My friend forwarded the following article in the morning. I am reproducing it as is. I am unsure of the author. If you are the one, do write to me
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Some, rather most organizations reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ˜job hopper™ (referred here as [...]

As the job sections in newspapers are getting size-able and the e-mails contents in the inbox from various job sites meatier, one can hear the gong ringing loud for the interview season.
I assume you have audited your resume well and edited the gaffes. The call from the Human Resource department acknowledges that you have passed [...]

There is a popular saying - “what gets measured, gets reviewed and what gets reviewed, gets improved and rewarded”. Applied at the workplace, it means that to get rewarded, your work should get measured first and noticed too. At the end of the day we all want recognition of our hard work. Recognition comes when [...]

“Did you hear that the new Team Lead is flirting with the boss? ”; “Oh! he is getting divorced!”; “Her wallet got wacked from her bag!!” .W ho doesn’t like the juicy gossips and if it’s at the work place, the more the merrier! There were few people in my previous office, who were also [...]

In these times of slow economic recovery, many of us are finding it difficult to hold on to our respective jobs. Work pressures, stretched working hours, stringent quality checks and - clubbed with all this - workplace politics. Ethically speaking, just how desperate are we to save our job?
You need to be aware when someone [...]

It depresses me when I meet some smart talented youth, without a job. Scratch their surface and I am surprised with the findings. The observation is that many of them really do not even know what is the kind of job they are looking for!!! I have come across many a candidate who have not [...]

This posting is my continuation of my earlier posting ‘Tips to make a good impression in an interview’.
I asked, ‘what’s the best way you consider for background check of a prospective employee?’, to a friend who is a recruiter in a company. I was surprised with his answer when he replied ‘google search’ as his [...]

Last month I had a meeting with one of my old friends, who is now VP–HR in a fairly large IT setup. He informed me that he is planning to lay off a couple of hundred people in his company, in a phased manner. What surprised me was that he mentioned that out of them [...]

I still remember the day when I faced first interview of my life, it was PI (personal interview) at the FMCG conglomerate that had come for selection at our institute campus. 7 out of our 10 friends made through the interview and rest 3 of us could not. Though we were almost alike in terms [...]

Last week one of my friends Sumit received this awful and not so unexpected news, “Effective today your services are not required. Kindly collect your belongings/ dues by the weekend”.
He immediately called me up with very stressed and frustrated voice and complained about the employer that he has worked with them for more than 4 [...]