Tech-enabled engagement platforms have a patchy history. Before bots, there was the office intranet - which flamed. Gautam Ghosh, consultant, talent advisory services, VBeyond Corporation, and former director of talent branding at Flipkart, says intranets didn't work because companies thought buying the tech would be enough. They didn't think through the design ("why employees would use it") and the human intervention needed to nudge people along.Read the whole article here.
Well I was lucky I started blogging in 2002 and I was one of the few people blogging about HR and business those days. So, it was just a circumstance of being at the right place at the right time starting off as an early business blogger. I convinced a lot of people within HR that if you take to social media, take to blogging, take to Twitter you could connect with people across the world. So, I guess that momentum from blogging to twitter and to other social media helped. So, if you start early people know you much more and when you move to another platform they follow you into that platform. I’ve now spent more than a decade on twitter and one and a half decades on blogging. It’s just a matter of being consistent and keeping at it, trying to share something of value.
Don’t discriminate, read everything, form your own opinions. I think that’s critical.
We hire recruiters and we hire engineers into recruiting roles. So, if you are an engineer and you feel that you want to try something else, if core engineering is not your cup of tea but you have knowledge of engineering, you can talk and convince a person that you have self-confidence and are willing to work hard and earn a lot of money if you are successful then this is it.