HUMAN RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT
CLARIANT PAKISTAN LIMITED
 ABOUT CLARIANT
• Swiss specialty chemical multi national company
• Affiliates in more than 100 countries
• Employes aproximately 16200 people
• Pakistan is one of the affiliates
• In Pakistan since 1968 previously known as sandoz
• In 1995 demerger from Sandoz to form Clariant
worldwide
• In 1997 HOECHST also merged with Clariant
 Businesses
• Detergents and intermediates
• Emulsions
• Industrial and consumer specialities
• Leather services
• Master batches
• Oil and mining services
• Paper specialities
• Pigments
• Textile chemicals
 Clariant Pakistan
• Clariant Pakistan limited is the market leader
in the specialty chemicals field
• Annual turnover of 8 billion rupees
• manufacturs and supplies specialty chemicals
to textile, leather, plastic, home appliances,
food, paper, adhesives functional chemicals,
paints and construction industry.
• Headquarters in Karachi (Korangi Industrial Area)
• 10 Global business units of Clariant represented in
Pakistan
• Corporate services located here include: Finance;
Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal;
Procurement; Supply Chain Management,
Communications
• The Korangi site is also home to the major Business
Units including Masterbatches production facilities,
Laboratory and Marketing Head Offices.
Recruitment
• Central Human resource system
• Korangi Head office is the hub
 Types of employees
• White collar-executive (Permanent)
• Blue collar-workers (Permanent)
• Contractual employees
 Need for recruitment
• If an employee leaves (voluntarily or fired)
• If an employee retires
• If a new job opens up due to the introduction
of a new business function
• If work load of existing employees increase
 Initial recruitment stage
• Request
• Approval
• Initial hiring request
• Approval of functional or business head
• Job description and specification
• Requisition for new hiring
 Internal recruitment
• Database
• Employee referals
 External recruitments
• Newspaper
• Database
• Recruitment agencies
• Shortlisting of cv’s by human resource then
the requester
• interviews
Selection
 Selection
• Reference Checks
– Reference checks is a formal process carried out
through a complete Reference Check form.
– The objective is to check the conduct, behavior,
past experiences, educational background degrees
etc as stated by the applicant.
– The head of HR department contacts the referees
to check the details provided on the form.
 Selection
• Reference Checks Procedure
– Once the response is received, Panel scrutinizes
that responses and the reference check form and
compares that with the details.
– If there is any mismatch in the response, the
comments of the referee are unfavorable or if
statements are conflicting:
» The misrepresentation is discussed with the Head of HR
department.
 Selection
• Background Checks:
– Objective of the background check is to collect
the criminal record, commercial record, security
clearance and financial record of the employee.
– Clariant contacts the government agencies who
perform this job on a nominal fee.
– Backgrounds checks are only used for higher
organizational posts.