"Intent of Offer" Vs "Offer"a Corporate HR Practice.

(1) From my point of view, by denouncing the "intent of Offer" Infosys's image as "the best Employer does not get hampered nor the company would lose its competitive advantage, because it is one of the precautionary step to sustain in an adverse condition, when economic slow down have already alarmed to every company to take steps to stand firm. Also I agreed with the statement of Ashish with slight modification that cancellation of job offers at IIT Mumbai would not affect the best employer brand image of a reputed IT company like Infosys. About the IIT Mumbai campus, it would rather hamper the reputation of the Institute related to its campus placement, for which they have to face a lot of problem related to parents and students. Also company like Infosys have never a past record regarding the same situation, it is only a situational problem and only for the economic recession pressure and a common phenomenon at that particular situation.

(2) It is just like various advertisements, where companies mentioned the discount amount boldly and the conditions applied with very small fonts in order to biased and harass the customer, here Infosis's " Intent offer" is just like this. Though there is difference between "Offer" and "Intent of Offer", which implies some conditions behind it. I think this conditional offer has no transparency. Rather Infosys should have been more transparent with the students as well as with the Institution. I hope every body were aware about the economic slow down and people will understand the situation and cop with the possible taken steps to sustain in the market.

(3) A placement coordinator plays a vital role in an educational organization. Even if a single mistake related to placement would crash the reputation of the organisation. If I were the placement coordinator at IIT Mumbai, I would first motivate and encourage the students, that this job offer is not an end of the placement process and this job offer cancellation of Infosys will never stop the horses like you to win the race with better job offers and with best jobs. As economic slow down is not a permanent situation, the blue moon will come and they need to make themselves ready to enjoy the situation. For this I could have contact different organizations with different networks to accommodate our students with wel informed the present and future job prospects. As the offer letters are not the Appointment letters, I must try to make our students to get three to four offer letters with them.

(4) One of my friend Mr. Biswajit Nanda faced this type of situation in the year 2008, when he was working with Phillips India Private Ltd. He got an offer letter to join with Melia White House Hotels, UK. He was with a great pleasure informed me regarding his offer letter. But after one week he came to know that the consultancy company through which he got the letter was a fake one. Thank God he was not quit his old Phillips India's job. Now he is also continuing with Philips India at New Delhi.

Manoranjan Behura
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