DATA SCIENCE IS A KEY REQUIREMENT

Srinivas Rao K, Director, Human Resources, SAS India weighs in the new connotations of re-skilling and up-skilling as he lets us in on how the company is steering workforce transformation from acquiring new-age skills, hiring to performance, productivity to retention

- Pratima harigunan

SRINIVAS RAO K

Director, Human Resources, SAS India

Employees need to have detailed understanding of market trends and be more agile Talent transformation to SAS is binding the potential and skills of employees to help them reach their optimum while accomplishing strategic business objectives for the organization. With today’s predominant uncertainty and unpredictability of the business environment, employees need to have a lot more detailed understanding of market trends and be more agile and better disposed to match to these, both at an individual and professional level. This new part requires HR to take on new responsibilities: anticipating critical workforce trends, helping to shape and execute business strategy, identifying and mitigating people-related risks and regulations, enhancing workforce performance and productivity and offering new HR solutions and services to help the company grow. We take important measures in all these areas so that we achieve our goals towards workforce transformation by workforce planning, talent acquisition, talent development and management.

A new skilling mindset keeps both a workforce and a company agile