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“ watch videos or movies on Netflix or to change – this is our time to shine –
this is our time to lead – this is our time
Prime. So, if we work hard in our youth,
a balanced lifestyle is possible.
to deliver. We must look to the post
I firmly believe that
students should focus on Advise you can give the youth Covid-19 future with optimism.
their career and in getting and millennials? Do you think we should change
our HR Management practices?
the education they need “Follow your passion”, as suggested
in the early stages so that by Steve Jobs. Students should follow HRs real job is to hire, develop,
later, when they have a their passion. If they have not found it, promote the best people, and move
family, they can have a then they need to keep looking for it problem cases out of the door. Also,
create effective mechanisms to reward
until they find what they enjoy doing. I
decent work-life balance. recommend finding mentors who can and recognize the right people in the
guide them and support them to move business and prepare the organisation
laterally and also to move up. to face future challenges. But still, most
What is your advice for students HR departments plan picnics, put out
to have a work-life balance? What has been the impact of the in-house newsletter, and generally
Covid-19 on Organizations? drive everyone crazy by enforcing rules
Work-life balance is about giving enough and regulations that appear to have
attention to both work and other parts The Covid-19 pandemic has in the no purpose other than to increase
of life without being too interested in last few months tested us to the core bureaucracy.

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The Port City will
catalyze our next
growth phase to create a
knowledge-based highly
competitive economy at
the center of the Indian
Ocean.

With the establishment of the
Port City Project, we are going
to need a large number of
professionals?
The Port City will catalyze

our next growth phase to
create a knowledge-based
highly competitive economy
at the centre of the Indian
either one. I firmly believe that students and will continue to stretch us into Ocean. It will become a
should focus on their career and in the foreseeable future. Many leaders dynamic hub that would
getting the education they need in the held the organization and their people
early stages so that later, when they together and served their customers create opportunities to
have a family, they can have a decent well. Let’s take to heart what Albert attract the best regional
work-life balance. I play tennis after a Einstein said, “In the midst of every
typical day at work, read books, and crisis lies opportunity”. This is our time talent.

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