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When Joji Sekhon Gill joined semiconductor manufacturing company Applied Materials as corporate VP of HR in 2020, she knew exactly where she wanted the role to take her. And she wasn’t shy about voicing her aspirations to her boss, Susan Schmitt Winchester.
“I was pretty clear that I [wanted] to be a CHRO, whether here or somewhere else,” Gill said.
Schmitt Winchester, who was SVP and CHRO at the time, saw potential in Gill, and helped her put together a development plan to work toward this goal. After three and a half years of gaining exposure to Applied Materials’s leadership through environments