CORPORATE STALWARTS

What happens when HR meets land, regulation, and business ex*****on?

People decisions become only one part of a much bigger leadership mandate.

We congratulate Sounik Kajal Kumar Dash on his elevation to AGM – HR, Admin & Corporate Affairs at Falcon Group.

With 16+ years of experience, Sounik has built a distinctive techno-functional career spanning strategic HR, corporate affairs, land management, government relations, administration, and business operations.

❀ At Falcon Group, his mandate spans HR, land acquisition, government liaison, regulatory approvals, administration, and corporate communications.

❀ Earlier led Corporate HR at MESCO Steel, covering talent acquisition, employee relations, capability development, HR policies and workforce planning.

❀ Brings an engineering foundation from Jindal Steel & Power, combined with an MBA in International Human Resource Management from Coventry University.

Some leaders specialise in one function. Others build the ability to connect people, business, government, and ex*****on. Sounik's journey reflects the latter.

At Corporate Stalwarts, we partner with organisations globally to identify leaders who bring the experience and judgement to shape what comes next.

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What makes a people leader ready for a CHRO role?

The ability to turn people priorities into business capability.

We congratulate Swati Tyagi on joining Orange Sky Studio as Chief Human Resources Officer.

Swati brings experience across HR leadership, talent management, employee engagement, performance management, and organisational development, with a career spanning diverse business environments.

❀ Brings a strong foundation across talent acquisition, employee relations, and people development.

❀ Has worked across the HR lifecycle, connecting people practices with organisational needs.

❀ Takes on the CHRO mandate at Orange Sky Studio with a broad people-management perspective.

The best HR leaders do more than manage people processes. They build the environment in which people and the business can grow together.

At Corporate Stalwarts, we partner with organisations globally to identify leaders who bring the experience and judgement to shape what comes next.

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Five roles. Five numbers. All of them mean the same thing, the AI talent companies actually need doesn't exist in the volume they expect.

- GenAI deployment sits at an 82.9% shortage.
- AI deployment engineering follows at 72.4%.
- Governance, MLOps, and security aren't far behind.

These aren't rare, niche specialisations. They're the exact roles every AI project needs once it moves past a pilot. Most hiring plans are still chasing generic AI skills, the kind most of India's AI workforce already has.

If your AI project stalled after the pilot stage, one of these five gaps is probably why.

What does 28 years across industries teach an HR leader?

How to build people strategies that work with the business, not apart from it.

We congratulate Dilip Kumar Sinha on his appointment as President & Chief Human Resource Officer at Super Smelters Limited.

With 28+ years across steel, power, mining, manufacturing, and retail, Dilip brings deep experience in people transformation, organisational development, leadership development, and productivity enhancement.

❀ Brings extensive experience in M&A integration and digital HR, alongside broader people transformation.

❀ Has built leadership expertise across steel, power, mining, manufacturing and retail, giving him a broad operating perspective.

❀ Recognised among Asia’s Top 100 Most Talented CHROs, reflecting his contribution to strategic HR leadership.

In industrial businesses, people capability and operational performance are inseparable. The strongest HR leaders understand both.

At Corporate Stalwarts, we partner with organisations globally to identify leaders who bring the experience and judgement to shape what comes next.

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What makes a global HR leader ready for a CHRO mandate?

The ability to connect people, culture, and business through change.

We congratulate Anushree Singh on her appointment as Chief Human Resources Officer at Godrej Agrovet, effective September 7, 2026.

With 20+ years across people strategy, organisational transformation, culture, M&A integration, and leadership development, Anushree brings experience across industries and geographies.

❀ Most recently served as CHRO at JSW Energy, supporting growth and transformation.

❀ Held global and regional HR leadership roles with Avery Dennison and AkzoNobel, spanning talent, organisational effectiveness and global functions.

❀ Earlier built depth across Aditya Birla Group, Aircel, Xerox and Standard Chartered, covering succession, culture and HR strategy.

The strongest CHROs don't simply build people strategies. They build organisations capable of adapting, growing, and performing through change.

At Corporate Stalwarts, we partner with organisations globally to identify leaders who bring the experience and judgement to shape what comes next.

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India has 920,000 AI professionals. Less than 30% of them can actually build or deploy AI systems in production.

That's the gap most hiring teams don't see until their AI search hits month three.

GenAI deployment alone shows an 83% talent shortage right now. Full breakdown in comments.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-920000-professionals-still-arent-enough-corporate-stalwarts-fxlyf/

3 ways to get hired in 2027

Tip: your resume doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be true.

- Skip the AI polish that makes every resume sound the same. Recruiters notice, and it works against you now more than it helps
- Be ready to explain anything on your resume in your own words, in detail. That's what verification actually checks for
- Show real work, not just claims. A project you can walk someone through beats a bullet point every time

In a world where everyone is optimised for AI, honesty is quietly becoming the fastest way to stand out.

Hiring used to slow down because good candidates were hard to find. Now it slows down because good-looking candidates are hard to verify.

- 67% of hiring managers say reviewing AI-generated applications has slowed their hiring process
- 20% report delays of more than two weeks because of it
- 65% say it's gotten harder to verify whether a candidate's skills match what's on paper

Sourcing used to be the hard part. It's shifted to ""Verification"", while 90% of the internal processes are still running a process built for the old problem.

If your last few hires took longer to verify than to source, that's not a slow market. That's a process that needs rebuilding before the next one.