CHENNAI: Even as it has just made an entry into Tier II cities to hunt for talent, Scope International Private Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), has decided to tap non-graduates to work on simple processing and hire housewives for select flexi-time jobs.

Indicating this at a press conference here on Thursday, Sreeram Iyer, Chief Executive Officer, said what Scope was planning to do in the recruitment sphere was something new in the banking BPO (business process outsourcing) space. Mr. Iyer said Scope was looking at inducting 150-200 people from these two categories. Scope had plans to add headcount by 1,100 by the end of 2006. Currently, it had an employee base of 4,100, he added.

The CEO said Scope's decision to draft non-graduates stemmed from its confidence in its training capabilities. The non-graduates would be given non-complex jobs and that Scope would part-fund their education as they worked and earned.

"Their (non-graduates) recruitment will be based on certain basic parameters like communication skills, analytical ability and attitude,'' he added.

On the move to offer flexi-time jobs to housewives, he said Scope would identify women who had worked earlier but had to discontinue for several reasons and those who had longed to work but never had the opportunity. The recruitment for these two categories would be done through referrals and walk-in interviews. The compensation would be 15 per cent less when compared to other entry-level jobs, he said. Nevertheless, he made it clear, there would be no differentiation in their treatment.

Mr. Iyer said Scope had completed a round of recruitment in Coimbatore and would soon head for cities like Tiruchi, Pondicherry, Cuddalore and Salem.

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