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How to Hire and Retain the Talent Transformers
09 Jul

How to Hire and Retain the Talent Transformers

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Author: Awkash Agrawal,  Engineering Leader, Product and Platform Engineering at Altimetrik. There is always a Gaussian curve to fit most of the problems. In the world where there is always a need for superior talent, there is always a front line drawn between companies to attract nothing but the best. Though every organization wants the best talent there is always a legacy left behind. This is due to the ageing product, a solution created in the mid-'90s is still in use. This gave rise to a new age sought after talent transformers. These folks are real workhorse who not only…
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07 Jul

Online Beauty and Grooming Training – Survival or a New Normal?

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Author: Neha Suradkar, Founder, Style-n-File Makeup and Nail Studio and Academy. Training and upskilling have always been an essential part of the beauty industry. There is a huge demand for well-trained beauty therapists, makeup artists, nail technicians, spa therapist etc. Also, with new products and procedures introduced frequently, upgrading and upskilling is a must for existing industry people. Covid-19 has affected all businesses in some way or the other. Beauty and Salon industry has taken a big setback along with other industries. But as in most other sectors, learning and training is something that has taken a big leap in the beauty…
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01 Jul

Ecologically Conscious Clothing – 10 Ways to be Fashionable & Environment Friendly

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Author: Yashraj Bhaiya, Director - Label Varsha A popular saying is, “What goes around comes around”. By this logic, it is believed that if we care for nature, nature, in turn, will provide fruitful results for all our hard work. When we speak about ecological fashion; sustainable practices, environment-friendly clothes, and 'social integrity in fashion' top the list. In the past few decades, garments have become disposable items in our closets. The quality of the clothes we buy has decreased drastically. We have lost basic skills when it comes to sewing, stitching and we lack the time to mend damaged…
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Designing Healthcare Apps to Improve Lives
30 Jun

Designing Healthcare Apps to Improve Lives

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Author: Debprotim Roy, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Canvs App design as a trade has various counterparties and reviewers. Often app designers make things to impress each other while all along finding themselves looking to fill the gaping hole left behind by the lack of impactful work. Designers often find themselves pining for work that has a tangible impact on the lives of users. A user coming up to a product designer and telling her how their work simplified their lives is a much more revered accomplishment and compliment than a hundred re-tweets from Design Twitter.  One such impactful domain…
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Vernacular.ai Sets Its Sights to Become a Global Voice-AI Company
29 Jun

Vernacular.ai Sets Its Sights to Become a Global Voice-AI Company

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Vernacular.ai is a startup founded in Bangalore by Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj. With a sight to become a global voice AI company, the innovative AI-first SaaS startup raised $5.1 million in a series A funding round. This Indian startup is all geared up to expand into Southeast Asia and the US, and use the funding towards R&D to further enhance its proprietary AI-based voice automation platform. Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai In an exclusive interview with MediaCatalyst, Sourabh Gupta, Co-founder and CEO, Vernacular.ai dwells on the journey of the AI-first SaaS startup, its innovative products, how it is…
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Indian Crowdfunding Platforms are Taking a Lead in Helping The Nation Fight Pandemic
27 Jun

Indian Crowdfunding Platforms are Taking a Lead in Helping The Nation Fight Pandemic

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Author: Chet Jainn, Founder & CEO - Crowdera. “Crowdfunding” is a fairly newly coined word but in the Indian context, the concept of crowdfunding dates back to ancient times. Since long, it has been a widespread practice in Indian society to raise funds (and generously contribute) towards cultural, religious, and spiritual causes. Many places of worship have been built, numerous orphanages are run, various charitable projects are brought to fruition - all through collective funds raised from and contributed by the society. For raising such funds from the community, the more familiar term has been – Chanda in Hindi or patronage/donation in…
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25 Jun

Skills that Designers Need to Thrive on

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Author: Debprotim Roy, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Canvs Each New Year talks about newer trends in design and engineering, some stick while some pass. 2020, however, given it’s the start of a new decade was assumed year of importance and makes us aware of how far we have come from where we were 10 years ago. Mobile computing has changed the landscape as we have seen. Artificial intelligence has come into mainstream consciousness, user experience is not a spend you park for post MVP releases anymore. Designers have a seat at the table. Having a seat at the…
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Providing Sustainable Livelihood and Helping Existing Partnership will be Our Focus Says SBI General Insurance Deputy CEO
24 Jun

Providing Sustainable Livelihood and Helping Existing Partnership will be Our Focus Says SBI General Insurance Deputy CEO

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Prakash Chandra KandpalDeputy CEO - SBI General Insurance Prakash Chandra Kandpal, Deputy CEO – SBI General Insurance Company speaks to MediaCatalyst on the CSR journey of SBI General Insurance Company, how sustainable livelihood is here to stay, implementing CSR initiatives and its future strategies. Excerpts: COVID-19 is wreaking havoc across industries. SBIG formally set up its CSR programme with a focused strategy only in 2008.  How is the CSR wing coping up with this situation? We have been contributing to various causes since our inception. In 2018, we formally launched our CSR program with a focused strategy. The 5 key areas that we have been focusing…
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Innovation in HRTech Space will change HRMS
23 Jun

Innovation in HRTech Space will change HRMS

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Author: Prasad Rajappan, Founder and CEO - zingHR During the times of crisis and unprecedented events like the #CoronaVirus Pandemic, entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders should look at primarily two things : Welfare & Empathy For Their Human CapitalBusiness Continuity and Productivity  HRTech plays a vital role in addressing the above in a very ideal fashion and it is bound to contribute in a big chunk. Add innovation to HRTech and things just get streamlined and the business is up and running along with building pipelines for productivity. This not only saves time but can create a lot of positive outlook…
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The New Normal in Dentistry – An Indian Perspective
23 Jun

The New Normal in Dentistry – An Indian Perspective

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Author: Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Dr Vimal Arora, Chief Clinical Officer, Clove Dental Michael Ryan, the Emergencies doctor at the World Health Organization, has warned that the “new Coronavirus may never go away, and the populations have to learn to live with it”. This will be ‘one long, long way to Normal." The countries will have to stay on course for prevention.  There is no doubt that the ‘return to normal’ is being eagerly anticipated by populations, however, that may never happen in its true sense. We have to understand the ‘New Normal’, which will be the normal now onwards. And the dental…
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