NERRJA NATH: My name is Neerja Nath. I’m a vice president at BlackRock. My job is to bring and the brightest and the best talent into BlackRock.
I think BlackRock is like a pearl inside a seashell, I would say. If you go by the beachside you would find a lot of seashells, and there are a few that you get a pearl in. And BlackRock is one such pearl in this ocean of companies that any candidate in India can work for. Not just because of the brand BlackRock, but also because of the work that we do. The very, very cutting edge technology work that people will get to do, and therefore in my job I would get to hire.
I know some of my competitors wouldn’t be doing that for the next 10 years. So it helps me be ahead in my game. It helps me to innovate in my game, because I’m probably already doing the best that any company can do for. So it’s not that I’m looking at some other company and following their footsteps, I’m really creating my own footprints as I go along. And that’s a tremendous experience to have. That’s a tremendous learning to have. And that helps me get better at what I do.
And I think that is what makes me proud, because like they say, you can always be the number one, but what do you chase? Do you chase success, or do you chase excellence? I think BlackRock is that firm that chases excellence and believes that success will come automatically.