“Work culture also means constantly being challenged to be engaged and innovating where the team is much more included in leadership decisions, etc. And all of that you feel like you have a stake in the company, and more involvement in the company.”

Welcome to another episode of Shape of Work. In today’s episode, our guest talks on creating an inclusive work culture and preparing for the hiring process. Our guest today is Swetha Harikrishnan, Senior Director - People at HackerEarth, a comprehensive developer assessment software that helps companies accurately measure the skills of developers during the recruiting process.

Swetha has an overall work experience of sixteen years. She did her B.Sc from Dayananda Sagar College of Science, Bangalore, and later her MBA in PES and Human Resources. He has worked in various companies including American Express, Hewlett-Packard, BT Group, etc.

Episode Highlights

• How to create an inclusive culture?
• How to prepare for the hiring process?
• The importance of diversity in the workplace
• How does technology help in hiring?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“If we talk about the future of work from here, the employers and the employees have to understand what can be in person, what can be remote, for what you need to come together, what can be sort of executed while you're all alone”

In today’s episode of The Shape of Work podcast, our guest talks about diversity in a team and making the best decision for the team. We welcome Atma Godara, Human Resources Manager at Netflix, Netflix is the world's leading streaming entertainment service.

Atma is an HR veteran who has an overall experience of more than a decade. He did his Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College and his Master’s Degree from Tata Institute of Social Science. He is a seasoned HR veteran who has worked in various HR roles in various organisations such as Reliance Industries Limited, GreyOrange, Oyo, etc

Episode Highlights

• How do you make sure your team is diverse?
• How to decide what works best for your team?
• How to instil motivation in an employee?
• How will the future of HR change in the coming years?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“The new age professional is driven by purpose. They want to do stuff, which is going to make a difference to the community, and to the environment. There is a higher-level reason other than earning money. Purpose, autonomy, and mastery, are the things that will be driving the new age.”

Today’s episode of The Shape Of Work features Manish Anandani, Director of Engineering at Macrometa, a development platform for building real-time apps and APIs on the edge. Manish talks about how the It industry has changed over the years and the latest trends in the IT industry.

Manish has an overall work experience of twenty-two years. He did his Bachelor of Engineering from Amravati University and his Adv Diploma from CDAC ACTS Pune. He worked at Veritas Technologies and TietoEVRY prior to working at Macrometa.

Episode Highlights

• How has the IT industry changed over the years?
• Some latest trends that are going to take over the industry
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• How is the job market going to change?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“Today, employees are looking for jobs that are helping them to grow, that is not only helping them in the current job, but adds value to themselves and in the long run.”

This latest episode of The Shape of Work introduces our listeners to Vinayak Jadhav, Business HR Partner at Avery Dennison, a packaging and containers manufacturing company. In this episode, Vinayak offers his thoughts on training the employees with the right skills that are necessary for the organisation and how providing such training is necessary for employee satisfaction and organisational success.

Vinayak has an overall work experience of over two decades. He did his B.Com from the Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, his Master’s from Savitribai Phule Pune University, his Diploma in Labour law from Symbiosis Law School and his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has worked at various organisations including Grupo Antolin, Cummins India and Honeywell Turbo Technologies.

Episode Highlights

• How can employees be trained with the right skills at the right time?
• What tools and training do employees need to be effective in their job?
• Importance of the 70-20-10 principle
• The importance of diversity and change management

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Riddhi Agarwal

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.

“I think agility is a very important aspect in this whole ecosystem. So agility and adapting to fast-changing environments, diversity, equity, and inclusion will become an integral part of the employee lifecycle.”

Today’s episode of The Shape of Work podcast features Supriya Joshi, HR Business Partner at Sterlite Technologies Limited, an industry-leading integrator of digital networks which design and integrate digital networks. Supriya has an overall work experience of over three decades. She has spent about twenty-one years at STL and has worked at various organisations prior to STL including Lupin India and Indo-German Tool Room.

In today’s episode, Supriya talks about how technology will shape the future of recruitment and the future of HR.

Episode Highlights

• The state of HR in the early years
• How technology is going to shape the recruitment process?
• How will HR evolve in the next five years?
• What are some critical skills that are non-negotiable in having a good career?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“Now that organisations are more inclusive. When you embrace different communities or different genders, you are actually embracing different ideologies and different sorts of views that will actually help your organisation if not grow externally, but internally.”

This new instalment of The Shape of Work podcast features Shreya Tomar, Lead Human Resources Business Partner at Sharechat. In this episode, Shreya talks about how the workplace culture has changed and about the hybrid working model.

Shreya has an overall work experience of three years. She did her Bachelor of Engineering from IES IPS ACADEMY, Indore, and her Executive Postgraduate Programme from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. She worked at AIESEC before her time in TaskUs.

Episode Highlights

• How has the workplace culture changed?
• The hybrid work culture in the current generation
• What are some of the future trends that will be coming in?
• How to handle employee retention?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

We welcome Runam Mehta, the CEO of HealthCube, a company that designs and manufactures point-of-care diagnostic devices to enhance the quality of primary care in diverse settings.

Runam has an overall experience of thirteen years. She did her Bachelor of Physiotherapy from the Sancheti Institute and her Executive General Management Program from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She has worked at various companies namely, Work Ergonomics and Portea, and spent her former years as a physiotherapist.

Episode Highlights

• What is the meaning of organisational work culture?
• What impact does an organisational work culture have on the employees?
• Disparities faced by women because of the gender bias
• How to maintain a good work-life balance?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“Optimistic attitude is something that is very important.  And accepting is a big thing. So if you have that positive attitude, you will try and accept new things as well. And if you can speak well, I think half the battle is won”

This latest episode of The Shape of Work introduces our listeners to Harsh Khandelwal, Sr. Assistant Director at Fisdom Private Wealth, which provides HNIs with a reliable and robust technology platform to meet their wealth management needs, supplemented by dedicated and experienced wealth managers. Harsh has an overall work experience of over sixteen years. He did his MBA from the International School of Business & Research. He has worked at various organisations including Induslnd Bank, HDFC Bank, Karvy Private Wealth, etc.

In this episode, Harsh sheds light on the shifting industries and shifting perspectives, and the change in workplace culture.

Episode Highlights

• The shift in perspectives when shifting industries
• What are the current prevalent skills that employees need to have in todays market?
• How has the workplace culture changed?
• The importance of having an optimistic attitude

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.

“Every company has a happiness quotient target, and therefore every leader has one. So even if you deliver super duper profits, but you don't deliver happiness to our people,it doesn't fly in our company.”

Today’s episode of The Shape of Work podcast features S Venky Venkatesh, Member-Group Management Board & President-Group HR at RPG Group, one of India’s fastest-growing industrial machinery manufacturing business groups. He has an overall work experience of over thirty-five years. He did his Master’s in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has worked in various companies including ITC, BPL Innovision Business Group, Arvind Limited, etc.

In this episode, this seasoned veteran talks about how AI can contribute to building an inclusive workplace and how to measure a company’s success.

Episode Highlights

• How does the company measure success?
• What are some key performance indicators?
• How can AI contribute to building a more inclusive workplace?
• The importance of employee happiness

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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.

“Engagement opens a bridge and creates an indispensable magic, wherein, the employees start trusting you better they start communicating with you better. And feedback is always important. It is a two-way bridge that is built through engagement.”

The newest instalment of the Shape of Work podcast throws light on some basic skills required to get through the first screening process. Our guest today is Malabika Jena, Executive-People Operations at Simpl, India’s top check-out network meant to make payments invisible and money intelligent.

Malabika has an overall experience of two years. She did her BBA from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. She has various certifications from top institutes such as the University Of London, London Business School, the University of Toronto, etc. She has done various internships with various companies including Workduck, Dunzo, Nestlé, etc.

Episode Highlights

• Basic skills required to get through the initial screening process
• How to attract more employees?
• Does having a gap year negatively affect your career?
• What is the one quality that is totally non-negotiable?

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Archit Sethi

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.