For all the super talented women, now restart your career with Genpact

Genpact believes that women employees grow sooner and better and also perform leadership roles better. Toeing on the same lines, Genpact is now offering super talented women, who took mid-career break for different reasons, to re-join the company.

Genpact has rolled out an ambitious plan, ‘Career 2.0’, to attract qualified women who have worked in swanky companies in a bid to fill senior levels.

"There are qualified women who perhaps do not know how to make a career comeback. We are more than happy to leverage their talent. Our approach is that through the use of Genpact policies, we give these women flexibility and full-time roles," Piyush Mehta, who leads Genpact's global HR function, told Economic Times.

To revive career of such women, Genpact will offer flexible, customised workdays and plans to hire 30-50 mid-to-senior-level women in various roles this calendar year.

"Some want to work half-a-day, some can't work late in the evening. We want to offer flexibility to this set of super talented women," Mehta told the financial daily.
ET reported that close to 15 lakh women in India take a mid-career break for some reason or the other, according to estimates.

Mehta added that Genpact also required more women in workforce as it's a business imperative and companies that have women in leadership roles perform better.

“Second, the company believes since women are half the population of the world, it should be the same for companies. Third, the company wants to differentiate itself through Career 2.0 as an employer. We believe we can differentiate ourselves because we have the levers to make it happen," Mehta told ET.

Genpact has 68,000 employees out of which 38% are women. The percentage of women in the top 600 in the company is much lower, at 20%. "This is exactly the challenge we want to deal with. We want to grow Career 2.0 joinees to this level," said Mehta.

Genpact is using social media to reach out to potential hires to ensure it evaluates at least 50% women and doesn't end up interviewing only male candidates for a position.

Besides, the company also ensures that 40% participation of women in leadership development programmes. The 'Genpact operations leadership development' (GOLD) programme focuses on preparing high potential managers for leadership roles and the company leveraged this plan to identify and grow future women leaders for large operating roles.

Meanwhile, the company is also giving its male employees 'unconscious bias' training to make them aware of unconscious biases at the workplace.

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