Blogging – The New Mantra of Job Seekers!!

With the job market getting better by the day, it is but natural for a lot of us to try and look for better prospects and grow in our career. While most of us as a rule update our resumes on various job portals and apply for jobs through them, how many have really tried [...]

Confidence

Here’s a story I’m sure a lot of us have read/heard:
A small boy was auditioning with his classmates for a school play. His mother knew that he’d set his heart on being in the play, just like all the other children. She feared how he would react if he was not chosen. On the day [...]

Competition- Helpful or unhelpful?

The success of an organization wholly and largely depends on its employees understanding of the goals and the strategies and competencies required to achieve it. Competency is a synonym of the skills, knowledge, personal characteristics, and attitude required for the successful execution of the tasks. But what most organizations forget is that while motivating each [...]

Saying Goodbye- the right way

Bidding a graceful adieu to your employer is as important as finding the right job. No matter what the job is, most of us need to remember that we are indebted to our previous superiors as in many ways the boss plays a role of a mentor from whom you get to learn a [...]

Finding The Right Job – The Voolkan Way!

Did you know that you spend about 25% of your life at work?? As unbelievable as it may sound, it happens to be proved by a recent research. This further makes finding the right job and being happy at work the top priority on your to-do list. What then is the right job would be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]