Imagine receiving super bikes, cool gadgets and luxury vacations on joining an organisation. A dream come true? Well, for new joinees at BharatPe, it really was. The fintech company actually offered its new joinees these lucrative incentives recently. As part of its endeavour to triple the strength of its tech team, BharatPe offered a ‘bike package’ — which includes top end motorcycles, such as BMW G310R, Jawa Parek, KTM Duke 390, KTM RC 390 and Royal Enfield Himalayan—and a ‘gadget package’— which includes Apple iPad Pro (with Pencil), Bose Headphone, Harman Kardon Speaker, Samsung Galaxy Watch, WFH desk and chair…
Author: Akshit Pushkarna | HRKatha
Akshit Pushkarna | HRKatha
A post graduate in journalism from Xavier's Institute of Communications, Mumbai, Akshit is keen to learn and pen down his observations. An adventurer at heart, he also competes as a boxer and a powerlifter.
Artificial intelligence (AI) to sort through resumes, competency-evaluation tests, zoom calls and so on, are slowly becoming indispensable tools for hiring managers across the board. Even the conventional method to check on the background of a candidate has changed. To get a gist of who they are dealing with, skimming through candidates’ social-media profiles has now become a norm. “It has become the norm for recruiters to thoroughly examine candidates’ social-media profiles before interviewing them. She believes that an ill-maintained profile, which can also be termed as inactive, would come across as a little weird, and trigger a red flag…
A happy work atmosphere is essential for any company to ensure optimal output. To establish a happy work environment, the employees — the building blocks of any organisation — must be in a good place. This calls for a balance between their professional and personal lives. Now to achieve that, an ideal workweek has to be deliberated upon by each company, and on a broader scale, each country. Productivity is directly correlated to an employee’s stress levels. Hence, working long hours for days on end may prove to be detrimental to their physical as well as mental health. The key…
A plethora of young graduates enter the job market each year. The uber competitive nature of the job market in India isn’t the most hospitable for the careers of many such young aspirants. This is the primary reason behind the high rate of unemployment among graduates in the country. Data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) compiled at the end of 2019 revealed that 18.5 per cent of graduates were unemployed in India. The need of the hour for young graduates seeking their first job is to optimise themselves in such a way that they stand out in…