Today was an interesting day - I was invited by Tech Mahindra to be a guest on their #TechMChat on Social HR.
Just an hour to go for #TechMChat with @GautamGhosh & @SucharitaPalepu sharing their thoughts about Social HR pic.twitter.com/ISsdpricJb
— Tech Mahindra (@tech_mahindra) October 17, 2014
So here are some thoughts I shared and the questions I answered
A1 @tech_mahindra Social Media can amplify the positive experiences of employee advocates #TechMChat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
Internal social media helps is social recognition and learning & development @ankur0906 #TechMChat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
The starting point is a great org culture and internally open org so that employees don't go out to vent @Ashima_TechM #techmchat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
For internal social to be effective an internal community manager is critical - and employee engagement @a_washikar @spandalai #techmchat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
A4 Understand that "socially active" people might be in a minority and their views might or might not be representative #TechMChat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
A5 In India it is. In the future we will see Talent Community Managers, internal and external as HR competencies @tech_mahindra #techMChat
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
A6 social is not generational, but a mindset. Any person who is collaborative and shares openly can levergae #TechMChat @tech_mahindra
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014
Earlier in the day I also jumped into CareerBuilder's tweet on Social Media for job search. Some tweets are here:@ankitagaba @nimu9 I know of a software programmer who got hired because of code and hacks he shared on Quora #AskCBIndia
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014@sprashanth yes it is :) Tools like Entelo and TalentBin automate the process of making a candidate's digital profiles #AskCBIndia
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014@nimu9 @ankitagaba it's changing slowly. Airtel saved more than a crore in recruiter fees thanks to social recruiting #AskCBIndia
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014@AlankritaNagar I know of a hairdresser in US who got hired thanks to Instagram! @CareerBuilderIN @ankitagaba #AskCBIndia
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014@AlankritaNagar Lots of programmers are hired thanks to GitHub and StackOverflow @CareerBuilderIN @ankitagaba #AskCBIndia
— Gautam Ghosh (@GautamGhosh) October 17, 2014