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Career Clues

To reach the top one needs to be proactive
As humans all of us aspire to reach the top in whatever we do. When working for an organisation, all employees want to reach the top of the corporate ladder fast. But most of us in spite of our best efforts find the going tough or are simply not ...
Do It Right

Learn the new realities of the workplace
Just working hard and doing a good job is no longer enough. The new workplace is filled with landmines – some external, most others of our own making!

Shocking, but true. Our everyday interactions are peppered with certain ...
Finger Tips

Reinvent your career to live your dreams
It is amazing to see how globalisation and rapid technological advancements have made people more receptive to change. Today people are willing to experiment, explore new career options, blaze new trails, relocate to distant lands and adapt to ...
Focus

Getting the head count ‘just right’
Have you ever spared a thought to finding out what is the optimal number of employees needed to keep your organisation running smoothly? Isn’t there an outside chance that your company may be overstaffed or, even worse, understaffed? ...
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FOCUS
Shared vision keeps great teams in form
When they are on a roll, great teams seem unbeatable and are capable of pulling of the impossible. It is almost magical to watch a team of different, diverse people come together for a synchronised collaboration of strength, skill, and joint ...


INSYNC
Don’t base salary expectations on Web info
It was not so long ago, when an employee would simply take the envelope handed over to him and return home with gratitude. The salary packet has undergone a sea change, more so with workplaces becoming tech-oriented. Apart from the fact that ...
VIEWPOINT
Scale the ‘I was fired’ hurdle with tact
Looking for a new job? Typically, interviewers and employers want to know why you left your old one and the cliched, ‘Why did you leave your last job?’ inevitably pops up.

Everything is hunky dory if you can state ...


HR HIGHS
Don’t let resume dictate hiring practice
At some point every manager, business owner or HR person would have removed somebody from their jobs, or to put it in simple terms, fired a person. Most of them regret the action and wish that they were more careful before hiring that person who ...
INSYNC
Consultants have the cake and eat it too!
Today, workplaces are becoming highly dynamic, in terms of the technology they use as well as the employment procedures and posts. Companies have churned out new and novel methods of recruiting candidates and the hiring process has undergone a ...
HR HIGHS
’Stay’ interviews can arrest attrition rate
It is a question that haunts every organisation and the answer to which every employer wishes to know. The question is what can motivate employees to continue working for the organisation? When job-hopping is the rule rather than an exception and ...
VIEWPOINT
Employee referrals not always a safe bet
Employee referral programmes (ERPs) are making the news as never before. Candidate-strapped employers are pulling out all the stops to entice the staff to recommend their acquaintances for vacancies within the company. The payoffs – cash, ...
Q & A On Career Concerns

dated 23 January 2008
I want to do B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation in distance mode. Please give me the addresses of the colleges offering the course.

Anand Kumar

SRM University, Directorate of Distance Education, Tamil Nadu offers B.Tech ...
Working Trendz

Stretchwork brings opportunity to grow personally
Crossing over to an unrelated field can indeed be a tough row to hoe, and people lacking in experience often find the going exceedingly difficult. The situation is even worse for independent and contract workers who do not have the backing of an ...



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