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Neeti Kumar 5+ years of Industry Experience

Currently Working As HR Business Partner, Xceedance*

Summary

Neeti is a very passionate HR professional with 7 years of work experience. She has worked across different HR areas as a consultant with Mercer and in the Total Rewards APAC team with Baxter. She is currently leading the people initiatives for Technology Business Unit at Xceedance.

She is graduate from NSIT Delhi, she has also worked as an Engineer at Computer Sciences Corporation. Neeti is a Gold Medalist from XLRI Jamshedpur.

She loves reading, writing, travelling, playing Badminton and spending time with her family. She works as a freelancer with People Matters and She is a NLP practitioner.

Neeti’s Career Track Towards HR Business Partner

Understanding of an HR Business Partner role in an ITes Company

Neeti As a HR Business Partner

Key Responsibilities

  • To drive people development and welfare initiatives for Technology Business Unit at Xceedance.
  • To drive the business agenda by identifying and working on the priority areas related to people.
  • To collaborate with the HR COEs to develop effective HR programs.
  • To make the contribution of HR more tangible to business.

Typical Day of Neeti as a HR Business Partner

  1. Planning the key priorities for the day. Ofcourse this keeps updating as the day unfolds
  2. Conducting formal and informal meetings with business leaders, HR partners and the people in my organization
  3. Assessing the talent imperatives for my Business Unit.
  4. Driving people initiatives, resolving people issues and organizing fun activities
  5. Keeping a tab of the latest trends, best people practices in the industry

Most Challenging Aspects Of The Job

  1. Getting the right data and information to base my decisions on.
  2. Doing away with the transactional activities and focusing on people agenda

Essential Requirements & Key Suggestions By Neeti

Required Skills Suggested

  1. Leadership skills
  2. Interpersonal skills Expand >>
  3. Coaching skills.
  4. Communication skills.
  5. Analytical skills.
  6. Conflict management skills Collapse >>

Approach to Acquire Skills

Keep a tab of the latest trends by reading news and articles

Being in the company of great people and mentors

Ongoing learning - Doing important certifications related to your profile

Blogs

  1. People Matters
  2. Centre for Creative Leadership

Articles /Newspaper to Read

  1. Times of India

Books & Videos

  1. The Leadership Pipeline : How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company by Ram Charan,Stephen Drotter &Jim Noel
  2. Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins
  3. The Talent Masters : Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers by Bill Conaty and Ram Charan

Leaders To Follow

  1. Warren Buffett – A businessman with values.
  2. Prabir Jha – Provides great insights on HR practices.
  3. Ester Martinez – Very dynamic person.

Neeti as an Interviewer : HR Business Partner Profile

Is HR Management the right career option for you?

Questions You Need to Ask yourself

Q1. Do you have a passion to serve people?

Q2. Do you like influencing / motivating people?

Q3. Do you like working with people across different levels?

Q4. Are you comfortable with stakeholder management?

Q5. Do you relate to the values of your company and are you ready to live by it?

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*: As of September 2016