How Twitter can help during Job Search

For those not familiar with Twitter – it is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? (Source: Twitter )

Quite a few companies now have their twitter sites or presence. If you are interested in those [...]

How to Find a Job when there are none around

If you cannot see something it does not mean it is not there; it only means that you have to try harder and perhaps with a different vision to find the unseen.
If you are in a layoff as a result of the economic downturn; then you will benefit from these tips on how to find [...]

Which Apps do you use at your Workplace?

Which software applications do you use most frequently at work?
A very broad question indeed and it differs from industry to industry, but we all get hooked on to one or more of the ones we get used to, but tomorrow is another day and another app launch stirs up the water cooler talks.
You may be [...]

What are Performance Reviews or Appraisals

Be it the year end review or the beginning of the year goal setting meeting, you feel as if it is just another meeting to get done with. Think again, your performance management, appraisals and reviews impact you in different ways. It could mean a higher raise, a promotion and even protecting you from a [...]

How to Negotiate Flexible Work Hours

Many working women think about going part-time due to work-life balance issues, dependent care responsibilities or due to personal problems or preferences. Part-time works or flexible working hours gives many a working mothers a considerable choice to not opt-out of the workforce after having a baby.
According to the US Office of Personnel Management, The courts [...]

5 Essential Tips to Influence and Persuade Others at the Workplace

 Persuasion and influence are your stepping stones towards success, whether at the workplace of in our personal lives — we are influencing and persuading others in different ways. How good are you at this essential art of getting things done your way? Before you head on to persuade others, mark the following checklist and see [...]

How to Deal with a Bad Performance Review

The first advice: do not react immediately
Take your time, an hour or even a day or two. Go through carefully on what has been mentioned in the negative appraisal and write down the precise words (for example; which  tasks were not marked to your satisfaction, what were the goals you did not meet etc.) which [...]

Searching for Local Jobs? Here is one Website you must know about

OLX is the next generation of free online classifieds and with usage in over 90 countries in 39 languages, we wonder why we didn’t know about it earlier.
And if this is a website that you must know about if you are searching for jobs or ready to post some locally (and of course, job ads [...]

Who is the Happiest Working Mother?

How would you define yourself as a working mother (if you are one)?
Happiest, happy, just getting along, overworked and tired, miserable or “don’t know” (the one who has no time to gauge your emotions in the ever rush of getting tasks done)?
Reading Lucy’s answers on FT.com columns had me thinking on who and what [...]

When you do what you’d rather not do

In the last one year I have received quite a few advice seeking emails on this very issue “I do what I do because that is what is around, but I do not like it” the reason may varied on why these people are stuck in a job they would rather not do; but the [...]

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