Boss- always right?

Bosses are always considered to be negative forces who make life at work miserable. While this is not always true, most of us have problems and sometimes are forced to quit our jobs due to bad managers. While assessing if your boss is good during a two hour interview session is impossible, what is possible [...]

Employee Motivation Factors- A challenge for the Organization

What according to you would motivate your employee to stay with your organization and contribute effectively? Getting employees to go that extra mile and work for the organization has remained a challenge all over the world. With changing trends, motivational factors also require a lot of work and thinking. A good package, along with impressive [...]

The “to-do” list for the achievers

With a new job, comes a fresh bout of enthusiasm backed with the urge to prove oneself in the new organization. In short, a new job brings in fresh hopes of being termed the ‘Achiever’ in the new organization. With multi-tasking becoming a necessity and smart working a requirement, a lot of [...]

Essential Preparations for an Interview

Knowing the key solution to all technical problems or being the coding genius is not always sufficient to help you through an interview. There are a lot of instances where a candidate who suits the job criteria perfectly does not make it through the interview. This is mostly because he/she does not know how [...]

Building a Team

The right team is the key for a successful performance and hence very important for a manager. Building a team that enjoys working together and motivates itself to reach new heights is no game and requires a lot more than just hiring people with resume filled with achievements.
What then are the essentials required for a [...]

How well prepared are you?

Are you one among those who are always on a look out for new and challenging job opportunities? How well prepared are you to attend an interview at a day’s notice? While finding the job that interests you (beyond the salary package) does take time, being prepared for it never hurts. After all [...]

Multitasking- a virtue for employees and employers

Multitasking, one of the key essentials that employers like to see in every resume irrespective of the job profile, has more to it than handling a few tasks at a time. Multitasking is all about possessing a range of skills that helps one participate and contribute efficiently in more than work area/department. And so, it’s [...]

Happy Hours @ Work

What according to you are the criteria to qualify into the elite ‘Great Place to Work’ category? Great packages? Challenging job profiles? Cool office interiors? A warm HR team? A friendly working place needs to fulfill higher criteria than these.
Work culture as important as the salary package/job profile. Most people worry about how they might [...]

Cover Letter- Uncovered

What according to you should a cover letter contain? Your name, address, and a lengthy description of your qualifications/experience? Or just a mention of the post you are applying for? Think again! A cover letter is more important than you assume. It is the first glimpse of you to your prospective employer before he/she goes [...]

Plotting the Perfect Profile

Your resume is your first step towards bagging the right job- so be sure to get it right. While writing your resume, keep in mind that you have less than a minute to impress your prospective employer with your resume. Here are a few basic tips on how to get it right:
1. Get the objective [...]