New Delhi : SHRM India, the world’s largest HR professional society is organising a virtual event- ‘ELEVATE’, powered by Indeed on 29th & 30th September 2021. Focused on providing career opportunities in the healthcare and health-tech space, the initiative plans to register 10,000 aspiring healthcare job seekers and 20 companies with access to job positions across roles and levels at some of India’s leading healthcare and health-tech companies across the two days. Leading CEOs, CTOs, career coaches, and resume experts will share insights to how to build a successful career in these sector. Job seekers will also get a chance to apply for exciting roles with some of the top healthcare and health-tech companies that are actively hiring during the event.

Ms. Achal Khanna, CEO, SHRM India and Business Head- APAC & MENA, said, “Due to the pandemic-led disruption, the healthcare sector in the world is witnessing phenomenal growth, paving the way for huge career opportunities in this sector. The job opportunities is not confined only to just healthcare professionals, but are opened for the technical roles, consultative sales and ecommerce roles, especially with the advent of health-tech. We are happy to partner with Indeed and organise this event where the job seekers will gain perspectives on the opportunities and mantras to build a successful career in healthcare & health-tech industry”.

Commenting on the initiative, Sashi Kumar, Head of Sales, Indeed, said, “Jobs under healthcare and health-tech have seen a significant increase on Indeed since the start of the pandemic. Top roles being searched for in the space are ‘physician’, ‘nurse’, ‘pharmacist’, ‘lab technician’ and ‘coding specialist’ all of whom have played a critical role since the onset of the pandemic in the healthcare industry. Elevate seeks to connect job seekers with reputed companies in India, so that the right talent in the industry meets the right employers on one platform.”

Some of the Key speakers of the event are, Kiran Majumdar-Shaw – Executive chairperson, Biocon and  Biologics; Rajit Mehta, Managing Director, MAX India Ltd;, Rajorshi Ganguli, President and global HR Head Alkem Laboratories; Auranjitha Kumar, Human resource professional and author; Dr Yogesh K. Potdar, Director- Renal solutions R&D-Baxter Healthcare India; Aparna Pathak, Global head of diversity and inclusion, customer and technology solutions, Novartis; Navanit Samaiyar, Head, Future skills growth & learner success, NASSCOM; Amit Mohan, Chief operating officer  – LCS, LCS digital & inside sales(South Asia). GE Healthcare; Prashant Tandon, Co- founder and chief executive officer, 1MG; Ravi Kumar, Namrata Gill– Tyagi, VP-HR, Dr Reddy’s:  Rajiv Sikka, CEO- Medanta, Mandira Bedi, Television Presenter, Author, Actress, Fashion designer; Chetan Bhagat, Author, columnist

Building a successful career in healthcare; Make an Impact; The art of cracking the Virtual Interview; Why Healthcare is an Attractive Career Destination : An Outside to Insider Perspective; HealthTech, Digital & Virtual: New and Unchartered avenues for tech job-seekers, are few of the sessions of the event.