GroupM HR Team sweeps the 6th Regional Employer Branding Awards

GroupM, the leading media planning and investment agency of the country, bagged top honors at the recently concludedWestern Regional Round of the Employer Branding Awards on 17th December, 2011 at the Indira Group of Institutes. GroupM's Team Talent walked away with a total of five awards making them the frontrunners for the finals in February 2012. The year 2011 has proven to be a great year for GroupM in terms of the highly commended accolades and prestigious awards won by the media agency.

The Employer Branding Institute is an organization that recognizes 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 17th December 2011 where GroupM swept the Employer Branding Awards by winning five of the 10 awards that were up for grabs in the Organisational Category!

Commenting on the award wins, Gaurav Hirey, Human Resource Head, GroupM - South Asia, said, "The consistency at which we have been winning talent awards clearly reflects GroupM's commitment to our people and we are closer to our objective of being not just the best place to work but the place where the best work!"

More than 1000 renowned companies participate in these awards across India, with over 200 from the Western Region. GroupM stood tall wining the highest number.

GroupM won the following five awards at the Employer Branding Awards:

1. The Award for Talent Management

3. The Award for Innovation Retention Strategy

5. The Award for Innovation in Career Development

GroupM has always believed that people are its key assets and value creation for the company depends primarily on their professional and personal wellbeing. The Talent Team at GroupM is lead by Gaurav Hirey and over the last two years this team has made talent within GroupM the unfair advantage at the market place. Not only do they have the best of the talent working with them, but they also place a huge emphasis on an extremely intensive talent management program to engage and grow their talent internally. The company has built a unique work environment that brings together talent from multiple backgrounds and skills sets to work together and feel a sense of belonging to the team. The success of this can be judged from the low level of attrition that the company has been able to maintain.

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