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Tapping
the overseas HR pool
Finding and retaining talent is a challenge. Tougher still,
is a hiring process that takes place thousands of miles away
in a totally different cultural environment. For Indian IT
companies, with aggressive overseas expansion plans, this
is a complicated process—selection options become narrower,
Indian firms find few takers, and conducting background checks
on candidates is a difficult task.
Five
Skills
Reluctant
reportees
I once went up to congratulate a colleague on her appointment
in a key leadership position. “So, how does it feel?”
I asked cheerfully, somewhat along the lines of a TV anchor
posing this to someone who has won a “best actor”
award or has been dragged out of a glitzy party for a sound
byte.
The
power of corporate culture and brands
In the business bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins identifies
three interrelated attributes common to companies that have
been able to make sustainable leaps in performance. They include
identifying:
IT
for a better tomorrow
“Information Technology is tied to aspirations and is
empowering,” says Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary-IT of
the Kerala government. And the lady should know. She spearheaded
the state’s IT mission for the last seven years, with
many a landmark achievements in bridging the Digital Divide.
It was Sundararajan, who as the newly-appointed Secretary
of Industry and Commerce in 1998, went to the then Chief Minister
E K Nayanar, and told him about the need to set up a separate
department for IT.
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