In the third round of our Belong Executive Briefing, we traveled to Delhi to meet with top Talent Leaders from some off the most innovative companies including Airtel, Reliance Jio, Sapient and OYO Rooms.

1. BELONG EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
- DELHI EDITION
01.08.2017, Westin Gurgaon

2. On the 1st of August, Team Belong flew out to Delhi for the third edition of the Belong Executive
Briefing. The event brought together Talent Leaders from some of the most talent-focused
companies to share their learnings and discuss current challenges.

3. The event kicked off with a decadent breakfast at Westin Gurgaon, after which we moved
into the boardroom for the main event.

4. Belong Co-Founder & Head of Demand Marketing Rishabh Kaul and Outbound Hiring Evangelist
Aadil Bandukwala presented Talent Leaders critical insights about some of the most in-demand
roles today such as Data Science, Machine Learning and IoT.

5. We then moved the conversation over to our attendees, where the conversation broadly
covered three main themes:
1. Alignment of HR and Business as Strategic Partners
2. Re-thinking the TA Organization and its capabilities
3. Going beyond mainstream hiring solutions

6. 1. Alignment of HR and Business as Strategic Partners

7. "If you look at the way the landscape is changing,
we have moved to a position where people
choose us, we are attracting talent now, now so
if firms don't end up changing their
organizational outward goals it becomes very
difficult to get that kind of traction, so I think it is
inevitable to build for the future."
SUCHARITH MENON
Recruiting Leader, Hike Messenger

8. "Will something like Talent Supply Index help us
with hiring of very niche roles? Like we are hiring
for facility management but we have little clue
where to find them, what pockets do we look at?
We need to know which companies or industries
have experimented with such kind of roles"
DINESH R
CHRO, OYO Rooms

9. 2. Re-thinking the TA Organization and its capabilities

10. "Talent intelligence, talent landscape, marketing,
everybody is contributing to our investment in
hiring drive through Social Media. We are really
counting on it."
SUNIL DUGGAL
Director TA, Optum (UHG)

11. "We as an industry have not coached our Talent
Acquisition teams to hire for roles like Data
Scientist and Data Engineer and this is where a
potential gap in recruiting and businesses
comes."
LAVITA NATHANI
Senior Director HR, Endurance

12. "We are trying to get people in our Talent
Acquisition Teams who understand technology
and speak the same language as the people they
are trying to hire."
DIVYAMAN RAMAWAT
Manager TA, Pitney Bowes

13. "One of the metrics we all track but we
particularly go back to focus on is the rejection
ratio. That was one problem which we all have
faced, Appster as an org, has grown
tremendously by tracking this metric."
DEEPAK MENDIRATTA
Head HR, Appster

14. "It is a candidate-driven market right now, we
are thinking about scaling personalized interview
process as to how can we enable the candidate
to choose their preferred interview process."
DIMPLE JHA
Director Hiring, Sapient

15. 3. Going beyond mainstream hiring solutions

16. "Open yourself to reinvest in a partnership which
is what we have done with Belong, we have been
open with them as partners on what is not
working out, when we need to ideate, iterate,
co-create what can we do differently that will
help us get to where we want and we have been
fairly successful in that."
SATYADEEP MISHRA
Head HR, Digital Services, Reliance JIO

17. "We are using a bunch of AI tools to execute and
measure the hiring efficiency. We use
psychometric tests and gamification around
personality tests."
GAYATRI TARAGI
Head TA, Airtel

18. Want to find out more about the Belong Executive Briefing?
Reach out to us at hello@belong.co