How Can Organizations Promote Inclusion to Ensure That High Potential Diverse Talent Brings Engagement to Work?

[Excerpt] This report explores strategies for organizations to build an enterprise-wide culture of inclusion, and specifically, support inclusion among diverse senior leaders

What Will Recruitment Look Like in Five Years and What Will Be Different From Today?

[Excerpt] Across most companies today, recruitment continues to follow the traditional model – hiring managers present lists of desired qualifications and responsibilities through job descriptions, applicants submit chronological summaries of their work experience, and recruiters review applications through the applicant tracking system to identify relevant skills and experience. In the next five to ten years, this model of recruitment will transform significantly. There are many reasons for this. First, careers today are more lattice-like, and less linear. Individuals’ career paths are characterized by shorter tenures, stretch assignments, entrepreneurial endeavors, time off work to spend with family, and gig work. The recruitment process should change to account for these “jagged resumes”. Second, as automation, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) take over manual, repetitive tasks, the work left to be performed by humans will be more creative and strategic, less predictable, and more consequential to the business overall. The stakes of making the right hire will increase, and recruiting will become a defining differentiator. Already, demand for recruiting professionals is up 63% since 2016. Lastly, as companies prepare for the future of work, recruitment practices will need to change to match new trends and challenges. For example, 50% of millennials are already freelancing, and this number is expected to rise significantly. 43% of college Gen Z’s are eyeing an entrepreneurial future over traditional workplaces. Given these broad trends, the future of recruitment will be marked by changes in three domains – recruitment technology, skills that companies recruit for, and the competencies of recruitment teams in the future

Non-universality of commonly used correlation-energy density functionals

The correlation energies of the helium isoelectronic sequence and of Hooke's atom isoelectronic sequence have been evaluated using an assortment of local, gradient and meta-gradient density functionals. The results are compared with the exact correlation energies, showing that while several of the more recent density functionals reproduce the exact correlation energies of the helium isoelectronic sequence rather closely, none is satisfactory for Hooke's atom isoelectronic sequence. It is argued that the uniformly acceptable results for the helium sequence can be explained through simple scaling arguments that do not hold for Hooke's atom sequence, so that the latter system provides a more sensitive testing ground for approximate density functionals. This state of affairs calls for further effort towards formulating correlation-energy density functionals that would be truly universal at least for spherically-symmetric two-fermion systems.Comment: To appear in J. Chem. Phy

Fault Modeling and Defect Analysis on Digital Microfluidics Based Biochips

An emerging technology Digital Microfluidics Biochips, an integrating concept of electronics and biology is anticipated to play an important role in the area of medical diagnostics, drug discovery, DNA sequencing, toxicity supervising and other bio-chemical applications. This bio-microelectromechanical system is supposed to have defects if it fails to accomplish the specified assignment dedicated to it. This paper focuses on different possible cases responsible for the misbehavior of the bio-MEMS

Is the Value Added Tax Reform in India Poverty-Improving? An Analysis of Data from Two Major States

The Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced in India in place of Sales Tax, taking effect in April 1, 2005. These taxes are in the domain of different state governments within the country's federal set up. Although VAT is widely acclaimed to be a better system than the sales tax on grounds of efficiency in tax collection, no study has been undertaken to assess the impact of this reform measure on social equity. This paper addresses this need with the use of concentration curves and consumption dominance curves of various orders. The simulations were done on two major states in India, namely Maharashtra and West Bengal, using National Sample Survey Unit Level data for the 55th round. The results show that the reform is largely pro-poor, although there are ways to improve it with respect to some items predominantly consumed by the relatively poorer groups.Value added tax, Marginal tax reform, public distribution system, concentration curve, Lorenz curve, marginal efficiency cost of funds, consumption dominance

Disability, Myth and History in Midnight’s Children and Shiva Trilogy: A Comparative Study

Disability, Myth and History are concepts fraught with ambivalence and contestations. Still, they are important modes of cultural perception and ‘re-presentation’. While as an academic discipline Disability Studies is quite new, the use of myth and history in Indian novels in English is quite old. This paper wants to bring out the presentation and interrelation of these concepts in two sets of disparate novels, one, “Midnight’s Children”, the watershed novel in Indian writing in English and the other, “Shiva Trilogy”, the hugely popular novels of Amish Tripathi. My textual analyses concentrate on the ways in which differently-abled characters are rendered ‘abnormal’ in their involvement with religion, nation and culture and how myth and history are manipulated by these postcolonial writers to present a different view of reality. This enables us to make ‘situated readings’ of how disability, myth and history may be experienced in particular settings and contexts. This also makes us capable of making a cross-cultural analysis that brings to the fore the aspects of ‘re-presentation’, management and construction of the concepts of disability, myth and history for certain purposes. Within this context, the scope of my study is broadly comparative. It shows that though these two writers are completely different in their style, mode and narrative techniques, they are bound by their common concern with the ‘politics of re-presentation’ and the post-colonial revisioning of reality through the interrelated concepts of disability, myth and history

When is Psychometric Assessment a Reliable Tool for Candidate Selection?

[Excerpt] This paper will explore the effectiveness of psychometric tests (based on academic research), present some best practices, and discuss legal risks associated with the use of such assessments

ONE-TIME CREDIT SHARING WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS THROUGH CREDIT CARDS

The present disclosure discloses a system and method for one-time credit sharing with family members and friends. The one-time credit sharing method includes receiving a credit sharing request from the first user device. The system includes notifying a second user device about the credit sharing request. The second user may approve/reject the credit sharing request of the first user. Once the second user approves the credit sharing request, the available credit limit of the first user is increased by an amount the credit sharing request was for