MeritTrac announced the launch of Assessment Zone in Bangalore

(I-Newswire) April 11, 2006 -
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The one-stop facility for assessments- led recruitment to help companies address numerous challenges of hiring, better

MeritTrac Assessment Zone, now in Bangalore

Bangalore, April 11, 2006: MeritTrac Services, India's Largest Skills Assessment Company today announced that MeritTrac Assessment Zone, its revolutionary concept of an integrated facility for assessments-led recruitment is open for corporates in Bangalore. The Bangalore Assessment Zone was formally inaugurated by Dr.K.Balaveera Reddy, Vice Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technolgical University (VTU). The state of the art, recruitment friendly center is spread over 4000 sq. ft. and can handle upto 750 candidates in a day. It will be operational all seven days of the week, 12 hours a day and will be managed by trained personnel from MeritTrac. The center has Online Testing facilities, interview cabins, GD rooms and conference rooms among other facilities.

Commenting on the center, Madan Padaki, Co-Founder & Director, MeritTrac Services, said, "The MeritTrac Assessment Zone is logical extension of our services suite and would provide best-in-class assessments delivered through best-in-class facilities to our customers. The ambience will be consistent with the brand image of our valued customers and will ensure a great candidate experience"

Added Murlidhar S, Co-founder & Director, MeritTrac Services," In the war for talent, all companies are looking at innovative ways to bring in a superior candidate experience, increase process efficiencies and reduce costs – the MeritTrac Assessment Zone will help our customers achieve all of this"

MeritTrac is India's Largest Skills Assessment Company having assessed over 9, 00,000 candidates for over 110 customers. It designs and delivers assessment to evaluate abilities, skills and knowledge for both corporates & individuals and is neither a Placement/Recruitment firm nor a Training agency. It is a neutral organization that provides quantitative inputs on the talent pool and helps in measuring competencies for specific roles. MeritTrac currently tests around 40,000 candidates per month across industry verticals like IT, BPO, BFSI, Retail, and Engineering & Education. Their clientele include marquee names like ABB, Accenture, Adobe, Allianz Cornhill, Bharthiar University, Capgemini, Computer, Associates, Fidelity, Flextronics, GE Consumer & industrial, Google, GRO, HP, HSBC software, IBM, ICICI OneSource, ICICI Prudential, Intel, iSoft, Kyocera, Logica CMG, Microsoft, Misys, SAP, SAIC, Satyam, Tavant Technologies, TESCO, UTI Bank and Verizon among others. MeritTrac also partners state government under its SkillsTrac program and is currently the assessments partner to the Governments of Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa and West Bengal. MeritTrac also partners several academic institutions like Bharathiar University for assessing their students on industry-readiness. Headquartered in Bangalore, MeritTrac has 225+ fulltime employees and over 1000 part-time certified test administrators on its rolls. MeritTrac operates through offices in Bangalore, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Coimbatore. MeritTrac operates in the USA & Mauritius through business partners. MeritTrac is an investee company of a fund advised by HSBC Private Equity. Further details on the company can be had from www.merittrac.com

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