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By Sonica Aron, Founder & Managing Partner, Marching Sheep An agent can generate a sales forecast, identify accounts at risk of being lost and recommend where the sales team should focus. But what if the recommendation differs from the manager’s knowledge of the customer or the data on which it

You hear about them all the time as a young professional: Get educated. Stay relevant. Educate yourself on artificial intelligence (AI). Get a certification. Build a portfolio. Amid all this well-meaning advice, however, is a little question missing: Will the skills I am learning actually improve how I perform my

From declining job offers to counting every rupee by the third week, young professionals are discovering the steep price of building a career Ridhima Gupta, 23, received a job offer from a company in Lower Parel with a monthly salary of Rs 60,000. She declined it after she checked the

Are Degrees Enough for Modern Careers: क्या मौजूदा दौर में करियर बनाने के लिए सिर्फ कॉलेज की डिग्री काफी है? एआई और बदलती टेक्नोलॉजी के दौर में केवल किताबी ज्ञान नाकाफी साबित हो रहा है. भविष्य की चुनौतियों से निपटने के लिए डिग्री से आगे बढ़कर प्रैक्टिकल स्किल्स और अनुभव

By Alok Kohli, cofounder & Director, Marching Sheep The night before the calibration meeting, the CHRO opens a spreadsheet of forty candidates for promotion. An analytics tool has flagged Recommend or Hold in the last column. The meeting is at 9 am tomorrow. There is time to read maybe a

IBM’s AskHR handled more than 16 million employee messages in 2025. The scale is striking, but the company’s account also records a difficult start. After IBM directed employees to the service, its internal Net Promoter Score (NPS) fell to minus 35. IBM refined the system and improved access to human

Tucked below the MBA on many a young professional’s LinkedIn profile today sits a Pilates certification, a nutrition diploma or a weekend course in sound healing. Across Indian cities, people in their twenties and thirties are quietly collecting credentials in fields far from their day jobs, from therapeutic wellness to

When Parul Priya, who comes from an HR and marketing background, began thinking seriously about moving into artificial intelligence, she did not start by learning Python or studying complex machine learning models. Instead, she asked herself one simple question — how could AI be applied to the work she already

For many years, a university degree served as a clear entry point into professional life. A graduate completed an engineering course, entered campus recruitment, and carried that qualification into the early stages of a career. The degree offered employers a familiar way to assess educational background, and a broadly understood

Deloitte’s US settlement over alleged DEI-linked hiring and promotion raises a question: will global companies rethink how they approach diversity across their Indian workforce? Deloitte has agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle a US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into its DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) practices. The DOJ alleged

We have long been fed the idea that our 20s are the time to hit pause on life – to travel, take a risk, or simply make more room for the things that bring joy. But in our 40s or 50s? Especially for women, there are often children, dependants, established

Each year, workplaces invent new jargon. We’ve all heard about quiet quitting, minimum Mondays, coffee badging and rage applying… You may not have heard these terms before but they are indicative of workplace behaviour. This year, it looks like we’ve got a fresh new lexicon. Let’s test your workplace IQ