Delving Deeper

Here are some links which turned up as my search results for the future that human resource professionals can look forward to from 2014-2020 1. Starting off with someone who I feel has been #presenting #HR really well to the global audience by his unique research oriented approach... Prof. Dave Ulrich's take is given  here . 2. Ceredian Canada has given some pointers (albeit country specific) about future trends in  this  pdf file 3. Here is another - this one has some bold predictions for 2020 - from Software Advice's blog New talent times So what would be key differentiators for newbies preparing to enter the world of human resources in these years?

Here is a link to my  2000th Tweet  :-).. Been on Twitter since 2005 but most of the tweets happened only in the last 12 months starting June 2012 at Atlanta when I was attending the SHRM Annual Conference there.. Chanced upon a link to two videos on #Choice by Dr. Sheena Iyengar today.. and that becomes the topic for the day for me.. Many thanks to #shrm12 for helping me realise the potential of @twitter I'm missing #shrm13 due to some personal situation - hope to follow it on #social media.

Well, that's been a question which I'm trying to answer with this post :-) As I look at what I've been doing over the past 12 months, the kind of activities when listed will look confusing to many.. so let me not go forward listing it.  A different approach to seek an answer will be to look for common pattern / things among those activities ... well that was easy - the word 'Internet' is common.. Yes, Over the past 12 months my access to internet has increased manifold in comparison to the previous 12 months. Wait a minute, I should not miss adding another word as prefix to the common thing here...'Mobile' ... so come to think of it, it's actually 'Mobile Internet access' that has been the most common thing in the activities which I undertook the last 12 months.. Still not convinced ? Look at  https://www.facebook.com/anish.aravind  to see what I mean... This combination of internet and mobility has brought about a new definition of 'Tim...

First post for the year.. Been more active on FB, LN, and Twitter this year so kind of missed the blog !  Heard about Slideshare.. ? here's how to use it for.. well - Anything! make sure to check out this Twitter   Power tips  as well.... Enjoy surfing :-) 

Got a chance once again to Umpire at the Worlds Oldest Limited overs cricket tournament - which was first held in 1961 at Palace Oval in Tripunithura, a suburb of Ernakulam district in Kerala.  Here are some pics from this year's event. This first one is a view of the Pavilion which the Organizers (The Tripunithura Cricket Club or TCC as they are fondly known) had set up this year. The pavilion itself offers a very close view of the proceedings unfolding on the oval itself. Here's another one - this time from the proceedings itself: The oval is the proud owner of one of the oldest turf wickets in Kerala and Umpiring here has always been special event for me - here's some reasons why:  1. This was the venue where I had my first Official match as a Qualified Umpire - way back in 1996 - that was the inaugural match of that year's Pooja Cricket tournament 2. Special conditions / interpretations to Cricket laws which are applicable only to this venue - about which...

While seeking an answer to this question - I came upon this article (thanks to my good friend Gautam Ghosh who send the link to this one on his tweets) by Luis Suarez - you can read it  here this clarity gives me one more reason to be more regular in updating this blog :-)

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A Video attempting to capture the atmosphere @shrm12   Amazing needs to be re-defined I guess... I'm stunned... never before have I've seen so many people at any conference. Maybe I should have checked out some of the political rallies in which the Organizing party would claim that 'thousands'  attended.  Well I did get a chance to be one among the 1k plus International delegates at the #SHRM12 earlier today.  As a matter of fact, I did feel special with that applause which the 'thousands' gave the Global delegates at the Opening General session earlier today. Little did I know that I was getting a taste of things to come later in the day when at 7.50 am today morning the polite person at the Marriot (one of the many around this place) apologetically told me that the I'll have to wait till 4 pm to before I could move in to my room for which I had a reservation done thru Expedia about 3 weeks back while planning my trip to Atlanta from Kochi, Kerala - ...

Yep.. starting off with a pic - a slide from the International Orientation which was the very first session I attended at my first ever SHRM conference.  Chanced upon the DiceLounge as I was moving out of the session... and, well to cut a long story short - I got myself signed on to report (Yes like a press guys do) the conference thru my blog...Feeling very excited about all this.. and really looking forward to it. Here's the launch report ... trust the following pic will help share some of my excitement with the readers :-) Looking forward to the next few days ... Here's another picture - this one explaining the cool concept of Meet-meme Cards.... mine is not ready as I missed registering.. but this will help bring this concept across.

I realized that I had not watched even a single match from this edition of IPL from start to finish!  Today I needed the newspaper to remind me that it's the Finals..and I remembered reading this piece from Hindu Opinion page a few days back.. Hindu Article by Mr. Guha I thought mine was a special case of 'IPL interest-waning Syndrome' :-). At this rate I'm sure that the 'It's not Cricket' voices will get louder. Hope better sense prevails and cricket (and only cricket) wins

Umm.. this is getting really interesting indeed.  Linked in does have the head-start on the hiring front but the popularity of Facebook and the need by specialist recruiters to reach out to passive talent pool may both help facebook in it's current form. The pace at which this shift will happen IMHO will be higher in the emerging economies (yep the BRICS will lead the way ofcourse) due to the sheer size of the market involved and also due the way folks here treat 'privacy'. Here's one link to support this view  http://mashable.com/2011/10/09/recruiters-prefer-facebook/

Started reading 'Great by Choice' - very glad to see another work from him. Liked the 10-exer concept very much. Another special thing for me is the way the authors researched 'Luck' factor in being 'great'. Having believed that 'Luck favors the trained mind' - it was good to see some data and analysis which confirmed that.

Came across an intersting application which has potential to harness Social media for Recruitment. I had cross posted an article which discussed this possibility about 2 yrs back. This application allows companies to increase the scope / use of their existing Employee referral system by allowing employees to post requirements as Status messages on their FB page ! Now that is what I call a Win-Win situation :-) Check out http://www.facebook.com/SurgeHire for more and maybe take a trial run

Came to this page from a friend's blog.. I could relate to Connectivism and Informal learning. It will be interesting to watch out for developments in this space.

Time just flew....cannot believe that it's been 20 yrs since I completed STD X at Marian Junior College (Old name for Marian Sr. Secondary School, Kalathipady, Kottayam). Excited about meeting my classmates and teachers at the 20th Anniversary Re-Union which is scheduled for tomorrow (26th Dec) at Kottayam, the land of 3 L's (Letters, Latex and Lakes). Social media was the backbone for Organizing this event, thoughts about which were initiated about 2 yrs ago :-) Facebook page, which was created to link (and search) the batchmates (V-Marians 1979-92) helped us reach out to over 65 batchmates - over 25 have confirmed to attend the first such event organized by any batch from our Alma mater. Looking forward to the D-day tomorrow.

Chanced upon a link to a free article on astd's website where the authors take a time m/c trip to track the 'future' of Learning. You can reach the article http://www.astd.org/TD/Archives/2010/Jul/Free/1007_LookingAheadAt.htm I really think that Prediction No. 5 - 'Peer-to-Peer' is a thing to watch out for.. My earlier post about the progress of Facebook type applications aimed specifically at Corporates - Vivek Paul's new company is testimony to the pace at which things are progressing in this area.

Well, it's about time Kochi got it's true of IT mind space. Here's a link to a post on Manorama online - featuring an interview with my boss. http://www.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/itcontentView.do?contentId=7558235&programId=6306068&contentType=EDITORIAL&BV_ID=@@@ Best wishes to Kochi :-)

Interesting update from ET Headlines of today.. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-company/corporate-announcement/Vivek-Paul-turns-entrepreneur-with-KineticGlue/articleshow/6235092.cms Glad to see the idea catching up in India.. Exciting times ahead I'm sure :-)

A laudable effort by SHRM India - here's an article by Pradeep Mukerjee on their site .. I thought Pradeep hit the nail on the head with this statement: Understanding business: why is it important? It is extremely important for any professional to understand what the business he or she is in is really about. Without such an understanding a professional will have a limitation in appreciating how his or her role contributes to the larger whole. A role may boil down to a set of tasks - done because they need to be done. We all know what that does to an individual’s motivation levels.

Happened to get a link to Workforce's research page where I found an interesting use of Web 2.0 principles for Workplace Process improvements...You can find more details on this link http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/27/06/75/index.php