How Unlearning and Relearning shaped my career | Srinivas Prabhu Sangam | TEDxIITHyderabad

Some crucial steps for sailing a successful career ship are: making the right choices, adapting to varied circumstances, and learning to live in a new environment, while moving ahead of the old one. Some accidents and coincidences may even lead the ship to a new dimension. As change is constant throughout life, we need to unlearn what has been learnt and relearn the relevant. In this video, the speaker Srinivas Prabhu Sangam has been working in the HR industry for the past 18 years, shares his career journey and its various aspects. How did a person working as a UNIX operator end up working in a different sector - HR for almost two decades on accident, not just one but twice? What does it take to set up a good people practice? Which qualities lead one to a successful career? How has HR practices changed in all these years, and where does its future lie? Join us to know. Srinivas is the Head of HR for Netcracker, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC. He leads all the HR functions for an employee base of over 3500 and growing. In the past, he worked with Corporations like Hewlett Packard, Thomson Reuters, and Polycom, with specific expertise in aligning business strategy with HR interventions, initiatives, and programs. He holds a Master's degree from Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France, with a specific focus on International Business. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx