Recruitment portals developing innovative tools to filter tech talent

NEW DELHI: Online recruitment portals are developing innovative tools to help technology companies spot the right talent in a market where there is a shortage of skilled professionals.

These ventures help their clients filter candidates, administer specialised tests and make the right choice in a process designed to deliver quality rather than quantity.

"Companies always want the best developers, who can build the best platform or the next iPad, our job is to filter candidates accordingly," said 26 year old Harishankaran K, co-founder of online recruitment portal InterviewStreet.

Founded in 2009 by two NIT Trichy graduates, it was the first Indian startup to be selected by the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator in 2011 and has also raised funds from Khosla Ventures. The Bangalore-based firm now has clients including Facebook, Flipkart and Amazon and expects a revenue of up to 18.7 crore this fiscal.

A number of such portals including Hirerabbit.com and HasGeek are helping aggregate supply in the fragmented Indian online recruitment sector dominated by older ventures such as Naukri.com.

Interview Street creates coding challenges based on client requirements and also allows clients to administer tests from any location and in real time.