"HR has so much to do with enabling business leaders, nurturing talent, creating talent management paths, and working through leadership styles. The role as an HR professional actually gives a very deep view of how decisions are shaped for an organisation to move to the next step."

Listeners, today you have been blessed with the opportunity to learn some special tips and tricks of the trade from Colette Parakh, HR Management Partner at VMware, a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.

In this episode, Colette talks about some of the valuable skills and lessons she learned through her career and the various challenges of being an HR leader for a research and development team.

Colette has had a long career of over two decades. She is a seasoned professional who has worked with various organisations such as Adecco, GE India Technology Centre, Oracle India, Siemens Technology and Services Ltd and Siemens Healthineers. She is a Bachelors Hons in Electronics and MBA from Shivaji University.

Episode Highlights

• Challenges and skills and lessons learned throughout her career
• What is the ideal way to support employee growth and development?
• The importance of being empathetic and giving good news
• Why is it important to upskill employees?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Aparajeeta Boro

About Springworks:

Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and retention. The product stack from Springworks includes:

SpringVerify— B2B verification platform

EngageWith— employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company culture

Trivia — a suite of real-time, fun, and interactive games platforms for remote/hybrid team-building

SpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, and

SpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system.

Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture, leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.