Perhaps the biggest human resources news for Indian’s this week was the appointment of Satya Nadella as the CEO of Microsoft Corporation. Nadella was formerly the Executive Vice President of the Cloud and Enterprise Group at the company. Etienne Benet was named the managing director of Nestle India, and Sangeeta Talwar was appointed as the non executive director of the healthcare services firm, Religare Enterprises. Besides that, Saurabh Sarkar was appointed as the new CEO and Managing Director of MCX stock exchange.

Looks like Rahul Gandhi is not the only one talking about women’s empowerment! Diversity and women empowerment emerged as the key theme in the talent circles this week, with companies showing strong intent to hire and strengthen their women demographic. Safety, flexibility, mentoring and networking, a leadership are among the top agendas for organisations to empower and include more women at the workplace. Besides that top recruiters such as Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Pepsi are waging a fierce war for female B-school graduates. All of these recruiters are scampering to hire female talent in order to improve their diversity scores.

Interestingly, a news report this week also mentions that alumni networks and ex-staff hiring will be big on the recruiter’s agenda this year. It appears that recruiters will be encashing their employer brand equity to fill critical positions.