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Monday, 26 September 2016

HR News: 26 Sep, 2016



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PharmEasy to double its employee base in six months
The company plans to expand its talent pool to 500 from a current strength of 200, which is further expected to grow ten times over the next two years.
PharmEasy, a digital facilitator connecting local pharmacies with consumers, recently announced that it plans to rapidly expand its team in the next six months. In its bid to further facilitate and make the process of accessing medicines hassle-free, the company plans to more than double its talent pool to 500 from the current strength of 200. This number is expected to further grow ten times over the next two years.
The online health aggregator looks on course to achieve this goal, having already doubled its talent pool in the last two months by adding over 100 associates in its team. Since April last year, when PharmEasy started its operation as a five-member team, it has grown to 200 employees already.
The diversified recruitment drive in PharmEasy, has been mainly catering to two branches — tech and operations. In the former, back-end engineers, front-end engineers, Android developers, iOS developers and data scientists have been inducted. In the latter, process management, city operations, area operations and strategic initiatives personnel have been incorporated.

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1400 jobs on offer for Porsche’s electric car
These jobs would cover the developing, building and selling of the battery-powered Mission E.
In line with its parent Volkswagen's (VW) efforts to overcome its emissions scandal, Porsche is planning to develop zero-emission cars. This will boost the number of jobs for its first all-electric model by more than half of the previous targets.
The automobile giant recently revealed that it plans to create about 1,400 jobs to develop, build and sell the battery-powered Mission E, a rival to Tesla's Model S, that is due to roll off the assembly line at its Zuffenhausen base in 2019.
Porsche has set up a unit specifically to develop mobility concepts and uncover new business areas, for which it is looking to hire another 350 digital experts.

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Digital hiring to attract youth
Snapplication is aimed at reaching out to the digital savvy youth, who are early adopters of newer social media platforms.
The path of digital hiring, especially social media recruiting, has been treaded by many. However, there is always scope for innovation in the ways potential candidates can be reached through digital platforms. Following the trend, WATConsult, a digital and social media agency that’s now part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, recently concluded a digital recruitment campaign, ‘Snapplication’.
This campaign was targeted at the tech-savvy youth, specifically in the age bracket of 21–24. The campaign with two interesting phases was able to generate enough curiosity among the target audience. It received a massive turnout on social media with the Facebook Page receiving nearly 3000 organic likes and engaging 80, 515 users daily. The daily page impressions went up to 9, 07,107. On Twitter, #Snapplication trended for three hours creating 18.7 million impressions, 2337 tweets and 126 re-tweets. Average tweets per day counted up to 824 tweets.

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