The First Hindustan Times Shine HR Summit To Be Held In March

Hindustan Times & Shine.com present the first ever HR Summit. A unique full day event which aims to bring together the leaders of the HR industry to discuss and share experiences on practices that impact organisation culture & productivity.

Gurgaon (I-Newswire) March 2, 2012 - Hindustan Times presents the 1st HT Shine HR Summit, a full day event where policy makers, corporate leaders and senior HR Practitioners come together to debate what it takes to Make India a Great Place to Work. An initiative by Shine.com, Hindustan Times' recruitment portal, it aims to bring together top HR professionals from across the country discussing drivers of productivity in the Indian workplace that go into making India a great place to work. The event takes place on the 7th March, 2012, at the Taj Palace New Delhi.

Shine.com, India's fastest growing recruitment portal, with 85 lakh candidates on board, has been in the HR space since 2008, bringing innovative solutions in recruitment and branding for organisations. Now it takes a step further in this domain by opening up a national level conversation with the leaders in this space around the bigger "HR" issues- what really goes into making our organisations and in turn our nation, a great place to work.

Talking about the initiative, Amit Garg, Business Head- HTMedia Digital said, “We often hear about India being a global superpower and how growth and development is being powered by a strong economy. However, we believe if the Indian economy has to reach its potential, we will need to ensure that every member of the workforce pushes his productivity to the maximum. And this will require action from both the employee and employer. This is what we seek to address at the first HT Shine HR Summit. Organisations will share best practices, have a good look at what changes they need to make themselves and determine the factors that will make India a great place to work. And as HT and Shine, we hope to take this conversation from just a discussion to execution in the market.”

Top Speakers such as Vineet Nayar, Vice Chairman & CEO, HCL Technologies, Vikram Chachi, EVP, DHR India, Yashwant Malik, VP-HR Philips, Anadi Pande, VP, Hero Motorcorp, Krish Shankar, HR Bharti Airtel, Ashok Reddy, MD, Teamlease Services, Dilip Chenoy, CEO & MD, NSDC, and many more will be panelists at the event. Gautam Chikermane, Executive Editor (Business)- Hindustan Times, will be the chief moderator.

The event will start at with a keynote giving us the Policy Perspective from the government, followed by Survey conducted by Shine.com among 200 HR managers from across the country to understand the current practices being followed in organizations that drive productivity. This will be followed by a CEO panel to get the corporate perspective on what companies are doing to Harness talent at their workplace. Post lunch will be 2 HR specific sessions on Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, and a pledge that see corporate committing to the cause of productivity and taking India to the next level.

While registrations for this event are now closed, 5 seats are being reserved for companies who have already taken initiative in this space. Companies need to send in three innovative practices that let them harness productivity at their organisation before 3rd March. Winners will be flown down to New Delhi to attend the Summit, get the opportunity to directly interact with panelists and get featured in Shinejobs, the job supplement with Hindustan Times, in the post event coverage.

Further details of the event can be accessed on hrsummit.shine.com.

Live coverage of the event will be available starting 10am on 7th March, 2012 on hindustantimes.com.

About Shine.com
Shine.com is India's fastest growing job portal with an 85 lakh candidate database and over 40,000 jobs on site. It is built on a unique 2-way matching technology to deliver better relevance to both candidates and recruiters. In addition to the powerful portfolio of online recruitment solutions, Shine offers a multi pronged recruitment approach involving print, online and on-ground events.