Tag: Hospitality
Srinivasa Rao is cluster director – HR, Hilton and Hilton Garden...
Srinivasa Rao is the cluster director of human resources, Hilton and Hilton Garden Inn Bengaluru Embassy Manyata Business Park.
Rao comes with over 22 years...
Hotel chain rewards staff with £182,166 for hard work
A hotel group in Britain recently rewarded its employees for their hard work with a bonus. The family-run Philema Hospitality Management, shelled out almost...
Brazil and India show strongest hiring prospects for Q4: Report
Despite worries of a recession, employers across the globe expect to continue hiring much needed talent, as per the Manpower Group Employment Outlook Survey.
The...
The Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts appoints Gautam Srivastava as VP–HR
The Leela Palaces Hotels and Resorts has appointed Gautam Srivastava as the vice president - corporate HR. In this role, Srivastava will lead the...
Vaccination status of OYO staff to appear on its app
OYO, the hospitality company, will make the self-reported COVID vaccination status of all the employees of its partner hotels available on its app. The...
FICCI and OYO offer online course for hospitality industry
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) and hospitality major, OYO, have come together to create an online certification course on...
Karnataka launches ‘Skill Connect’ portal for job seekers
The state of Karnataka now has its own 'Skill Connect' portal, which will help those seeking jobs find suitable employment by connecting them with...
GVK Group slashes up to 30% salaries w.e.f May
GVK Group has slashed up to 30 per cent salaries of over 1800 employees across verticals. The Indian conglomerate dealing in energy, resources, airports,...
India may lose up to 136 million jobs to the COVID-19...
According to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), over 50 per cent of the tourism and hospitality industry may be rendered sick with about...
Sabu Raghavan elevated to VP, human resources, India, Hilton
Sabu Raghavan, who joined Hilton in 2011, has been elevated to the position of vice president, human resources, India. Of late, he had been...
Treebo Hotels lays off about 100 to 120 of its staff...
Treebo Hotels, run and operated by hospitality company, Ruptub Solutions, has laid off about 100-120 employees, which is about 20 per cent of its...
Tatas set to hire Jet Airways’ employees
On a social-media platform, The Taj Mahal Palace, the hospitality unit of the Tata Group, put up a welcoming message to Jet Airways’ employees...
Hyatt: How in the world would one motivate a chef?
The hospitality industry has a very different set of employees — not the regular nine to five office goers. This business operates 24x7 and...
OYO launches daycare for its employees
The company believes that it will be a big step towards promoting diversity and improving employee experience and will be extended to other OYO offices as well.
Skill India and Airbnb sign MoU to skill people in hospitality...
The MoU will empower micro-entrepreneurs from rural and undeserved areas to join the alternative accommodation sector and earn some livelihood by sharing their homes.
“How HR is different across sectors” – Yuvaraj Srivastava
Yuvaraj Srivastava spent more than five years with the Indian army before he moved to the corporate sector. This certainly makes him a differently talented HR professional.
Post his army days, Srivastava dabbled in different sectors starting from an industrial unit (Asian Paints), moving on to hospitality (The Oberoi), then to FMCG (PepsiCo) before joining a new age company (MakeMyTrip). His exposure to HR management in different sectors has contributed to the richness of his experience.
Srivastava, CHRO, MakeMyTrip speaks to HRKatha on how human resources is same yet different in varied sectors. He has coined different terms for each of his experiences. He describes how serving the armed forces has taught him to be a better HR professional. Excerpts!
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Innovation in insurance recruitment: Tata AIA’s journey towards high volume, top talent acquisition
Tata AIA Life is a joint venture between Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd and AIA Group. The venture merges Tata's leadership in India with AIA's...
Quest Global: Establishing trust as a go-to partner for the world’s most challenging engineering...
Quest Global is in the business of engineering, to build a brighter future. What makes it different is not what it does but why...
Greek to follow six-day workweek; unions unhappy
Workers in Greek will soon be working for six days a week with flexible working hours. The Parliament of the country has given its...
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Availability of jobs increases in travel and tourism by 44%
With more and more people spending higher amounts on travelling for leisure as well as business purposes, the travel and tourism sector has witnessed...
How Sterlite Technologies identifies its future potential leaders
Identifying potential leaders is crucial for an organisation's success, as it ensures a robust talent pipeline, allowing for effective succession planning and leadership development....
Byju’s to restructure and let go 4,000
Edtech firm, Byju’s is set to cut down its existing 35,000-strong workforce by 11 per cent. That means, about 4,000 employees will be rendered...
Airbus to expand UK workforce by at least 1,000
Airbus is on the lookout for software, cryogenics, robotics, cyber security and manufacturing engineers. It is also keen to hire project and programme managers...
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EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
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