TCS is overhauling how it hires contract staffers. Vendors are not happy
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd rented a US -based company to deal with third -party personnel sellers, as India’s largest CT Services provider increased transparency in recruitment processes.
The Pontoon Solutions, a managed service provider, will become a bridge between TCs and two dozen plus vendors and will ensure that BT Giant, a employee consisting of employees to hire and place candidates from companies in the contract, will not direct contact with the resource management group (RMG).
“Two months ago, we have been informed that we will have to work with the pontoon solutions.
TCS’s obligation to hire will be uploaded to Pontoon’s platform. After the sellers send their candidates’ profiles against these openings, Pontoon will make the first screening level and TCS will receive the last call. Pontoon is an unit of Adecco company.
TCS and Pontoon did not answer MintQueries sent on Saturday.
Sector managers are aware of the issue Mint For the last few years, TCS has become tight in recruitment methods.
Suppliers are no longer allowed to contact the company officials for any interrogation of their duties. Instead, the authorities are published on a portal and sellers must feed their resumes. However, these portals were managed by TCS. Now it is changing.
CT Giant’s resource management group places and uses candidates in different profiles according to their skills.
“The importance of RMG is gradually becoming gradual. This will provide full transparency, but all sellers will not be with this change,” he said.
Hiring through the DUBA and personnel companies will constitute 8-10% of TCS’s recruitment. The contract employees are hired from six months to one year and are found in the seller’s payrolls.
The company hire full -time positions from campuses and HR team. The TCS also works with Headhunters to fill the C-Suite gaps. In June quarter, TCS brought its total to 613,069 and hired 5,090 employees.
Mint He could not independently determine whether other IT companies were in the process or process of creating a similar process for sellers. Allegis Global Solutions, KellyoCG, Tapfin Pontoon’s competitors.
Service fee obstacle
TCS’s sellers have another concern. Mint He learned that recruitment agencies may have to pay 2% service fee to the pontoon if the candidate is on the short list.
TCS uses a three -rate plate for recruitment vendors and may vary between the amount of billing La30,000 and LaProfile is 100,000 for each employee placed in the contract depending on its uniqueness and scarcity of ability.
A senior manager working with a bengaluru -based recruitment company, ık We wanted TCS to respond to the wage structure. The sellers working with CT company for decades are upset that they will have to work through a third party.
At a series of meetings a few months ago, TCS called on third -party vendors to raise their games and promised a sweetener to help them take steps.
How TCS cope with personnel sellers changes, Mumbai -based IT company revenue in June quarter of 0.59% decreased to 7.42 billion dollars, respectively. This decrease was due to slow things from India, which increased most of its income last year. A contributing factor, geopolitical tensions and a trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump, companies around the world wandered in macroeconomic uncertainty, slowing down in foreign markets.
TCS, InfoS LTD, HCL Technologies Ltd, Wipro Ltd and Tech Mahindra LTD, including the first five homes grown by the CT external performance.



