Just came back from a meeting with one of our prolific members Rajat Joshi. He had come to Delhi with some official work and was kind enough to take out some time to meet with me. We had a nice long chat while I gulped in two cups of coffee and he nibbled on his sandwich lunch accompanied with an ice tea. It was a pleasure to talk about how much he enjoyed the website, possible future expansion ideas and some of our other prolific and popular and adventurous members :icon1:
We kept throwing ideas at each other and heres a brief synopsis of our discussion:
1. Possibility of starting up offline HR meets initially city wise with one of the senior members as the head organizer. Rajat is willing to start this for Mumbai so we may just start with that. The first meet would probably just be a casual lunch meet with introduction sessions and some games basically to let the members get to know each other better.
2. Possibility of having an assignment based section on the website where senior reputed members will be able to post assignments which can be taken up by management students. The assignments will be small research or survey tasks the students will complete the assignment that will then be approved as complete by the senior member. Once the assignment is complete the assignment will be posted on a separate section and a online certificate will be issued to the student which will be an addition to his/her resume. The certificate will have a link to the original assignment page on the CiteHR website along which can be checked by future employers of the students a reference email will also be provided by the senior member in case the employer wants to get some feedback about the student.
3. An Annual CiteHR Mega meet which will feature talks from some of our senior members on topics of their choice [any subject they have studied and discussed passionately], company stalls from various HR related product companies, online and offline sponsors of the meet who will be allowed time to give a short presentation to all the participating members.
4. The long awaited CiteHR T-Shirts sales of these T-Shirts will contribute to the annual CiteHR Mega Meet.
5. The controversial rating system and a possible inclusion of a minimum post length system to avoid single line posts or improvement on the points system so that short posts do not gain the same number of points as long informative posts.
6. Improving the recent articles section to NOT include HumouR or Day Life section so that the website is more professional and focused. However, the HumouR and other such sections will be available in the Active Posts section.
I would love to get more feedback on these topics and would like everyone to participate in a survey that I will be conducting in a few days to list the number of members in each city [for the HR meet]
We kept throwing ideas at each other and heres a brief synopsis of our discussion:
1. Possibility of starting up offline HR meets initially city wise with one of the senior members as the head organizer. Rajat is willing to start this for Mumbai so we may just start with that. The first meet would probably just be a casual lunch meet with introduction sessions and some games basically to let the members get to know each other better.
2. Possibility of having an assignment based section on the website where senior reputed members will be able to post assignments which can be taken up by management students. The assignments will be small research or survey tasks the students will complete the assignment that will then be approved as complete by the senior member. Once the assignment is complete the assignment will be posted on a separate section and a online certificate will be issued to the student which will be an addition to his/her resume. The certificate will have a link to the original assignment page on the CiteHR website along which can be checked by future employers of the students a reference email will also be provided by the senior member in case the employer wants to get some feedback about the student.
3. An Annual CiteHR Mega meet which will feature talks from some of our senior members on topics of their choice [any subject they have studied and discussed passionately], company stalls from various HR related product companies, online and offline sponsors of the meet who will be allowed time to give a short presentation to all the participating members.
4. The long awaited CiteHR T-Shirts sales of these T-Shirts will contribute to the annual CiteHR Mega Meet.
5. The controversial rating system and a possible inclusion of a minimum post length system to avoid single line posts or improvement on the points system so that short posts do not gain the same number of points as long informative posts.
6. Improving the recent articles section to NOT include HumouR or Day Life section so that the website is more professional and focused. However, the HumouR and other such sections will be available in the Active Posts section.
I would love to get more feedback on these topics and would like everyone to participate in a survey that I will be conducting in a few days to list the number of members in each city [for the HR meet]