Executive Recruiters Association (ERA)

Dear Visitor,

	We asked each member "why did You join ERA". Their responses appear below.
	One or more of these reasons may prompt you to think about joining us; or you may have a totally different reason.
	We invite you to attend the monthly chapter meetings and meet us. Contact the Convener of the Chapter in your city and he / she will keep you posted on the meeting dates.

Note:

	To retain the personal touch, we would have preferred to list all the replies just one below the other. However, it would have made the page rather too long. We have tried to achieve brevity while retaining the personal touch and therefore there are overlaps.
	The reasons do not appear in any particular order.
	We are still getting the answers, but we did not wish to wait.

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Here it is – straight from their heart – No corrections, no editing.

I joined ERA because

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.

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Unexpected benefits of joining ERA :

When I had a fire in office, ERA offered to help...I was truly touched by this offer. Here is a community that is willing to help another member of its fraternity in times of trouble.
I made good friends in the association
We help each other to take certain decisions, which affects the business.
We conduct training sessions, and more than anything, we make it obvious to those who do not realise that "There is room for everyone".

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