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Oorja - A Strategic Campus Hiring and Induction Initiative
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ne of the key organization needs leaders and their direct teams; working
articulated by Arup Gupta, our closely with Practices, Delivery, CoEs, The induction programme was focused
CEO and the leadership team Sales and Pre-sales. This ensured their cross towards 360 degree learning and helped us
last year was the development of future functional exposure and ongoing leadership gain insights into the organization’s line of
leaders for critical and client facing roles. interaction. The entire programme involved a thinking, strategic approach and meticulous
As part of this initiative, Talent Development lot of thought process at the conceptualizing execution.
& OD Team at Birlasoft, well positioned the stage and meticulous analysis at various – Gautam Grover, a participant
organization to attract the best and brightest steps of the programme. One of the key
features of the programme Vice President (Tower Head – Insurance),
While working on Oorja, the first thing we set out was that each of these Shobhan Mahapatra, Global PMO Head,
hunting in the top 10 management campuses of ten associates has Pradeep Kumar, Vice President – Technology,
India was to look for people who will aim for the been assigned a key and Manoj C Jain, Vice President – India
remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. industry leader as a and Middle East (Sales). The Management
– Sarika Singh, Head - TD & OD professional ‘Mentor’. Trainees also got a chance to directly interface
They were regularly with Arup Gupta, CEO, Ajit Abahram, CPO
talent to further our organizational goals. We assessed by the leaders based on diverse and Srinivas Sastri, India HR Head.
went to the top ten B schools of the country domain / function based assignment and During the program, the participants
including IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon, worked closely with the Presales team,
SIBM Pune and hired 10 students who had The profile offered and the kind of Marketing team, Business Excellence team,
prior and relevant industry experience. The exposure we received at the beginning of Insurance practice and Manufacturing
program was named as ‘Oorja’ and given our career will go a long way in shaping practice under the able guidance and
the significance of the programme it has been our career path. leadership of Shankar Dutt, Vice President
attached to the CEO’s office and driven by – Tulika Sarkhel, a participant – Presales, Hemlata Varlani, General
Shobhan Mahapatra, Global PMO Head Manager – Marketing, Indradeb Pal,
and Sarika Singh, Head - TD & OD . provided direct feedback on a regular Vice President - Business Excellence, Siva
Oorja is aimed at building the basis. The list of Mentors includes leaders Subramanaym, General Manager –
Management Trainees ‘KSA’ i.e. like Deepak Marwah, Senior Vice President Insurance and Deepak Marwah, Senior Vice
Knowledge, Skills and Attitude to enable – Manufacturing, Bichayan Chakraborty, President – Manufacturing, respectively on a
them to innovate beyond boundaries and
come up with new thought process that will Enthusing fresh talent with right attitude, lot of passion to drive
contribute significantly to the organizational towards the aggressive growth target and establishing campus
growth and business operations. connect with premier business school was the key takeaways from
Under Oorja, the associates underwent a the “Oorja” program.
two months orientation program comprising – Shobhan Mahapatra, Global PMO Head
of direct interactions with all key functional
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