The hiring expectations of multi-national corporations across major Asian markets continue to rise, according to a just-released quarterly study by Hudson.

While the Asia Pacific and China in particular is bucking the gloomy job market worldwide, resourcing solutions provider, Alexander Mann Solutions, believes a talent gap is on the horizon. It is expanding in the region to help businesses beat the expertise bottleneck.

One of the foremost tasks of any successful business is developing the organizations human capital. The Tata Group, probably one of the most successful companies in India share its experience and challenges in attracting, developing and retaining the best talents.

A growing worldwide concern is skills shortage, particularly around technical areas. Row Henson, HCM Fellow at Oracle, believes this needs to be addressed now. She also discusses the impact of social networking in the enterprise, and how organizations need to react to this technology particularly as the new generation of web-savvy employees join the workforce.

According to Row Henson, human capital management Fellow at Oracle, HCM remains a nascent area of business practice. She shares her view around the evolution of human capital management with its roots around human resources and how people assets within an organization are harnessed to achieve the best value for the business.