HCL Attempts To Hire Candidates With #CoolestInterviewEver Campaign On Twitter

Trying to bring a revolutionary change in hiring, IT Service provider HCL Technologies has initiated a very cool recruitment campaign.

With an intention of tapping into the vast talent pool that frequents Social Media Portals, HCL has come up with #CoolestInterviewEver, an attempt to hire qualified candidates. The campaign which started yesterday, will witness HCL conducting a series of interviews exclusively over twitter and offering the winning candidate an opportunity to work on a yearlong strategic project with the company’s top management.

What is the campaign and how to apply: The #COOLESTINTERVIEWEVER will run for three consecutive weeks, allowing participants from all over the world to connect and interact with HCL HR executives through twitter.

Participants need to follow the company on Twitter and answer 6 questions to register themselves. The process of evaluation and selection will be carried out by HCL HR executives completely on Twitter, including the one-on-one interviews with the top five applicants. In the third and final week, HCL will select a single winning candidate to serve for 12 months as one of the following roles of his or her choice, clarified a statement from the company:

Ideapreneurship Evangelist: The selected candidate will get a chance to travel to different HCL offices and share his/her ideas and thoughts with other HCL employees.
Big Data Guru: The candidate will get to work directly with HCL’s Analysis and Data Research teams.
Hacker–In–Chief: The candidate will get an opportunity to work closely with HCL’s web design and project delivery teams.
Womenspiration: The chosen candidate will be aligned to HCL’s employee branding team and will interact with HCL employees to explore new avenues within the organization where women will emerge as future leaders and help craft a strategy to ensure women empowerment within HCL

HCL has always proclaimed to follow Employees First, Customers Second management philosophy in order to “unleash the innovative thinking of empowered employees”. Though this approach may seem radical, it is now very common for companies and recruitment agencies to go talent–hunting on the Social Media Platforms. Multiple instances have proven that this trend is not only here to stay, but is growing. HCL has merely taken a dedicated approach. Will others follow suit?