Career Uninterrupted

Companies no more treat Diversity and Inclusion as a project. Instead, most organizations are diligently working towards creating an inclusive and safe workspace for their employees. Welcome to another exciting episode of Career Uninterrupted. I am your host Lochan Narayanan, and we have Urvashi Verma with us today.

Urvashi is the talent acquisition head at Apec Xperi. She has 14 years of experience in talent attraction and sourcing strategy for multiple organizations. She shares that she is passionate about the new hiring strategies and advocates inclusion and diversity. 

Urvashi talks about the benefits and importance of diversity. She adds that DEI helps with profits and gives companies access to a large talent pool. It enables businesses to focus on the employees\' skills and value additions, ultimately increasing the team\'s creativity and productivity.

We also discuss how organizations are changing their hiring processes to make DEI an ongoing process. For example, businesses are more open to remote interviews and jobs. They are also conducting sensitizing sessions for all the existing employees to create awareness. 

Listen to the entire episode as we further discuss how organizations are tackling their biases towards women returning from maternity leave and what they are doing to create an inclusive infrastructure. 

About the guest

Urvashi is Head of Talent Acquisition - APAC at Xperi.

She is passionate about new hiring techniques and has over 14 years of experience in the industry.

Urvashi is a LinkedIn Creator, Public Speaker, Patent Award holder and has a passion to advocate for Diversity and Inclusion, and stands as an Ally to create inclusive teams, she is a promoter of work life balance and practicing that from last many years, she always put effort to provide opportunities to grow & learn to the people around her. Urvashi mentors for better TA techniques on LinkedIn educating over 21,000+ people.

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Initiating conversations around corporate inclusion and diversity, equal opportunities and gender balance hiring is crucial. I am your host Lochan Narayanan and today we have Falguni Thakkar with us. She is a HR professional with varied experience across multiple industries. She is a dynamic Human Resources and Talent Management Leader.

Having studied in Xaviers, where inclusivity was ingrained deeply in every student, and having worked with corporate giants like Wipro and Tata Sons, where diversity was embraced long before it became a buzzword, Falguni shares her wealth of insights about diversity in the corporate world, both at a micro and macro level.  

Amongst the myriad of topics touched upon in this episode were aspects around sensitising the individual to create an ecosystem, the importance of retaining working mothers in the organisation with inclusive policies, strategically planning each hire, and so much more.

In the words of Falguni, who deeply dislikes the term ‘diversity hiring’, this episode delves into the nuances of creating a balanced workplace

About the Guest

Falguni is a HR professional with varied experience across multiple industries. Skilled in building and strengthening people processes and systems using a first-principles approach and co-creating solutions with talent. Dynamic Human Resources and Talent Management Leader with a wealth of knowledge and experience in talent engagement and development with expertise in diagnosing, designing, and scaling inclusive and diverse cultural solutions

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Welcome to the sixth episode of the podcast Career Uninterrupted. I am your host Lochan Narayanan and today I have Bhargavi Swami with me. She is a second-generation entrepreneur of Excel Corporation, an all-woman HR consulting company. Tune in as we talk about the emerging aspects of the talent strategy, especially around diversity hiring and uninterrupted careers.

In this episode, we discuss how the talent acquisition teams today should behave more like strategic partners of companies. This helps in better diversity hiring. Diversity while hiring has to go beyond gender. We talked about companies that are hiring individuals without a graduation degree, considering their experience and skill sets. 

Join us as we also talk about how every individual currently faces a multi-generation workforce. People are accepting that they are beyond their job designation and titles, and sometimes titles are fluid. A person with a specific responsibility matrix also flows into somebody else’s workload. In the current situation, skill sets are expanding, work roles are getting more dynamic, and markets are getting more volatile, so companies need to take a different approach on recruitment strategies..

Tune into this insightful episode to learn about current workplace trends, diversity hiring best practices, and uninterrupted careers. 

About the guest

Bhargavi CEO Excel Corporation

An expert in innovation & a Woman Leader in HR Consulting and Services field, she is a second generation Entrepreneur of Excel Corporation. As an Entrepreneur, she has been recognized among the top 100 women entrepreneurs by ASSOCHAM (Association of Chamber of Commerce), India in 2017. An avid speaker she has presented and headed panel discussions in forums such as ASSOCHAM – Association Chamber of Commerce for Women on Leadership, Rise created by Barclays\' on women empowerment, leadership, HR Organization redesigning among others.

A supporter of many social causes for children and has been associated with groups such as Rotaract Club, Save the Children, Greenpeace etc.

Linkedin:- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhswami/

Website:- https://excelcorporation.in/

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Hello and welcome back! I am your host Lochan Narayanan and I have Ramakrishna Rao with me today. Most people know him as Coach Ram and he is a big advocate of career path transitions. He also works in the Learning and Development department and conducts corporate training and consulting.

Coach Ram shares his personal journey where he studied to become a software developer but didn’t like it, so later did a few odd jobs and learnt coding but finally settled for coaching. He initially coached students in the IT sector but later switched his career path into corporate coaching.

He shares that it is essential to understand that just choosing a hot skill as a career path is not enough. Because a hot skill is not necessarily your heart skill.

Coach Ram also shares that the major topics of his consultations include self doubt, where to start, how to achieve your aspirations and challenges of dealing with a corporate life. 

Tune into the episode as we discuss mid-career blues, what is needed in the career shifting ecosystem and how to choose your dream career. 

About the guest

Ramakrishna Rao a seasoned talent professional with over 18 years of experience in the field of coaching, leadership development, talent management and organizational transformation. He currently holds the role of Chief Learning Officer with Page Industries (Jockey).

Over the years he has supported Organisations across IT, ITES, Retail, and consumer product sectors. Infosys, Wipro, HP, Future Group & Aditya Birla group are some of the organisations he has worked for/with in different capacities. He is also a PCC-level certified coach from International Coaching Federation. He is popularly known as \"Coach Ram\" in the social circuit. He blogs regularly on LinkedIn and is known for his insightful posts and book summaries on personal effectiveness, talent management, leadership development and career building. His newsletter \'Career Trek\' on Linkedin is one of the most followed ones.

Some of his accolades are:

Top 35 Young HR Leaders award, TAPMI & PB Consulting 2022

Top 100 Global HR Influencer 2022 by Engagedly (peer group of Leena Nair, Dave Ulrich & Josh Bersin)

Top 100 HR professionals by Jombay

Linkedin Campus knowledge program – Expert creator

Top 10 Retail L&D professionals & Top 10 Sales L&D professionals by Transformance forums

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Welcome back to a brand new episode of Career Uninterrupted. I am your host Lochan Narayanan and I have Mr. Anshuman Tiwari with me today. He is one professional who has had multiple small career transitions and he shares his journey and experiences with me.

Anshuman shares that mid-life crises and  mid-career blues have been there for a long time. It\'s just that people are acknowledging it now and trying to deal with the mid-life career crisis. Also, there is a lot of societal expectations and peer pressure of changing jobs, cars and houses which is fuelling mid-life crisis career change. 

Tune in as we discuss mid-life crisis symptoms, financial comforts while shifting careers, burn outs, limited job enhancements and different definitions of success of different people, and what to do with these feelings. 

About the guest

Anshuman is a TIQS - Transformation, Innovation, Quality, and Simplification professional with experience across multiple industries including banking, professional services, information technology, manufacturing, and consulting. He specializes in setting up and scaling world-class operations excellence programs. Anshuman is currently head of Delivery Excellence with DXC Technology where he manages a global team to help DXC deliver on its promises to customers. As a service to society, Anshuman coaches for career growth. He is a part of the LinkedIn Top Voices 2022 and LinkedIn India Creator Accelerator program where he shares content to manage better and make quality a priority. 

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Tune into this casual and fun conversation with your host Lochan Narayan and her guest Neiharika Rajiv. In this episode Neiharika shares her personal career transitions where she started studying Sociology and then switched to financial services and even branding.

She also talks about how her life transitioned personally which left an impact on her career too. When she shifted to the USA with her partner she felt like doing a career switch and enrolling into a second MBA with management consulting being her major.

During her MBA, she found out that she was pregnant but she delivered the baby and went for a campus interview with Dell after 1.5 weeks. Neiharika also came back to India 9 years later and ventured into entrepreneurship.

Listen to the entire episode to understand that careers are rarely linear yet you can create a fulfilling professional journey for yourself without any interruptions.  

About the Guest:

Neiharika Rajiv, Crypto Connoisseur | Angel Investor |Geriatrics Advocate| Entrepreneur

Neiharika has over 14 years of experience across varied sectors - marketing, Technology, Consulting and has been an active angel investor for about a decade now with a mix bag of conventional and non-conventional investments. As a partner at Encubay Angel Network, she is building a proactive female led startup ecosystem for women entrepreneurs, investors and networking platforms. Having traversed through multiple career transitions herself, she believes in enabling people to think outside the set path and support them in their endeavours.

Linkedin:- http://linkedin.com/in/neiharikarajiv

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I am your host Lochan and I am back again with an informational episode of the podcast Career Uninterrupted. If you are someone who is in the middle of their professional journey and is thinking of pivoting your niche or a stay-at-home mom who wants to rekindle the spark in your career, then this episode is for you.

Hear first-hand experiences of professionals who changed career paths midway, mothers who re-joined office after a long sabbatical and new mothers who joined immediately after maternity leaves. 

They share their challenges and experiences of working cultures, organizations and their colleagues. They also give some amazing insights as to what they could have done differently. 

So, tune in as I promise that you will be able to learn a lot about how to navigate through this journey and ensure that your career remains uninterrupted. 

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Welcome to the first episode of the podcast Career Uninterrupted. We are your hosts Lochan, Manish and Dipti. Tune in as we talk about our personal journeys in shifting careers right in the middle of our professional journeys. 

We also talk about how essential it is to create an inclusive workspace in today’s time. Career choices are moving in new directions and professionals are having different expectations from their work. In such a scenario, companies that don’t jump on this boat will be left behind. Sticking to one kind of talent pool will not help them adapt and hiring and retaining top talent will become a task for them.

So join us as we discuss some of these nuances and play a catalyst to ensure that no one’s career is interrupted because they took a break or became a new mom or want to pivot into a different segment mid-career. 

Tune into this insightful episode to know about the current workplace trends and nonlinear career journeys. 

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Welcome to Career Uninterrupted Podcast by OfExperiences, a pioneering platform that is helping organizations keep women's careers uninterrupted.

Meet your host: 

Lochan Narayanan - CEO and Founder OfExperiences - A Platform that provides end-to-end solutions to enable mid-career professionals to thrive through career transitions across life stages. 

She is a Learning & Development professional, an ICF certified coach & HR40under40 leader with over 15 years of experience across industries. As a coach, she works with mid-career professionals looking for career transitions. She started OfExperiences based on her career experiences and is focused on ‘normalizing’ Career transitions. 

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lochan-narayanan-she-her-a218435/ 

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