Reliance Jio to hire up to 80,000

Reliance Jio plans to recruit 75,000-80,000 people during the current fiscal, said a senior official.

A good chunk of the new recruits will be freshers, said Sanjay Jog, chief human resources officer. He disclosed that a little more than 1.50 lakh people were on the rolls now.

For reaching out to the prospective candidates, the company would bank on its partnerships with about 6,000 colleges across the country as well as employee referrals as it looked to attract talent from smaller towns.

“These are technical colleges, graduate colleges, ITIs... where we have encouraged people to come and work for us during [their] summer [vacation],” he said on the sidelines of a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) conference here on Thursday.

Attrition rate

On attrition rate, he said it was 32% in sales and technical areas. “If you look at headquarters, it is 2%. On an average... it will come down to 18%,” he added. To a query, he said the average attrition rate in the telecom industry used to be 20-22%.

On training for new recruits, Mr.Jog said the emphasis was on making sure that when a person was appointed, he should be ready to start working in 24 hours. Much of the training is thus imparted online before the candidates actually join the firm. The company was working with the colleges to embed a course towards making the candidates ‘Reliance ready.’

The hiring decision was driven by Reliance Jio’s objective of covering 99% of the population by Diwali and its plan to unveil more products.