About the Company
PriorityONE Consulting has worked for over a decade in the space of permanent hiring, executive search, talent market research and HR services for national and global customers; specializing in serving product companies, BFSI global giants, startups and technology firms. PriorityONE Consulting‘s flexible models of engagement help companies bring the best and brightest talent within their fold. Currently, the company is spreading its services aggressively in HR Services and industry-academia interface too.
Market Landscape
The current market landscape of recruitment services in India is segmented primarily in senior executive search, mid management search and junior level search. These three segments need varied approach to hiring based on each segment’s unique needs. There is a lot of fragmentation in recruitment services business and many companies come and go as barrier to entry is low but delivering consistent service over many years is tough. Also, in spite of tools and technology, there is a big human touch involved in good hiring. The future market for recruitment services is growing rapidly in coming years. Indian economy is turning the cycle and this is seen as multiyear opportunity for Indian companies to grow and reach bigger scales. There shall be strong talent hiring for both these purposes in India. Initiatives like “Make in India” and other sincere efforts of government to bring FDI in India bring in more global companies to India which looks at Indian talent to service not only local needs, but also global needs.
Challenges
Although the current market landscape of recruitment services is fragmented, it is changing for the better and companies such as PriorityONE Consulting which offer integrated solutions such as RPO, psychometric and technology assessment centers, pre-filtered candidates and integrated services relevant to the business and people needs of customers stand to gain more market share with superior match making. The days of just sharing a resume from job board by searching for keywords and getting your billing done, are over and now customers seek value and want to form relationship with companies which duly care for their success, as well as give enough value for business success. Moreover, many new startups and upcoming ventures depend on good hiring decisions for their very survival – hence recruitment services become paramount for them, if they help get the right talent for their needs.
Services
PriorityONE has evolved its service offerings portfolio to cater to needs to customers over the years and many customers have remained with them for over a decade demonstrating their full confidence in the services. Broadly, the company has embraced technology and human expertise to cater to customer demands. Whether it is using pre-interview tools such as coding contests or hackathons, or using elaborate interviews and assessments to give better pre-selected candidates, PriorityONE has been on the forefront of these techniques. The company caters to the complete spectrum of services that clients need:
They also offer HR Interventions, Capabilities benchmarking and full spectrum HR audits which directly impact business.
Differentiating Factors
PriorityONE has been striving to become the most customer centric company in the recruitment arena and give utmost commitment to customer success. Their long lasting relationship and customer focus has been a huge differentiator for them. These are some key areas where the company gets an edge over theit competitors:
Reliable Reputation
Over 87% of the company’s current business comes from personal referrals and repeat business built over past decades. They have proven themselves trustworthy in results and processes and our long-lasting business patrons vouch for it. PriorityONE has delivered results in a predictable, reliable and effective manner across business cycles.
Superior Sourcing Strategies
Top talent does not come just with a job portal access or static databases. PriorityONE uses customized innovative searches, all-year-round reach out programs, leverage internal referrals and multi-channel searches to continuously scout and place top talent in market for unique needs of their clients.
Industry Specialists
PriorityONE Consultants are groomed to be industry specialists, be it mature technologies, upcoming technologies, or technology specific to a particular vertical like BFSI, Retail, or Healthcare.
Very Wide Reach
The company has a huge network, in industry as well as academia, professional as well as personal, around all key technology and industrial hubs, to reach a large candidate audience so that the client can get access and select the best for their business and technology needs.
Strive and Stretch
Many of the clients are on very tight hiring schedules and PriorityONE can work long hours round the clock if needed, weekdays or weekends – conduct internal or external drives to ensure quality services.
Superior Service
Superior Customer Service has been one of Priority’s key differentiators and key competitive advantage. The firm focuses and strives to get 100 percent customer satisfaction and customer delight. The teams at PriorityONE focus on long term relationships with both customers and candidates and winning trust.
Clients
In the past, PriorityONE has worked successfully for Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Bank of America, TESCO, and several big and small setups in India.
Organizational Culture & Employee Programs
PriorityONE Consulting strives to be the most employee centric company in the recruitment arena and gives utmost commitment to their employee development and learning. There is noceiling for achievers in PriorityONE work environment. A young and ambitious team at Priority has a strong passion to perform and achieve professional finesse while working The company focuses on inculcating an open culture where team spirit leverages individual excellence, and strive for excellence in a learning environment.
Some of the key employee programs include:
Ongoing Training and Development Programs
Priority beleives in raising the benchmarks of their consultants all the time by providing them updated knowledge, skills and expertise to surpass their customer expectations.
Woman Power
The company gives special focus and development opportunities to women. There are women employees on a Pan-India basis who contribute immensely to the customers.
Festival Celebrations
Harboring Innovation
It is extremely urgent for recruiters to be ambitious and bring in new ideas and processes to serve the changing needs of customers. Over the years, recruitment industry is witnessing huge changes; social, mobile and cloud and have not only changed the way recruitment is done, but also many of the clients are changing their traditional ways too. This gives a rise to the company need to be at cutting edge all the time. PriorityONE has a special Learning & Development Program which focuses exclusively on innovation on all fronts. They constantly train their consultants, conduct seminars and have workshops where they brainstorm and learn from each other. The company brings in industry specialists from diverse background who bring in valuable Outside-In perspective. Priority also has cash prizes for their employees who bring about suggestions and recommendations on innovating the processes.
Global Strategy
PriorityONE Consulting has been focused on expanding its offerings across domains. Their Go-to-Market plan now includes opening offices in Dubai by this year. The firm has delivered recruitment mandates for USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai and now is forming business development partnerships to strengthen it further.
Quick Facts
1) Year of founding: 2004
2) Funding information: Boot strapped and Self Funded
3) Founding members:
a) Neelam Dwivedi (IIT Delhi & MBA Wharton School of Business, Successful Entrepreneur)
b) Sudhakar Gorti (IIT Kanpur, Successful entrepreneur, currently leading e-marketing product startup)
4) Office locations: Bangalore, Gurgaon
5) Company strength: 50+
6) Website: www.PriorityOneIndia.com
