The Apprenticeship Emergency

Abstract

Manish Sabharwal is currently Chairman and co-founder of Teamlease Services, India's largest staffing and training firm. The firm has hired somebody every five minutes for the last five years but only hired 5 per cent of those who came to it for a job. It now runs 75 training centers and has over 75,000 employees in 770 cities / towns across India. Earlier, he co-founded India Life, an HR outsourcing company in 1996 that was acquired by Hewitt Associates in 2002. Consequently, he was Managing Director of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) in Singapore for two years.