What took you so loooong! #Hashtags

Yes, you read it right. This was Tweeted on 20th March, 2015.

But as they say, All’s Well That Ends Well.

500+ million users, 70% of Linkedin users are from Outside of Us. 40 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn. What’s in it for us! Well, LinkedIn has been kind enough to help us all leverage hashtags and find relevant topics easily. So now all you have to do is click on a hashtag that you see on LinkedIn or you can also search hashtags via the search box.

Here are a few examples of how you can find relevant topics via hashtags

a) This is a topic that I am keen to explore and learn. So all I have to do is enter this topic and filter it | People | Jobs | Companies | Groups | etc

b) There has been a lot of talk around #EmployeeExperience, so do leverage this and explore some amazing content using relevant hashtags

c) Great opportunity to find relevant topics that are of your interest such as DevOps, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning etc.

So how are you planning to leverage Hashtags on LinkedIn! Would be great to know your views, ideas around this interesting addition on LinkedIn.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

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How can HR folks leverage GIF’s to communicate with candidates?

#DIDYOUKNOW : The Graphics Interchange Format, better known by its acronym GIF (/dʒɪf/ JIF or /ɡɪf/ GHIF), is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the bulletin board service (BBS) provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987. It has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

No doubt they are popular, no doubt we use it regularly while communicating with our friends. Recently my friend Ashish Peshave tweeted that LinkedIn has added GIF in the message box. Hence thought of writing this blog post. Thanks Buddy for the news 🙂

So coming back to the question… can HR folks leverage GIF’s to communicate with candidates? You might think “Why on earth would a candidates like to see a GIF from HR?” Time to walk the talk. Out Hiring Champs at Tieto have created a series of GIF’s around various Domains that they are hiring for. Hence these creative GIF’s were shared with the prospective candidates and also on Corporate Social Media Channels. And guess what; also to the once which have been offered. Yes, you read it right. Offered Candidates.

The Impact: Most of them replied back thanking the recruiter for sharing information about the areas, domains, skills etc they will be working on. This helped them to also share it with their friends who were working on similar domain/ skills.

Advantage:

• Short Duration has a positive impact – 20 – 30 seconds
• Easy to share (Not a heavy file)
• Can be shared via Whatsapp (Biggest advantage)

So, can HR folks leverage GIF’s? The straight answer is YES. This is just one of the example of how GIF’s can be leveraged by HR folks. Here are few more examples:

• A GIF can be sent to Drop Out Candidates
• Alumni (Ex- Employees)
• Prospective Candidates
• Thank you note to walk-in candidates
• Key HR policies to be converted in GIF’s for employees / external candidates
• And the list is endless…..

It all depends how who and what messaging you want to convey via GIF’s.

Here are the few GIF’s for external communication:

Do you want to work with a company that both challenges and cares? https://goo.gl/nEUnSi

Tieto is the leading healthcare and welfare IT provider in the Nordics, with over 40 years of Nordic well-being expertise : https://goo.gl/73rdRL

#DidYouKnow Tieto is #1 cloud service provider in the Nordics : https://goo.gl/rGHcNN

Looking forward to your views around probably a new way to communicate. What say?

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

Asia’s biggest HR Tech Conference is back aka #SHRMTech18

This is the 4th year of Asia’s biggest HR Tech Conference is back aka #SHRMTech18. Was fortunate to attend #SHRMTECH16 and #SHRMTECH17. Just like both the years, this year too it will be an amazing event filled with passionate HR folks.

Here are a few highlights of what to expect at #SHRMTech18

• Interact with 1100+ HR & Technology Professional
• Listen to 70+ Global Speakers
• 25+ Demos & Knowledge Sessions conducted by Industry Thought Leaders
• 400+ Organizations
• 150+ CHRO’s, CXO’s, CTO’s and CIO’s under one roof

Having said that, this is what I am looking forward to explore at #SHRMTech18

1) Key Note Address by Vineet Nayar , as he will be sharing his experiences and expert views on how technology can bring about transformation in workplaces for not just HR professionals but also to multiple stakeholders.

2) Mark Riley’s session around Humans vs Machines. I am sure you would be keen to know more about it. Well, all you need to do is either attend the event or follow #SHRMTech18 on Twitter

3) Panel Discussion | Women in Tech: Time to Lead the Way! Enough said. You just can’t miss this one.

4) Enhanced Employee Experience. This one is close to my heart.

5) Panel Discussion around Chatbots, VR and AR go to Work! Are you excited already??

6) List of Top 30 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media. Check out the previous list right here: SHRMTech17

7) Jason Averbook and William Tincup sharing insights around Intelligent Things come to work

8) What’s Internet of Things (IoT) got to do with HR and People?

9) SHRM Big Debate | The Future of HR in a Tech Driven World! Is there or isn’t there?

10) To gain insights for the HR leaders at the event and meet Twitter Friends 🙂

Are you excited already? Well, you can explore more about the event on http://www.shrmtech.org and don’t forget to catch all the action on Twitter too, just follow #SHRMTech18

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

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#AccelHERate in just 280 characters!!!

At first it seems tough to imagine that one can learn so much via just 280 characters. Well, this is the reality. It was time to AccelHERate and guess what #AccelHERate was the hashtag that created a storm on Social Media. To add to this, 300+ passionate folks under one roof, made it even more special. Kudos to the entire team at JobsForHer for creating this amazing platform. Keep it going and keep inspiring.

Was fortunate to attend AccelHERate ie India’s Biggest B2B Conference for Companies Committed to Increasing Women’s Participation in the Indian Workforce. Wanted to take this opportunity to share some interesting insights that came out of this Conference. It ranges from interesting insights from Neha Bagaria – Founder, JobsForHer, Barkha Dutt – Senior Journalist, Keynote address by Sharmila A Karve, Panel Discussion and Round Table discussions throughout the day.

So let the journey begin. These are some of the most interesting tweets that came across during the event made in 280 characters. You read it right. One can learn loads via 280 Characters. 

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I am sure you would have loads to talk about these interesting insights. So what are you waiting for. Continue this conversation using #AccelHERate and do follow JobsForHer. We as HR folks need to have regular such conversations that will help us all work towards increasing the participation of women at workplace.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

 

Empowered HR Community – HRInteract

There are HR events and more HR events. I am sure you would have attended many of them. Recently was fortunate to attend a HR Event that was organized by a bunch of passionate HR champs. The idea was about Co – Creating an “Empowered HR Community”. So, lets go ahead with some of the unique points that make this community different from others.

1)     To foster fellowship amongst HR practitioners from varied Industry backgrounds.
2)     To enhance professional development by interactive sharing sessions and experiential learning related to HR by accomplished professionals / leaders.
3)     To acquire and continuously develop new knowledge and skills related to HR through research of latest technologies and best practices demonstrated by organizations
4)     To co-operate with educational and research institutions in developing schemes of instruction in HR principles and practice, stimulating student participation in HR & management education and in the activities of HR Interact.

The Key Note Speaker of the event was Divyanshu Ganatra aka India’s first blind solo paraglider. Yes, you read it right. The audience was spell bound for almost 40 mins when Mr Ganatra took the stage. His experiences right from his struggle days to the moments when he became India’s first blind solo paraglider, to the moment when people said “How can blind people use or learn computers”, to “how it took him 7 years to find an instructor, but just 5 days to learn paragliding”  One must be present in the room to hear him speak with such passion and conviction.

Post this inspiring key note from Divyanshu, it was time for the Mentor Mr Adi Raheja, a facilitator who is driven by the passion to enable individuals and organisations to discover their best selves. He does this through his writings, experiential workshops, inclusive consulting and group process facilitation. He introduced an interesting concept known as “World Cafe”  A world café or knowledge café is a structured conversational process for knowledge sharing in which groups of people discuss a topic at several tables, with individuals switching tables periodically and getting introduced to the previous discussion at their new table by a “table host”.

Explore some interesting snapshots of this event.  Always great to see 150 + passionate HR professionals participating and co – creating an empowered community.

 

For those who missed the event can explore the amazing insights right here : https://twitter.com/HR_interact 

Good Luck to Team HR Interact : Dinesh Gupta, Sunil Kashikar, Sudesh Verma, Parag Mehta, Viju Gangadharan, Jashan Joshi, Anshuman Mukherjee, Sheben Rawat, Manish Pipalwa.

Looking forward to your views around HR Communities and how can we leverage it to make our HR community more engaged and empowered.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

 

 

 

150 walks in 60 countries!!! #globalmentoringwalk

I am sure you might have heard this term “Walk the Talk”. It was actually time to do that 🙂 Was fortunate to attend a #globalmentoringwalk organized by BD Foundation & Vital Voices. The Global Mentoring Walk is a notable initiative taking place on the same day in several countries around the world in celebration of the International Women’s Day.

BD Foundation is the official flag bearer of The Global Mentoring Walk in India. In the past 5 years they have hosted various walks around the country mobilizing thousands of women and provided established women leaders a platform to activate the potential of a new generation of change-making, boundary-pushing women and girls, enabling them to create a better world for us all.

One such unique walk was organized at SKF, Chinchwad Campus. There were around 50+ passionate and inspiring leaders were present 8 am in the morning. Each one of them all set to “Walk the Talk”. Participants ie Mentors and Mentees came from various companies such as Tieto, Barclays, Eaton, Sandvik and SKF. Mentors and Mentees were paired up and the walk started. I guess informal talks do help each one of us to open up and learn from each-other. Such unique platform does help in creating the next set of leaders too.

Post the walk it was time for an engaging panel discussion that included passionate leaders such as Pranali Save, Syam Chintapenta and Shaffic Ahamed. They went on to share in their insights around mentoring, how to go about it, what to focus on and how to also create informal platforms around mentoring programs at corporate organisations.

Just like others I too was excited to then hear Sudha Menon, Author, columnist, speaker, writing coach, founder, Get Writing and Writing With Women. at Independent. She was candid and shared some amazing insights around how she started writing.

Would like to take this opportunity to thank Sarika Bhattacharyya, Rashmi for giving me this opportunity to cover this event and learn from these amazing mentors and mentees. Already looking forward to the next #globalmentoringwalk

Note: Do follow BD Foundation on Twitter to learn more about this event.

No provision on “Paternity Leave” in Indian labour law !!!

Yes, you read it right – There is no provision on paternity leave in Indian labour law for private sector workers. On the other hand All India and Central Civil Services Rules allow Central government employees 15 days of paternity leave. This also extends to cases where a child has been adopted.

Off lately there has been a news that if the Paternity Benefit Bill, 2017 goes through, fathers will be able to get paternity leave extendable up to three months. Member of Parliament from Maharashtra, Rajeev Satav,  did quote in Business Today, “Child care is the joint responsibility of both parents. They must devote time to the newborn to ensure its proper well-being,”

Interesting facts:

a) The Swedes are entitled to 480 combined days of paid parental leave—240 for mom and 240 for dad.

b) In the US, there is no federally-mandated paid parental leave

c) In Norway, parents are entitled to 46 weeks at full salary, or 56 weeks at 80% pay.

d) Germany : Father or mother can take up to 52 weeks of parental leave with a minimum of 2 months for each parent. If both parents take at least 2 months, the leave is extended up to 60 weeks

e) Iceland : Father is entitled to up to 6 months leave, of which 3 months are mandatory. During this period of leave they are paid 80% of their normal pay.

f) Spain : Fathers are entitled to 30 days of paid leave.

So now that you have a good background of the topic, lets shift our attention to the ground reality of what some of the companies have to offer for fathers (Following data is collected via various news articles and information which is publicly available. In case you want to add / edit, do feel free to do so in the interest of the readers)

Amazing numbers right!!! The range is from 1 day to 52 weeks. Would be interesting to see how would be landscape change if and when the law passes in parliament for granting 3 months leave.

Would be great to know your views on this topic and also if you want to add / edit any companies, do feel free to comment on this blog. As this is a sheet that we will keep updating for the benefit of the readers.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

Source:

• https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/paternity-leave-10-best-companies-new-dads/
• http://fortune.com/2017/10/25/ibm-careers-maternity-leave/
• https://fairygodboss.com/articles/paid-maternity-leave-companies-who-offer-the-most-paid-leave
• https://mediaindia.eu/social-vibes/paternity-leave-provided-by-some-firms-in-india/
• http://fortune.com/2017/01/19/starbucks-paternity-maternity-leave/
• https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/jobs-with-paternity-leave-0217
• WhatsApp Groups : NoJargon, HR Forum

World’s biggest Social Media Statistics of Pharma Companies

Confession time!!!! Just like the previous blog about Banks, had to wait for 365 days to come up with this blog too. Had made a small attempt to capture the social media statistics of Pharma companies in 2015 and 2016. And here we are exactly a year later to explore the Statistics of 2017

So before you get into the data part, would like to thank the Digital Marketing, HR, Talent Acquisition and Corporate Marketing teams of all these companies who have created an impact on their customers, clients and candidates via their social sites. So keep it going and keep inspiring                                                                                                  

So enough of Talking, let’s look at the DATA!!!! (We are all so obsessed with Data)

Presenting “World’s biggest Social Media Statistics of Pharma Companies”

Few Key takeaways:

• All of these Pharma companies have a dedicate careers tab on their LinkedIn Company Page
• Cipla has the highest increase in Twitter Followers as compared to 2016 ie 196%
• Sun Pharma has seen an increase in LinkedIn followers ie 47% rise as compared to 2016
• Zydus Group has seen 178% increase in their Twitter followers as compared to 2016.
• Pfizer and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories have seen an good increase on their YouTube Channel in terms of subscribers ie 127% and 265% respectively

Looking forward to your views and comments on this blog post.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter

World’s biggest Social Media Statistics of Banks 2015 – 2017

Confession time!!! Had to wait for exactly 365 days to come up with this blog. Had made a small attempt to capture the social media statistics of banks in 2015 and 2016. And here we are exactly a year later to explore the progress of social numbers.

Being a student of social media, I do understand that it’s not an easy task to manage, create, implement, and track social media numbers along with its impact. So before you get into the data part, would like to thank the Digital Marketing, HR, Talent Acquisition, Corporate Marketing teams of all these banks who have surely created an impact on their customers, clients and candidates via their social sites. So keep it going and keep inspiring.

So enough of Talking, let’s look at the DATA!!!! (We are all so obsessed with Data)

Few Key takeaways:

• All of these banks have a dedicated YouTube Channel
• SBI is nearing 3 M followers on Twitter (Currently at 2.85 M )
• 62% of these banks have a dedicate careers tab on their LinkedIn Company Page
• IDFC Bank has seen an amazing growth in all of its Social Channels (100% increase on LinkedIn, FB & Twitter)
• HDFC has seen 100% increase on their Twitter Followers, as compared to 2016
• RBL Bank has managed to create reach 135k followers on Twitter in 2017
• Bandhan Bank has seen over 550% increase in their Facebook Likes as compared to 2016.
• SBI again takes the cake as they have seen a 247% rise in subscribers on their YouTube channel.
• And one more, SBI again leads in the space of Instagram too with 372K followers

Looking forward to your views and comments on this blog post.

Regards,

Rambling Recruiter

 

Yet another positive step towards “Health & Wellness”

There has been a lot of buzz about Health & Wellness. Some weeks back I feel fortunate to be part of a Tweet Chat organized by Life and Money and that did give me a fantastic opportunity to make some research on this important, however most of the time overlooked topic and gain my interest. You can follow #LnMChat on Twitter for more conversations around this topic.

Meanwhile, here are some insights that did help me learn more about why is Health & Wellness so important and need self-attention.

• Indian wellness sector is at INR 500 billion and it is expected to hit the mark of $1 trillion by 2020.
• In India, diabetic nephropathy is expected to develop in 6.6 million of the 30 million patients suffering from diabetes
• Number of people with hypertension was 118.2 million in 2000 to 213.5 million by 2025

Some of us would say that this data is an eye-opener and we need to do something about it. Well, it’s great to see corporates doing their bit towards encouraging employees to take Health & Wellness seriously. Did see lot of action at Tieto that were in the right direction to encourage and inspire employees to work towards their Health & Wellness area. Some of them includes:

• Regular participation and sponsoring Marathons, Inter sports competitions
• Free Annual Health Checkup for all employees
• Fitness Challenge across the company and encourage employees to track their steps
• Gym Kit as a annual gift to all employees
• Regular Health Tips
• Tieto has Launched a dedicate Employee Assistance Program that includes; Counselling & Coaching, Online Self Help Tools, Diet and Nutrition Services, Critical Incident Stress Management for employees

 

It’s also a great opportunity for us as employees to also leverage such programs. Health & Wellness is not just the responsibility of corporates, nevertheless it’s our responsibility to take care of our health. Would be great to also know and learn how is your company promoting and encouraging Health & Wellness programs.

PS: Organizations are going great length to support health & wellness but if individuals are not participating then it is just another initiative which would vanish soon.

Regards

Rambling Recruiter