Hi Everyone,
Join me to welcome our honored guest Mr. Abhijit Bhaduri, the Chief Learning Officer of Wipro group and the author of three amazing best selling books-Mediocre But Arrogant, Married But Available & Don’t Hire The Best
”Employers like to hire “the best” candidates. We like to work for “the best” employers. It is more important for each one to work for “the right” employer”-Abhijit Bhaduri (more…)
My husband and I went ice skating last weekend. It was not a planned thing but every time we go to our nearby shopping mall we are amazed to see a bunch of kids simply enjoying flying like butterflies on ice skates. It was a fantasy for us, something that we always wanted to try. This time when we went there we noticed a small kid taking her first lessons. Hmm, we heard the instructor tell her – bring your hands up perpendicular to the floor, look ahead, bend your knees, balance your body and move on, just do it! (more…)
You might have read about the blog post that I wrote last week in which I talk about complacency. Very recently I come across with that word again. This time the word stuck in my mind after reading the book ‘You Don’t need a God Father’ written by Elango R.
Am I going to talk about complacency again? No, but what I want to share here is the path that can lead you into a ‘success trap‘.
Choose direction over distance! Those were the words of wisdom from Anand Pillai when I asked him what he wants to see young HR professionals do!
I had a chat with a few of my friends this Sunday! Having kept in touch with them through Facebook for a while, I was finally happy to meet and spend time with them.
I am happy to see the changes happening in everybody’s life. Some of them are happy to welcome a new member in their family, yes their new born baby! Others are excited to begin a happy married life and a few others like me, are celebrating every day life by doing whatever makes them happy. (more…)
It is getting close to performance appraisal time in many companies and so here a few tips on how to make this best work for you.
Performance appraisal period is always a nerve wracking time for most of us. You work hard for the past one year and the effort is getting judged on a single day based on few sentences captured in an excel sheet or a portal somewhere. (more…)
This time Your HR Buddy is honored to present a Leader’s voice who has Global experience in HR, Mr. Edwin Vinod James, Head of HR at Marico Limited for North Africa Region. Being an Indian he has studied and worked in different countries and brings a unique global perspective on HR and in dealing with a diverse workforce. Thanks to social media for making this interview possible given that we are a few thousands of miles apart. Although I would imagine that discussing this with him over a cup of coffee would have been a great personal experience for me. I am so excited to bring my conversation with Edwin to you. (more…)
This the third part of an ongoing Brain drain series. In the past weeks I wrote about “The Great Indian Movement” in Part I and “Struggle of Indian Immigrant students in US” in Part II.
Part III of Brain Drain Series: How to handle Culture Shock
Let me just state this upfront that I have never been outside of India in my life until now. (more…)
This is the second part of an ongoing series. Check out Part 1 of ‘Brain Drain Series’ the Great Indian Movement where readers like Sunil and Dan voiced their opinion.
Last week we talked about the trend of Indian students migrating to the western land with dreams of a higher quality education and a promising career. But most people don’t know the reality and the hardship that they go through in their life. (more…)
Yes, It is August 25th, the day I decided to paint my thoughts with shades of HR on this site. The day I started scribbling my experiences working in HR, refined into a blog and published my first post in blogspot. Read it here (What if the employee has shown up on the first day and nothing is ready?) (more…)
