META's new India head, Sandhya Devanathan will transition into her new role on 1 January 2023.
Sandhya Devanathan, who has been appointed as Meta's India head after Ajit Mohan resigned from the position, talks about career skills that are important for success in the workplace in a March 2020 blog post for Meta Careers .
Devanathan will transition to her new role on January 1, 2023. Currently, she is serving as the Head of Gaming Vertical of Meta for Asia-Pacific. Devanathan has spent nearly seven years with Meta, after joining the Facebook parent company in 2016.
In a March 2020 blog post, she wrote, "For soft skills, the ability to deal with ambiguity is important. If you're looking for a playbook or clear roadmap, this ain't going to happen. You have to have a certain level of independence and the ability to adjust quickly to change."
According to Meta's new India head, the second career skill required is 'collaboration and communication'. He said this skill is important at a time when many companies are moving to full-time remote work, or giving employees the option of returning to the office or working from home, or adopting a hybrid approach.
"Communication and collaboration are important when you don't have the opportunity to meet regularly in person," she said.
The third important soft skill is 'resilience', writes Devanathan in his blog post, "You can deal with people who move more slowly than you or pause your work to focus on your own challenges and priorities." need to stop."
“Even if you have broad awareness, there can be sudden industry collapse or entire economy can collapse. You live in Asia markets which are vibrant but also somewhat volatile, so flexibility It's so important to be there," she continued.
Apart from soft skills, Devanathan also mentioned about hard skills which are necessary to achieve success in career. According to him, having a 'deep analytical mindset' and 'planning ability and execution rigor' are important even for non-technical roles.
He also gave an example of the hard skills mentioned above.
“For example, beyond current work and the next marketing campaign, we need to think about data-driven advice to expand into markets. We need to consider things like cross-border insights, roll-out strategies and advice on digital transformation. is needed," said the India head of META.
“We look for people who are able to set a strong strategy, but setting a strategy is useless if you can't break it down into what needs to be done today and what needs to be done in the longer term. must be matched equally by planning and execution," he said.
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