New Hope For Job Hunters-Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games has raised hopes of young professionals who are jobless due to the current economic slowdown. Headhunters are targeting professionals across the board to meet the manpower needs of the games.

Besides good salary, government is offering job contract for two years. Headhunters, appointed by the government have started scouting for 1,000 professionals for 34 functional areas specified by the Games’ secretariat.

Organising committee has appointed three headhunters—ABC Consultants, Ma Foi Management Consultants and a consortium of TeamLease and PeopleStrong—for the job. Headhunters have begun recruiting process for about 1,000 jobs across all levels of senior, middle and junior management roles.

A senior official in the organising committee, who did not wish to be identified, said that the selected vendors have been appointed to suggest names and budgets for professionals that need to be recruited. “We have begun the recruiting process and interviews are being carried on for top posts,” he told ET.

Government has still not made the financial disclosure on salaries that are being offered but appointed headhunters suggest that there is a lot of excitement to work, for the much-feted 2010 Commonwealth Games, across all sectors.

ABC Consultants chief executive officer Shiv Agarwal said that even though the job will be offered for two-year contract, industry professionals consider this a fine opportunity to work for a truly global-level sporting event. “People are ready to leave their jobs, they consider this event as an opportunity which will add value to their profiles,” he told ET.

The Games organising committee has constituted a structure of 34 functional areas, including finance, logistics, construction, legal, technology and administration. In addition, there will be teams devoted to managing television and radio broadcasting, communications and press relations to project a positive image of the game in Indian and international media.

Besides looking for skilled professionals for conventional areas like catering, security, hospitality, the government is also identifying a team of experts who will work on showcasing opening and closing ceremonies that are “unparalleled and unmatched” and a group of professionals on medical care, who will strictly implement doping control measures.

Further, government will build a team, which will identify product range to be covered under merchandising and licensing programme in order to maximize the visibility of the ‘Commonwealth Games brand’ through the sale of products bearing marks owned by organising committee. The functional area officers will be responsible for delivering time-bound milestones to put up the global sporting event.

For all functional areas, the committee has drawn a structure for multiple positions in each area. In all, government is seeking talent for five level hierarchies: additional director general (ADG), deputy director general (DDG), director, project officer (PO) and assistant project officer (APO).

The scope of work requires 12 ADGs, typically with 12 to 15 years of experience, who will be responsible to lead the functional area and provide strategic direction. About 30 DDGs and directors with 5 to 12 years of industry experience in the concerned field will head and handle departments’ end-to-end functions.

Largest number of freshers and young professionals with less than four years of experience will be hired for the post of POs and APOs to handle various activities in the functional area. Up to 1,000 people will be hired in these two levels apart from volunteers who will work on the ground with them.

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