Shaping young HR leaders
India will need roughly 1.4 million AI professionals this year and has about 400,000, according to a talent report released in Bengaluru last week. TeamLease Digital estimates that only about one in six of our IT professionals has any AI skills at all. Read those numbers alone and the fix looks obvious: train more people in AI.
The role of the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Traditionally associated with talent acquisition, employee engagement, performance management, compensation and compliance, HR is now expected to contribute directly to business growth and organisational success.
Facet of HR: training, employee management, industrial relations, employee relations, learning and organisation development. Some may call that a winding path. I call it my education.
Avanse Financial Services (Avanse), a leading education-focused non-banking financial company (NBFC) in India, announced the appointment of Anila Rajneesh as its Chief People Officer, effective October 2026.
Ambuja Foundation, an independent, pan-India social development organization in collaboration with Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation (NSF) launched a Security Guard Skill Academy in Chirawa, Rajasthan after successful execution of a guard training initiative since 2021 at its Skill & Entrepreneurship Development Institute in Chirawa.
Judge India Solutions, part of The Judge Group, has completed 10 years in India, marking a decade of growth from a 17-member team in Noida to a 500-member organisation with offices in Bengaluru & Hyderabad supporting a growing portfolio of IT, Learning and Talent solutions.
A year ago, AI discussions with HR focused on pilots. That stage is no more. AI is increasingly embedded in content processes, campaign planning and client reporting in the marketing and creative sectors.
Over the last decade, India’s GCCs stopped being execution centres; they shifted to being centres where global companies handed talent real ownership, decision rights, escalation authority, exposure to complex problems and encouraged cross-border solutioning, years earlier than most of the market was prepared to.
Higher education is going through one of the biggest shifts in its history. Artificial intelligence, automation, and fast-changing job requirements are forcing universities to rethink how they teach, what they teach, and how closely they work with industry.
For a long time, the growth narrative in the insurance industry was entirely about scale. Getting more done meant hiring more hands to process claims, manage data entry, and sort through piles of policy paperwork.
BC Jindal Group, one of India’s leading conglomerates with a turnover of over Rs. 18,000 crore, has announced the appointment of Dr. Amit Khanna as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Jindal (India) Limited, the Group’s steel business.
Turtlemint Fintech Solutions Limited (“Turtlemint”), one of India’s leading technology-enabled insurance and other financial product distribution platforms, announced the appointment of Mrs. Monica Anshul Mishra as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO).
