People Matters

The Art of Getting “Lucky”

By Ester Martinez, Managing Editor

Feb 7th 2012

Success is always an inspiration. Reading stories of successful entrepreneurs has a contagious energizing effect; and more so, if those entrepreneurs are from our industry, the HR Industry. What seems to be the common thread among them is their persistence and determination, the stubborn strength that drives them to stick to their commitment to success, whatever time and effort it might take. No backup plans, no going back, work hard and persevere; it is just a matter of time and you will get ... Read more »

HR Entrepreneurs

By Varun Talwar, Gyanendra Kumar Kashyap & Rajlakshmi Saikia

Feb 7th 2012

While India ranks poorly on global indicators of doing business, there is no denying that it is today a fertile ground for budding entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial space in HR, which has witnessed the success of early pioneers, is one such domain where a breed of smart entrepreneurs is beginning to unlock potential in business areas that were largely untapped. This story by People Matters uncovers unchartered territories within the HR domain, which are both profitable and scalable; and share... Read more »

Dream Big

By Ajit Isaac, MD& CEO, Ikya Human Capital Solutions

Feb 7th 2012

Coming from a middle class and non-entrepreneurial background, Ajit Isaac obtained his degree in Economics from Loyola College and a Gold medal in his postgraduate programme (Personnel Management & Industrial Relations) from the Madras School of Social Work. He began his professional career as a Management Trainee at Godrej & Boyce; and it was during his stint as head of Corporate HR at Essar that he was selected for the British Council Chevening Scholar, under which he completed, &lsq... Read more »

The Script Was Written

By Anil Sachdev, Founder School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) and Founder, Grow Talent Company

Feb 7th 2012

The stories he heard from his parents, of India once producing 70 percent of the world’s GDP and of being the center of wealth and learning for the world, inspired Anil Sachdev at a young age. As a college student, he dreamt of India once again becoming a very strong economic and spiritual power and wanted to contribute to that. Through his journey from Tatas and Eicher, to the creation of SOIL (School of Inspired Leadership), Anil has always followed a cause which consistently provided ... Read more »

Have the vision to scale

By Pankaj Bansal, Co-founder & CEO and Shelly Singh, Co-founder & VP – Transition & Process Development, PeopleStrong

Feb 7th 2012

When you are driven by the pursuit of excellence to the extent, that on day 1, you are clear that you want to build a business that is IPO-able, you know you are on the right track. The journey of only 6 years has seen PeopleStrong witness the realm of business ups and downs, from raising fund on day 1 to the tune of 50 lakh, to repeating the same over 4 times, to even considering a close-down at some time and today, standing strong as a business and fast growing.Unlike most entrepreneurial ve... Read more »

Business of Jobs

By Sanjeev Bikchandani, Founder & Vice Chairman, Info Edge (India)

Feb 7th 2012

When you talk about Naukri.com as is today, it is impossible to imagine that the largest online company in India today did not even have an Internet account, or even a connection, when it began. Flashback 2000, when India had only 14000 Internet connections to boast of, here was a man who had launched an idea he never imagined would one day become the largest online staffing company in India. Sanjeev Bikhchandani, when sharing the journey of how Naukri.com reached its present revenue size of R... Read more »

Institutional Builder

By Sumer Datta, Founder, Aamoksh Leisure Living, & former MD APAC, Hewitt Associates

Feb 7th 2012

The journey of this eccentric, enthusiastic yet patient listener saw its share of bumpy rides when he walked away from the desirable job of a management accountant at Escorts in 1989. Hardly 5 years into his comfortable life of an 8:30am to 4:30pm job, Sumer Datta was impatient and anxious to seek a more challenging life and ventured out to look for alternatives. With the help of his HR colleagues at Escorts then, he was able to find access to the best of recruitment consultants, hoping they w... Read more »

It’s hypothesis Testing

By Manish Sabharwal, Co-Founder & Chairman, TeamLease Services, Ashok Reddy, Co-founder & MD, TeamLease Services and Mohit Gupta, Co-founder & Director, TeamLease Services

Feb 7th 2012

Here is a unique story of the trio from elite academic backgrounds, who began their careers as investment bankers in Bombay, but found themselves in a core HR business, much as a result of their belief in the need to evolve the business idea per market demand. Manish Sabharwal, Mohit Gupta and Ashok Reddy are three friends from school, with very complementing personalities and work approaches, who decided to join hands in 1998, and haven’t looked back since.Their first venture, India Lif... Read more »

Execution & Delivery Matters Most

Feb 7th 2012

Born in London and immigrated to Australia in 1972, Andrew Banks began his career as an actor, but it wasn't long before he discovered his passion for Human Resources and took the opportunity to travel the United Kingdom, Norway, the United States, Europe and Africa to build on his human resources experience - experience that eventually led him to start his own business in Australia in 1985 - Morgan & Banks (M&B). This was just the beginning of Andrew's adventure in the Human Resources... Read more »

The HR Guy

By Elango R.

Feb 7th 2012

A strange experience when you speak in external seminars and conferences, is listening to your own introduction. It sounds so awesome, you wonder if it is you and nervously look around to ensure that somebody else is not getting ready to speak. During one such introduction, I was called the quintessential HR professional…Eh! I of course needed Google for deciphering ‘quintessential’ and a lot more help to decipher “HR professional”. Once I figured the meaning o... Read more »