Introduction to HR:

Descon Engineering LTD offers exciting and challenging careers with

competitive remuneration, excellent benefits and exceptional
advancement opportunities. With a growing human resource strength
of over 4500 management staff, the company places great importance
in human resource development. For Descon, its employees are its
strength.

At Descon they claim:

We strongly hope that after joining us, you will be a valuable member of
Descon Family!

HRD @ Descon Engineering LTD

Human Resource Development at Descon believes in continuous

improvement and is taking the standards of service to the utmost levels
of excellence. HRD is working as a team under the flagship of Head
Human Resource Development. It supports local as well as overseas
offices in the following functions:

• Recruitment & Selection

• Compensation & Benefits
• Training & Development
• Organizational Development

Development program at Descon:

Descon is renowned for a diverse offer of trainings and development

measures. They provide state of the art facilities to conduct internal &
external trainings. These trainings cover development of fresh
graduates, project managers, department heads, technical staff and
potential leaders. Some of the offered trainings are:

1. Graduate Engineer Training Program (GETP)

2. Project Engineer Leadership Program (PELP)
3. Project Management Training
4. Supply Chain Management for Commercial Managers
5. Proposal & Estimation
6. Contracts Management
7. HSE for Line Managers
8. Finance for Non-finance Managers
9. HR for Line Managers
10. Project Planning & Scheduling

Culture & Environment

Human resource at Descon has a diversity of skills, background,

viewpoints and experiences from around the world. They have over
thirty five different nationalities working in their bench strength. They
hire only the best, based on merit, skills, abilities and desire to excel
regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin and any ethnic
background. They encourage their employees to maintain their work life
balance. They give them the opportunities to spend quality time with
their families by maintaining a stress free working schedule. They
strongly believe that giving maximum ease to their employees shapes
up their corporate culture.

Compensation

Descon makes comprehensive and competitive remuneration plans. The

pay package is reviewed annually by the management to ensure it is
aligned with market standards and escalating economic factors across
the globe. Descon fosters a performance oriented appraisal system that
allows employees to earn higher levels of compensation and rewards to
value employee contributions.

Career Advancement

Descon values its high potential employees through Management

Evaluation Scheme (MES) that is executed on regular basis. With the
help of this comprehensive process, career ladders of employees are
developed and succession planning is done to identify future leaders. In
addition to this, fresh graduates are developed as a potential resource
by planned rotations and mentorship. This includes exposure to project
sites based upon guidance from project gurus and working on
integrated systems and procedures.
 Fresh graduates’ induction program

Trainee Engineer / Management Trainee Program:

The purpose of fresh graduates hiring program is to meet future human
resource needs by employing fresh graduate engineers and other
graduates to generate a trained pool of human capital for the company.
In training Fresh Graduates are trained by making them understand
vision, mission, goals, business processes, and policies of the company
so that they can become active members of the Descon family and can
be placed in different BA’s/BSD’s or at project sites for execution of the
project or support associated functions, like Business Development,
Quality Health Safety & Environment (QHSE), Project Management
Systems (PMS), Commercial, Material Management, Asset Management,
Finance & HRD.

RECRUITMENT OF FRESH GRAUDATES

At Descon, two training programs are available for fresh graduate
engineers and non-engineers which are:

a) GETP (Graduate Engineer Training Program)

In this program, engineers will be hired from best universities of
Pakistan (HEC recognized) and trained to generate a pool of trained
technical human capital for different business areas of the company.
The job title of the candidates of this program is “Trainee Engineer”.

b) MTP (Management Trainee Program)

In this program, candidates with Master degree in Finance, Marketing,
HRM, Mass Com, Quality Management or Business Administration are
hired from the best universities of Pakistan (HEC recognized) and
trained in their respective discipline. The job title of the candidates of
this program is “Management Trainee”.

Benefits given to Employees

Employee benefit (also called fringe benefits) is a non-wage compensation
provided to employees in addition to their normal wages or salaries. The
purpose of the benefit is to increase the economic security of employees.

These benefits helps the company to attract, recruit and retain the
best possible employees because it potentially convey the message that the
company is a good place to work as it invests in the well-being of its
employees.

Employee Retention Program

Worker shortages continue to escalate. Each and every day good employees
quit their employers for better jobs elsewhere. Descon uses Employee
retention programs which offer several strategies for reducing turnover.
Since people are one of their assets that can literally get up and walk out the
door, employee retention programs can be vital in retaining best employees.
This program includes the following benefits which are provided to the
employees of Descon limited:

Provident funds

The provident fund is a compulsory comprehensive social security savings

plan which aims to provide the employees with a sense of security and
confidence in their old age. The employees in the Descon are provided with
the provident fund benefit. Both the employee and the employer contribute
in it. Company contributes 12%. The system of giving provident funds in
DESCON goes like, 10% is given by the company and 10% is deducted from
employee’s salary.

Cost of Living Allowance and adjustments

Employees in the Descon are provided with this benefit which represents
periodic base pay increases that based on changes in prices as indexed by
the consumer price index. This enables workers to maintain their purchasing
power and standard of living by adjusting base pay for inflation. DESCON
gives 25% of the basic pay as cost of living allowance.

Transportation Services and Allowances

The employees who do not have their own conveyance and face the
problems reaching to the workplace, Descon provides those employees with
the pick and drop service that helps bringing employees to the workplace
and back home again. This service enables the employees to save money
and time. The percentage of conveyance allowance is 25% of the basic pay
and they always give transportation services to their employees free of cost.

Those employees who have their own conveyance are provided with the
petrol allowances.

House Allowances

DESCON also provide their employees with the house allowances.

Medical Reimbursement

DESCON provide this benefit to its employee in whom an employee is

allowed to get reimbursement for the medical expenses incurred by him at a
hospital maintained by the employer or a Government approved hospital, the
entire amount of reimbursement is tax-free and is not treated as a taxable
perquisite. If an employee receives some money for his medical treatment or
the treatment of any member of his family or any of his dependant relatives
then a sum up to Rs.15,000 p.a. is not treated as a taxable perquisite.

Medical treatment abroad is also included in this benefit.

Holiday and Medical Leaves: this benefit provides the employees with pay
for time when they are not working, such as vacation. Descon provides its
employees with 10 casual leaves, 10 sick leaves, and 24 earned leaves.

Insurance Program:

Descon does not offer any insurance program to its employees.