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Recruitment Process
We only hire laterally with potential candidates needing to have a minimum of 3-4 years of work experience to be considered for a position with us. The main focus while hiring is to find people with the required competence set who can fit into our company culture. Once the candidate is selected, he is taken through an intensive training program in our India office. The training program covers product context in a field setting, international language skills and equally importantly a deep cultural immersion into the company.
Unlike other companies, the candidate’s past work experience is not so important for us. We fundamentally believe that if the potential candidate has the competence set we seek, and is a potential fit with our company culture, we can teach him the basics of our business in a matter of 4-6 months. Our track record of high quality and consistent performance speaks for the fact that this approach is superior to the hiring approach of traditional companies, where past work experience is the most important hiring criterion.
Why work with us?
We understand the fundamentally important things we need to do right to make our company a nice yet productive place that delivers superior financial performance. Twisting Tolstoy’s words, but not taking away the meaning, we believe ‘it takes ten things right to make a nice and productive team and one thing wrong to make the same team walk around like the living dead’.
Our roles offer the following:
1. Exciting Role: Roles which are hands-on, offer high freedom to operate and lead to a tremendously deep and varied learning experience which will fundamentally change you into a better individual over time.
2. Enabling Environment: The pleasure of working in a high energy, friendly and yet a completely meritocratic work environment.
3. Career Growth: Career Growth: Growth in line with a fast growing company which is inclined, as much as possible, to fill available positions from within.
4. Attractive Compensation: A well thought through compensation package, with a significant incentive component offering the rewards for high discretionary effort, and designed with a clear aim to place our people in the top 10-15 percent bracket in our industry.
What do we look for?
1. Execution: Ability to work long hours on the field and enjoy getting their hands dirty. Must be able to multi-task and yet have an eye for detail. Exhibits determination that comes from within and results in superior execution performance.
2. Commercial Skills: Exhibit commercial skills, the courage to stick one’s neck out and take bold initiatives to create value for the organisation. Focussed on the task at hand and yet has the courage to take calculated risks, some of which may go wrong.
3. Ownership & Team Player: Manages the business as if running his own business. Works well with teams across geographies to meet mutually important goals. Learns and shares learning for the larger good of the company.
4. Leadership: The leadership skill set to effectively manage and lead a team of expatriates/country staff in countries far removed, in distance as well as in cultural environment, from their native country.
5. Intellect: Thinking skills to develop effective strategies and manage risks in the context of the business which is in their span of control. Over time must develop the ability to influence larger company level strategic decisions.