HR Summit Report – 2018

The Training and Placement Cell in association with National Institute of Personnel Managers (NIPM) _ Goa Chapter organised an HR Summit to bridge the gap between academia and industry. The HR Summit was organised as part of Kshitij 2018 keeping in mind the institute social responsibility. More than 50 HR delegates from all across the Goa region attended the summit.

Mr. Manoj Kharde, Chairman – NIPM Goa Chapter was the chief guest and encouraged the participants to become members of NIPM. He also explained the benefits that NIPM offers to its members. Earlier the Principal Dr. Neena Panandikar highlighted the college journey over the last one year and TPO Mr. Rajesh Gaonkar showcased the activities of the Training and Placement Cell. Director Fr. Kinley also welcomed the participants and spoke about how generation and perspective changes affect business. He explained how these tie ups with industry are in the selfish interest of the college for the betterment of the student community.

The first session was delivered by Prof Nila Nayak, Visiting Lecturer at GIM on the topic Talent Acquisition in the Digital Age. She explained how IT has transformed the HR sector and how software can help ease HR duties. She explained different tools like Chatbots, VR, AR, AI among some that make it easy for HR to select, screen candidates and also parse resumes. She explained how HR has evolved from the analogue age to the more modern thinking professionals. She also stressed on the importance of branding of the companies and how HR persons can play a big role in it.

Mr.Durgesh Pai Angle, Head HR at Unichem Labs spoke on the Recent Trends in HR and how data analytics plays a huge role in helping HR make better decisions. He spoke on how the focus has changed from late coming to working from home and the definition of giving benefits to employees has changed and now the focus is more on meeting individual employee needs.

The last session was delivered by Mr George Ninan, Ex HR Adventz Ltd. on HR Mind. Mr Ninan explained the Managerial Grid and modified it to a HR Perspective. He compared how our focus on people and tasks should all be invested in one direction that is the impact on business.

The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Mr. Rajesh Gaonkar.