Tag: Rajeev Singh
Importance of 1st job in shaping one’s career
People stepping into the work culture for the first time are like artists starting to paint on a blank canvas. Therefore, the first job...
Counter offers to retain people are like band-aids
Retention of employees is a common practice. In fact, with a shortage of critical talent, companies are quick to make a counter offer and...
Should employers steer clear of frequent job hoppers?
There was a time when it was common practice for people to spend their entire careers at the same organisation. Today, a constantly- changing...
How to deal with credit stealers
Shaila, a budding marketing professional, began her career with an FMCG firm. It has been three years since she started working in the marketing...
How ‘biased listening’ can be a challenge for companies
It is quite common in the corporate world to come across people who only listen to what they want to hear. That means, when...
How can hiring managers steer clear of interview bias?
A 2019 study by the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology revealed that 60 per cent of interviewers know within the first 15 minutes...
Is hard negotiation during an interview taken as a bad trait?
Today’s job market is very much a candidate’s market. With so many opportunities waiting to be grabbed, candidates are spoilt for choice, while employers...
How to manage high-performing bullies
Bullies exist everywhere. They exist amongst the neighbourhood gang of children, amongst students and faculty at renowned universities or prestigious schools, they make team...
Do micro-credentials hold relevance in the job market?
Today’s generation is restless. They want everything fast — here and now. That is why, there is so much hype around micro credentials. So,...
What to do if your incompetent ex-boss follows you to the...
Having an incompetent boss at the workplace can be very challenging. Of course, one can always quit the job and move to a new...
What are the employee types most difficult to retain?
The attrition rates are at an all-time high presently, pushing many experts to term this phenomenon as ‘The Great Attrition.’
A report by Gartner last...
Are employees not in their rights to comment on Russia-Ukraine conflict...
Recently, the CEO of a leading global technology company sent out an e-mail to all the employees, restricting them from posting opinions about the...
How HR can build business skills
A study by a global recruiting and HR solutions firm — where more than 200 chief human resource officers (CHROs) from around the world...
Are changing work models also changing the culture of organisations?
Just when HR was gearing for technological disruptions, something bigger came along to pose even bigger challenges — the pandemic. While it was a...
Why the process of hiring a CEO is tricky
On February 12, Tata Motors announced Marc Llistosella as its next chief executive and managing director. A month later, the automobile major made a...
Are you recruiting or acquiring talent?
Back in the days of industrial relations (IR), human resources (HR) was generally referred to as personnel management, and HR managers were called personnel...
Should you hire for skills or strengths?
Recruiters more often look to hire candidates with the right set of skills. In the short term, matching these skills with the job profile...
How to train managers to deal with problematic employees
There are occasions when managers have to deal with subordinates or colleagues, who become a cause for concern. The reasons could be many —...
Yokohama’s Rajeev Singh joins Solara Active Pharma, as CHRO
Rajeev Singh, who was the CHRO at Yokohama Off Highway Tires, has now entered the pharma space, by joining Solara Active Pharma Sciences as...
Can good camaraderie amongst employees harm output?
In the field of sports, it is observed that members of all well-performing teams have a great connect and bonding with each other. Comrades...
Will full vaccination be compulsory for employees to return to office?
Given the positive signs in the form of decline in daily number of positive cases and deaths due to COVID in the country, many...
Meet ‘Noiseless’ employee; learn to care for them
In the cement industry, there are mixers that work at a very high temperature. It is difficult for human beings to be around that...
How performance review data usage can be maximised
The importance of performance reviews for an organisation, and their purpose, cannot be stressed enough. They are indispensable when it comes to appraisals and...
Why asynchronous collaboration is a must in hybrid work
Collaboration has become one of the most vital challenges in the hybrid work model, where people are not working from office regularly or frequently....
Directly from campus to WFH: How are the first-time employees coping...
Companies now have a new breed of workers who probably have been working from home ever since they started their work life, and many...
How ‘bad hires’ can be transformed into ‘star performers’
Matrimony.com’s chief human resource officer, Rajesh Balaji recalls a case, where a new joinee as HRBP appeared to be arrogant, unresponsive, pushing the manager,...
Min.salary Rs 43 lakh for foreign service officers in Canada
Those keen to work as foreign service officers with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) may apply before 30 June, 2023. The job...
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Min.salary Rs 43 lakh for foreign service officers in Canada
Those keen to work as foreign service officers with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) may apply before 30 June, 2023. The job...
US tech industry cut 63,000 jobs this year
Of the over 1.8 lakh jobs that have been axed in the US this year, about 63,216 jobs are from the tech industry.
As per...
60,000 KPTCL and Escoms workers strike in KA
Karnataka is facing an indefinite strike by the employees of the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) and all five electricity supply companies in...
Air India launches second phase of VR scheme
Air India, which was acquired by the Tata group in January 2022, has announced a second round of voluntary retirement schemes (VRS) for its...
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EQ, IQ & empathy define the success of a CEO
Q. You spent 16 years at LIC before moving to a corporate role at ICICI Prudential. Now, 22 years on, I am still curious...
“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
