Category: Trends in the Job market
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Energy and Enthusiasm in your Career Branding
Energy and Enthusiasm – critical to your job search and career branding? We no longer live in a time when a job seeker, can hope to send application, get interview call and be offered a job. Job search requires a lot more energy and hard work. This hard work is a differentiator, as it shows…
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Building Emotional Intelligence as a Company Culture
(Sharing some perspectives from Daniel Goleman’s First Person Plural recent podcast). Companies that truly seek a culture that values emotional intelligence will need to go further on this journey. He suggests three things that Organizations will need to do. 1. They’ll need to make HOW you get your results as important as those results themselves…
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Success leaves memories
Success leaves Memories! Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft shared this story. “I interviewed my grandmother for part of a research paper I’m working on for my Psychology class. When I asked her to define success in her own words, she said… *Success is when you look back at your life and the MEMORIES make you…
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Culture – important factor for Employee Retention?
Culture – am important factor for employee retention and a major trigger for Resignations(Some Views culled from recent London Economist) In today’s work environment,employees look at their jobs through different lenses. Especially the younger generations, place a lot of emphasis on opportunities for growth, training and up-skilling. A generous paycheck is often insufficient to ensure…
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9 Tips to be an Outstanding Leader
9 Leadership Tips from a young ‘unapologetically ambitious’ CEO. (excerpts from LinkedIn Conversation with Anjali Sud CEO of Vimeo) Could not help sharing very valid perspectives (my take only) Here are her 9 tips to Leaders 1. Need to know whyyou want to lead. Anjali always knew from a young age that she wanted to…
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EQ Or IQ
❓We frequently hear this question: Is EQ more important than IQ?❌Question This question has been intriguing me, ever since I read Daniel Goleman’s recent Newsletters, since the 25th Anniversary of his book, a couple of months ago. He has clarified that the chapter in his book was titled ‘CAN EQ be more important than IQ?…
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Humour at Work
Does Humour work at Work? (Thoughts triggered by article in yesterday’s ET) My best memories of over 4 decades at the workplace, are the humorous stories. This set me thinking whether Humour at the workplace is serious business. Especially ii today’s challenging times of uncertainty at work, pandemic & geopolitical conflicts, humour can lend a…
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Personal Development and Career Development go hand in hand?
❓Personal Development & Career Development – two sides of the same coin? Maya Angelou says “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” A whole life is to find time to invest in oneself as well as in others. To extrapolate this…
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Employee Loyalty under threat?
❓Employee Loyalty under threat?The ‘1 Job, 1Company’ concept is no longer relevant. ‘Job’ has embraced many meanings. Gig workers, On line workers, offline workers, project workers, full time employees – who work for partof the year, Professionals who work as consultants etc. Given this scenario, creating a culture of loyalty to the Company can pose…
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Changing Moods for Job seekers
captured herein. But the basic need to remain positive and celebrate every win remains valid, despite volatilites and a constant flux. . (This article was published at the beginning of 2922. The ensuing Geo-political crises has changed some of the perspectives Make the most to absorb, the positivity and mood of the season, to counter…
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