MeritTrac to enter more verticals

MeritTrac Services Private Limited, a skills assessment service provider for recruiting firms, aims to extend its business beyond the information technology and business process outsourcing areas to insurance and education domains, company officials told reporters here on Thursday.

The company had also successfully completed a pilot assessment project for the National Productivity and Competitiveness Council, a government of Mauritius body as part of a consortium led by Transcend Holdings, the company said. MeritTrac will partner with Vantage Agora Inc, in the United States to address that market.

To help direct its business, the firm had inducted Ashish Gupta, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, into its board. Gupta is associated with other ventures such as Junglee, Tavant and Daksh.

Madan Padaki, co-founder and a director of MeritTrac Services said, "We intend to build on the success of the Mauritius project and the US partnership by signing more partnerships in various geographical areas and undertaking more international projects."

The company has also tapped into the government sector. Since the middle of last year it signed up three state governments under its SkillsTrac service.

It has recently added the government of Orissa as their assessment partner. In the coming months, the company anticipated more such business by signing more state governments and expanding the scope with existing partnerships, the company said.

MeritTrac has 10 centres, including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Trivandrum, Chennai and Hyderabad, with some 150 staff who have assessed resumes of about 5 lakh applicants to jobs in companies such as Accenture, IBM, Oracle, SAP Labs, Infosys and Wipro, the release said.