Guwahati, Assam, India — Content Strategy / HR & SaaS
Sanjeevani
Saikia.
I write, produce, and host the stories that get HR leaders to stop scrolling — on the page, on the mic, and on camera. Currently Senior Content Strategist at Vantage Circle, where I run content end‑to‑end: SEO blogs, brand storytelling, newsletters, video, and the Vantage Influencers Podcast.
- 4
- years at Vantage Circle
- 56
- blog posts published
- 73
- podcast episodes hosted
- 100+
- content pieces shipped & refreshed
01 About
The human
angle, mostly.
Creating content that feels real, ranks well, and actually makes people pause for a second — that's the goal. Blog, podcast, or YouTube, whatever the format, it always comes back to finding the human angle. Most days that means chasing stories around HR, SaaS, and the ever‑evolving idea of work culture.
I've spent close to four years at Vantage Circle building out its content engine — writing the blog, producing video scripts, editing the newsletter, and hosting the Vantage Influencers Podcast, where I sit down with HR and business leaders from Fortune 500 companies to talk about what actually makes a workplace work.
Big on writing and reading — words have always been my thing. Also a full‑throttle F1 fanatic. There's something about the speed, strategy, and precision of a race weekend that mirrors the way I like to work: plan the line, then execute it clean.
02 Experience
Where the work happened.
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May 2025 — Present
Senior Content Marketing Specialist
Vantage Circle · Guwahati, Assam, India
- Own end‑to‑end content strategy for the Vantage Circle blog — SEO structure, topic clusters, and editorial calendar across the employee recognition & engagement category.
- Host and produce the Vantage Influencers Podcast, interviewing CHROs and HR leaders from organisations including Ericsson, Deloitte India, Thomson Reuters, Honeywell, and TruKKer.
- Write and edit the company newsletter, YouTube video scripts, and brand storytelling pieces alongside long‑form SEO content.
- Top‑10 content contributor (by volume) on the company's 3,200+ commit Astro migration repo — exclusively editorial work: new posts, full content refreshes, and podcast publishing.
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Jul 2022 — May 2025
Content Marketing Specialist
Vantage Circle · Guwahati, Assam, India
- Wrote and shipped dozens of SEO‑led blog posts on employee engagement, recognition, DEI, and workplace culture for an HR‑leader audience.
- Built out the earliest episodes of the Vantage Influencers Podcast — sourcing guests, writing interview arcs, and producing launch episodes.
- Worked across formats — blog, video script, newsletter, YouTube — translating one core idea into multiple channels.
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Jan 2022 — May 2022
Marketing Intern
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry · India
- Supported a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) project and prepared proposals for Central and State Government agencies.
- Built an industrial database covering all 8 North‑Eastern states and wrote PHDCCI's monthly bulletin reports.
- Solo‑organised a seminar and presented on "Ethical Leadership and Civic Mindedness" at the International Youth Leadership Conclave 2022.
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Feb 2020 — May 2020
Digital Marketing Intern
Megon Creative India Pvt Ltd · India
- Created website content and managed social media calendars for client accounts, working directly with the design team on infographics and video.
Education
Gauhati University, Guwahati — Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Finance · 2016–2019
03 Writing
Selected
blog work.
56 bylined posts on Vantage Circle's HR blog since 2018 — recognition, engagement, rewards, leadership, and workplace culture, written for CHROs and HR directors. A few that did the most work:
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2026
The Business Case for Employee Recognition
employee-recognition
Read →
A CFO‑ready business case built on real enterprise data, budget benchmarks, and a measurement plan.
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2026
Why Peer Recognition Fades After Launch (and How to Fix It)
employee-recognition
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Diagnosing the mid‑life slump every R&R program hits, and the fix that actually holds.
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2026
Change Management for Employee Recognition Programs
employee-recognition
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A 7‑step framework for rolling out — and sustaining — a recognition program without losing the room.
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2024
The Science of Recognition
leadership
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The psychological and neurological case for why leader praise works — and why most of it is done wrong.
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2024
10 Must‑Know Employee Engagement Statistics
employee-engagement
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One of the site's most consistently‑ranking reference posts — refreshed every year since 2024.
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2024
Feedback vs Feedforward
workplace-communication
Read →
An HR leader's guide to building a future‑focused culture instead of a rear‑view one.
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2021
How HR Leaders Can Use Reinforcement Theory to Shape Workplace Behavior
employee-recognition
Read →
Behavioral science, translated into something an HR director can actually run with on a Monday.
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2021
10 Types of Diversity Modern Workplaces Must Focus On
diversity-inclusion
Read →
A framework for thinking about diversity as more than a single axis.
04 Podcast
Vantage
Influencers.
I host and produce the Vantage Influencers Podcast — long‑form conversations with CHROs and senior HR leaders at Fortune 500 and large enterprise organisations, on what's actually changing in how people are managed, rewarded, and led. 73 episodes hosted to date, out of the show's 274‑episode run.
- Priyanka Anand VP HR, Ericsson Upskilling: Fuelling India's Tech Evolution
- Mahesh Joshi CHRO, Honeywell Automation India HR Digitization: Enhancing Employee Experience
- Dr. Pranav Prasoon Thakur CPO, TruKKer Cultivating Employee Delight in the Workplace
- Ravi Rangaraju Senior HRBP, Thomson Reuters Personalized Employee Experience in the Age of AI
- Sudarshan Bose Associate Director, Workforce Transformation, Deloitte India Building a Future‑Proof Workforce
- Joy George Senior Director & Head of HR, CDK Global India Worst Mistakes HRs Should Avoid
- Rekha Radhakrishnan HR Leader Proven Paths for Women to Rise in Leadership
- Talat Sheerazi Goldie HR Leader HR's Strategic Value: Earning a Seat at the Senior Table
05 Content Ops
Systems, not
just sentences.
Alongside the writing, I build the tooling that keeps a 750+ post blog consistent at scale — so quality doesn't erode as volume goes up. A few of the systems currently running in production on the Vantage Circle site:
- InsightQuiz — a scored, lead‑capture quiz widget embeddable in any post from a single line of Markdown.
- Podcast auto‑tagger — topic‑tags all 274 podcast episodes so related‑content modules surface relevant episodes instead of repeating the same three.
- Comparison‑blog pipeline — a repeatable structure for vendor‑comparison posts across English, French, Spanish, and German.
- VisualSheriff — a brand‑consistency checklist that audits any page against the site's design spec before it ships.