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Helping people avoid the most common turn-offs in a profile, LinkedIn recently announced the top 10 overused buzzwords and phrases by Indian professionals in their LinkedIn profiles.

This year’s budget also looks to be in line with the Modi government’s strong focus on creating jobs and encouraging skilling efforts, since it took over in May 2014.

These new internal initiatives for interaction and effective learning have made news globally.

Recruitment and talent acquisition are the two most commonly used terms in HR departments across the globe. However similar they may sound or be perceived as being, there is an underlying difference between the two that many professionals tend to ignore. There exists a thin line between the two that creates a big difference in the way organisations manage talent.

Talent management is about understanding your key people and what you need to do, in order to ensure the constant development of the organisation’s capabilities and talent.

Some learning trends that we can anticipate in the New Year.

With increasing automation, humans are drifting towards logic, but emotions still play an inevitable part in impacting thoughts and decisions, differentiating machines from humans.

The relationship between HR and finance is integral to a company’s success.

Chatbots is emerging as the latest fad in HR. The whole technological experience leaves HR more empowered than ever.

Organisations need to measure long-term success by analysing short-term failures. ROI should be based on accountability and should not be lost by the arithmetics of it.

A few well-known movies viewed from a corporate lens to bring forth what they have in offer for the HR enthusiasts.

The robots are handling high-volume and time-consuming business tasks, allowing bankers to focus on more value-added services.

Co-working spaces are not just about flexible working and affordable prices but about an environment that inspires people to work while building synergies with other companies and people around.

The marketplace is shifting from tools that automate traditional HR practices to platforms and apps that make life at work better.

Although structures are said to hamper innovation, it is still very important to design a structured learning intervention with an unconventional approach.

Organisations are increasingly hiring and retaining retired professionals beyond their normal term, as part-time/contractual advisors or consultants.

White-collar employees are left to fight on their own in case of mass retrenchment, unlike their manufacturing counterparts. Should there be a union to ensure them a fair deal?

Despite several engineers graduating each year, the IT product industry faces a dearth of creative talent. Here’s why.

Will this remain just a pilot initiative or does it have the potential to scale up?

Bring Your Own Device offers some interesting benefits to employers and employees both, yet a lot of organisations are giving up on this idea

The issue of gender pay gap has been persistent and has a tendency to keep growing with career progression.

In June, the government raised the retirement age of doctors to 65 years. Doctors anyway continue to practice till the last leg of their life but from government’s perspective, it wanted to retain the talent pool in Central Health Service. It’s a growing concern for the government as more than 28 per cent of the central government employees are above 50 years of age. This implies that not only the government will lose experienced high- level personnel but it will even entail unquantifiable costs as new recruits will require training and on-the-job skills.

If professionals such as doctors, lawyers and CAs, can continue to work for post 60, then why can’t other professionals be it an engineer, bureaucrat or a clerk do so. The official retirement age was fixed at a certain 58 years or 60 years because then the life expectancy was low. Now with better medical facilities, people above 60 are quite active and healthy. HRKatha tries to find a rationale.

‘D-Change’— one of the largest digital and joint employee-volunteer programmes— will support education and learning, women’s empowerment and rural skills development in the country.

Organisations follow a structured way of learning, be it seminars or employee gatherings. While we are in no way discounting these traditional methods of learning, the impact of social learning is immense. 

Engineers have an eclectic mix of business sense, analytical skills and even people management but do these qualities make them able HR professionals.

The globally popular game, based on augmented reality, has some important lessons for organisations too.