Frequently Asked Questions
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How does TalentSherpa bring efficiency to the campus recruitment process?
What are the benefits of using TalentSherpa?
How does a company come to TalentSherpa?
What are the registration charges?
What is the minimum requirement for a company to subscribe to TalentSherpa?
Can I use this platform to recruit directly on campus?
The campus I recruit from is not on your platform. Can I bring them on board?
Ours is a small company in terms of number of employees. We are not a household name. How do we attract students?
Answers to the above questions:
How does TalentSherpa bring efficiency to the campus recruitment process?
- You can forget tracking excel sheets, zip files and countless emails.
- Around 60-80% of tedious processes are automated.
- You get to view and sort standardized profiles across campuses.
- You get a consolidated dashboard that can be used by multiple users.
What are the benefits of using TalentSherpa?
- You save crucial time and efforts. This translates to cost saving.
- You can increase your reach to campuses by at least 2 - 8 times.
- You have transparency across multiple users.
- You can search, sort, shortlist talent across campuses to find the best fit.
How does a company come to TalentSherpa?
- Fill in your company details online and our representative will contact you.
- You can get invited by a school using TalentSherpa
What are the registration charges?
- There are different subscription fees depending on your requirements.
- When a b-school invites you, you get a limited access to the platform at no cost.
What is the minimum requirement for a company to subscribe to TalentSherpa?
- Any bonafide organization that hires talent on b-school campuses can subscribe to TalentSherpa.
- The platform is not offered to placement agencies/ consultants as of now.
Can I use this platform to recruit directly on campus?
- Companies are encouraged to route the recruitment process through the campus placement cell as part of relationship building and to manage the interview process.
- But if you want to communicate directly with students, you can select that option.
The campus I recruit from is not on your platform. Can I bring them on board?
- Yes you can invite campuses onto the platform.
- Once you let them know of your preference for an online process, we will get in touch with them to complete the registration formalities.
Ours is a small company in terms of number of employees. We are not a household name. How do we attract students?
- You can use the TalentSherpa to showcase attractive and relevant details about your company
- This could include information on the clients you work with, your leadership position in a niche market, your pioneering product or service, the work culture, employee benefits.
Why does an institute need TalentSherpa?
How does TalentSherpa help my institute stand out from the crowd?
Is TalentSherpa a substitute for campus placement teams?
Why is the TalentSherpa resume tool important?
How do companies on TalentSherpa see our institute profile or website?
Which companies are on TalentSherpa?
Do all the companies get to see all the students in all campuses on the platform?
Do all job profiles posted by the recruiter go through the placement cell to the students?
What if a placement cell does not want to entertain a particular employer?
What does CVL do to prevent spammers using the website?
How does an institute get registered for the placement work flow? How is student information uploaded on the website?
When does the placement process get activated?
What is the technological infrastructure the institute must have to come onto this online platform?
Will you ensure that our students get placed?
What if my institute does not want to buy the tool that automates its placement process? Can the students still use the platform?
If a joint campus placement takes place, which institute would host it?
What will happen to the login of a student if he/she leaves the institute or is blacklisted from placements?
How will the platform help us manage our data and communicate with students?
What if I have to print resumes when the company comes on campus?
What happens to a student once he is placed? Will he still be visible to companies?
Answers to the above questions:
Why does an institute need TalentSherpa?
- TalentSherpa lowers your costs/time/efforts in communication and co-ordination.
- At least 60 - 80% of your placement process is automated.
- Your recruiter relationships do not get dropped as there is a smooth transition of database and communication to the next placement team.
- Students get an integrated resume tool that is linked to the recruiter.s search and sort feature.
- Campus confusion during placement season is reduced thanks to live updates on separate individual student dashboards linked to the placement cell.
- You can reach out professionally to many more companies globally.
- You can use TalentSherpa for summer internships, live projects, and final placements.
How does TalentSherpa help my institute stand out from the crowd?
- Your recruiters get to experience a very convenient way to recruit at your institute. This is crucial as companies are becoming more cost and time conscious.
- You have the opportunity to position yourself professionally, globally 24 X 7 with precise, relevant, in depth student information unlike typical placement brochures.
Is TalentSherpa a substitute for campus placement teams?
- No. It is a convenient tool for campus placement teams.
- It empowers placement teams to manage the placement process more professionally and efficiently.
Why is the TalentSherpa resume tool important?
- The integrated resume tool makes resume creation systematic, quick and professional.
- Students. resumes captured in a database are linked to recruiters. search & sort options like specialization, academic performance, work ex, achievements etc. This makes it easy for a recruiter to select the students.
- The international one page resume design is a result of more than 10 years of resume guidance, recruitment at b-schools like Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Symbiosis.
- More than 5000 students from top to mid level institutes in India have used this format to build confidence and communicate their strengths to recruiters.
How do companies on TalentSherpa see our institute profile or website?
- Every employer you invite gets an online portfolio of your students.
- This online portfolio highlights your institute.s and students. strengths.
- The platform increases the probability of companies directly viewing your institute's online profile and available talent.
- A link to your official website is also provided on the platform.
Which companies are on TalentSherpa?
- The institute can invite their regular recruiters onto TalentSherpa.
- Companies invited by CVL range from niche tech bigwigs to well known companies
- CVL continues to reach out to more companies
Do all the companies get to see all the students in all campuses on the platform?
- No. When you invite a company, it gets to see only the student profiles your b-school.
- Premier companies using TalentSherpa can view all the students/ b-schools.
Do all job profiles posted by the recruiter go through the placement cell to the students?
- We encourage recruiters to route their requirements through the placement cell.
- If recruiters prefer to contact a student directly, he has that option.
What if a placement cell does not want to entertain a particular employer?
A b-school has the right to decline a job profile or company.
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What does CVL do to prevent spammers using the website?
- All b-schools and recruiters are by invitation only. This minimizes the probability spamming.
- Our system has the capability to track spammers.
How does an institute get registered for the placement work flow? How is student information uploaded on the website?
- The institute purchases the TalentSherpa license.
- Through a simple onboarding process placement cell members and students get their individual subscriptions.
- The resume tool guides the students on the kind of data to present on the resume.
When does the placement process get activated?
- Placement cell can activate the placement process once the resume creation process is completed.
- This will make the student visible to companies who have begun scouting around for talent even before the placement season.
What is the technological infrastructure the institute must have to come onto this online platform?
- No software or hardware needs to be installed. No IT person is needed.
- The students and institute must have access to a good internet connection.
Will you ensure that our students get placed?
- TalentSherpa is a tool that improves the chances of getting placed.
- It takes care of processes like creating professional resumes that the recruiter can search and sort easily, responding to a recruiter, coordinating with students and recruiters etc.
- Placement happens because of various factors including the state of the economy, quality of students, alumni associations and performance.
- How a student/institute uses these tools effectively is up to them.
- Ultimately, it is the unique talent of the individual student that will decide where he or she gets placed.
What if my institute does not want to buy the tool that automates its placement process? Can the students still use the platform?
Yes. The student can register directly with CVL and be available to the recruiters on the platform
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If a joint campus placement takes place, which institute would host it?
This is a company's prerogative. We help institutes and companies co-ordinate dates and venues using the schedule interview feature on our platform. However, these may require telephonic discussions with all parties concerned.
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What will happen to the login of a student if he/she leaves the institute or is blacklisted from placements?
The placement cell of an institute has the option of blocking a student at any stage of the placement process if the student does not qualify for placement process.
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How will the platform help us manage our data and communicate with students?
- You can shortlist students who satisfy a company's requirement
- Automatic notifications happen on a separate individual dashboard.
- You can track the placement process from short listing, scheduling interviews, and selection of students.
What if I have to print resumes when the company comes on campus?
- The TalentSherpa allows the resume to be published into PDF format which is printable
- The PDF format ensures no one can tamper with a student's resume
What happens to a student once he is placed? Will he still be visible to companies?
- Once the student accepts an offer, his status will show up as placed. His resume will not show up in searches.
- This ensures ethical behaviour and safeguards the interests of all parties.
How does an individual student get a log in to TalentSherpa?
How does using TalentSherpa benefit me as a student?
Is there a deadline for uploading the resume?
Is it possible for a student to be short listed for more than one job at the same time?
What happens when I am placed?
Can a student directly communicate with the company?
Can recruiters communicate directly with the students?
Answers to the above questions:
How does an individual student get a log in to TalentSherpa?
A student can access the CVL platform in 2 ways:
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- When the institute purchases the TalentSherpa subscriptions from CVL, all the students get their log in ids and passwords
- An individual student can approach CVL directly and can get the log in and password
How does using TalentSherpa benefit me as a student?
- Filling in your resume using the resume tool makes your resume a part of our database. Your resume data can be used by recruiters to sort students on specialization, academic performance, work ex etc. The pioneering .Advanced Search. feature allows recruiters to search for students on their skills or achievements.
- You get an online public profile created along international resume format guidelines. Developed over 10 years of resume consulting experience, the resume format is similar to the ones used at Universities like Yale, Stanford, Harvard and is offered to you at a minimal price. You can send this profile of yours to a potential recruiter directly.
- If your institute is a platform user, recruiters can access the online institute brochure with all students' profiles.
- You can continue using TalentSherpa even after you graduate
- Your placement goals are met using an induvidual consolidated dashboard with features like real time updates.
Is there a deadline for uploading the resume?
- We recommend you create your resume within 7days of login.
- Filling in all your details ensures that you will show up on recruiters' searches
Is it possible for a student to be short listed for more than one job at the same time?
Yes, it is.
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What happens when I am placed?
- Once the student accepts an offer, his status will show up as placed. His resume will not show up in searches.
- This ensures ethical behaviour and safeguards the interests of all parties.
Can a student directly communicate with the company?
Right now, only the placement cell can communicate with the recruiters.
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Can recruiters communicate directly with the students?
The recruiters can send job profiles, notify shortlisted candidates, notify interview schedule directly to students if they select that option.
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Is TalentSherpa different from other online job portals? How?
On what basis has CVL created these tools on TalentSherpa?
Is TalentSherpa or CVL a placement consultant?
What is the technological infrastructure necessary for TalentSherpa?
Answers to the above questions:
Is TalentSherpa different from other online job portals? How?
- To begin with, TalentSherpa is not an online job portal.
- It is a specialized platform that automates a major part of the campus recruitment process and connects talent holders (students), talent developers (institutes), talent seekers (employers) seamlessly.
On what basis has CVL created these tools on TalentSherpa?
- The CVL team has hundreds of years of man experience both locally and globally in talent development and talent matching.
- These combined insights have led to the development of solutions to bridge the gap between the industry and institutes.
Is TalentSherpa or CVL a placement consultant?
- No. TalentSherpa is a platform that makes campus recruitment more efficient for the institute, employers and students.
- CVL works with business schools to help them develop better placement strategies and with organizations to find better talent on campus.
What is the technological infrastructure necessary for TalentSherpa?
- There is no software or hardware installation. No IT person required.
- You simply need a good internet connection to plug and play.