{"id":1019,"date":"2024-12-16T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2025-01-04T06:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T06:11:49","slug":"1019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullseye.ac\/blog\/case-study\/1019\/","title":{"rendered":"PlugHR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">I attended a session by Prashant Bhaskar, who runs a company called PlugHR at The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) for short. Here is an excerpt from the invite \u2013<\/span><\/p> <p style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><\/p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.5pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">Prashant Bhaskar started the plugHR idea after market research suggested that it won&#8217;t take off.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.5pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">&#8220;<strong>entrepreneurs want challenges<\/strong>, it couldn&#8217;t be more challenging than that&#8221;, he says. &#8220;After I spoke to senior HR professionals in industry who said HR was too close a subject to be outsourced, I decided to meet a few CEOs. This is where I got my springboard, all CEO that I met liked the idea without exception, few were ready to even sign up at very early stage, I decided to go by my gut&#8221;, adds Prashant.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:13.5pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\ncolor:black\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:\n10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">A few observations and questions for you to think on based on those observations:<\/span> <p style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><\/p><p style=\"margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;\nmargin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:\nlist 36.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black\">1.<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">New team members join PlugHR only if they agree to a salary cut. What do you think would be his philosophy for this?<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;\nmargin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:\nlist 36.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black\">2.<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">Prashant started his career in <st1:city w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Chandigarh<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> with Hutchison Max selling pagers, after his MBA at SIBM he moved on to BPL Mobile and then was with jobsahead.com, which got sold to Monster.com. He then started a venture trying to get internships for students, which he gave up after a few months. PlugHR was started subsequently. He claims that his entire career has been spent in start-ups. How would you define a startup?<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;\nmargin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:\nlist 36.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black\">3.<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">Ajay Nagre, the ex director of IMDR, also was attending the session. He had an interesting take on HR practices in companies. He looked at roles in the HR department, and defined the performance management role as Brahminical and the recruitment role as Shudra-like. Why did he define these roles this way?<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;\nmargin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:\nlist 36.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:Arial;color:black\">4.<span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size:10.0pt;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black\">One of the participants asked Prashant, \u2018I get disappointed in interviews nowadays, most of the resumes that I receive look so great, the candidates are not even a fraction of what they claim they are. 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