Know Yourself and Your Strengths
May 28, 2012
Jamal Nasir, SEVP, Group Head HR, United Bank Limited visited Lahore School of Economics and gave a talk about Talent Management at UBL as a part of Distinguished Professional Lecturer series.
Jamal Nasir started with his personal experiences and narrated how the little voice inside him drove him to switch from engineering to HR, as he had a good experience with this field. He briefed students about the talent management process of UBL. He also gave a presentation on talent identification and classification, and how the bank prefers that “outcome is more important than the tag,” – the tag being the classifications in the bank, which owes to the performance driven culture at UBL. He maintained that the learning and development process has been able to help employees perform better at the bank.
Jamal later talked about the Management Trainee Program and the Retail Banking Officers training program. On the side note, the Group Head mentioned a trend of many students wanting to join Corporate Banking. He further threw light on the fact that in these days, Retail Banking is where banks needed more people.
With a vast experience in HR and with a prolific career, Jamal advised students to always reflect on themselves. “Know yourself and your strengths” was an important aspect of reflecting. In doing so a person would be able to find out what kinds of roles they can play. He asked the students to never stop learning and to keep a positive attitude. For their careers, he mentioned that the students should always volunteer and get noticed, build networks and do not jump around from job to job in short bursts.
The session was followed by an interactive questions and answers session.
Labels: Guest Speaker
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 5/28/2012 01:45:00 PM,
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