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Career Clues

Be assertive, stand by your opinion
"COME ON! You can work on the project tomorrow. All of us are leaving early today. Let's go". Does the drone of such whining give rise to a hesitant grumble deep in your throat? Do you end up berating yourself, "It will look terrible if I am the ...
Contemporary Quotient

Dated April 11, 2007
A career goal helps you focus on what you want to do for a living. You could describe your goal relating to a specific job you want to do or a career goal can be a particular field you want to work in, such as medicine or education. Rather than ...
Do It Right

Industry fairs a good ground to attract talent
COMPANIES adopt different strategies to recruit top talent. One method though in the nascent stage is recruiting at non-recruiting events like trade or industry fairs. Being a non-traditional and passive event (in terms of recruiting) it calls ...
Finger Tips

Building a career calls for hard work
THIS is that time of the year when young people graduate and set out to find a job, make a career or maybe even start their own business. After all when one is young, the world is one's oyster and there are numerous options to explore. It is a ...
Focus

Straitjacket process - rigid on approach
I AM SURE you would have encountered this type of manager some time or the other in your career. What we are talking about here is the manager who follows a set path or a fixed process when it comes to doing things. Such a manager will typically ...
Miscellaneous

Title mania stalks the corporate world
"WHAT'S in a name", asked Shakespeare. Critically examining the state of the `naming' affairs in offices and workplaces today, this theory no longer seems to hold good. Going by the recent title mania that has caught up at workplaces, some really ...
Freshers bring new values to workplace
THE DEMAND for new graduates is greater than ever! Latest global studies reveal that most recruiters have either increased hiring new graduates to 41 per cent or sustained it at 33 per cent. In fact, 45 per cent of small businesses are now ...
Preventing culture shock key to successful mergers
MERGERS and acquisitions - that's the name of the game! In today's highly-charged global scenario, a wave of mergers is about the only remaining tactic for continued growth. The consolidation integrates two organisations to cut costs, ...
Bored with overload? Think of change
COUNTLESS e-mail queries to be answered, meetings, multiple projects, unreasonable deadlines and extreme pressure to increase profits overwhelm the best of professionals. Result? A stressful work environment with little scope for ...
Working Trendz

Practise -and- preach managers win the day
HOW often do we hear managers grumble about the lackadaisical attitude and lack of commitment of people working with them? It may be interesting to note that like most parents, many of these very managers themselves don't behave any differently ...



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