DESCON has won the contract for the LASMO Oil pipeline work for the Bhit Gas Field Development Project, located in interior Sindh. This project has further enhanced the firm's credentials in the pipelines business area. The project must be started in April 2002 Case Study Altaf Baig, Head of the Projects Division was looking for a Site Manager of Grade Three at Design Engineering Services and Construction Ltd (DESCON) for the LASMO Oil pipeline project in Southern Pakistan. The Head of the HR Department, Sabeeh Faruqi and Shahid Luqman Deputy, HR Department, had identified several competent engineers for the Site Manager's position at the DESCON head office in Lahore. On March l, 2002 Altaf Baig was going through the resumes of five potential candidates for the position of Site Manager. He had to decide how to proceed to select the right candidate for the job well before the March 1s, 2002 deadline. DESCON History and Growth: 1975: New division Dawood Hercules Ltd. AKA (DAHETS) 1977: As Design Engineering Services and Construction (“DESCON”) 1977: Pak Arab Fertilizer plant in Multan 1978-79: Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) at Wah. 1979: Gojra Sumundry Suger Mills 1980: Pakistan Arab Refinery Company (PARCO) at Muzaffargarh in District Gujrat. 1981: Lube Oil Refinery 1983: Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. Core Business Areas: EPC (Engineering, Procurements and Constructions) Civil Construction Operation and maintenance services Manufacturing Infrastructure DESCON Industrial Services DESCON Automation and control Pipeline Project: Since 1996 DESCON has completed several projects such as Projects Zamzama Gas Field Developments Pakistan Lube Oil Refinery Expansion Pakistan Attock Oil Refinery Expansion Pakistan Kadanwari Gas Field Development Pakistan Qadirpur Gas Field Development Pakistan Gas Pipeline Project Pakistan PARCO Mid Country Refinery Pakistan Sui Gas Compression Project Pakistan Clients BHP Australia National Refinery Ltd Howe Baker Inc Foster Wheeler UK OGDC of Pakistan Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Marubeni Corporation Foster Wheerler Bisma Recruitment and Selection Process at DESCON According to Sabeeh Faruqi’s deputy at the HR department, Shahid Luqman The steps of the selection at DESCON are: • Firstly user department sends request to HR department containing job specification and description. • • • • • HR Department determines the competencies for required position. HR department finds a suitable candidate through internal or external hiring using HR Information System. Send resumes of Short listed Candidates to User department Interviews held by HR and User Department Selection of candidate by User department What is HRIS? • • • Abbreviated as Human Resource Information System Central database containing information Customized Software • Specially developed by DESCON engineers HRIS Support to following areas of administrative information systems: • • • Personal Information Organizational Information Incumbent Information Shiza COMMENTS ON SELECTION PROCESS Long-term (Full time) Short-term (Contract basis) Comparison between long term and short term employees Job Application Number of candidates Working with different types of employees Internal and external hiring’s