Mumbai: PGC Infotech, a division of Tirupur-based textile group Prem Group of Companies, has introduced video interviewing to the Indian recruitment scene with the launch of its career gateway whereismyboss.com. 

According to the company, with increasing attrition rates, bridging the skill gap and bringing about efficiencies in recruitment is the niche that its portal whereismyboss.com is looking to service.

The company says that traditional job search mechanisms which have their roots in newspaper classifieds, focus on collecting the highest volume of jobs and job-seekers in one place, thereafter leaving it to them to sort things out. The company says this structure has become increasingly flawed, with an employer getting a large base of responders, with over 90 per cent of them ill-suited to the position.

Whereismyboss.com aims to deliver immense time and cost efficiencies for both sides of recruitment process. According to D Prem, chairman, PGC Infotech, the portal is a unique career gateway that uses some of the simplest technologies to solve complex recruitment problems. ''Our online technology in conjunction with Burning Glass technologies artificial intelligence will provide intuitive relevance in matching people with jobs based on its unique understanding of people and their careers and ensure that distance and time can no longer be an impediment in conducting one-on-one interview on a real time basis.''
 
As per Matt Sigelman, CEO, Burning Glass Technologies (BG), ''We are very excited to see our intelligent matching technology at the core of this new endeavour. At whereismyboss.com, BG technology is being used initially to speed candidates through the registration by pre-filling the registration form with the data it extracts from the resume.''

Headquartered in Boston, Burning Glass Technologies (BG) is the leader in developing intuitive, contextual solutions for human capital management that allow employers to understand people through its insightful predictions.

These systems provide employers with the basis for more accurate and more proactive decisions for recruiting, developing, optimizing, and retaining the 'right' talent.  BG technologies deliver intuitive insight across a range of functions, from recruitment processing to talent management to career counselling. 

The company's patented artificial intelligence engine learns from actual career patterns as observed in both structured and natural language contexts; because the most robust information is often found in narrative formats rather than in forms, the Burning Glass Lens™ engine is able to analyze and extract data directly from free text. 

As a result, it exhibits an intuitive, real-time, and self-learning awareness of how and when people move from job-to-job and of the kinds of skills and experiences that lead to successful placement and performance in their local job market.

He said that this would improve candidate experience, increase registration rates, and drive superior quality of data capture.

For the future, BG's patented artificial intelligence match technology will be an integral part of whereismyboss.com alerting candidates of relevant positions and of how it helps employers focus quickly on the right talent.''

Addressing the need for better efficacies in recruitment, Prakash Kewalramani, chairman, Executive Recruiters Association, said ''The job market in India is growing exponentially.  This career gateway is a next generation portal that will lead the way for providing both job seekers and employers the highest number of relevant results.'' The portal will only allow active resumes to be matched to opportunities thus reducing the time spent by employers on screening, standardized formats will be followed using Burning Glass technology to make resume search less time consuming and more effective.