March 10, 2022

5 Reasons Why You Should Put Career Breaks on LinkedIn

62% of employees have taken a break at some point in their professional career. Most employers shy away from hiring candidates with career breaks and most applicants hide it. Do men get away with it more easily?

March 2, 2022

Algorithms cannot #breakthebias – humans can

Algorithms cannot hashtag#breakthebias

Chances are that you have been a victim of bias in hiring (and you don't even know it). You were passed over because you were the wrong gender/ qualification/ sexual orientation/age/ or not from the "right college"... You may have been a beneficiary of biased decisions. It works in your favour too!

How do we break the hashtag#bias?

hashtag#breakthebias hashtag#iwd2022 hashtag#iwd hashtag#iwd2022 hashtag#hiringbias hashtag#hiring hashtag#algorithms hashtag#gender

February 21, 2022

How I fell in love with Sketchnotes

How I Fell In hashtag#love With Sketchnotes

This post has the MOST number of hashtag#sketchnotes ever used in a newsletter anywhere in the world. (Even the partly visible ones count). And there are more in the newsletter.

How many did you count? Leave your answer in the comments.

February 13, 2022

Wake Up Call for the Sleep Deprived

India is one of the most hashtag#sleep deprived countries in the world.

If you have an important meeting or exam the next day, make sure you get 8-10 hours of sleep the previous day.

And if you have a colleague who tells you that they can get by with 3-4 hours of sleep, share this post with them.

January 26, 2022

Book Review: What The Heck Do I Do With My Life

Book Review: What the Heck Do I Do with My Life

A number of you have asked me to add book reviews in the newsletter. Here is a review of Ravi Venkatesan's new book. Check out the hashtag#sketchnote on the entrepreneur's mindset.

Ravi is the first guest on Season 4 of my weekly LinkedIn Live called Dreamers and Unicorns. Do let me know the questions you have about tech and talent.

January 20, 2022

Culture Building For Remote Teams

Culture Building for hashtag#remoteteams

I was invited by LinkedIn News India to join Pallavi Pareek (She/They) and Ankit Vengurlekar (he/him) to discuss this topic. This is a special edition of my hashtag#newsletter

Three Ms That Matter (The other two are explained in the newsletter)

Mental Health: This matters HUGELY in case of a remote work culture. Build the skills of the managers to recognise emotions like grief, stress, burnout etc.

January 16, 2022

Are You A Career 3.0 Person… Stuck in a Career 1.0 Job

"Why can't you focus on doing JUST ONE THING, " is a constant advice you get. You like juggling a number of projects and excelling at all of them.

You teach yourself new skills continuously - even when you could just get by. Sometimes you are better at it than even the people who have studied the subject. Does that sound like you?

You have a great job, but you wish you could do more. You may be craving to follow a Career 3.0 path but stuck in a Career 1.0 job.