Mars Consultancy runs BPO and customer experience hiring across India and the UAE, and has done since 2015. We staff voice, non-voice, chat and blended processes, inbound customer service, outbound sales and collections, back-office transaction processing, quality, training and floor leadership, from single-batch replacements to drives that fill an entire new floor.
This is the sector where volume hiring is the whole job. A contact centre is not hiring to fill a vacancy, it is hiring against a monthly attrition number and a client go-live date at the same time. If a process runs at 4–6% monthly attrition, a 300-seat floor loses somewhere between twelve and eighteen people a month before a single new requirement is raised. The hiring plan has to cover backfill and ramp together, every month, or the floor is short on the day the client audits it.
The metric that decides whether a drive worked is not CVs sourced. It is joiners on the batch date. Between a shortlisted candidate and a joiner sit four separate drop-offs, turning up for the drive, clearing versant and comms grading, accepting the offer once the shift and the CTC are on the table, and actually reporting on day one after two competing offers arrive. We run drives with backup ratios and follow-up built in for exactly that reason, because a 200-seat drive almost never fails on sourcing. It fails on throughput and follow-up.