Eyeing more hands,Games panel on hiring mode

This is good news primarily for those in the security and transport industries. The hiring plan for the organising committee was prepared in detail by Ernst and Young and Event Knowledge Service — the latter was consultant for Rio de Janeiro when the Brazilian city pitched for 2016 Olympics.

“We have hired in a piecemeal format,with a definite schedule for bringing each person on board,” joint director-general (workforce) N P Singh said.

At present,808 employees and 49 consultants,including 34 foreign consultants,are on the organising committee’s payroll.

While the committee is on the lookout for supervisors,planners and such,for security,it plans to stick to police and other state forces.

But post-downturn,the organising committee is not only worried about retaining present employees but is also concerned that the list of new applicants would get thinner as the job market gets better,Singh said. “Games are not an organised sector in India,” Singh said,“so people know that once the event ends after eight months,they will cease to be employed. This can be a cause for attrition.

“Anticipating this,we have introduced several schemes to make sure no one wants to quit.”

In a recent proposal for employees who stay on board till the Games get over on October 14,the committee announced an additional 15 per cent of their total salary during their stint with the committee. It also promises placements for employees after the event as well.

“After October,the employees should not feel they have been left without any options,” Singh said. “We will be job-hunting for them.”

But the committee,he said,failed to get any response to its communiqués to IIMs and IITs,requesting the alumni of these prestigious institutions to work for them. Apart from Amity University,it has not conducted any campus hiring either.

Although the organising committee maintains the present attrition rate is negligible,there are several notable names who have quit the organisation recently,including head of technology Sujeet Panigrahi.

Birthday bashes and regular parties,meanwhile,keep up the employees’ spirits.