Im an HR

At the outset, a very happy weekend to all my followers, fellow bloggers. I’m taking Talent Acquisition for this weekend to explore some of the key aspects which will benefit the experienced and the aspiring TA specialists. I’m sure you are following all my blogs and liking it…If you do then leave a comment below Being a specialised role for an HR, how to stand out in this role from  the rest is a question that you must ask yourself. I have tried my best to throw some light on the subject, and here are some pointers to make the function more effective to ensure you hire the best talent for your company and you command respect in your organization.  Manpower Planning Being participate in the manpower planning exercise, ask questions, seek clarity and contribute to arrive at more detailed requirements. The first step in the overall life-cycle is this where the management would be directly involved and is a critical exercise either at the end of the financial year...

When it come to language proficiency often people talk about English both at the higher education level  and at work. English is a lingua franca and most widely spoken common language across the boundaries. Essentially, it is the language of business. I colloquially tell all my budding students that Tamil is my Voice and English a commercial noice that I make to survive. It is a language that has become inseparable part of everyone's life who wish to work or live outside their country. From my personal experience at work we weigh communication skills ahead of one's technical proficiency because certain critical positions across departments  in the organization goes beyond administrative/operational  to tactical and strategic. Despite, all these demands from the society why is most of us are unable to learn and speak proficiently? Let's break it down within the context of India and understand the basis before some tips to speak fluently in English. Everyone is born w...

Hi there, In this blog, I'm going to write about the  practice of  providing and receiving feedback and feed-forward  from the HR Standpoint in the context of workplace. Essentially, feedback is an art that is aimed at  providing the right tips for an employee or a co-worker to understand, realise, reflect and improve his approaches towards a task or behavior. Feedback is an art and not a science, let's understand that so it will be easy to understand what follows.  There are couple of methodologies that can be adopted to be sure that the feedback given is absolutely objective in nature.There are humongous doubts among the employees on how to give feedback to a co-worker, a subordinate or to a reporting manager. When the giver is clear about the purpose of giving feedback as I stated above the insecurity surrounding the art disappears. There are several myths around feedback. Let me throw some light to dispel that, 1. Feedback is only for juniors and subo...

Ever wondered what a successful HR  leader does? What qualities distinguishes him/her  from the rest? Here are few qualities or characteristics that I thought would highlight out of my experience in the field of Human Resource Management dealing with people behaviors and based on my interactions with HR leaders. 1. Continuous Learning Any successful HR leader, continuously learn and update themselves  on the new age  skills, changing business scenario and the expectation of the younger generation. They believe that  staying abreast of the latest developments in technology would help them, in mapping the right skills for the right job and they work hard at it. Given, the magnitude of change that businesses go through, it is imperative for an HR to stay at the top of the learning curve consistently. Now that HR professionals claim to be at the table it is important,that we speak the language of business that confirms our participation at the table and be a va...

The word Blind Hiring itself hold so much suspense that I thought of exposing it. Managed to collate few definitions from Google and from other Blogs. 1. Blind’ or anonymised hiring refers to the technique of removing personal information from candidate applications during the assessment process. This is most often candidate names, but in some instances, like on Applied, it goes further: aiming to remove all socio-demographic details that might affect decision-making, such as age, home address, and even education. Source ( beapplied ) 2. Blind hiring is an HR practice that aims at reducing biases during the hiring process. The idea is to promote talent acquisition based on a transparent method and hire eligible candidates regardless of their name, gender, mother tongue, religion, and socioeconomic background. It also forbids the hiring managers to ask about the academic qualification and professional experien...