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Are You Considering A Career In Human Resources?

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

13 years ago I was happily enjoying my life as an Advertising Account Director running Unilever’s detergent business across Asia. If you’d told me then that my career was about to take an unex...

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Degree over passion – does this have to be a choice?

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

India is one of those countries which values “job security”. Not surprising, given that there’s no government safety net, or social security system to bail unfortunate individuals out wh...

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A few words of advice for ambitious teens

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

Without wanting to sound like some ancient auntie doling out career advice to the kids, there are a few things that I wish someone had told me when I was in my late teens: 1.

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The great CTC conundrum – to reveal or not to reveal?

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

Debate on the topic of CTC (“cost to company”, for any non Indians reading this!) has abounded recently on Linked in. One recent post attracted thousands of views and comments, with people voi...

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How to spot and handle different personality types

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

The word” managing”, according to the dictionary definition, is “having executive control or authority”. So if this authority exists, managing people should be a simple task, right...

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Top 5 traits I look for in a candidate

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

During many years of interviewing people in different countries and companies across the world, I’ve developed a list of “must haves” for successful candidates. Obviously I’ll ask competency based questio...

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A Millennial and Gen X head to head

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta & Shreya Contractor

Much has been written about the Millennial generation, the 19 to 35 year olds criticised for their lack of discipline, impatience and arrogance. In contrast, Gen X, aged in their 40s and 50s pride...

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10 things I wish I’d known when I was 23

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

Exactly half my life ago, I was preparing to start my first ever "proper" job. Granted, I'd been working for 10 years already, since picking up my first job washing dishes in a hotel when I was 13, but th...

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Top 10 First world problems

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

You know how it is. Life is tough these days. What with trying to keep on top of shifting tech trends (ever been stuck in quicksand?!), trying to advance a career ahead of a million other Millennials, and...

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Why you should change your job!

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

No, I don't mean right now. I have enough on my plate without a bunch of mass resignations, thank you very much. What I mean is, that at some point in your life, I believe that you should change n...

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We have not 1 but 3 Brains. My whole life was a lie!

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

Did you know, you actually have 3 brains? No, this isn’t some random mumbo jumbo, but a proven fact. Here’s the science bit. Actually, the neuroscience bit. According to eminent scientists, you hav...

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Why reading makes you smart

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

My mother taught me to read at the tender age of 3. Aged 4 years old, I was reading “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a book for 11-year-olds. So precocious was I, that the headtea...

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Why I go dry in January

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

Dry January has become a bit of a fad, globally. Though it’s not such a thing in India, January sees scores of people in the West renouncing alcohol, in a bid to sanitize their lives and their livers post...

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My (HR) Highlights of the year

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

We all know that 2016 was a “annus horribilis”, from many angles. Despite the political insanity which has characterized 2016, and the premature deaths of so many legends, there have been so...

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AVOID BURNOUT – TAKE SOME “ME TIME”

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

There’s no doubt that life has speeded up. Days seem to fly by, months turn into years, all accelerated by the “immediacy” of this digital age. We are continually bombarded with information and expected to r...

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Know thyself (and others!) – The first step in becoming a great leader

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

You know you're the kind of person who just likes to get things done. You make lists, you tick them off, and you love it when a project is completed. Isn't that how everyone is? Don't we all love to feel ...

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Rise and Shine!

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

I’ve returned from my few months long stint in the UK with a refreshed perspective on India, and a set of intentions to “do things differently”. I’ve been living in Mumbai since 2003, and I’ve become used...

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Time management

#HRLADYSHIP Heather Gupta

We all know those people. The ones who come running in late to a meeting, hair flying, clothes askew, bag spilling tissues and papers and half eaten chocolate bars, mumbling about “traffic” under their breat...

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