The Indian Employment Industry has always been bereft of reliable data and has never afforded accurate data for a variety of reasons. This is because, the industry is & has remained very scattered – in terms of

•  Spanned over a large geographical area.
•  Lack of adequate & proper registrations with the appropriate Govt. bodies.
•  An organized sector complemented by a very strong unorganized sector.
•  Consequently even from the government's point of view, capturing & mining this data, across the sectors has always been a great ordeal.

However ERA is now embarking on defining the
•  The size of the Industry.
•  Periodic growth (Quarterly, Half yearly, Annually )
•  No. of players – both in the organized & unorganized sector.
•  Specially focused on the “emerging & the high growth verticals like FMCG, Media & Entertainment”.

ERA would be keen to tie up or get into strategic alliances with people / bodies, who have the Synergetic objectives.
ERA has broadly classified the Recruitment Industry into –

•  Search
•  Selection
•  Staffing

Its focus, today, is lot less on “ Export of Manpower – more at the Lower end ”
Based on the feedback we have got from our 100 + ERA members, the estimates of ERA in terms of –

•  The size of the Recruitment Industry is estimated at Rs. 20,200 Crores.

•  Growth of the Industry –

Search	Selection	Staffing
50 %	50 %	70 %

ERA is presently getting into a structural research to define the industry in a more
Scientific way – Geographically, Sectorally, Verticals wise, Industry wise etc.