HR Learning: 4 Nov, 2022

1.

byteXL, Microsoft join hands to develop tech talent in Tier 2 & 3 cities

The ‘XLerate’ initiative supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) will increase the employability quotient of students and also transform institutes by empowering them to produce quality industry-ready talent in the longer run. byteXL ? a Hyderabad-based experiential learning platform for those aspiring for IT careers ? has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft. This collaboration aims to transform educational institutes in Tier 2 and 3 cities across India and cater to the 360-degree developmental needs of its students. The pan-India initiative, called ‘XLerate’, supported by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), will impart training in new-age and emerging technologies. The tie-up is aligned with the national vision of providing one crore internship opportunities by 2025.

 

2.

Birlasoft tries to enhance & broaden employees’ knowledge base

The global enterprise digital and IT services company has tied up with an online learning platform to enable employees to grow in their career. Now, 12,500 employees of Biralasoft — the global enterprise digital and IT services company, which is part of the CK Birla Group — has partnered with an online learning platform to help its employees Learning forms an integral part of Birlasoft’s core values. The Company believes in cultivating a culture of continuous learning, aligned with the changing business environment. This partnership with the learning platform is expected to create an ecosystem where employees will feel encouraged to learn through structured interventions that cover skills related to technology, behavioural competencies, industry domains, and leadership capabilities.

3.

Is reinventing jobs easier said than done in an automated world?

The World Economic Forum states in its report that automation will eliminate 85 million jobs, but will also create 97 million more by 2030. Will reskilling people and deploying them in these new roles be easy. How do we humans perceive machines and robots? Either we see them as big threats or as great friends that will make our lives easier. There is no dearth of films and science fiction blockbusters that portray technology as either a destroyer or a great friend of humanity. This is also the hottest topic of debate in these times when organisations are moving towards automation and digitalisation, and people are apprehensive about the impact of the same on jobs. The report of the World Economic Forum, ‘Future of Jobs 2020’ states that by 2030, automation will displace 85 million jobs in the world. At the same time, however, new and exciting roles will also emerge.

HR Movement: 4 Nov, 2022

 1.

Amit Kataria joins Minfy Technologies as CHRO

Kataria has over two decades of experience as HR in the IT sector. Minfy Technologies has named Amit Kataria as CHRO for its global business. Minfy is a cloud-native system integrator company headquartered in Hyderabad, with offices across the US, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Australia. Kataria has moved in from Hanu Software where he spent close to 17 years. At Hanu, he rose up the ranks from assistant manager – HR to chief human resource officer. Backed by over two decades of experience, Kataria started his career with Motorola Solutions.

2.

Mastercard rejigs HR leadership

 

Joseph Fernandes elevated as SVP & Head, People & Capability, South Asia and Priti Singh moves to a larger role for leading the company’s People and Capability function for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Mastercard, the payment processing firm has announced a leadership change in the HR department. The company has elevated Joseph Fernandes as SVP & Head, People & Capability, South Asia and Priti Singh, who previously held this position for four years has moved on to a larger role for leading the company’s People and Capability function for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Fernandes joined Mastercard in 2017 and has been leading the HR for company’s tech hub in Pune as the VP-HR.

3.

Simpl ropes in Myntra’s Sneha Arora as CHRO

Arora, an alumna of TISS, was earlier the VP-HR at Myntra. Simpl ? a company that offers commerce solutions, which foster trust between merchants and buyers through transparency in payments ? has hired Sneha Arora as its chief human resource officer, to lead the HR function. Arora joins Simpl from Myntra where she was the VP-HR for more than two years. An alumna of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Arora started her career as a management trainee with Texas Instruments, a manufacturing firm which designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits. During her four-year long tenure at Texas Instruments, she honed her skills in different facets of HR from university hiring to employer branding, talent development and business partnering. Her progress from being management trainee to talent-development manager gave her an opportunity to drive various learning and development (L&D) initiatives for high-potential leadership development and succession planning.

HR News: 4 Nov, 2022

1.

Lyft to reduce workforce by 13%

About 683 people may be let go as part of cost-cutting exercise. Nasdaq listed ride-hailing technology company Lyft Inc. has said that it will reduce its workforce by 13 per cent. This means around 683 people will lose their jobs. This was done to cut costs and deal with the unstable economy. The move by Lyft is expected to result in expenses in the range of $27 million and $32 million in the fourth quarter. Besides, it also laid off 60 employees in the month of July. “The announced reduction in force is a proactive step as part of the company’s annual planning to ensure the company is set up to accelerate execution and deliver strong business results in Q4 of 2022 and in 2023,” Lyft said in a statement.

2.

Deadline for joining EPF pension scheme extended by SC.

EPF members are no longer required to contribute 1.16% on the salary exceeding Rs 15,000 limit. The Supreme Court ruled that employees will be given six more months to opt to join the Employees’ Pension Scheme if they haven’t already joined it. Additionally, they will not have to contribute 1.16per cent on their salary exceeding the Rs 15,000 limit. The Court has declared invalid the condition in the 2014 scheme requiring employees to make a further contribution at the rate of 1.16 per cent on the salary that exceeds Rs 15,000 as an additional contribution. This condition has been held as ultra vires of the 1952 Act, as reported by LiveLaw. However, the judgment pertaining to this particular point is suspended for six months. This has been done so that concerned authorities have enough time to make adjustments in the scheme to be able to generate that additional contribution from other legitimate sources in compliance with the conditions of the Act.

 

3.

No fresh hiring at Amazon except for vacant & important posts

The Company intends to closely monitor the economic conditions for the next few months before lifting the freeze. Global technology company, Amazon has released an official memo informing that it will pause new incremental hires in its corporate workforce for the next few months. However, it has been clarified that meaningful hiring will continue only for posts rendered vacant due to resignations of employees, and also for important roles. Amazon is imposing the hiring freeze taking into account the uncertainty and unusual macro-economic conditions.

HR Club - HR Matrix Inter-Collegiate Events for the Year 2022-23

                                             

Indian Education Society's Management College and Research Centre, Mumbai, India, 

HR Club - HR Matrix Events for the Year 2022-23 

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Intra-collegiate Personality Assessment Workshop ‘P-A-W’ Details

 IES’s Management College and Research Centre’s,

HR Club, “HR MATRIX”

Presents

Intra-collegiate Personality Assessment Workshop 

‘P-A-W’

RULES AND PROCEDURES FOR “P-A-W”–The HR Personality Assessment Workshop ‘P-A-W’

1.     IESMCRC HR Club, HR Matrix is organising ‘P-A-W’– HR Personality Assessment Workshop ‘P-A-W’.

2.     SCHEDULE:

9^th November at 1 to 1:30 PM (1^st Yr. Batch ‘22-24, All specialisations); Venue: Seminar Hall, 6^th Floor

10^th November at 1 to 1.30PM (2^nd Yr. Batch ’21-23, Pharma & PG-Mktg./BA/Fin. specialisations); Venue: Seminar Hall, 6^th Floor /

11^th November (2^nd Yr. Batch ’21-23 HR specialisation); Venue: Classroom 305

3.     The Personality cards will be given on that day and date.

4.     The submission is to be provided on that day in that time, by the participant.

5.     All students with ies.edu email ids, will be eligible for participation.

6.     The starting date is on point no. 2. So be present and await your results on 23rd November 2022.

7.     The results will be announced by email individually to participants on 23rd November 2022.

8.     In the results,

a.      1^st Yr. students will be guided as to which specialization either of HR/ Marketing/ Finance/ Operations/ IT is suited for them.

b.     2^nd Yr. students, guidance will be provided on the type of jobs best suited for them in related specialisations.

9.     All are encouraged to participate in this workshop using the Left/ Right Brain Dominance Tests to sharpen your career choices.

10.  Certificate of participation would be provided to each participant.

11.  The photo gallery of the event will feature in our blog <https://iesmcrc-hrclub.blogspot.com/> and social media sites.

Results would be declared on 23^rd Nov 2022. For any queries contact: hrclub@ies.edu

Contact Us At:

HR Club, Faculty In-charge:

Prof. Dr. Mrs. Merlyn Michael D’souza

(D): - +91-22-50001758/ (M): - +91-9892863320

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"Act-It-Out" - HR Roleplay Competition 2022, in association with, IESMCRC Information Resource Centre

     

Event Report

Title of the Event : Student Centric (Club Activities) In-charge Faculty : Prof. Dr. Mrs. MERLYN MICHAEL D`SOUZA Day : Tuesday Date : 20-Oct-2022 Time : 12:30 PM Venue : IESMCRC Information Resource Centre Audience (for whom conducted): PGDM & PGDM (PM) 1st Year Batch 2022-24 & 2nd Year Batch 2021-23 Number of Finalists: 29  3 Topic : "Act-It-Out" - HR Roleplay Competition in association with IESMCRC Information Resource Centre Organized by which Club : HR Club & IESMCRC Information Resource Centre Winning HR Act-It-Out Winners  : Dyanseshwar Gupta, Aishwarya Jagushte, Soundarya Katare, Riya Patel :PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year BOOK: The Act of Noticing, AUTHOR: Rob Walker LEARNING: Pay attention 2nd Rank - HR Act-It-Out Competition 2nd Rank -> Click here to view video Anthony Kelvin D’souza, Sakshi Pandey, Mahima Tiwari, Mizab Sonalkar, Chirag Shah:  PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year BOOK:52 ways to Live Success, AUTHOR: Jeanne Sharbuno LEARNING: The book describes that the body and the mind gives us messages and clues all the time about what’s going on with us in life and also listening to the inner voice that motivates and pushes us forward. 3rd Rank - HR Act-It-Out ...It's A Tie-UP!!! Neha Chaudhary , Anisha Yadav, Sushmita Apte, Shubhangi Patil: PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year BOOK: 101 All Time Great Stories, AUTHOR: Dilip Trivedi LEARNING: We have learned about psychological awareness in life.Got inspired by interesting stories from the lives of Steve jobs, Thomas Edison, Hellen Keller. Learned how to transform our thinking, way of living, to build confidence and hope. Also learnt that it is possible to lead a happy and stress free life. At the end of each story the book help us to re- strengthen faith in ourself and help us to look at the world in a different light . And to always look forward for opportunities... AND Anushree Pawar, Ankita Rajak, Prachita Sute, Vijay Jaiswal: PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year BOOK: Conquer Your Stress , AUTHOR: Cary L Cooper And Stephen Palmer LEARNING: How to change your thinking and behaviour to manage stress

"Post-A-Team" - HR Poster Competition 2022

    

Event Report

Title of the Event : Student Centric (Club Activities) In-charge Faculty : Prof. Dr. Mrs. MERLYN MICHAEL D`SOUZA Day : Tuesday Date : 12-Oct-2022 Time : 12:30 PM Venue : Seminar Hall Audience (for whom conducted): PGDM & PGDM (PM) 1st Year Batch 2022-24 & 2nd Year Batch 2021-23 Number of Finalists: 144  3 Topic : "Post-A-Team" - HR Poster Competition Organized by which Club : HR Club Winning HR Post-A-Team Winners  : Anisha Yadav, Anushree Pawar, Prachita Sute, Snehal Kale :PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year 2nd Rank - HR Post-A-Team Competition Rushikesh Sansare, Aishwarya Jagushte, Riya Patel, Soundarya Katare, Dyaneshwar Gupta:  PGDM-Pharma, 1st Year 3rd Rank - HR Post-A-Team  Aditya Dighe, Krati Jain, Divesh Pimple, Niyati Shah, Anjali Sharma: PGDM-Div B, 1st Year