The Essar Group with an asset base of Rs.17,000 crore (US $3.5 billion) has its presence in core sector businesses. Essar's businesses are at the heart of the Indian economy - Steel production, Exploration and Drilling of Oil, Power generation, Constructions, Shipping and lately the sunrise sector of telecom services, to continue the Group's rapid growth

At the Essar group, we believe that excellent companies built individual by individual. By transforming each employee into a highly motivated, satisfied and productive team member, we will reap an outstanding organisation.

We also understand that each individual has unique talents and needs. Based on those principles, human resources development at Essar is customised, flexible and well planned.

Every Essar employee is meticulously selected and given the freedom to be innovative, within a work culture that is non-bureaucratic and result-oriented. We work with employees to develop personalised and flexible individual plans for career growth, retention and compensation within a carefully structured work framework.

Through extensive career mapping, we offer a choice of career paths that could include job rotations across functions and group companies. The Essar group's wide range of businesses and exciting pace of growth presents a range of opportunities and exposure that few other companies can match.

Essar has a very serious commitment to continuous training and development. Our world-class Essar Learning Centre provides year-round training. We provide numerous resources for self-assessment and development. Thus, a career with the Essar group offers a unique opportunity to unlock your own potential and realise excellence.

Continuous opportunities for development and growth - that's the firm commitment that Essar makes to every single employee. The Essar group is one of India's largest spenders on continuous training, investing about Rs. 1.4 crore (US$ 3 m) annually. Essar Learning Centre (ELC) at Hazira, Gujarat has emerged as one of India's foremost training facilities, training 2,000-odd people a year through 7,000 man days of training.

Being a dedicated facility, the ELC allows us to design tailor-made and flexible programmes, so that training at Essar is always relevant and customised both to business needs and the needs of the individual. Our programmes cover a wide range of technical, functional and behavioural training, from materials management to e-commerce procurement to transformational leadership and communication and negotiation skills. Our faculty includes the best of experts and practicing managers. Since we believe in imparting managerial & behavioural training, we also include a number of non-business modules like corporate etiquette or parenting skills. The ELC also has extensive resources for self-development such as a business library of books and audiovisual material. Thus, we support and encourage all Essar employees to develop themselves to the fullest.

OUR PROGRAMMES

The Executive Leadership Camp (ELC)

The Executive Leadership Camp (ELC) is a six-day residential programme held at the Essar Learning Centre at Hazira, Gujarat. This comprehensive programme transforms junior management employees into effective business executives.

Participants in this holistic programme begin their day with yoga. Throughout the programme, they learn more about Essar's key values and culture through modules like quality & customer orientation, Essar leadership values, organizational & behavioural etiquette, a value meet and a plant visit. They learn how to become part of the organisation team through modules like self-awareness and interpersonal relationship, conflict management, group dynamics and team building, leadership & leadership styles & followership. The programme also builds their personal management skills by teaching useful skills like assertive skills, time management and presentation skills. A fun outbound module allows them to reinforce and use skills like teamwork or strategic thinking through specially designed outdoor games and activities such as a treasure hunt or rappelling.

The Management Development Programme (MDP)

The Management Development Programme (MDP) is a six-day residential programme that aims to prepare middle management executives for newer roles in a changing environment. The MDP helps make middle managers active and effective participants in organisational processes like planning, implementation and decision-making.

After beginning their day with yoga, participants learn how to contribute to organizational growth and excellence through modules like Essar leadership values, quality (kaizen), customer satisfaction, striving for excellence, cost reduction and continuous improvement. They learn how to be effective managers with modules like the role of a manger in the present scenario, performance management, goal setting, team building, people development, conflict management and counselling skills. The programme enhances their personal management skills by teaching segments like self-awareness, leadership, assertive skills, motivation, integrity/personal values, negotiation skills and corporate etiquette. A fun two-day outbound module allows them to reinforce and use skills like teamwork or strategic thinking through specially designed outdoor games and activities such as a treasure hunt or rappelling.

HIRING PRACTICES

The Essar group has a strong emphasis on hiring at the entry level, to create a pool of talented employees who are developed and groomed to grow with the group.

At the entry level, the group hires mainly through two types of programmes:

The Management Trainee Programme

Through the management trainee programme, Essar hires post graduate management students from top ranking business schools throughout India. Trainees are initially hired as a group resource for a range of functions such as marketing, finance, human resources and operations. Essar makes selections between December and February, through a rigorous selection process. Selected candidates then go through a comprehensive one-month induction programme, which includes classroom sessions, an introduction to all the group companies, plants and corporate functions, and a six-day executive leadership camp at the Essar Learning Centre.

Soon after the induction, in an interview with corporate human resources each trainee has the opportunity to discuss mutual expectations, a career map and the group company and assignment that he or she will be posted to. Trainees are confirmed after completing the one-year management trainee programme. Depending on their capabilities, management trainees can usually look forward to a faster career track, an expanded role and eventually, a leadership position within the organisation.

The graduate engineer trainees (GETs)/ diploma engineer trainees (DETs) Programme

The Essar group prides itself on using global-scale, world-class

technology in all its companies. To maintain our technical edge, the group hires engineer trainees annually through an in-depth selection process. Between August and January, Essar hires graduate engineer trainees (GETs) from the IITs and the top-ranking regional engineering colleges across the country, and diploma engineer trainees (DETs) from the best polytechnics in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and other regions of the countries to source the best talent available.

Information Courtesy www.essar.com