The NHRDN August newsletter focused on "Social Media for HR"

The CHRO of Mphasis, R Elango reached out to me and said that he had been asked by the National HRD Network to be the guest author of their August journal which was to be focused on Social Media for Human Resources. Elango said he wanted me to co-edit the issue - and I was pleased to do so :)

So here's the journal issue (you can download it for free too :) with three contributions by me. A "Social Media for HR 101", an article on Social Learning with my Philips colleague Andrew Lax and a review of Social Tech vendors in the HR space in India. The article also has articles by Yashwant Mahadik of Philips, Kavi Arasu of Asian Paints, Sunder Ramachandran of Jardine Lloyd Thomson, Tanvi Gautam , Syeda Mehar Taj of Infosys, Irfan Abdulla of LinkedIn amongst others 

Nhrd journal aug 2013 from Gautam Ghosh

#Blueprint2013 is coming to a close soon!

B-School students have you submitted your idea yet? To know more about Blueprint check out the following Facebook posts from our page :)

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#areyouinthelist for young HR leaders is back!

What is Are You In The List?

A People Matters initiative in association with DDI, which presents a platform for emerging HR managers to showcase their potential and get recognized as the ‘Future 25’ HR Leaders. If you are a young HR leader or aspire to be one, and fall in the age group of 26-35 years, here’s your chance once again! India’s first initiative to identify India’s HR leaders in the making is back with yet another intense qualifying application process, with a series of assessments and a competitive race to find today’s emerging leaders in HR. Are you in the List? is a platform for young HR managers to get recognized for their talent and potential. If you have it in you and want to better yourself, compete to be amongst the chosen ‘Future 25’ HR Leaders in India!

And I am proud to be a member of the jury for the second time :)

Indians to follow on Twitter - a list by @DNA

English: Logo of DNA Newspaper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Image via CrunchBase

So a couple of weeks ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find that newspaper Daily News and Analysis tweeted out that people should follow me - and was more flattered to see myself on their list later on the website: Indians You Should Follow On Twitter

The list is quite eclectic and covers some of my favorites - Sree, SahilRiz. Check out the others too :)

Oh, and a huge shout out to Karthik Srinivasan aka @beastoftraal for winning the Indian Blogger Awards in the Business category. Oh and today he's got a post on Social Recruiting - check it out here  

Talk on #SocialHR and #SocBiz at RIL

So last week I addressed the leadership team at Reliance Industries Ltd at Navi Mumbai on implications of Social for HR and Business. Here are some of the tweets that people sent out in the session :)

Listed in SHRM India's 'Top 20 Indian #HR Influencers Active on #SocialMedia'

Society for Human Resource Management (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So yesterday this news item and this was published :)

This year, SHRM has taken it a step further by also paying attention to the content of the conversations on HR in social media.

Some of the experts identified and mentioned in SHRM India’s report are Gautam Ghosh GM - HR Strategy & Projects, Philips India; Abhijit Bhaduri, Chief Learning Officer of the Wipro Group; Anand Pillai, Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at Reliance Industries Limited; Aadil Bandukwala, Recruitment Product Consultant at LinkedIn; Vineet Nayar, Vice Chairman and Joint Managing Director of HCL Technologies Ltd.; NS Rajan, Group Executive Council and Group Chief Human Resources Officer, TATA Sons. These thought leaders share their views on latest trends and developments across human resource domain regularly on the social media.
Ms. Achal Khanna, CEO, SHRM India Operations, said, “To understand, influence and harness the potential of the younger generation, HR needs to leverage the power of social media to recruit, collaborate and engage with this future talent pool. Hence, SHRM looked at the influencers from learning and development, social media, talent management and leadership domains and captured their influence on Twitter. The outcome is a fresh list of Indian mavens who are leading and influencing the conversations about HR on social media in 2013.”

You can download the full report from the SHRM India site here (PDF)
It's also embedded below

SHRM Report August - Top 20 HR Indian Influencers in Social Media

Quoted in : Social Media and the Job Hunt #SocialRecruiting

So I am quoted in this Mint article :)

Social media helps companies reach out to a large talent pool that has skills and is interested, but may not be aware about openings, said Gautam Ghosh, HR expert and blogger. “Both the employer and the employee get to showcase themselves better through this medium. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter—all three can be used effectively to showcase work,” he said. Reducing headhunter costs is an added advantage.

Here's the video segment :)

HR Practices in a Social World. Video panel discussion on @HRPhilips journey in #SocialHR

Yesterday was the kickoff of #IndiaHRLive a new series by Nisha Raghavan to showcase Indian HR practices globally. And it was an honor for Yash and me to be the first guests as she invited us to participate in the hangout :)

Here's the YouTube recording. Check out the other videos on IndiaHRLive.com

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