Talentwise: Future-proof your team Subhanjan Sarkar

Roundup Episode Season One







* A roundup of the season’s highlights, featuring our stellar line-up of guests.  * Some estimates predict that between 400 million and 800 million individuals could be displaced by automation and will need to find new jobs by 2030. And around 75 million to 375 million may need to switch to new occupational categories and learn new skills. * The more successful people today are not necessarily the ones with only math or technical skills. They are people with a combination of those and soft skills. Machines are great at doing structured tasks. But machines are not very good at interpersonal skills, creativity and large-scale problem identification.  * Hiring needs have changed. The AI-mature companies are looking for hybrid profiles. Candidates should have interdisciplinary expertise. 















These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 51.02 mins. 

Roundup Season One







*  Roundup of the season’s highlights, featuring our stellar line-up of guests.  







These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 06.59 mins. 

Catherine B Roy







* Programs such as accounting programs stand to take away many job positions because those roles become redundant. It is very important for organizations to re-skill and re-deploy such employees whose jobs are at risk over the next few years.  * Salespersons understand the sales process far better than any program. Human beings have empathy and creative skills that AI cannot match today. Organizations understand that their best sales strategy is to employ human intelligence at the frontline. * Even when AI does play a role in sales, human expertise is required to create the AI. SMEs should then become consultants or creators of AI programs. In any case, every individual also needs to keep up with the times and adapt to new technologies. 















These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 24.43 mins. 

Subhabrata Saha







* Earlier, few factors affected businesses. Nowadays, many factors must be taken into consideration. PESTEL, OR Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental and Legal factors will affect businesses.  * So, businesses have to undergo dual transformation. On the one hand they must reposition themselves to cope with change in society and consumption. And on the other they must plan to evolve to keep up with the future. * Businesses have to realize the inflexion point when it becomes imperative to transform and scale up. Kodak, for instance, did not transform at the right time, when photography and film went digital. 















These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 28.51 mins. 

Pradeep Srivastava







* The staffing industry constitutes a 6-billion-dollar market in India. At the same time the temp staff sector is growing. But it is the blue-collar workers who constitute the bulk of this force. The more educated workforce is reluctant to go that way due to the felt insecurities. The top bracket, above a salary level of Rs30,000, has not yet moved into temp sector. * On the other hand, very skilled people, are in a sense, temps. They become consultants. They are not interested in getting permanent jobs. For example, there was this instance where a company needed to hire a person with specialized knowledge of a certain type of car batteries. Only about 200 people across the globe who had this specialized knowledge. None of them wanted to take up permanent employment. * Women have entered the workforce and the ratio has changed. In IT the ratio is nearly 51:48. This has also changed mindsets within organizations. Some organizations have policies where staff can leave any day, without any notice period. So, the distinction between temp and permanent has become fuzzy. 















These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 36.02 mins. 

Prajjal Saha







* Changes and disruptions have happened throughout history. What is happening today is simply a repeat of such historic events. But the rate at which these changes will happen is not going to be as dramatic as projected. Changes will come in slowly, and unevenly across sectors and industries.* This slower rate of change will allow people to adapt to changes. Rather than many people losing jobs, it would be more correct to say that over time more and more people will adapt to the technological changes that will happen.* Most of the Indian Industry is still engaged in handling day to day problems, and not really thinking about the future. This also makes business sense for now. But there being no strong partnerships between the academic institutions and industry, no epoch-making changes or technological breakthroughs are happening in the country.















These and more insights from the ground in this great episode of TalentWise.   







Run time – 34.16 mins.