TAKEAWAY: In an interesting twist, Indian firms are now assisting job placement firms like Kelly Services and Kenexa with employee recruitment. Working from a candidate profile developed in a U.S. or European office, the Indian firm then matches candidates to the position, conducts phone interviews and sometimes even preliminary salary negotiations before returning a short list of candidates to the placement firm. Like other outsourced processes, the result is lower costs, increased efficiency and reduced turnaround times. Though it attributes unnamed "insiders," this article says that more than half of the recruitment process outsourcing market may be offshored to India within two years.