GroupM dominates at the 5th Regional Employer Branding Awards

When the business is about people and people matter there seems to be no better place to be than GroupM specially when you are a media planning and buying professional! This was clearly reflected in the recently concluded regional rounds of the 5th Employer Branding Awards last Saturday 18th December 2010 in Pune!

The Employer Branding Institute is an organisation that recognises best practices in HR Employer Branding and Outstanding Talent Professionals who are contributing to Talent Development, Talent Management and Talent Innovations. Every year there is a Top Employer Brand list that is released and in the run up to the World HRD congress there are regional rounds that are held in every metro city before finally getting on to the National Round in Mumbai. The Regional Round for West was held at the Indira Institute of Business on 18th December 2010 where GroupM and its agencies swept the Employer Branding Awards by winning eight out of the ten awards that were up for grabs in the Organisational Category!

They won this awards backed by several powerful people initiatives that have been implemented by the talent team under the visionary leadership of Vikram Sakhuja CEO - GroupM - South Asia and their Talent Head Gaurav Hirey . GroupM won :-

1.Award for Talent Management

3.Award for Excellence in HR through Technology

5.Award for Innovation in Recruitment

7.Award for Innovation in Career Development

As always the most influential media planning and investment group of the country is redefining the rules of the market place by making talent the game changer. Clearly GroupM focus on people is showing in their business growth and also it is a shining example of how a large organization can deliver effectively to clients by making people their focus! Congratulations to the talent team @ GroupM for all that they have managed to achieve in such a short span of time.