My Journey into the World of Human Resources ( @rucsb)
Talent, Learning, Recruitment, Branding, Social Media, Digital HR, Social Business, Digital Transformation
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Honored to Speak to and Inspire Sheroes Community for both Noida and Gurgaon. It was Fun and Engaging to speak to Women from vast fields and Inspire them by sharing my own Career journey and experience with Social Media.
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It was interesting to listen to Devpriya at Gurgaon meetup on aspects on Personal Branding.
Do companies exhibit Understanding
and Sensitivity to the fact that needs & expectations of women from a workplace are a bit different from men while aspirations & ambitions are common ? In what ways ?
Why is it still a trade
off – Familiy vs Career for Women ?
Why cant Family and
Careers go hand in hand for Women ?
Do we expect Women to be like Men when
it comes to Leadership style ?
What are companies doing
to remove gender pay gap ?
What are the programs put
in place to advance women to leadership positions ?
Why do we have just 4% of
the Women as CEOs of Fortune 500 Companies ? Women don’t lack in
inspiration, or aspiration.
Why do women drop out of workforce
the moment they choose to opt the family way ?
Why to let them drop out
of workforce and then design programs to bring her back ?
How many companies are
open to recruit women who took a career break for couple of years ?
Why the likes of Apple,
Facebook , Tech Giants are choosing to pay to Freeze their eggs instead of
signaling that Parenting duties aren't a roadblock to advancement in Women’s
Career ? What If these tech giants choose to spend $20K in providing child
care facilities, right infrsstrucutre for Talented Women who want to become
young Parent and not delay
Parenting until their 40s or 50s ?
Do Women in organizations
find adequate sponsorship for getting promotion, raises ?
Why Women have to
negotiate hard to get rewarded well for their efforts while their male
counterparts hang with old boys club and get it easily ?
Are their Women Networks
for Career Advancement of Women ?
Why is there 100% decline
from Middle to Top Management positions occupied by Women ?
Why the plum assignments
go to Men while Women slog their way up the Corporate Ladder ?
Why is there more Rhetoric
than actual action on the ground to advance Women agenda ?
When would Corporate pay
their due to Women ? What are they waiting for ?
Is the share of Women's voice across various levels in corporate hierarchy adequately heard ,represented, insights acted upon ?
When will Corporates be
unbiased, reflective , sensitive towards needs of Women & do enough to
advance Women’s agenda and make it a level playing field ?
Wait!! Women are at work… Now have you ever heard this? Answer is obvious, women have always been working however now they
are omnipresent and work has new dimensions altogether. Still this
doesn’t mean that the journey has been a cake walk. As much as the
multi-talented , multifaceted fairer sex juggles between personal and
professional front to walk as much as a mam would, they still encounter
resistance and hurdles at various stage. So to discuss the depth of the
subject we thought of bringing this topic of ‘Career progression for
Women at Work’ at Indiahrlive and welcome some fresh and intriguing
thoughts of our esteemed panelists here. Here are some thoughts that we will cover: Q1. Most of the women drop their career for family reasons but is there more to do than this? Q2. Still in India the top circle remains male dominant. We don’t let women rise or women don’t want to rise? Q3. Gender diversity!! Is it a practice or a thought? Is it a choice or compulsion? Q4. Is the journey for Women Entrepreneurs different than men? Do women lead initiatives get more mileage? Q5. What are the common challenges women at large go
through at work? What could be the best way to progress northwards in
your career? Join us while we share the platform with successful Women Leaders to discuss ‘Women at Work – Gender Diversity ‘ on April 21st, Tuesday at 8pm IST / 9.30 am CST /10.30 am EST. Watch the show here & Tweet your comments/questions with a hashtag #IndiaHRLIVE to join the conversation with our #IndiaHRLIVE ambassadors
Recently, I met an interesting Woman who have achieved Career
Peak. She is the Head of the Department.She groomed her successor and then quit her high profile job
for lack of challenge in the role.
Been there, done that. You know.
What could inspire her , challenge her next ? She is driven,
and enterprising.
I suggested her to go for a startup
venture since she is a Servant Leader.
She confessed, she is a Hermit ( which resonated with me )
and at times she experience
Existential Crisis ( which resonated even more )
Lot of similarities except the fact that I haven’t reached
Peak in my Career yet.
Talking of Careers, I heard from a Respectable Leader - Careers are sometimes balls of yarn rather
than Career Ladder.
That’s what myCareer
has been all these years – A ball of Yarn.
What is Existential crisis ? What causes it ? And what is
the solution .
A problem solver as I am, my theory is the antidote to
Existential Crisis is Systems of Engagement.
A system of engagement could be –
Love
Movie
Book
Social Media ( Facebook,
Twitter, Linkdedin)
Social Networking
Friends
Family
Conversation with
strangers
Writing
Research
Parenting
Music
Art
Trekking
Travel
Running, Jogging, Walking
Gym or Fitness Regime
Meditation or Mindfulness
( this requires a separate discussion altogether )
Paid Work
Voluntary Meaningful Non
Paid work, Mentoring, Community Service
When you aren’t engaged with any one of the above, you
experience Existential Crisis.
Bingo.
Problem Solved.
My 2nd theory – Fall in Love, Travel or Write a Book or do any
of the above to evade Existential
Crisis.
Prince Hamlet experiences an existential crisis as a result of the
death of his father. This is shown especially by Shakespeare
in the famous soliloquy which starts, "To be, or
not to be: that is the question..."
That begs the question – Do people who suffer from
Existential Crisis experience Positive
Disintegration ? And as a result do they Self Actualize faster ?
An
existential crisis is a moment at which an individual questions the
very foundations of their life: whether their life has any meaning, purpose, or
value.[1]
This issue of the meaning and purpose of existence is the topic of the
philosophical school of existentialism.