visakhapatnam the new normal is here to stay as the world started experiencing various waves of the covid19 pandemic which in fact helped the world coin the new term new normal said prof deepika gupta a faculty in strategy and chair of career development and alumni services at the indian institute of management visakhapatnamspeaking during a webinar on friday prof deepika said that many organisations ran their entire spectrum of recruitment training and meetings virtually the severity of the pandemic has subsided with the growing positive response to vaccine innovations india has achieved a crucial milestone by administering 100 crore vaccine doses but the human resource managers hrs are now facing a new dilemma what was normal for almost a couple of years has suddenly become a fear factor for them and the applicants as well the physical recruitment processes are witnessing a dismal performance as shortlisted candidates are not able to overcome psychological fear and stage fright in front of the interviewers said prof deepikaeven the interviewers are worried about such bleak performance and feel apologetic for not zeroing in a fit with their job roles if these would have been virtual processes they would have done it with flying colours however with the recent growing cases in europe moving again to new normal may be a matter of time in the meanwhile it is a testing time not only for each one of us to shrug off the fear factor but also for the hrs to continuously balance itself between the cycles of new and old normals added prof gupta