I am not HR consultant and I am not IT recruiter either. But I have been observing the IT industry for quite a few years and I wanted to share my observations and would like to seek from the public their experiences or trciks.
Of late there are many Asian companies started their shops in India and especially in Bangalore. There has been shortage of IT resources…but more importantly shortage for IT recruiters. So these companies hire people who wear many hats and perform IT recruitment , Administration, operations management etc., This lucky so-called-recruiter accesses the popular Job portals such as Naukri, MonsterIndia and advertises for vacant positions inside the company. Candidates keep checking the job portals quite often or they get job alerts quite often!!. Some of the Asian companies may not be full-fledged product development companies nor they are well established consultancies in software domain. Similarly some of the job seekers are not very serious to join every company that advertises for the position. The company sometimes get a short project and projects saying they have BIG road map for the growth of the organization and the same way the Job seekers say they are very excited to join this new company within next few days. After the job advertisement the cycle of phone calls and interviews start. Let us bring that first-time-IT-recruiter of recently opened Asian companies in Bangalore and India. The recruiter is excited to see the response for his ad in the job portal and communicates with his senior management that they can go ahead and plan for the successful delivery of the projects to the clients of the company. Job seekers are not dumb!! They attend the interviews knowing that the MNC in which they are working is definitely better than the one in which they may decide to join (or not!). The Recruiter completes the ’so-called-HR round’ which discusses in most of this kind of cases, just the CTC, notice period, relocation convenience etc., and makes an offer to the job seeker. The Recruiter may be short-listing the candidates in the ratio of 4:1 if he has knowledge about the typical IT Job market!! Else he might go with 1:1 ratio. Whereas the Job seeker (obviously!!?) will have couple of interviews lined-up and tries to pick up the offer extended by this Asian company ( i am using this Asian company, as I observed this trend with many of the small companies which opened their shops in Bangalore, india recently to make money out of growing software solutions business). The recruiter thinks that he is not giving any hardcopy of the offer and he thinks that the email offer may not be used by the Job seeker to negotiate a better offer with Job seeker’s next trials. It has been long story…nah..well job seekers are smart and ask any of the 2-10 year experienced person in IT industry …how they get the salary increased within just couple of months of joining an MNC or well established Product Development companies. Job seekers are SMART…Job hoppers!! if you are reading this blog and have smarter moves taht you have employed or proposed to use..please share for the benefit of many young IT folks 
More later guys and gals, ladies and gentleman
