Taking the Hurdles off Your Job track

Guest post by Leslie West. There are a lot of reasons people don’t get jobs. Sometimes the guy or woman, who came in after you, just blew you out of the water. It happens. So we just have to push forward and onward to the next opportunity. There will always be some aspects of the [...]

4 Tips on Stress Relief at Job

Guest Post by Alexis Bonari If it seems as though you are starting to take forever to finish work assignments or if you feel as though any task that is given to you makes you want to run and hide, you may be suffering from work burnout. Extremely long working hours, unrealistic deadlines and other [...]

Employees First Customer Second Turning Conventional Management Upside Down — A book review

“Employees are the heart and soul of every company. Vineet Nayar’s book tells the story of how management can step out of the way to let employees lead– and to let engagement and productivity soar.” –Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com With personal experiences and insightful leadership approach, Vineet Nayar puts forward a well tested and new [...]

Have an MBA? What Salary would you expect this year?

iimjobs.com – an exclusive job portal for MBAs from premier business schools in India released the findings of second MBA Salary Survey. The survey was conducted to understand trends in compensation of MBAs from top business schools in India. The survey was administered from May 16 to 31, 2010 with over 5600 MBA graduates sharing [...]

The Roadblocks to Working from Home

No matter how sane and sound advice you receive on working from home the roadblocks are ever present and often times tough to navigate. An effective work-from-home routine depends on how well you manage to navigate past these obstacles and eventually work toward eliminating some of them. Child care Dilemma If you have young kids [...]

4 Secrets of Grabbing the Recruiter’s Attention in your Cover Letter

With hundreds and thousands of resumes being submitted for one single job opening, the only way you can make the recruiter open your resume is by having a smart and unique cover letter (and of course the other way is when you have a direct reach to the hiring managers). Remember that the employers are [...]

A Challenge helps you Leap Higher

I strongly believe that adversity and challenge are the essential elements of life which one must welcome now and then, it is nothing to shy away from or feel intimidated. Only through these hurdles we learn to leap higher and emerge stronger along the way or at the end. Recently I came upon this very [...]

Life is What you Make it – A book review

“I’d like to define vocation as the tug we feel toward the life that is right for us, the life that is truly our own.” – Peter Buffett, Life Is What You Make It The first thoughts I had when holding a book written by Peter Buffet (yes, the son of the billionaire investor Warren [...]

Book Review – Work with Passion in Midlife and Beyond

“Given the volatile economy, rising costs of living, and likelihood that safety nets like social security and savings may not cover expenses when you are older, it is imperative that you start now to find the work that engages your heart and soul,” Anderson writes in the introduction to her new book, Work with Passion [...]

How better Presentation Skills can get you ahead in your career

When are you making a presentation at your workplace? At the seminars, meetings, expos, sales presentations? Think again, presenting is much more diverse and is an inherent part of today’s workplace. Not only in a meeting but when putting up a proposal on why you must expect a pay increase this year, discussing your performance [...]

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