs.
 
KEYWORDS: Recruiting, Selecting, Consultants, Software Companies, IPSOS MORI Advocacy Model JEL CLASSIFICATIONS: O15, J53, M15 FULL TEXT