Challenge : In my new area of work as an HR , I had to address various requests from 10 different   functions and manage them based on criticality to business . I was getting close to 50 - 70 requests a day   and each of these had a thread of information which I had to process . I was struggling in trying to   understand how to get a hang of the full scenario as I was always afraid that I might miss something out .   I was trying to get help from peers but was finding it difficult to articulate my inhibitions / uncertainties ,   which also spread across process , people , systems etc . 

 Selection : Though I am ambidextrous , I am more inclined towards left hand as my strong hand . Same   goes with my thinking . I think better with a bunch of pens in my hand and a blank canvas in front of me .   I feel completely comfortable standing in the middle of a messy room as it lights up my creativity and   helps me to visualize various connections and categorizations of the things around me . Also , its   interesting to exchange information on a open canvas rather than through other restricting mediums .   Hence , I choose mind mapping as my tool . 

 Application : I put down my understanding of the processes and the people it will affect ( customers and   stakeholders ) and traced the interlinkages between various stages in the HR lifecycle . Then I started   connecting each request I got into these buckets of the elaborate mind map I had created . I had then   opened this map with my team to discuss upon my understanding and to brainstorm on making it as   elaborate as possible . 

 Insight : This helped me to easily pick up various aspects of the processes . It helped us to gather insight   about what and all are affected when you must make a change in one part of the process . More   importantly , I was able to quickly align with my teammates on the understanding about existing   processes and figure out where are the drain holes in the processes which we need to address together . 

 Approach : Going forward , I would like to combine this approach along with visualization of ease of   usage of each of these processes along with my team and stakeholders . I want to use various parts of   my office work space as my mind map and put visualizations of the processes there with trigger   questions for my peers and other stakeholders to brainstorm on the go . 

 Eg : When a customer ( my employee ) walks across to collect his Transfer letter , he can contribute on my   wall describing Transfer process , by drawing how it can be made faster ) 

 When manager approves a request for relieving , he can doodle on time spent to handle the paperwork . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Challenge : In my new area of work as an HR , I had to address various requests from 10 different   functions and manage them based on criticality to business . I was getting close to 50 - 70 requests a day   and each of these had a thread of information which I had to process . I was struggling in trying to   understand how to get a hang of the full scenario as I was always afraid that I might miss something out .   I was trying to get help from peers but was finding it difficult to articulate my inhibitions / uncertainties ,   which also spread across process , people , systems etc . 

 Selection : Though I am ambidextrous , I am more inclined towards left hand as my strong hand . Same   goes with my thinking . I think better with a bunch of pens in my hand and a blank canvas in front of me .   I feel completely comfortable standing in the middle of a messy room as it lights up my creativity and   helps me to visualize various connections and categorizations of the things around me . Also , its   interesting to exchange information on a open canvas rather than through other restricting mediums .   Hence , I choose mind mapping as my tool . 

 Application : I put down my understanding of the processes and the people it will affect ( customers and   stakeholders ) and traced the interlinkages between various stages in the HR lifecycle . Then I started   connecting each request I got into these buckets of the elaborate mind map I had created . I had then   opened this map with my team to discuss upon my understanding and to brainstorm on making it as   elaborate as possible . 

 Insight : This helped me to easily pick up various aspects of the processes . It helped us to gather insight   about what and all are affected when you must make a change in one part of the process . More   importantly , I was able to quickly align with my teammates on the understanding about existing   processes and figure out where are the drain holes in the processes which we need to address together . 

 Approach : Going forward , I would like to combine this approach along with visualization of ease of   usage of each of these processes along with my team and stakeholders . I want to use various parts of   my office work space as my mind map and put visualizations of the processes there with trigger   questions for my peers and other stakeholders to brainstorm on the go . 

 Eg : When a customer ( my employee ) walks across to collect his Transfer letter , he can contribute on my   wall describing Transfer process , by drawing how it can be made faster ) 

 When manager approves a request for relieving , he can doodle on time spent to handle the paperwork .
### Output: 