TeamLease eyes tier-II cities in Andhra Pradesh

TeamLease Services Private Limited, a Bangalore-based provider of temporary staff to corporates, is eyeing tier-II cities in Andhra Pradesh for recruitments for the booming manufacturing and hospitality sectors that are set to spread gradually to other parts of the state.

With plans to tap the significant potential that these sectors are bound to offer, the company, which has been hiring one person every half an hour for the last three years, has identified more than half-a-dozen tier-II cities such as Warangal, Guntur, Vijayawada, Vizag, Tirupati, Rajahmundry, Nalgonda and Nizamabad.

"The companies engaged in manufacturing and hospitality services in these tier-II cities hold promise of good job opportunities for highly-qualified workforce like production operators and back-end support staff for executing core functions. Many companies are relying on small-time local contractors for outsourcing temporary staff. We intend to tap this vast potential through organised placement services," Deep Mukherjee, vice-president of TeamLease, told Business Standard.

"We have already visited some institutions and campuses for recruiting ITI, engineering and hotel management students to scale up temporary staff on the rolls in the state to around 20,000 by the end of the current financial year from the present 6,000 to cater to the needs of our new clients that include Nutrine and ITC," he said.

"We are currently operating from our offices in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. Whereas we are servicing our clients through associates in other tier-II cities and remote locations of the state. We plan to open offices in those cities if the demand for temporary staff continues to rise," he added.

Besides Andhra Pradesh, TeamLease is also focusing on Chennai and Bangalore and is contemplating scaling up its temporary staff to 18,000 and 15,000, from the current 8,000 and 12,000 respectively in the next four months.

TeamLease currently has over 56,000 employees on its rolls across 464 locations with 22 offices in the country, and is aiming at becoming the largest private sector employer in the country by 2007 with a one-lakh employee strength.

The company posted gross revenues of Rs 520 crore last year and plans to reach the Rs 700-crore mark next fiscal.