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Rajita D’Souza
President|Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility|STMicroelectronics
ST Believes in Strong Culture of Innovation, Collaboration & Diversity & Inclusion for Gender Equality
What are the key HR skills, strategies needed to lead as an HR in a leading semiconductor company like STMicroelectronics? Niloy from BIS in an exclusive-extensive interview with Rajita D’Souza, President, Human Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility, STMicroelectronics pans around the skill-sets of talent acquisition, tabling her hefty experience in this new window of opportunities, being women in tech and programs to abridge the talent-gap. Most importantly the veteran also highlights her plans in this post-pandemic world where working culture has dynamically changed and how she is keeping the balance and shaping ST in this new normal. Much more in this edited nub below.
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. Rajita D’Souza, now you will be leading ST’s global HR organization, tell us about your journey till now and how you strategize to drive ST’s programs in coming years? I joined ST in Jan 2021 and am still learning about the organization. Fundamentally, I believe that the HR & people strategy must align with the business strategy. The approach I will follow will be to work closely with my colleagues to understand and get
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to know our expectations for the next 3-5 years, understand what we want to do and what capabilities, processes, and investments we need to focus on in talent development. Based on that, we will build programs and create opportunities to develop our people, close gaps of capabilities, and teach and coach our people on the technologies in this new digital world that we need to embrace. We also need to recruit
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