Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 19: Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Jammu today conducted the “HR Conclave 3.3”, which facilitated interaction of the students with industry leaders.
The theme for this year’s edition was “Rethinking and Rebooting the Corporate”. The event was commenced by Rajni Ranjan, Placement Officer at IIM Jammu while Prof Jabir Ali, Chairperson, Placements at IIM Jammu highlighted the journey that the Institute has embarked on, the growth and the milestones achieved.
In the first panel, the Session Chair and Keynote Speaker was Mohit Sharma, Senior Vice President & Global Delivery Head- Virtusa, along with the panelists, including Indranil Choudhury, President & Head HR, UTI Mutual Funds; Prathap Kumar, Talent Acquisition Head- Asia Pacific, HP; Shubham Tripathi, Lead HR- Automation & Transformation- Campus- India & APAC; Mussarat Hussain, Leadership Development & HR Transformation, Maruti Suzuki; Abhishek Srivastava, Co-Founder & CEO, MBATrek; Atulaya Goswami, HR Head- India Region- India, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka, UPL Ltd and Krishnan Venkiteswaran, Head HRD & Administration, Control Print. The topic of the discussion was- ‘Future of Work- Jobs lost Equal to Jobs Gained’
In the second panel, discussion revolved around the topic ‘Reskilling Revolution- Roadmap to Post-COVID age’. The keynote speaker for the second round was Capt Partha Samai, Executive Vice President & Group Head Human Resource, AGS Transact Technologies. He highlighted the role of technology in these difficult times by stating how Geography has become a history now as the digitization of work removed all the constraints successfully.
The session was followed by the insights of Manish Bhardwaj, Director- Group HR Lead- APAC, Latin America-Africa, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, who mentioned how HR managers across different industries were able to sail through in managing the mind-set of the employees.
Succeeding Mr Bhardwaj, Kornica Ganguly, Talent Acquisition, Cipla, took over the virtual stage and spoke about how reskilling has become important in the pertaining times.
Subsequently, Himanshu Vora, General Manager Operation, Aditi Toys Pvt Ltd, added to the discussion by highlighting the importance of knowledge and skill enhancement in these difficult times.
Bikram K Nayak, Head HR, L&T- NxT, continued the discussion by mentioning how Talent Acquisition process has transformed due to the advent of pandemic and the role of technology in it. Thereafter, Ashu Goswami, General Manager- HR, FIL Group spoke about the importance of having critical thinking skills and empathy at the same time.
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