Nick Vujicic - A Great Motivator

On 30th of July 2010, we went to see Nick Vujicic show. Yes, after a long month waiting, I finally saw him and I am fortunate enough that I finally saw him personally. People who don’t know about Nick Vujicic, he is a great motivator and use to travel across the country to motivate the people of all the age level. He is not only an excellent motivator but also he is a great person with dashing personality. There are many motivators in this world but what uncommon between Nick Vujici and other motivators is that Nick Vujici doesn’t have arms and legs. Yes, he was born without arms and legs, interesting and sorry about him right but don’t be because he has done a lot of things in his life what other people have not done or feel scared to do even having their arms and legs. I saw number of his video before meeting to him and I get so inspire whenever I use to see his video and then I said earlier after a long month and year waiting I finally met him. And after meeting him, I got so emotional and inspired by his wording and thought and realized when he can do it why not I can and now I have more faith in GOD no matter what the situation is because GOD will always do something good for all of us and will always support us when we will keep on trying and have faith on him. We always use to say keep trying and have faith in God but sometime we get disappointed and always say why it’s happen or happening with me and then we start losing trust or losing faith on GOD which is true with everyone and it is true with me also. But by doing this entire unwanted thing nothing will come positive only thing we will continuously hurt our self and our body. So as per his word, we should keep trying, keep trying and so on and always have a big faith on God because its matter how you finish your race, are you going to finish it stronger or you will just give-up. So it’s very important to finish your work whatever you have in your hand even if you fall number of times but keep on trying because one day you will succeed and God will always help you to finish your task if we keep on trying. So never get discourage or disappointed and whatever the words starting with “DIS” always take in a positive way because even “DIS” mean “The (D) Inspiring (I) Stage (S)”, so never lose your heart and keep on trying –trying and have a faith in GOD. And also there is nothing impossible in this world even impossible has “I M Possible” word. People who are lazy will always find impossible word from possible task and people who are strong will always find possible things in impossible task also. So it just a matter of how you are seeing those things. But now, I think that whatever comes in your life we should always try it so that later we don’t have any regret of not doing that thing, so keep on trying whether you fail or pass. Really Nick Vujicic is not only a great motivator but also a good human being who always motivate and help the needy people and make people to believe in God and never lose our heart because life itself is very challenging and interesting, so its depend upon people how they want to play with their life whether they want challenging life who give lot of learning experience or monotonous life, so it’s just a way of seeing our life and never ever lose hope because hope is the bread for beggar.

Cherry Blosson

This time I am writing a blog on “Cherry Blossom”. On April 3rd 2010, I went to see Cheery Blossom in Washington DC, USA along with my family and friends. Though this was my second visit after coming to USA but this time I really enjoyed a lot. It was a great fun to visit and see the cheery blossom, which is one of the best festival celebrations in USA during spring time. Cherry Blossom is usually from cheery tree which was originated in USA during the year 1912 which was given by the Japanese people as a gift of friendship. Cherry Blossom is a big festival in Japan. So from 1912 to till date, cherry blossom is celebrated in USA with lots of great enthusiasms and enjoyment. Many people from all over the world come during Cherry Blossom in DC area to see and welcome the arrival of spring and to share the special season with each other. Blossom festival usually start from end of March and come to an end on mid April, so usually it’s for 3 week and 2nd week is the peak period of blossom.

Though it was a great fun but it was very rush as many people came over there to see the blossom as it was peak period time and also it was weekend, so no one want to miss this great festival of USA were all natural beauties are lying. So it was very hard to get parking and we have to wait for at least 1 hr to get parking slot empty. So if anyone who is going to watch Cherry Blossom in DC, it’s better to take a metro train instead of driving a car. But overall, the experience was very good to watch the natural beauty of earth. There were many other activities which were taking place during Cherry Blossom festival like orchestra, game shows, marriages etc. So it was a great enjoyment to see all these activities which were going on everywhere.

Importance of Human Resource Management

Today I am writing a blog on Importance of Human Resource Management. Although many people know what HR people do and what are their importance and how they work, how they act as a mediator between employee and employer etc. But the reason for writing this blog is that there are many people who still think that, what the role of HR and why they unnecessary exist in the organization. So in order to tell those people who still think that HR department is useless and never do anything for them, so for them I am writing this blog to let them know what actually HR people do and just like any other department, HR department also help the company to achieved its goal.

HR responsibility is very crucial and important for recruiting talent people, developing careers, keeping people motivated and building leaders, handling employee conflicts etc. HR people occupy a prime position in any organization, with effective processes for keeping talent, with open and honest relations with employees, trying to motivate them whenever they need. Every organizations have certain goals like to earn a lot of profits, want to have better product and services, innovative technology, better customer services and satisfaction when compare to their competitors, therefore HR people or department help the company to achieved its goal by recruiting the talented people who can perform all these tasks and can achieved organization goals. So HR department play an important part in any organization.

But many people think that and always make argument and always have discussion that HR as the force that forgot about people and does not take care of their employees, never give feedback on time in order to improve our self and even some people don’t know whether HR exist in the organization or not etc. So with all these attacks on HR's reputation, if your HR team is an impediment and never cares for you then upgrade them and when you decide that you are serious about the results you want, you do that i.e. go and ask them about your performance, your problems etc because until and unless you are not going to let them know, how they will come to know. In the meantime, a weak HR group is a great excuse for things that don't go the way you want.

HR people should also think that their role must be parallel the needs of the changing organization. Successful organizations are becoming more adaptable, resilient, quick to change directions, and customer-centered. Within this environment, the HR professional must learn how to manage effectively through planning, organizing, leading and controlling the human resource and be knowledgeable of emerging trends in training and employee development. So just involve every employee and follow as a individual approach rather than collective approach and let employee know that you really care for them and how important as a HR we are to them.

Recommendation to Follow Up with the Candidates

The most important problem for any of the company’s is to be in touch with the entire candidate who are currently not fit for the company but at the later stage it may possible that they can be the best fit for them as per the company requirement. So in that case company should always be in touch with the candidates, so that whenever they have any opening for them they are always be ready to accept the offer because if the company’s are in touch with the candidate on the regular bases, the candidates will always have a good impression about the company and it may also create a positive word mouth to other people. Therefore the company should never think or take in a light way if the candidates are not selected for a position then it’s better to leave them. Below are the some of the recommendations which company should follow in order to be continuously in touch with the candidates.

1) Whenever receiving a resume from any of the candidate, drop a thank you mail to them immediately even if job is not matching with the candidate profile.

2) If the resume is up to the company job requirement then be in touch with the candidate and tell them your resume are in the process and try to be in touch with them continuously, so that they cannot look for other company and can have a feeling about the company that they are interested on me which indirectly create a good image of the company in candidate mind.

3) If resume is not matching with the job requirement, then send a mail to the candidate and also try to call them and let them know that the position is not matching up with your profile and will contact you when ever any position matching with your profile. It’s better to contact the candidate through phone in order to have a brief background of a candidate, like what kind of jobs they are handling and what particular position they are looking, which ultimately can help the company in a near future to contact those candidate any time even if the job is not matching with them. By doing this it may possible that the candidate can provide a good referral to the company.

4) The resume which are initially selected from the company side but got rejected at the time of interview, try to call them instead of dropping a mail and tell them they had found a good match but if something new position will match with your profile then we will contact you . Also send them a thank you mail for showing interested in their company.

5) If candidate join the company that’s good but those candidate whose resume got rejected initially or at the time of interview, it’s very important to be in touch with them as most of the time, company don’t follow with those candidate and then occur a huge communication gap. So it’s better for the company to have a regular contact with those candidates.

6) Whenever candidate post their resume through job search engine, try to create a tool which can make the candidate to post their resume by going through the company job site and at the end of posting their resume try to create an option whether they want any updated news, blogs or positions which are going with the company or not. By doing this, whenever the company has any updated things and positions it will directly go the candidate email and in this way the candidate can also know what’s going with the company and always has some knowledge about company and its work culture which can create marketing for the company.

7) The candidate who came for the interview for any position, try to send them a thank you mail on the same day.

8) As now a day’s social networking sites are playing a very important role both professionally as well as personally, so in that case company’s should always try to connect or add as much as the candidate in the network like whose resume are there in the databank, the candidate whose resume are coming through referral or the candidate who came for the interview in the social networking site. By doing this, the candidate would always be in touch with the company.

9) If possible try to send holiday/festival message or greeting to the candidate especially to the good candidates, this is the better way to convey the message to the candidate and be in touch.

10) Make contact with them frequently and engage them in discussion to understand their current situation, what would motivate them to move, etc.

11) Most of the time it happens that the employee who has left the company, organization are not in touch with that employee. Therefore employee who has already worked here and somehow they have left the company, try to be in touch with them on regular bases because it may possible that either the ex-employee can join the company in a near future or they can provide a good referral to the company.

12) Be timely: The few companies that do follow-up with candidates oftentimes wait way too long to inform the candidate that they didn’t get the job, never do that. Don’t make people wait or anticipate a job they are not going to get. If you know after the first interview the candidate is not right for the job, send a regrets letter immediately. It is very awkward situation but the candidate will appreciate it immensely.

13) Most of the company try to post the positions in advance which they are going to have in a near future, so that once the position get open, the company don’t have to wait for the resume, they already received resumes from the candidates and can contact with them immediately. So if the position is going to open after a long time after a date of posting, first send thank you mail and then don’t wait for the candidate thinking that once the positions are open then only we will contact to the suitable candidate. Try to be in regular touch and tell them their resumes are in the process. So by doing this, it may have chances that the candidate will be still interested for the particular position and the company can also have up to date information about how much candidate is interested for particular positions. Because if candidate are interested in a job then possibility would be that they are going to join the company instead of the candidate who has least interest. Therefore it’s very important for the company to be in touch with the candidate even if the positions are going to open in a near future. The other advantage of doing this is that many times its happen candidate don’t remember for the position which they have applied and for which company, so it’s very necessary in that case to be always in touch with the candidate when positions are going to open after a long time.

14) If possible try to send a birthday mail to the excellent candidate to whom the company can think that this type of candidate will always be better fit for the company. It will definitely create a better reputation of a company in front of candidate mind as they will think; company is not only concern for their internal employees but also concern for an external people.

Greed is Bad

Greed is Always Bad

Now a days there are lot of discussion about whether greed is good or not. I think it’s become a topic of discussion for everyone after economic downturn and collapse of many organizations. We all know the reasons for financial crisis and with all those reasons, the conclusion always comes that one of the reason for crisis was the Greed. There are many examples of companies who failed because of greed such as; one of the more notable cases of greed was Enron’s leadership. The Enron scandal came in October 2001. It was very well respected company and there were many people who would like to work with such a big company but it was involved in many unethical cases like fraudulent self-dealing, falsification of financial information, and illegal market manipulations. Enron acted unethically, illegally and in conflict with their stakeholders’ for their best interests over the past decade. The other examples include, Satyam Computer Services which was one of the respected companies in India and this company chairman in January 2009 had admitted that had intentionally fixed the balance sheet, which included a severely inflated cash number, the subjecting of a major liability on funds arranged by him. A collection of other big name fraud and greed cases include WorldCom Inc, Tyco International Ltd. The greed and fraud leadership of one person negatively affected so many innocent people. So with all these crises, conclusion only comes that greed is not at all good.

Though there are many people who won’t agree with my point and will stuck that greed is good for business. I too agree that greed is good for business in order to have profit, but excessive greed is always bad for the business. There are natural disasters and there are man-made disasters and man-made disasters are always caused by their excessive greed. Now a day’s leaders are so preoccupied and totally focusing on with the goal of profit maximization for self-serving interests that they are not considering the implications and their actions which are affecting too many parties include both shareholders and stakeholders. And these leaders are breaking all the law, ethical boundaries and putting their own benefit and interest in front of those they were supposed to be representing. In a past we have seen many such leaders’ example that done business for their self interest. I know every business work for self interest but there is lot of difference between self interest and more self interest. In self interest, leaders are not only thinking about their business but they also think about the things which are associated with environment both internally and externally whereas in more self interest, leaders only think about their business and how to earn lots of profit. So because of excessive greed millions of ordinary people across the countries are suffering and they are still paying it now. They are paying it in damaged pensions, higher mortgage rates, and vulnerable savings and of course they have lost jobs. A self interest or greed should only be there when you are not harming others with your action and making money by following all rules and regulation and doing business more ethically. In that case doing greed for your company or business is not bad. Greed is only bad when you are doing any activities which you know it is not good for a business in a long term.

I think there is such a term in the business world as a fair profit and a fair competition in which everybody in the business world is making profit, rather than one particular business that is gobbling up all of the interests of others. We know money is the root of all evil, it desire for status, either greed to increase one’s status, or jealousy over losing in the status game to others. Desire for money or greed for money is a good thing when people play by the rules and when their desire for money and status results in better ways of doing business and in invention that help people and that make the world a better place. Desire for money and status is only bad when people do bad things in order to obtain what they desire or they are self centered. Therefore the goal of a government should not be to punish people for being successful in obtaining money, but to create rules to ensure that competition for money results in good for society. So greed is only good when it is better, not only for business but also for stakeholders and stockholders.

Recruitment Strategy

Steps of Recruitment Strategy through Social Media

Now a day’s social networking site is playing a very important role in every one life. It’s not only helping people to find, make and interact with old and new friends but also helping people to find their jobs. Now those days has gone were people has to look for the job only in job search engine, now they can see job in the social site and can also interact with the people in order to know more about their company and culture where they are applying. In social network site almost everything is open, here not only candidate will come to know about the company but social networks are also helping employers to search the proper candidate in order to fit them for the suitable positions. Therefore with the help of social network site an employer can get a lot of information about the candidate not only professional but also personal information and their behaviors. So accordingly company can analyzed whether a candidate is really fit for the company job or not. So social networking site is not only helping the candidate to find the better job but it also helping the company to find the better candidate and brand their company in the market. Now a day’s a lot of company are recruiting the candidate through social network site and I think it’s a best way to recruit the candidate through social site as there are numbers of people who are using these networking site and have their profile on that. And now a day’s more than 40% of the company’s are recruiting the candidates from social site only. So in my opinion social media is not the answers of HR recruitment but it’s a tool that should be added in recruitment process.

These are the steps that company should do if they are planning to recruit people from social network site:

1) Open an account on various social sites. LinkedIn and facebook are the two most famous sites were almost most people are having their profile in it across the countries.
2) After opening your company account, try to connect with people and groups as much as possible related to your business.
3) Use your employee’s networks in order to connect with their network because chances of your employee’s network are almost those people who are into the same fields as of your employee’s.
4) Try to post as many as videos, events in social site and also into You Tube mentioning about your company and its culture and also how work and recruiting process take place in your company. This is the most effective way of attracting the candidate from your side as people will get lot of knowledge about the company and their process.
5) The next most effective way of attracting the candidate is to write the blog. Involve every employees of your company to write down the blog about their learning experiences which they got from this company. It would be more effective, if higher level people of the company’s are also involve in writing the blog about their company and work experience, it will create a good image about the company in front of outside people. Therefore involve as many as people from higher level to lower level people to write down the blog and allow them to post a comment on the blog.
6) Make your employees and managers to run online career fair and discuss more about the company and its way of doing business.
7) Involve as many people to engage and have open discussion. Engagement should be there from both the sides and it should be transparent not only from candidate side but also from company side because companies also need candidates.
7) Always create fan page on social network site.
8) Use technology like RSS, feedburner etc.
9) Set up an internal tagging site on social network, so that anyone can tag you internally and externally.
10) Implement Live Chat on career page, so that if anyone has any query related to job or company they can discuss at the same time which is more speedy way of knowing the candidate as well as company.
11) Most of the company’s use social network site for positing the jobs, that’s true we have to post the current job but don’t just post the job because it’s really about branding your company and culture to attract and retain the employees. So involve the candidate and have an effective communication from both the side.

So these are the few steps that any company should try to do if they are planning to recruit the candidates from social networking site. These sites are not only effective in hiring process but also cost effective when compare to other tools.

Experience

My beautiful Experience in USA

There's something addicting about starting off in a new place, I realize that now. Coming to USA first time was so excited for me. Every time going to find something new in culture, people, work, education etc but are usually quite interesting and charming, especially if you learn to embrace them and accept the fact that they might be feeling the same thing towards you.

The diversity of cultures that I have seen here in USA has shown me that there's something about cultural diversity that I liked very much. I am curious about everything that's different from who I am. Looking back on my past I know things have been quite different for me. Everyday life in India as a high-tech professional with the routine work of family, friends and politics has had an enormous impact that blinded me of the outside world. Sure, I saw the news, I watched endless foreign films, but it was all plain ordinary part of my India life routine. Seeing USA culture from far is totally different then experiencing that culture. Though there are so many people with different cultures and backgrounds but they have a freedom to do whatever they want until and unless you are not harming others.

I remember I couldn't even understand people who wanted to travel or to live for a few years out of India, not because I was patriotic, very connected to my home or too dumb, but because of something else. I used to think it's the fear of culture shock and hardships with affects like loneliness or feeling home-sick but now I think it's because I was afraid that I will like it too much that I would feel heartbroken when it's time to leave. I loved the fact that they knew nothing about Indian culture and I also knew that I don’t know anything about them and I was ecstatic about slowly picking up a new language.

In the years of my childhood, the US was as distant from my own culture as I could ever grasp or imagine. I am not sure what this realization would mean to me or how it would influence my future but at this very specific point in my life there's no escaping the fact that culture is not only something I got used to it but also something that I have come to love. Till now my experience in USA is very good. People to whom I have associated professionally or personally are very kind and always ready to help whenever we need them. And I am still looking forward to have some more good experiences in my life with lots of learning from this country.