- A professional colleague vouched for it.
To contribute in whichever way we can towards professionalising the recruitment industry and thereby create respectability for the profession.
To give to the profession and not about gaining in revenue by associating.
ERA brings the value based recruitment fraternity together. It would give an opportunity to understand, appreciate and resolve issues, which are common to this fraternity and help in building recruitment as a consulting industry. It globalizes the collective presence and localizes the issues that are common.
To build additional credibility of the services that we offer.
To control the unethical consultants in the industry.
To create more hope to client for our quality of work
We definitely need a body, which can look into individual interests of all of us. This body has to define certain business guidelines which in turn will define certain points by which there will be recognition by organizations on the type of work being done by the recruiters. There has to be certain norms and definitions of ethics across all members. When you are talking to clients if we follow certain standards that will give us a width when we meet them.
No industry has ever progressed without a strong association. The association must be large and strong to present and get its views accepted. I joined ERA to support this effort.
It is the only professional forum, which represents Search, Selection and Staffing collectively in the Indian sub-continent. Hopefully the forum will contribute to attain Industry status in our area of service.
To influence government, to bring in radical changes in Labour Reforms.
To interact with members to share knowledge, experience, best practices and benchmarking.
To meet like-minded professionals in formal as well as informal gatherings.
It is very natural for a group of HR / Recruitment professionals to come under an umbrella to know each other, know the industry better, set better standards for us and the practice and best of all GO Global !!!!!!!! . We need to understand that the needs and expectations in our industry have gone up considerably. A professional body of Recruiting organizations can go a long way in making all of us understand the market dynamics better.
The sole purpose is to get a platform where the consultants are treated as fellow human beings. This reason has disappeared in the last ten years, when "yet wet behind the ears / upstart H.R. Executives” started joining software industry with huge salaries that even most of their parents are not earning at the fag end of their services.
Networking opportunity inter and intra city. Intra is big time. Enhances productivity, which is good for those looking for expansion. Get the CV not available in your city by sub contracting.
- Negativity involved in a competition stands eliminated.
- Down the road ERA member tag will have recognition.
- Unethical client info exchange.
Wanted to be associated with the premier recruitment association of India.
I believe in the long run, there will be direct monetary benefits by collaborative marketing - both at the client end and at the candidate end.
To tell the Corporates that placement consultants are also having unity and they are not competitors to anybody.
I actually got into ERA without any expectations as such - more out of the interest - in making friends with others in the same community. Only after I joined ERA, I actually realized that there is a crying need for a forum to represent the recruitment fraternity.