GIFT City inks MoU with TASK Staffing Solutions

Gandhinagar: GIFT City – India’s first International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) today said it has entered into an MoU with TASK Staffing Solutions Private Limited, an Ahmedabad based integrated staffing solutions company, for talent management in the field of international financial services. TASK Staffing is part of the 25 year old TASK Group. The cooperation would help in ensuring the availability of skilled talent on continuous basis in GIFT City.

A release stated: With GIFT City shaping up as an internationally benchmarked global financial services hub, TASK Group will help GIFT City meet the human resources, talent and training needs for IFSC entities setting up operations within its premises. GIFT City & TASK Group will also jointly review the need for Executive Recruitment, Executive Search, Volume Hiring (Fresher & Front level), recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and Contract Staffing for those companies. Additionally, training and up-skilling of the desired talent pool will also be provided through TASK’s associate initiative, SkillSir.com.

With, competitive tax regime and state-of-the-art infrastructure, GIFT City may attract foreign investors and substantial offshore business. GIFT City is developing new businesses such as Aircraft Leasing & Financing, Offshore Fund Management, Bullion Trading, Global In-house Centre etc.

TASK group operates in three business verticals – Recruitment & Staffing , Consulting, Training & Up-skilling.“SkillSir’ offers training and up-skilling modules, both online and onsite. TASK has been a part of providing Recruitment assistance to many green field Industry roll outs in India especially in the Private Banking, Financial & technology sectors.

Speaking about the collaboration, Tapan Ray, Managing Director & Group CEO, GIFT City said, “GIFT City will create large scale employment opportunities in the international financial services sector. This MoU will help in nurturing the required talent for companies operating from GIFT City”

Mathew Chudukattil, Managing Director, TASK, said, “This collaboration with GIFT City is in consonance with TASK’s larger mission of ‘an adequately employed India’.