Shailja Dutt, Founder of Stellar Search
Today on our podcast, we have solved the mystery for you, how do executive search firms find the candidates? We have with us, Shailja Dutt, Founder of Stellar Search who tells us how to get attention from a search firm.
Podcast
Overview
Today on our show, we have with us the Founder of Stellar Search, Shailja Dutt in conversation with our host Ashutosh Garg. Shailja talks to us about the scope of work done by her search firm, she tells us that her firm now has a presence in all of southeast Asia, India, and Africa. She tells us about how candidates get picked up by the search firms and what one can do to get attention from the search firms. She tells us how headhunting has involved and become search firms.
Shailja shares a few ways in which one can increase one’s presence online and create a good brand for oneself. She then shares how the gender balance can be improved in the workplace. Tune in to find more!
Profile
Shailja Dutt, 50
Chairperson & Founder – Stellar Search
Chaiperson – Stellar Search Foundation
Deeply Involved and Unconventional Shailja today stands tall at the acme of the talent acquisition industry across emerging markets in Asia and Africa, having built Stellar as one of the most well-recognized names in 25 countries across four continents. The business is reflective of her own values, relentless passion, unimpeachable integrity & empathy. The processes and systems of a big corporate and the soul of a startup, is what makes Stellar one of the most unconventional firms in the space of talent management. Shailja – the entrepreneur Shailja has been the principal architect of Stellar’s growth over the last 20 years, a journey on which she has led her firm to different markets across all corners of the globe. As Founder and Chairperson of one of India’s most respected leadership advisory firms, she has played a pivotal role in shaping the growth trajectories of a large number of organizations in corporate India, ranging from multi-business diversified conglomerates to new age startup ventures. Her advice and counsel on business transformation strategy, senior leadership/ board level appointments, and organizational design and restructuring, are much sought after by leading Indian business houses and large global MNCs alike. As one of the few successful female entrepreneurs in the executive search industry in India, Shailja has been a strong advocate for advancing gender/ minority diversity in corporate boardrooms and has contributed significantly to the ongoing dialog about the positive role diversity in corporate leadership can play in creating a better future for society, especially in the South Asian context.Shailja is widely recognized as an industry thought-leader and subject matter expert and is an active member of various leading industry bodies. She has served on the India board of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), a global, peer-to-peer network of more than 10,000 influential business owners with 147 chapters in 48 countries. Shailja has also served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Executive Recruiters Association (ERA). She is also a regular speaker at industry forums like NHRD (National HRD Network), CII and Rotary Club of India. Shailja’s passion for entrepreneurship comes across in her accessibility to aspiring entrepreneurs, who routinely seek her mentoring for helping them build successful businesses. With a large following on LinkedIn, she is regarded as one of the most influential voices in the sphere of career development and professional growth in India. Over a career spanning nearly two decades, Shailja has built a rock solid reputation for her unending passion, absolute integrity, high energy and unwavering commitment to her work and the industry as a whole. She firmly believes that good leadership is about inspiration and respect and it has been her constant endeavor to build an inspired organization where being better and doing better every day is deeply entrenched in the company’s ethos and core values.
