Conversations with an executive recruiting consultant

Looking for jobs – career newspaper headlines. Career is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual’s “course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)”. It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education). A career is mostly seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person’s occupation. One can have a sporting career or a

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The art of making great presentations

Whether you’re a business owner, entrepreneur, CEO, manager, or a sales or marketing professional, there is no escaping the fact that you need to make good presentations. Everything that needs to be done in your job both internally and externally needs you to make a pitch, so that people can buy your idea and lend their support to you. Great presentations are not just about great communication skills but also

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Have you hit a brick wall in your job?

I do acknowledge that people are made differently and all have different goals for their careers. Career goals are usually determined by a person’s passion, ambition, capabilities, skills, interest level, family commitments and their individual value system. People do differ in these elements and hence their career goals differ, although I strongly feel having values and ethics are not negotiable but that’s a topic for another post.  All said and

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Mentorship! Why very few takers?

I would think there is no need for me to elaborate on what mentor-ship means and what’s it about. I think most of us know it to be some form of coaching, hand-holding and sharing of experiences from someone who has been there and done that. The mentor – mentee relationship is special and most successful men and women will point out that if it hadn’t been for their mentors they wouldn’t be enjoying the fruits of their success.

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