A guest lecture on "Contemporary HR Jobs and Entry level HR Competencies" was organized on 20 February, 2020. Mr. Naga Siddharth, Chief HR Officer across multiple organizations, a Psychometrician, and Author was the keynote speaker.
The guest lecture aimed to enlighten the students about dynamic shifts in HR roles, functions, and its overall impact in shaping organizations. He also emphasized the importance of transformation from traditional to digital platforms to conduct the HR operations, which can enhance the productivity and longevity of this profession to a great extent. Job opportunities, skills, and competencies, courses, and certificates that can help to perform HR roles effectively were also discussed. It was a highly knowledge gaining and enriching experience for the students, it not only benefited them to understand about the functionalities of this profession and industry expectations, but students also learned about Importance of new- age skills such as data analytics, AI, design thinking for HR Jobs in the future.