Educomp Solutions Ltd, founded in 1994, is a globally diversified education solutions provider and the largest education company in India. The group reaches out to over 26,000 schools and 15 million learners and educators across the world. Our vision is to apply innovative solutions to solve critical problems relating to ?quality of education? and ?access to education? for all. Educomp has about 14,500 employees across in India. Our values are entrepreneurship, innovation & creativity, financial prudence, leadership, and quality & excellence.
We look for people who have the conviction of knowledge, courage to experiment and can learn and develop competence, can collaborate for team performance and can communicate and institutionalise. Thus, conviction, courage, competence, collaboration and communication become extremely critical. Further, we look for learnability in freshers and in young job aspirants with 2-3 years of experience. We look for people who have a great eye for detail and can comprehend the business objectives well. When we hire freshers, we expect them to have done challenging assignments in their projects during their internship. This helps us understand the passion and commitment of the candidate.
We look for skills in problem solving, analytical ability, project management, work without supervision and accountability. Further, we expect our employees to have effective interpersonal skills, cohesive team-playing ability, articulate and effective communication, and influencing presentation skills. We look for people who have the ability to adapt and work with people from diverse cultures.
Talking about our culture, we need our employees to be entrepreneurial in their approach. The hallmarks of entrepreneurial thinking are to spot opportunities, speedy execution and no bureaucracy. It is all about taking responsibility and being accountable for actions. It is also about a ?can do? attitude.
Our business is about creating IP and so we look for innovation and creativity. It means doing things better and in newer ways. It is manifested in small decisions. A creative employee looks beyond the box, comes up with new ideas and is not afraid to experiment. She understands that the company?s future and her future depend on this.
We espouse middle class values of high ambition and simple living to become prudent in managing day-to-day activities. We try not to waste resources and are always looking at creative ways to save. We will go to great lengths to save the precious financial and non-financial resources of the company. Hence, our policies and processes are cost-sensitive and at the same time, realistic. For example, our travel and hotel stay policy will not allow us to spend on expensive hotels and taxis. Business-related expenses like telephone, as far as possible, are factored as part of cost-to-company, so as to ensure the employee rationalises the cost from her end, as an entrepreneur would do.
We expect our leaders to walk the talk with organisation?s goal being the largest. We want them to inspire their teams. As our products are delivered by people and the quality of the product depends on qualitative delivery, it is important that our people ensure excellence in delivery. Thus, we look for leaders who are people managers. We would expect our leaders to be good team players. We encourage our people to experiment, even though they may fail, as part of our innovation drive. But we expect them not to fail the second time. Finally, we look for people who can be part of our Educomp family who have the liberty to differ in views but collaborate to achieve the common objectives of the organisation.
The author is president, Group HR & People Solution Group, Educomp Solutions Ltd