tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352290852024-03-17T00:23:06.146+05:30Options in IndiaThe Recruiting & Executive Search Blog of Options Executive Search. For jobseekers looking for "options" in India ! For fellow recruiters & HR professionals, a platform to share one's learnings & observations.AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.comBlogger406125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-66427245655206498772019-11-29T07:01:00.000+05:302019-11-29T07:01:18.026+05:30Future Proofing Careers for Middle & Senior Managers in the age of T20<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a no brainer. We are probably in the midst of the most happening of all the decades in the history of mankind. The half life of knowledge and skills is shrinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Technology, Globalisation, and Mother Nature (climate change & biodiversity) are all accelerating at once. And transforming the key realms of the workplace, politics, geopolitics, community and ethics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the Industrial Revolutions 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 was about empowering corporations, and scalable efficiencies ( doing things right),<b> the IR ver 4.0 is all about empowering people, and scalable adaptability ( doing the right things).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In this new new world, one would be practical enough to change our mindset. It is best we sensitize ourselves that no job is forever. Employability equals Options. One must manage one's own career as a business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t let what you cannot do- interfere with what you can! Increasingly, it is the ability to dive deep into one's inventory of skills, and pick out what can be transplanted, in the pattern of things, and see how we can transplant the best practice to create a better impact.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do we learn from the film industry on how they have been putting together team of experts, with complementary skills, extract the best of them, within the constraints and limitations of time and material, and deliver projects? The #futureofwork is about leveraging those in the gig economy, and entice them to bring out their best talents in the shortest of engagements!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. And from all those who we interact with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Networking. It is not about whom you know- but about who knows you too. It helps to extend our contact sphere to be able to educate others about -how we can potentially add value in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this interconnected world, only if one is google -able, does one exist :)! So, it yes, make every effort to leave enough social media footprints online, to be found by those looking for pain points to solve. Think in terms of key words...perhaps?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were a bunch of Class VIII students -who were pitching their games, after having learnt a few new design applications! <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/school-students-shine-at-india-game-developer-conference-igdc-in-hyderabad/article30087250.ece" target="_blank">The energy was palpable as they could legitimately spend time playing more games, and interact with gamers who producted them!!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While I have grappled to understand how to use instagram,or snapchat, and wondered at the pace of it I have had a fleeting affair with a couple of videos on tik tok. I realise it was increasingly necessary for me to come with terms -and accept that I could not longer be tech-averse- and atleast appreciate the changes as it happen! The key note speeches -sensitised me on how -in a period of less than 18 months, India has seen millions of people getting to '<a href="https://www.pubgmobile.com/en/event/royalepass10/" target="_blank">PUBG</a> with each other', and how there was even a <a href="https://www.mpl.live/" target="_blank">Premier League (MPL)</a> that had captured the attention of all the 'gig economy' adopting developers -who could now produce games for more millions..playing not just pool or card games, but also quizzes, cricket!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps it was indeed the #signoftimes-that the key note speaker on the second day- in a Gaming conference - was a pioneer from the Animation industry!! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90uYq3T0xbk" target="_blank">Rajeev Chilaka</a> of <a href="http://www.greengold.tv/" target="_blank">Green Gold Animation </a>sharing his story of gowth of Chhota Bheem-the company had gone beyond making animation films, (including providing services to other labels for sustaining their revenues), licensing, merchandising, reail, TV films, Apps and Games. And banking on the new media -OTT- they even launched a global extension- Little Mighty Bheem for cover an international market of over 100 countries, riding on the network on Netflix!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is indeed a new new world. It is said that there are almost <a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/gaming-industry-starves-for-talent-igdc-chief-rajesh-rao/article30084084.ece" target="_blank">300 game development companies in India..which is likely to be a 12000 Crores industry</a> in 3 years -and over 2 crore gamers in India.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yes, the future looks promising..as there is a yet another unconventional career opportunity for professionals..opening up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And it is indeed ironical that one feels the<a href="https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/gaming-industry-starves-for-talent-igdc-chief-rajesh-rao/article30084084.ece" target="_blank"> gaming industry starves for talent</a>!!? Time to change the way we all look for talent?</span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-14925309956951901882019-10-10T07:26:00.000+05:302019-10-10T07:26:22.103+05:30Elevate! Creating Better Workplaces -Recruiting on Demand!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The </span><a href="https://www.shrmiac.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #665ed0; padding: 0in;">SHRM India’s Annual Conference 2019</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> is just about to begin today. And the theme this year is #Better Workplaces, for a better world.</span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And
while we have a bevy of professionals sharing and learning the best practices
across the gamut of Human Resources as a domain, over the next two days, I have
always felt very passionate that the key to any great organization is
hiring/recruitment. I am of the belief, that if </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">one
were to hire right, each time, every time, then an organization has to
spendless time focusing on engaging, managing or motivating them. </span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Also,
one is automatically enabling/leveraging the Business with the right Culture
& People- the intersection of which is the #Better Workplace.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">From
time immemorial, there have been several debates on the best way to hire top
talent, be it </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">"make or buy"</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(using
internal recruiting teams or utilising third party specialist firms), or the </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">costs/ownership </span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">involved in hiring ( ranging from
Executive Search vs. Retained /Exclusive vs. Contingent search vs. Recruitment
Process Outsourcing). To be fair, they have been a lot of pros and cons, both
ways, and depending on the life cycle of growth of organizations, one is
tempted to take one route or the other, if not a multi pronged approach.
However, all of them hinged on the "</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">speed
vs. quality</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"! Not to mention, amidst all the claims that </span><a href="http://gregsavage.com.au/2014/03/11/why-agency-recruitment-is-totally-screwed/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #665ed0; padding: 0in;">recruitment
agency business model is grotesquely dysfunctional</span></strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And
so, it is indeed appropriate that the Welcome address is by </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-windley-089a88/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">David Windley</span></a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">, SHRM Board Chair, who is the CEO of </span><a href="https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">IQTalent
Partners</span></a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> -which is revolutionizing Talent Acquisition, by providing </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">innovative solutions and offering on -demand services</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
-</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">working as an extension of the
in-house Recruiting team -(or a virtual team if one doesn’t exist) </span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">by
tweaking the traditional models of Executive Search, and Contingency recruiting
- to provide it as a service that is</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">
on-demand and bill by the hour without minimums or restrictive contracts</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">-be it </span></strong><a href="https://www.iqtalentpartners.com/candidate-sourcing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #665ed0; padding: 0in;">research, sourcing, or </span></strong><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">full
life cycle recruiting </span></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">you
need and only when you need them. (Psst- they have impressed clients like
Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Intuit, Splunk, Pie Insurance, among others!)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The
shift is essentially a mindset change -from a </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Transactional
Reactive business model</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> to one that focusses on </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Proactive Partnership with clients</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">! By treating
each offering as a professional service where both parties are on the same
team, running toward the same end zone and reading from the same playbook!</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The IQTP consultants are
salaried professionals who work with their clients’ internal teams and the
client is billed for the hours spent on a job. The primary belief in this
business model is that an executive recruiter who is salaried and not
commissioned will not push a lesser qualified candidate through only in order
to fill a role quickly and receive a paycheck. By billing by the hour, the
essential conflict of interest is eliminated.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">I am looking forward to sharing
some of David’s insights in leading the company, that within 4 years of his
leadership, </span></em><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #665ed0; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/executive-search-firm-named-to-hunt-scanlon-top-50-list-with-80-growth-300850385.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">finds itself among the top 35
Executive Search firms in a highly competitive scenario.</a></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And
the mantra? "</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">When you create an inclusive
and engaging workplace, employees flourish, and businesses succeed</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">",
quips David! For example,</span></div>
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Open to hiring recruiters </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">working from remote locations</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Allow them to go where they want to go</span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">-</span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Hire boomerangs </span></strong><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(would you believe for the size of
the company it is -it has perhaps the highest ratio of 'people returning to
work' in IQ TP-after exploring greener pastures, and then choosing to head
back!?)</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of
course, the pricing model is also </span><a href="https://www.iqtalentpartners.co/" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">innovative as clients end up
saving significant costs,</span></a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> as compared to a success based hiring
mandates prevalent at most locations.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On
the supply side, I can also imagine that being such a predictable business
model, it also helps recruiting firms be able to attract more high quality
recruiters -and retain them, thereby raising the bar for the professional
recruiters. </span><a href="http://blog.optionsindia.com/2018/02/book-review-competing-on-talent-in.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">It has been my pet peeve that</span></a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; box-sizing: border-box; color: #665ed0; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0in; touch-action: manipulation;"><a href="http://blog.optionsindia.com/2018/02/book-review-competing-on-talent-in.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">not many come into the
recruitment profession, by design, and a lot more those who learn the ropes,
use it as a stepping stone, as there really aren’t too many role models for
aspiring Talent attraction pros!</a></span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-90959625682346641952019-09-23T18:15:00.001+05:302019-09-23T18:15:09.679+05:30 Are Conferences still relevant today?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The social media was still trending with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nhrdnc19?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Ehashtag" target="_blank">#NHRDNC19 </a>-after the completion of the 22nd <a href="https://www.nhrdnc19.com/" target="_blank">National Conference of the National HRD Network</a> (on Sept19th & 20th at Chennai), when Dr <a href="https://www.nationalhrd.org/about-nhrdn/our-people/board-members" target="_blank">Krish Shankar, the National President</a>, who wasn't able to be physically present at the event due to a prior commitment, tweeted from overseas, post his commendatory messages to the teams that mattered, asked "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38444d; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While we are at it, need your views on how might NHRDN ‘reimagine’ ourselves? What more can NHRDN do for the HR fraternity?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were some insights shared by fellow professionals, including suggestions of a more robust real time online community -a la Quora, that was more inclusive, and enhance sharing thoughts, learning, and seamless integration between different regional chapters !! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what caught my attention more -was the quality of discussions in<a href="https://twitter.com/krish_ramkumar/status/1175664542249996288" target="_blank"> another tweet thread </a> as </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a senior HR leader raised some issues that seem to be affecting the very credibility of the Conference format. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite uncanny, the timing was a sheer coincidence, as he clarified it was more a generic observation that has been disturbing him, as a regular speaker at similar events for over a decade now..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And yes, they triggered some interesting debates, offline and online -that twitter allows in its 280 character limit, and the follow up discussions. It is the nature of the engagements and the speed-that often brings in clarity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">With increasing numbers of delegates, have conferences tended to become very 'sponsor' specific, and often one hears of how speaker slots too are driven by them?.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">As a stakeholder, a delegate- who is neither an organizer, nor a sponsor, but a self employed professional -investing hard earned money and time to travel and attend, <b>I see tremendous value in them!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It is best to remember we are amidst the most disruptive of times, when most established business models find their way to oblivion faster than before. One truly doesnt have the benefit of leveraging on post mortem. In a world -where one is constantly expected to evolve, I feel the conferences of tomorrow -will need to be leveraged differently from the ways it was done before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I personally attend anywhere from 4- 5 conferences annually, across different industries-as it is my window to keeping in touch with the domains I specialize in. <b>If social media is the window to my learning world, conferences have become just another arrow</b>, in the quiver. Audio books, webinars, podcasts, apart from smaller formats (meet ups, breakfast sessions, round tables, and manthans!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I have found it a perfect opportunity to also network with experts and practitioners -who are the hubs for my extended reach/learning opportunities. Most of the interesting moments are the ones-not likely in the sessions! For most presenters consider you as potential recipients -one way traffic of experiences/ideas -and I must confess what I look forward to most, are the Q& A sessions that often showcase more of the speakers true insights!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Psst... Keynote speeches are usually the ones I skip-and use the time to head for the booths to meet with others who are seemingly bored with such sessions! Some of the best new products are often on display, and one gets abreast with the state-of-art best practices /services.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">(Panels too, unless they are steered by competent moderators, often tend to be forgettable experiences -with some getting away with the lion's share of the interactions..At best one gets a couple of quotable quotes from each speaker in the limited time!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica neue, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to the Internet, one can find quite a lot of social media footprints these days of most speakers, and one can watch videos of the talks/view the slides- and get some insights-even one is away from the conference. So, you would be better off -being in sync, and have the advantage of comparing notes, interacting and engaging with similar minded professionals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a world where the onus of ones career is now with the individual, I would advocate each one, at whichever stage of the life cycle of the career one is in, to take charge of ones own learning and development. In an ecosystem -where the mortality of companies is increasing, I would advice you, to pick and choose the right conference(s) in your domain and<b> attend it, one your own cost</b> (if the employer has a budget constraint -to be in sync with the latest!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember -<b>Networking is good for your career</b>. One great connection can lead to new leanings, partnerships, ideas, and perhaps new opportunities..changing the way one approaches one work</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pick and choose which sessions to attend- by studying the conference schedule, and figuring out the break out sessions you would want to hone your knowledge with. Watch the videos of the speakers ahead of the conference, and then strategize as to the kind of relationships one would like to build! Even setting up a phone call -or 30 minutes of one-to-one meeting outside of the conference context, will be a killer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, one more tip. It helps to <b>build ones brand</b> too. Polish one's social media profile, and focus of generating, if not curating content, using the conference hash tag! The visibility will be in good stead for your credibility in time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And hey presto, you will see how conferences can enhance both your personal and professional development, as well as providing you with tools that cannot be taught in-house, or even online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am excited -looking forward to the <a href="https://www.shrmiac.org/" target="_blank"><b>SHRM India Annual Conference</b> </a>-within the coming fortnight!! Yes, it is in <b>Delhi on the 10/11th October</b>. I must make a submission. I am a proud member of the <a href="https://www.shrmiac.org/blogsquad.html" target="_blank">SHRMIAC19 BlogSquad</a> and so have a ringside view of the some action that is being promised to be on show..On offer is a <b>WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES TO ELEVATE YOUR GAME!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Psst -<b>Should you register for the conference using the code BLOGSQUAD19, you will be entitled to an exclusive discount of 10%</b>. Hurry up. Stay tuned for more social sharing messages using <b>#SHRMIAC19</b> over the next fortnight. See you at the event!</span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-27281748090569272412019-04-05T09:25:00.001+05:302019-04-05T09:25:11.561+05:30Planning to #return2India? Here are some curated experiences!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/manikarthik" target="_blank">Mani Karthik</a>, yes, it is he -who is featured at his Kochi office -that triggered this piece. In his modest tone, he lets it slip that <i>"It was just a weekend sprint, and a <a href="https://backtoindia.com/" target="_blank">one page website</a>. But soon after (as cliche as it may sound) it went viral and next thing you know there are strangers calling me up/messaging asking for more info. Now the community drives it and I'm enabling it."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several whatsapp groups have sprouted- city wise, and seem to be a discussion forum on a wide variety of topics..from the why - to the detailed Hows and Whats. Questions you never knew whom to ask...there always seem to be experienced folks-who have very rich experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About a couple of years ago, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nupurdave/" target="_blank">Nupur Dave</a> had an amazing article on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-moved-back-india-after-10-years-usa-nupur-dave/" target="_blank">Linkedin that had over a 6000 comments </a>-which perhaps gives you an idea of the kind of interest in the trend. You may like to hop over to her blog- that also gives you an<a href="https://www.khaanebhidoyaaron.com/book-online" target="_blank"> option of consulting her</a> - in the process of enabling over 8000 people make a <b>decision to move/not move to India!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Btw, during Aarons trip to Hyderabad, we did have a 'offline' meet up orchestrated by Mani Karthik, and so there were a bunch who compared notes on the various stages of the lifecycle of the journey. Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSD1GdIs0o&t=2s" target="_blank">16 minute video</a> of my candid views too -as I shared the perspective related to "jobs" part- setting expectations to both the potential employers and returnees</span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-44869720641881601532019-03-10T06:22:00.001+05:302019-03-10T07:04:23.222+05:30 A day for a Recruiter? #Apna Time Aayega<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You know what? Over the 26 years that I have been a recruiter, I have interacted with thousands of others recruiters..who confessed that they trespassed into Recruitment. Imagine it wasn't a planned 'career' move, at all. Ironic?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet, Linkedin, probably the only comprehensive global database of recruiters recently showed there are 1,144,463 individuals with the term "Recruiter" in their job title. It is estimated that there over 3.5 million people working directly in recruitment worldwide!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To me the personal journey has been driven by trying to help other people find their calling. (After ones' name, most people's individuality pivots on what their job is, right? <b>Personal happiness follows professional happiness. Or is it the other way around :)!?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in 2001/02 <a href="http://www.era.org.in/" target="_blank">Executive Recruiters Association</a> came together. Over time, as things would change, most of us had forgotten to celebrate March 9th. A couple of years ago, <a href="https://www.zoho.com/general/blog/india-is-celebrating-recruiters-day-today-and-we-cant-keep-calm-about-it.html" target="_blank">#ZohoRecruit shared a lovely tribute to Recruiters </a> . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today, there are amazing online communities all over the net, and it seems like the fraternity is finally coming on its own. Recruiters, Sourcers, Talent acquisition specialists, Trainers, Coaches...all stretching the bar. Almost every week, there are tons of content being shared for all of us to hone our skills -not only to find others, but to be found by others. #Dont miss there are <a href="https://blog.recruitee.com/facebook-groups-recruiters/" target="_blank">over 40+ Facebook groups where similar minded hang out!</a></span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-40974792964032155422019-03-07T20:47:00.000+05:302019-03-07T20:47:06.914+05:30Taking Fresh Guard!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The other day, as the Swiggy delivery boy exchanged the packet, I noticed he was a smart youngster. On probing, Ravi was a 2nd Engineering student, and confessed he was committed to it as as full time job -as he was getting paid, about Rs 35000 -monthly-including incentives. “What’s the point of going daily to college?” He wasn’t sure if he would even get half of that- after attending classes for 2 more years, and so would just do the enough to get the necessary attendance and pass his exams!</div>
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Earlier last month, I was invited as a panelist at the <a href="http://event.eletsonline.com/dl/hehr-hyderabad-2019/" target="_blank">9th Higher Education & Human Resource Conclave, Hyderabad 2019.</a></div>
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The topic : "Human Resource’s Role in the changing scenario of Employment, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the New India".</div>
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The speakers were across some of the leading hiring community from the corporate world, and Government, and the event was well represented by the Educational institutions, pan India. It was inspiring to see 'those who matter' in the ecosystem, sharing their concerns, and setting expectations for improving employment, and their best practices . </div>
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As a ringside observer of the changing dynamics -amidst the perhaps the most disruptive of decades in the history of world, my observations, were, kind of tangential/ contrary to those being deliberated & I could sense some discomfort!!</div>
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-It is time to stop looking thru the 'rear view mirror' and achieve marginal increments. One needs to focus on the road ahead, 'windshield' and navigate the possible obstacles/ challenges.</div>
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-Focus on placements/employment is passe'. Instead 'employability'? The tenures of engagement have significantly reduced, and so the onus of career is now on the individual. </div>
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-Need to stop spoon feeding students. Teach one to fish-you give an occupation that will feed one for a lifetime </div>
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-Businesses are becoming hybrid. And we as consumers are so used to changing our lifestyles - but when it comes to our profession, are we in a time warp? Google has got into cars. Is Amazon a logistics company? General Motors has probably hired more IT professionals in the last 3 years than automobile engineers.</div>
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So are the skills needed in the new age employee . Given the technological advances, AI, ML, data science aren't new jargon anymore. Employers want people who have hybrid skills. App developers no longer content with coding skills, but with knowledge of design, marketing, and more. Marketing professionals strong with SQL queries to analyze customer needs better. The list goes on. </div>
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Perpetual learning is the key. So are the educational institutes able to impart the need for learning to learn, unlearn, and relearn?</div>
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Somehow I sense an increasing 'entitlement', across the stakeholders.Time to change the way we have been looking?
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And yes, I see the millennial are a smarter lot. Perhaps with lesser attention spans. But lot more savvy to the changing habits. </div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-15802724785592331712018-05-06T12:14:00.000+05:302018-05-06T23:26:13.386+05:30Listed in SHRM India's 'Top 30 Indian #HR Influencers Active on #SocialMedia'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">Personally, this is the third time I made it into the list in the 5 years that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">SHRM</span><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has complied it, and dedicate this 'recognition' to </span><a href="https://gautamghosh.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Gautam Ghosh,</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for it was he, who handheld in to my foray into Blogging, about </span><a href="http://blog.optionsindia.com/2006/12/nominated-for-recruitingcom-blogging.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">13 years ago</a><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;">( the term 'social media' wasn't known then!!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So this year, I must confess my self to be lucky myself in the top 5 for the first time. And I feel it is entirely because the algorithm (methodology adopted by SHRM) incorporated the number of followers, and the engagement on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and the Klout score. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">#this too shall pass</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been essentially following thought leaders across different domains, and curating information, it helps me to relate to the ecosystem very well, and stay relevant. They say the Six degrees of separation has since reduced. Facebook (in 2011) said that the average person was separated by 4.57 degrees-and it is now supposed to 3.something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know a lot of us are <b>skeptical about these lists</b>, but I am increasingly learning it helps, as more like an indicative reading index, and access to the extended network. It helps us stay abreast with the best practises in various domains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please do feel free to reach me- if I can add value to your network. It is possible that I can help you connect to someone-who might be able to connect you to the person you need :)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And meanwhile, feel free follow any of the twitter handles, among others, and be abreast on the latest in the HR domain in India. Again courtesy <a href="http://vijaybankar.blogspot.in/2018/05/shrm-top-30-indian-hr-influencers-on.html?spref=tw" target="_blank">Vijay Bankar</a>!</span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-67456781713994995342018-04-29T21:55:00.004+05:302018-04-29T21:55:44.760+05:30#SHRMTech18 - Reflections & Takeaways<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.shrmtech.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Revolutionising HR Technology</a> was the theme of the conference in Hyderabad last week. The above photograph perhaps gives an idea of the #futureofwork. The Emcee for the inaugural session was <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">MITRA</a> the 'experienced' humanoid!! (Mitra has already met Mr Narendra Modi, Ms Ivanka Trump, apart from handling customers in some Banks and Hospitals.)</div>
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Well, a lot was shared, deliberated, debated -and discussed, and one can easily get the online footprints if one were to google for "SHRMTech18". Information is passe- for me, the interactions and insights are the ones that make the difference. Here is a <a href="https://www.tweetbinder.com/rsmini/4dCXhi3Dksr" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">summary on twitter</a>!</div>
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<b><u>1) The Employee experience</u></b></div>
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The keynote address by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineetnayar/" target="_blank">Vineet Nayar</a> dwelled on "Organisational Transformation", revolved more on how the HR should first be transformed. It was humbling to note -that a person of his stature, and experience impacting not just the corporate world , but also in <a href="http://www.samparkfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">"frugal innovation led large scale social change"</a>, shared some thoughts on how, we, who are perhaps great managers of the "ants" (of the industrial economy) ought to be thinking of managing "butterflies" ( the new generation in the interconnected economy). And would you believe, his preparation involved crowdsourcing of thoughts/experiences on Linkedin-</div>
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-What impact an HR person has in an employee’s success. High/ medium/ low/ none?</div>
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- What should an HR person do MORE?</div>
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- What should an HR person do LESS?</div>
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-Will Organization performance increase if they adopt an employee first philosophy?</div>
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(please review -#priceless <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6394424296130863104/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">there were over 300 comments </a>from practicising professionals)</div>
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<u><b>2) Content is for sharing. The Context is the king!</b></u></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielnickolaisen/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Niel Nickolaisen</a> shared a well researched study on creating a workplace culture that attracts, retains and develops talent. And he walked the talk by sharing his email id- for those want a copy of the 40+ slides he presented as well as the 250 page ebook "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Agile-Culture-Leading-through-Ownership/dp/0321940148" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> The Agile Culture".</a></div>
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<b><u>3) Change is the new Constant.</u></b></div>
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While most speakers related to how we easily we adopt technology in our personal daily lives, and alluded to the bureaucracy at the work place(" try ordering a pen or a pen drive at office"), the 1000+ audience were enlightened as a bureaucrat, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayesh-ranjan-37415963/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">IT Secretary to Telangana Govt Mr Jayesh Ranjan</a> narrated some of the innovative work done in Skilling courtesy <a href="https://www.task.telangana.gov.in/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">TASK</a>. He rattled the way -the paradigm has shifted with the Government intervention in students being taught Tizen (Samsungs OS), setting up training schools to cater to Apple's dev centre, and Wipro admitting the 'trained graduates' now needed just 15 days to be deployed on projects ( compared to 180 earlier!!)!</div>
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The variety of topics needed concurrent sessions to cover the entire gamut of discussions across products, services, new forms, Tech talks, Demos, apart from the informal chats across the networking sessions. Guess I cant do any justice trying to convey the charged energies -thanks to<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunita-bhuyan-7aab2959/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> Sunita Bhuyan </a>who demonstrated how <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWEILdiBhl0" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">"Music for Wellness"</a> can be used as an alternative approach to L&D!! And ofcourse an aggressive "safron clad" moderator<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbpankajbansal/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Pankaj Bansal </a>who got the audience glued to their seats on a Friday evening as he goaded a set of 3 HR leaders and 3 Business leaders to go at each other -about the future of HR- with the buzzer et al!</div>
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As a person who has seen the ringside exposure of the disruptions technology has had on business in the last 3 decades,I come back relieved-there is no real need for the gloom and doom around-there is enough and more for those who are sensitive to the changing needs of the ecosystem, and learn, unlearn and relearn. </div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijit-bhaduri-5a77452/" target="_blank">Abhijit Bhaduri</a> -who topped the list of 30 HR Influencers in India using social media, attributed his thanks to the 650.000+ follower community- who he calls <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijit-bhaduri-5a77452/detail/recent-activity/shares/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">'the largest board of advisors'</a> for reading, commenting and advising him !!</div>
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Psst..for those who feel threatened by the rise of AI, ML, Bots and others, <a href="https://twitter.com/ndcnn/status/989839117247746048?s=09" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">here is something to reflect.</a>.we humans have a little more time to get our act together !</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-11126607693040897662018-04-23T06:40:00.000+05:302018-04-23T07:00:41.281+05:30Technology, Millennials and Gig Economy: Will it make HR Obsolete? #SHRMTech18<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Earlier this month, as a precursor to the </span><a href="http://www.shrmtech.org/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">SHRM HR Tech Conference 2018</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/220316/revolutionising-human-resources.html" target="_blank">Nitya Nivali</a> was to have moderated the session along with on the above topic along with industry experts </span><span style="background: white; color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/revathy-reddy/" target="_blank">Revathy Reddy</a>, </span><span style="background: white; color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sravanti-chekragari-98642310/" target="_blank">SravantiChekragari</a> and </span><span style="background: white; color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/asimrizvi/" target="_blank">Asim Rizvi</a>, to deliberate issues like </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· What’s changing in HR due to technology advancements and automation?<span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Advent of new technologies,AI,AR,VR,Chatbots,Blockchain etc.shift in the way talent gets managed<span style="color: #b00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· Which part of HR can be replaced and what will survive?<span style="color: #b00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· What role will HR play in the future? How can HR be better prepared?<span style="color: #b00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">· What are organizations doing to develop newer, relevant HR skills in the context of digital transformation?<span style="color: #b00000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What transpired was a truly 'Design thinking' approach</b>. Given that the audience was a motley mix of HR professionals along with Consultants, and Service providers -or rather practitioners, the esteemed panel decided to instead convert it into a Round Table -to engage and interact with the group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was perhaps among the best learning experiences, as all chipped in with different perspectives across the ecosystem .One cannot but not mention that </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-kumar-5495485/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Sunil </a><b> </b>sensitised the operational issues, and </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: maroon; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramlal-waghray-098837/" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Ramlal Waghray</a><b>,</b> a technologist turned entrepreneur, triggered us to think beyond the surface.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>AI is poised to be and
will continue to be a game changer<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>AI powered
technologies like Chat bot, VR etc combined with human experience and judgement
will drive companies to success<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>both humans and
machines - the combination would be critical to success - AI powered with human
capabilities would bring in more effective and intelligent HR solutions</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>What is in for HR </u><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Disinclination towards
adopting technology can prove disastrous for business</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Train yourselves; be
cognizant of the fact that digitisation makes life easy, make yourselves aware
what AI as a technology can bring in transformation - and yes, <b>focus on leveraging
AI </b></span><b style="color: #222222;">shift clearly is from
transactional HR to transformational HR</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, the format was so engaging, that quite a few of us participants, stayed back to have private tete a tete, with a promise to network and learn more, offline also :)!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The countdown has begun. </span><a href="http://www.shrmtech.org/index.html#agenda" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The SHRM India HR Technology Conference </span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">in
Hyderabad has over a 1000 delegates registered to listen to over 70 speakers
and engage in a knowledge/breakout sessions.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shrmtech18-witness-latest-hr-tech-innovations-shweta-pathak/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Shweta</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> has
already shared some of the exciting pointers for us to be keyed into. For me,
it is a great opportunity to discern between the 'noise' online, and engage a
few to get some the insights on what could keep us more relevant in the coming
days. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(I believe there are at least </span><a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/types-of-people-at-conferences" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">15 different personas of
"Conference-goers',</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> though I have always found it most
beneficial tuning to </span><a href="http://infoolbloom.com/2016/09/making-the-most-conferences-shrmi16/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Kavi</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> for making
the most out of conferences!! )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a person who has had the ringside
view of the changing landscape in Talent acquisition, I am keen to know of the
approaches/best practices in hiring and retention. And particularly what is
being done with respect the first basic step of hiring- </span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;">Scoping. </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is ironic
that most job descriptions are at best laundry lists, or even cut paste
jobs-hardly in sync with the life cycle of the company's growth-with very
little attempt to supplement, (if not complement) the in-house skills. </span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;">Sourcing </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and </span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;">Screening </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">have already
seen a lot of changes</span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;">, courtesy AI and ML</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">,
and perhaps speed up the process-but one must realise the difference between
commodities and human beings !!</span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;"> Selection </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and</span><b style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; outline: 0px;"> Retention </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">need a
personalised touch that can build on the analytics and predictive models -to
create a better impact.</span></div>
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time? Which are the new stalls that will get most footfalls will be
interesting. Personally, I have been a little disappointed that the mortality
rates of most HR Tech startups has been high-over the past few years. Some of
them perhaps, solving the pain points that the promoters grappled with- weren't
game changing enough -while a lot of them have been gobbled up by bigger
players. I shall be glad to be corrected. ( Will be keen to follow </span><a href="https://www.peoplestrong.com/" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Peoplestrong</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> -they
have been growing bigger and bigger every conference!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Do check out the</span><a href="http://www.shrmtech.org/index.html#agenda" style="background-position: 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #665ed0; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> agenda here</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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event, please do give me a shout. It would be wonderful to catch up over a
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the retirement age of 60/65 was mooted back in the 1950s or so, the average life expectancy was 61! Today average life expectancy is just under 80 years.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, the percent of the workforce representing workers over 60 has doubled since 1992. We are heading for a economic disaster by ignoring the implications of increased life and work-life expectancy.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A recent <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiXzbqRvLLZAhWCUt8KHayxChwQFggvMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2016%2Fmay%2F02%2Fearly-earlier-retirement-retire-death-risk-data-research-jobs&usg=AOvVaw0xwGtKcF9ED9q2AqO95Q7v" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Guardian article</a> about research on aging and retirement cast an interesting light on the topic. Healthy retirees who worked a year longer (over the age of 65) had an 11% lower all-cause mortality risk. Even the unhealthy group reduced their likelihood of dying by 9% if they delayed retirement." An analysis on the study was also published in the <a href="https://hbr.org/2016/10/youre-likely-to-live-longer-if-you-retire-after-65" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Harvard Business Review.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And think of it - there is certainly some evidence that <b>working longer, especially at something you love to do, contributes to a sense of well-being and purpose that may increase longevity and certainly the quality of your life.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>-</b> Retirement was seen as a <b>release from bondage</b>--<b>the liberating act <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">from</em> a lifetime of work</b>. They were built for time when most work was manual, labor intensive, when brains were less valuable than brawn. In a world where knowledge is the universal currency for creating value, can we convert the experience of a lifetime - differently?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- With tenures in employment reducing, increasing technology to help automate the mundane and the routine, perhaps there is a case in leveraging remote working, part -time work, telecommuting? Add to the wealth of experience someone in the 60+ age brings, it could even help orchestrate a network of freelancers, and outsourced workers -perhaps today one can achieve in 20 hours a week -than 40 earlier?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Focus on the quality of the work, rather the quantity? Encourage more sabbaticals? More collaborative efforts in the gig economy? While the millenials can be depended on creativity and short term projects, do we see the retired folks complementing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, seems like exciting times. And yes -the caveat? One needs to be constantly learning, unlearning, and re-learning.</span><br />
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It is uncanny that, even after 25 years in the hiring solutions business, I hardly find any top notch recruitment practitioner who doesn’t confess that she/he forayed into Recruitment/Talent Acquisition by chance, luck or fate. <b>I cannot remember anyone ever saying that when they grew up they wanted to be a recruiter/TA specialist!</b></div>
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Time and again we hear: <b>“People aren’t the best assets. The RIGHT people are.”</b> But very little seems to have been done to institutionalize recruiting/ talent acquisition (TA) as a profession. </div>
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Probing more deeply, I find that often, the TA role is perhaps an entry level role, at times even delegated to a contract employee – to a career in the HR domain, where people aspire to do more glamorous roles in Training, Organisation Development, Performance Management, and so on. </div>
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Not many have found their way to the corner office. And so there are hardly any ‘role models’ that have inspired generations to consciously pursue a career in Recruitment/Talent Acquisition.</div>
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Consequently,<b> the book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/competing-on-talent-in-todays-business-world" target="_blank">Competing on Talent in Today’s Business World</a></em></b> is – to me – manna from heaven! </div>
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Pradeep Sahay’s book is the foundation for potential professionals to make a mark in Talent Acquisition. </div>
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-Both the science and art of hiring have been dealt with very meticulously. </div>
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-Enormous research has gone into collating hundreds of papers and articles from across the world to authenticate the findings, </div>
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-Hundreds of tables and visual aids help the reader to assimilate the theory effectively. </div>
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-And there is also an amazing range of templates that help us to get to the “Why” and figure out the “What” and “How”.</div>
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And just as one is assimilating these thoughts, the detailed case study (applying the principles to an organisation named Sigma group) leaves one fortified with concepts that have developed over time. It helps us understand how TA has transformed companies into “Great Places to Work” – from mere transactions that are part of the everyday life of hiring.</div>
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I would not hesitate to call this book the “Grey’s Anatomy” equivalent to help readers become the finest Talent Acquisition professionals! </div>
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It is surely a textbook that ought to find its way into the best educational institutes – and hungry organisations – and ought to be a handbook that every TA professional can regularly refresh her/himself with.</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-81924073099026810002018-02-20T06:41:00.000+05:302018-02-20T06:41:12.942+05:30#mustread :3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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-McKinsey argues that<b> demand for work will increase as automation grows</b>. Technology will drive productivity growth, which will in turn lead to rising incomes and consumption, especially in developing countries. Meanwhile, <b>there will be more jobs in health care to meet the demands of aging societies and more investment in infrastructure and energy.</b> For these benefits to be realised, everyone needs to gain new skills, with governments and private companies taking on the unprecedented task of retraining millions of people in the middle of their careers.</div>
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Are we seeing larger companies building their own internal/in-house recruitment teams -and reducing the dependence on third party firms? </div>
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Do we see <b>recruitment models being changed</b>?</div>
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Recruiting is no longer about Networks and Convenience.</div>
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Is the<b> future of recruiting in Candidate Management + Marketing</b>! With thousands of firms selling to the same HR Audience, it definitely going to be getting tougher. The smart recruiters are going to leverage the digital tools to Market to Clients better and pull them in by creating specific and exclusive talent pools that they alone have access to? </div>
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Perhaps we would be better off -managing 'rejected' candidates, and building a niche talent pool- and managing their careers? </div>
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Just like private bankers help High Networth individuals manage their financial assets, do we, as recruiters have our roles cut out to become trusted advisors. Surely,<b> for professionals, careers are much as a financial asset-that needs to be managed ? </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These days, it is easy to get confused about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)-and robots can <a href="https://qz.com/1140956/automation-may-require-as-many-as-375-million-people-to-find-new-jobs-by-2030/" target="_blank">have on the jobs of the future.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/future-of-organizations-and-work/what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages" target="_blank"> key findings by McKinsey surveys</a> is <span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.36px;">that while there may be enough work to maintain full employment to 2030 under most scenarios, the transitions will be very challenging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Automation and AI will lift productivity and economic growth,but millions of people worldwide may need to switch occupations/upgrade skills!</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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country like India, here is some interesting data -there will be increase in jobs..but they would be spread out..differently!</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">1) </span><span style="background: white;">Creative </span><span style="background: white;">(</span>Artists, designers, entertainers, media workers)-<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;">58% increase</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">2) Technology professionals(C</span>omputer engineers/specialists) -<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;">129%</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">therapists,health aides and health support, childcare workers, health technicians,community social worker)-242%<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">protective services, </span><span style="background-color: white;">gaming- industry workers, dishwashers, cleaning- equipment operators, food-preparation workers, general mechanics)15%</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">agricultural field workers, transportation maintenance,building and grounds cleaners) -9</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">%</span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what could be the take away for us?</span></b></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">-</span>Instead of being replaced by machines, humans must learn to
collaborate with machines to enhance their own productivity and ingenuity. We
must learn to <b>‘run with the machine'.</b></span><br />
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more predictable and repetitive the activities that make up the task, the more
likely it is to be replicated by machines … and automated! </span>Hard-to-automate jobs include tasks like influencing people, teaching
people, programming, real-time discussions, advising people, negotiating and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”</b> - Alvin Toffler (1928
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“Instead of teaching students to answer questions, we should teach
them to ask them. Beyond creating better employees, we must aim to create
better leaders and innovators</b>.“ - Raya Bidshahri, Singularity University<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-59353138146620638802017-09-21T10:39:00.003+05:302017-09-21T10:39:50.428+05:30SHRMiAC -Reflections a week later!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I must confess I got off a false start -despite all the preparations/<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youve-got-win-achyut-menon-ak-/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">expectations</a>. At 435am I was 5 minutes as the Indigo boarding gates, for my flight to Delhi, had closed. Which meant, I missed the first half of the first day-instead spending time reflecting, and meditating in a very quiet and hep looking Raipur airport!</div>
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Well, it was 'paisa vasool', as I was able to attend the sessions I was looking forward to, and the people I had set up 1-2-1 meetings with-apart from a lot of extra bonus points! Awesome learning, takeaways, points to ponder, and wonder who would be THE folks to bell the cat. If there was a theme that was underlying it was the adage- "what got you here will not get you there'!</div>
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SHRMiAC was rocking. Let me curate the <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Update </em>from the SHRM India team</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">#SHRMiAC was the buzz-word on social, with 8k+ tweets generating more than 9mn+ impressions. Our great content was very well supported by the #SHRMiAC Bloggers & Influencers, and helped us garner the number "Second" trending spot for India on Twitter on both days.</span></div>
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Well, I would not attempt to share my reflections on 'what happened ' or 'Light not a candle to the Sun'. One cannot have it put it better than <a href="http://gauteg.blogspot.in/2017/09/my-reflections-of-shrmiac-annual.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Gautam Ghosh</a> did. It has all the elements of a box office hit, and at last count, has had over a 1000 readers.</div>
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Considering 1300 people, with probably the Whos Who in the Indian HR industry, not to mention some global leaders visiting India, the ecosystem was simply apt. Wonderful mix of delegates from the corporate field,(the decision makers & the influencers), and a bevy of professionals from the "business of HR"- the consultants, the techies, the startups, and others partnering the process of leveraging on human capital, it was learning on the go.</div>
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With so many thought leaders, and wonderful energies, I shudder to think of the possibilities that could be realised, if only we had a lot more opportunities to interact & engage -while being under the same roof. It was heartbreaking to choose between 4-5 concurrent sessions. And even more, as we rushed past familiar faces, often off in different directions, with promises to catch up...soon! Thankfully, whatsApp and Skypes are there as glue to build on the handshakes.</div>
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Infact, there are lot more opportunities these days, that need the best of specialists, and in a world -where the half life is constantly changing, the margins for errors are negligible, there is no substitute to collaboration and crowdsourcing.</div>
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And yes, stay tuned -as I have come away with some exciting ideas/options for making a difference to the stakeholders in my area of specialisation- clients, candidates, and other collaborative consultants. Rearing to WIN!!</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-12925133049306910712017-09-13T06:18:00.000+05:302017-09-13T06:18:35.253+05:30You've got to be IN it to WIN it!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The countdown has begun. I am excited to be in Delhi later this week for attending <a href="http://shrmiac.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The SHRM India Annual Conference & Exposition</span></a>!</div>
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I am positive the sixth <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#SHRMiAC</span> will help me stay abreast with the driving factors of business units, and listen to <a href="http://shrmiac.org/#speaker" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">some of the top thought leaders</a> from across the globe as they share key insights, best practices and as also get a peek into some of the exciting tools that will shape the future.</div>
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As the world has changed from an industrial economy to the connected economy, the power of choice has significantly changed from the employer to the jobseeker. I strongly believe the recruiter therefore has to be playing the role of a trusted advisor -both to the client and the candidates, as well as to a fraternity of fellow recruiters globally.</div>
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People Are Not Your Best Asset, the Right People Are</h2>
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As a Talent Scout, I shall be particularly keen to see how companies are gearing up for better Candidate Experience, and how we can make <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-time-catch-our-people-harlina-sodhi-tedx-speaker-/?trackingId=xDuOWX89MFKbA75RSicO7w%3D%3D" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">people the centre of our business</a>.</div>
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I would not miss the two deliberations that <a href="http://www.abhijitbhaduri.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Abhijit Bhaduri</a> would be engaging in:</div>
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-What is it that <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TA leaders should look for when they are looking to hire truly transformational talent</span>? Business success is about working with people and communicating effectively, and not just about narrowly defined skills. And the relevance of <a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=asoka+university&oq=asoka+uni&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.3928j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Liberal Education </a>graduates in a country that been obsessed with Engineers and Doctors!</div>
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-The conversation with actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashish_Vidyarthi" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Ashish Vidyarthi</a> promising to bring about <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">awareness of careers that are being transformed by technology and societal shifts</span>. It is time all of us think 'inside out' and find our calling -rather than follow the herd mentality that was the norm in the past few decades.</div>
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I must confess I have always been intrigued by the way<a href="http://blog.belong.co/why-were-heading-to-shrmiac-and-why-you-should-too" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> Team Belong </a>is able to conjure up <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ways to replicate/enhance (or is it magnify?) Human touch </span>and see the <a href="http://blog.belong.co/why-were-heading-to-shrmiac-and-why-you-should-too" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">world from their perspective.</a> ( They never cease to surprise me-packing in so much of wisdom in their young years!). And get some gyan on <a href="https://www.zinghr.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Artificial Intelligence in HR: Myth or Reality</span></a><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span>And how we can leverage the power of technology!</div>
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Yes, it could be myopic of me to look at the world -purely thru the 'talent perspective'. But I can bank on some of the old pals, as well as the cronies in the blog squad to sensitize me with the other jargon in the industry.</div>
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Give me a shout out-am open to unlearning some of my stuff -and get influenced!!</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-45368826006663125432017-08-21T10:18:00.000+05:302017-08-21T10:20:26.772+05:30Practice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am glad I invested a day long training program in honing my skills on Saturday the 19th!</div>
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There is enough and more information on the internet. Tons of amazing insights are shared by several practitioners and passionate professionals, that help us to be 'better than yesterday', courtesy tweets, blogs, podcasts. But there is no real substitute for the 'human touch'.</div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rpatre/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Raghunandan Patre </a>and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashfaqahmedhr/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Ashfaq Ahmed</a> simply regaled some 25 plus participants on how as sourcers /recruiters, we could be prepared for the #futureofwork ! Their firm, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/13249372/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #827be9; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Skill Scaler Learning Solutions</strong></a> is a Recruitment Capability Building organisation that endeavors to improve</div>
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-candidate/client proximity</div>
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-recruiter productivity</div>
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-process excellence.</div>
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For a person whose learning was very much self taught, by trial and error, picking up nuggets from the social media buzz, it was awesome to be tuning into a structured presentation- as Raghu played the role of the philosopher & Ashfaq the hacker! The mantra - to not just unearth the unique candidates, but to engage and influence them -and 'manage clients' -in a market that is increasingly becoming in favour of the candidates.</div>
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-Hiring per se hasn't reduced in the post Brexit/Trump/Demonetisation/GST era. Only the pattern of hiring has changed. Expectations have rised. Customer focus and delighting them is the only route ahead.</div>
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-All the sourcing tools essentially help in identifying just those 'who are willing to leave their social media footprints'. Would you believe 70% is Dark matter?</div>
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-With sourcing increasingly becoming AI/ML focussed, the art of engaging candidates boils how to asking the right questions!</div>
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- It is essential to deconstruct a job description to be able to understand the real need of whom we are looking for. In a keyword infested world, to be in sync with what the client wants- it is essential to get under the skin of how the candidate conveys the competency!! ( for eg :Technical keywords showcase skills, Functional keywords help understand the nature of work and the Anchor keywords relate to identifying roles.)</div>
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- Horses for courses. Every search engine or social networking site is driven by algorithms-that often get changed. While there are n number of tools that are being generated daily -to help us hack our way, the trainers got us to be sensitive to the subtleties -and pivot our way. Be it in Naukri, LinkedIn, Facebook, Git Hub or Stackoverflow. Understanding the logic is imperative before we dive deep into the search.</div>
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-The basics of talent branding in an increasingly cluttered world!</div>
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As I refer my notes today, I cannot believe the range of tools and best practices that they alluded to. I already have doubts if I can navigate -with the ease Ashfaq the magician -did!</div>
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Well, knowledge is available on demand. It is how one applies it -that makes the difference between the best and the rest, right?</div>
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I look forward to a new day today..</div>
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And with a thought that ought to be a wake up alarm.</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-20402640141981787942017-07-14T12:37:00.002+05:302017-07-14T12:37:22.817+05:30Milestone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"It is 25 years to the day, since the birth of Options," my mother reminded me this morning. And so the family is getting ready to celebrate.</div>
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Flashback to July 14th 1992.</div>
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Looking back, the journey has been simply amazing. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Helping others to find their calling"</strong> has been the pivot as we have tried to help several hundreds of clients find talent aligned to the similar values. We have worked with clients at different stages in their lifecycle of growth, (why even offering outplacement services during a stint that saw a temporary de-growth!), across different management ownerships/styles, and across functions, industries, levels and locations. Amidst very exhilarating times that has spanned from post liberalisation days in India, as India opened up to foreign investments, and abroad, even as clients survived the dot com boom/worldwide financial crisis, and now coming to terms with Brexit et al, totally changing the dynamics of global migration.</div>
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Internet, globalisation, disruptions in the VUCA times, have all forced us to change with times, stay relevant with the best business practices, and look to the future with more hope and conviction.</div>
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Options is now poised to leverage on orchestrating a global network and add value to each of our stakeholders- be it aspiring job seekers, or hungry clients, or like-minded fellow recruitment specialists with whom we collaborate, to be able to make a better impact!</div>
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With 92 Sales Directors and 1300 recruiters, the potential reach of Options is simply mindboggling-considering we have partnerships across 41 countries.</div>
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I take this opportunity to thank each one of you -who has been part of the journey, helping me learn, relearn, and even unlearn.</div>
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I am grateful, as they say in the cricketing parlance, as I take a 'fresh guard' to continue to make a difference, one individual at a time.</div>
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There are more milestones...waiting :)!</div>
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<a href="https://thelollipopeffect.com/2017/06/28/life-is-now-and-now-is-amazing/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Life is now and now is amazing</a>.</h2>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-42182528575599396682017-06-18T10:20:00.002+05:302017-06-18T10:20:30.695+05:30If you could change one thing in the world...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When you are a recruiter by choice, and forever asking questions, and catching folks off their guard, you get a feeling that you can interview even in sleep! But it is totally another game when one is being interviewed. And I hadn't reckoned what the Pro <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulslezak/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Paul Slezak</a> was upto!</div>
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Here is the <a href="http://recruitloop.com/blog/meet-achyut-menon-recruitloop-recruiter-hyderabad-india/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">link to the detailed interview</a>- that he had done as part of a monthly newsletter that is sent to the <a href="http://recruitloop.com/elastic-recruiting" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Recruitloop</a> ecosystem!</div>
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I am tempted to share an extract of the same echoing some of my thoughts:</div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?</em></h2>
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Well, as I reflect again, I wonder if I had another chance who else I may have added. I must confess -at times, you end up answering what you think the interviewer probably wants to hear!! And in this case, as most of our ecosystem was Americans, I opted to keep cricket out of it. It was tough keeping Rahul Dravid out of the list.</div>
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And as always -it would be wonderful to know how you would have approached these questions! Feel free to share..</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-2132652165716126142017-05-28T11:09:00.001+05:302017-05-28T11:11:55.738+05:30Jobless Growth -Who is to bell the cat?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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WYSIWYG, right? </div>
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Let's take a handful of media tidbits we see just in the last 48hrs.</div>
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'<a href="http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-commentary/software-firms-in-india-have-good-hiring-plans-jobs-meltdown-is-a-media-myth/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Software firms in India have good hiring plans, jobs meltdown is a media myth</a>'</h2>
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<a href="https://www.peoplematters.in/articles/read/media_type/article/subcat/skilling/title/lay-offs-are-good-for-it-industry-in-the-long-term/id/15516?utm_source=top_nav&utm_medium=article&utm_content=15516&utm_source=peoplematters&utm_medium=interstitial&utm_campaign=learnings-of-the-day" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">'Layoffs are good for IT industry in the long term’</a></h2>
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In contrast, we also have been advised some mantras that could help resolve the situation,<a href="http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/when-you-are-up-against-5yearolds-or-bots/article9711803.ece" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> if only the HR were to reimagine in a new world</a>, and the onus could be that of an organisation (<a href="http://fortune.com/att-hr-retrain-employees-jobs-best-companies/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> see how AT&T chooses to respond), </a>or by the nation. (<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/heres-what-singapore-is-doing-to-create-new-jobs-redeploy-displaced-workers-and-upskill-workers/articleshow/58873109.cms" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Singapore's SkillFuture program for job seekers, trainers and employers</a>).</div>
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I am tempted to recall an article by<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakashiyerauthor/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> Prakash Iyer</a> who opined<a href="http://businessworld.in/article/Who-s-That-Guy-At-The-Bottom-/23-08-2016-104659/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> "<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you are looking to create an empowered, frontline-focused, passionate organisation, look no further. Take the first step. Turn your organisation upside down</em></a><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"</em></div>
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As a person who has been a ringside observer -of the demand and supply side for the last three decades, I would like to attribute some of the above staffing problems <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are the result of hiring the wrong people, to begin with. </em></span></div>
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I endorse the statement made by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Management-vs-Employees-Corporate-Performance/dp/1484216768" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Hayes Drumwright</a> in a recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5blhlA17B4&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">presentation</a>. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Most often, the people closest to the problem know how to solve it. And it is career limiting for them to tell you."</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">It is a catch 22 situation for a recruiter!</u></span></div>
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Let me explain taking a couple of pointers that need to be reflected on-especially the current practices that prevail in the Indian IT industry:</div>
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1) The 'typical' annual increment for the best performers is about 12-15% ( and of course subject to the company/division performance/market conditions). And if one were to job hop, the company hiring would entice one by paying a 25-30% hike. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are we not penalising good performers, and encouraging them to look for greener pastures elsewhere</span>?</div>
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Ironically, instead, companies try to shut the door by enforcing a notice period of 2-3 months that the employee has to service before joining the new employer. In reality, the incumbent now has all the free time to shop around with new suitors, (for a better hike), before even the present employer can conjure up a juicy counter offer!</div>
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2) Now over to the demand side. To replace the deserting employee, the hiring manager is in a tearing hurry to get the new person boarded asap, and so doesn't have the luxury of identifying, wooing and attracting a 'passive job seeker'-and so there is a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">huge demand for those immediately available ( read, hmm..unemployed?), or those 'serving out notice period', thereby encouraging mercenary attitudes -and compromising competency!</span></div>
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Perhaps the learning from this could be - <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hire slow. Fire Fast</span>?</div>
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For that, there is a need for <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more emphasis on the quality of hire</span>. It is perhaps easy to keep track of metrics like time to hire, cost per hire, and turnaround times..( the comfort zone of most Talent Acquisition professionals). How about reckoning the opportunity cost of hire? <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2014/02/19/he-wanted-a-job-facebook-said-no-in-a-3-billion-mistake/#6a2bbeab5244" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Facebook perhaps lost $3Billion in not making Brian Acton a hire!!</a></div>
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If we are honest with ourselves, we know that getting to the truth of matters is hard, and often incredibly uncomfortable.</div>
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Look no further than the author who was known for 'fantasies'-there could be some thoughts for us adults to reflect too.</div>
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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair "- CS Lewis</div>
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AK Menonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35229085.post-80675217092769894002017-05-17T13:42:00.005+05:302017-05-17T13:53:25.475+05:30Job market. Layoffs, Firing.. Hakuna Matata<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last night as we were driving back after a get-together, a family friend asked me- "hey, with all these firing and layoff news-how is it affecting you."?</div>
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Well, my instant smart answer was " When the jobs boom happened, it didn't affect me so the bust too would not really matter.he he"!</div>
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But I could sense from the tone, that others in the car were also wanting a serious response. So, I rallied around saying how as Executive Search firms in the hiring solutions business, our job was to help companies hire the talent they couldn't find themselves. And so while thousands were being hired every month, most companies didn't need to be dependent on external bandwidth. And that the present layoffs-the media goes ga ga daily over, is an overreaction. Companies, in order to grow faster, right size from time to time, and occasionally remove the 'dead wood' to remain cost effective. It is indeed sad that most may not have upgraded their skills or paid too much heed to add value, as their salaries had multiplied over the past decade. Most being replaced in India -are perhaps in the middle management levels, ie 20-30lacs salary level who make way for 2 or 3 junior folks, employed at 6-8lacs, aided with technology..for a higher ROI.</div>
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And so, companies will continue to need extraordinary talent or game-changers-and so, even in a recession, <a href="http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate/amid-layoffs-and-cost-cutting-ceo-hiring-sees-a-major-jump-in-compensation/58691459" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Specialist recruiters are more in demand..as they have access or can influence some star performers- who can 'raise the bar' for any employer</a>.</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbY_aP-alkw" target="_blank">Hakuna Matata</a></b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1Wq5k0LYcvP00kurc9feGOpT_EU73kmXppN21wVkdUoVPaLuOAMpYXwI3Pyve-n8u11XNwDKQofXf3ZUT7jC4EGttqI1lJBOanQK1SrSzcGU2E-S-eS2HWz9l5YShDDY3hBm/s1600/hakuna+matata.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha1Wq5k0LYcvP00kurc9feGOpT_EU73kmXppN21wVkdUoVPaLuOAMpYXwI3Pyve-n8u11XNwDKQofXf3ZUT7jC4EGttqI1lJBOanQK1SrSzcGU2E-S-eS2HWz9l5YShDDY3hBm/s640/hakuna+matata.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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To simply say “Hakuna Matata” or in more colloquial terms, “no worries,” when a problem comes your way is equivalent to saying,<a href="http://beaveronline.co.uk/hakuna-matata-does-not-always-mean-no-worries/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> “ I am actually very worried but I am too scared/lazy/ambivalent/insert-other-negative-adjective-about-not-being-proactive to do anything about it.”</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2017/05/15/bill-gates-tweets-advice-to-new-college-grads/2/#28eca2b22aff" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It doesn’t mean you ignore the serious problems we face. It just means you believe they can be solved.</strong></a></div>
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As I woke up this morning, I reflected-was I being too casual? Or flippant? Hence this rather long post to think aloud.</div>
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(As a person who began his corporate career in 1984 in India when the biggest employers were Banks and Govt PSUs and people worked until their retirement. I became a recruiter in 1992, by choice, in hindsight the best time as Liberalisation happened, & have been 'helping others find their calling'. Over time, the internet happened, email was born, job portals became popular, and job hopping as opportunities opened up. y2k. Onsite employment. Dotcom bust. 9/11. Offshoring...life goes on, with globalisation affecting our daily lives increasingly...)</div>
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Well, I must admit, I have been proactive as a recruiter, and here are somethings that I have been doing to reinvent the way I work, and add value to my stakeholders</div>
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-I have been an<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/pdkCBYsMYY9iQY" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"> early adopter of social media</a>, which has now become the de facto window to my world. It has helped me constantly upgrading my skills, listening to podcasts/webinars of a diverse set of subject matter experts, and learn, share and compare notes with a large network.</div>
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- I have invested in myself -by subscribing, being certified, and use the state-of-art tools to keep in sync with the technological solutions to the different disruptions happening all around us. Have personally spent a fortune trying out a bevvy of products that are launched -paid and freemiums- that leverage on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (MI)..and be sensitive to the analytics/trends.</div>
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-Networking with several different specialists in Recruitment, be it among the 470+ partners of <a href="http://npaworldwideworks.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">NPA, the Worldwide Recruiting Network</a>, but also investing in building a platform of affiliates, courtesy <a href="https://www.bni.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">BNI, the world's largest Referral Network</a>, that has been at the forefront of changing the way Business is being done globally by being part of "power teams" that help in influencing their customers by improved collaboration.</div>
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That has helped me add value to my customers- who seek hiring solutions- be it permanent hire, or temporary staffing, or Interim Management. And of course value added services like recruitment audit for small companies ( with lesser than 100 employees who do not have the luxury of having an internal senior HR professional), improve their hiring efficiency ( eg a no brainer idea like training an interview panel on what to look for..), use social media for hiring to attract the 'not so obvious' prospects, based on the stage of their lifecycle of growth !</div>
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You see, my mandates are in the business of finding 'people for jobs'.And yes, as a spin-off, in Outplacement, in the event of companies in the unfortunate situation of having to let go their valued employees.</div>
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Consequently, 'finding jobs for people', I have been able to focus on a making a difference to a few -who believe in my insights, by offering them a 'prepaid career coaching service'- namely <a href="http://www.askmenon.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AskMenon.com</a></div>
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"What? You mean I have to pay you, and not be assured of a job? No other recruiter does that!"</div>
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Fortunately, I try to use an analogy which is easier to relate..that of the doctors.</div>
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In a world where one can google for any information, and <a href="http://blog.optionsindia.com/2011/03/celebrating-indian-recruiters-day.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">we can easily self-medicate, with access to pharmacies in every lane, we still go to doctors</a>..right? And pay them for their insights for their consulting -with no assurance of a cure?</div>
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And so, AskMenon.com has a feature that allows one to schedule a call -a la outpatient consulting. And some offline packages -a la inpatient treatment, depending on the complexity of the need( with varied emphasis on critiquing resume/Linkedin profile and brainstorming!), say</div>
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-job search</div>
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-career growth</div>
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-leadership</div>
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Well, the extended networks have given me the luxury of being privy to global opportunities, leveraging the goodwill of over <a href="http://npaworldwide.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">1300 recruiters</a>, <a href="https://www.bni.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">216k business owners </a>across 65 countries willing to open up their relationships, -all at arm's length or a click away!</div>
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We are in the midst of a decade -<a href="https://hbr.org/2014/01/what-vuca-really-means-for-you" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">a VUCA world</a>- that has been changing faster than ever. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Luck is what happens when Preparation Meets Opportunity.</strong></div>
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And we need all the help -to keep ourselves sane, productive, and relevant! I am open to learning more from you. Thanks for staying with me on this journey. Do feel free to reach me offline. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How can I help YOU?</strong></div>
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Psst, The best jobs don't always go to the best. Often it happens to the right person at the right place and the right time. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stay connected!!</strong></div>
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