Reliance HR to recruit 5 lakh staff in 4 yrs

Pradipta Mukherjee / Kolkata April 10, 2008

Reliance HR Services (RHRS), a human resources company formed by the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), will recruit half a million people for the group in the next four years.

These recruits will be deputed to Reliance Communications, Reliance Webstores, Reliance Capital, Reliance Consumer Finance, Reliance Money, Reliance Life Insurance and Reliance Energy.

About 90 per cent of these employees will be on sales functions, while the rest will be on the back-end and customer service functions.

Amitava Ghosh, CEO, RHRS, said, “Currently, about 20,000 employees are on RHRS payroll, serving various ADAG companies.”

RHRS has also formulated a plan for the five forthcoming financial years to become a global HR outsourcing and consultancy organisation.

“By 2013, RHRS will evolve into an end-to-end HR outsourcing provider and an HR consultant,” Ghosh said. By 2009, RHRS plans to offer HR outsourcing services.

“We can offer HR outsourcing services to companies that operate in sectors such as retail, IT BPO, among others,” Ghosh said.

RHRS also plans to offer consultancy services, including compensation surveys and feedback reports.

To recruit a sizeable number of people, RHRS is planning a series of job fairs in the country. Guwahati has been selected as a pilot location.

The company will recruit freshers, who will be paid Rs 7,000 to Rs 12,000 a month, depending on the cost of living of the city.