I did not feel comfortable for many days, when I joined the operations team for a BPO. The timings were different (mostly late evenings/ nights), they had the access card policy so couldn’t arrive late or leave early. They were strict in terms of leave policy, deadlines and even the break timings and casual when [...]

A recent KPMG study indicated that, 83% of mergers were unsuccessful in producing any business benefit as regards shareholder value. The prime reason being, employees who are at the core of an organization are apprehensive of a proposed merger because they fear layoffs, loss of identity, lack of increment, unfamiliar management work practices etc. This [...]

Abhishek is always ready to share new stories about his boss and how they don’t get along well. He claims that he is not able to focus on his work because his boss is not cooperative at all and does not add value to his work. He feels, all this is making him unproductive at [...]

The first day at a new workplace will always make you a little nervous and stressed along with the some excitement of meeting new people, opportunities etc. You may be a seasoned job hopper, or a fresh out of school recruit, but the following hygiene checks will always make you shine at workplace. Dress smartly: [...]

I asked, ‘what’s the best way you consider for background check of a prospective employee?’, to a friend who is a recruiter in a company. I was surprised with his answer when he replied ‘google search’ as his favourite tool for background check. I realised most of us use internet extensively and based on our [...]

Last month I had a meeting with one of my old friends, who is now VP–HR in a fairly large IT setup. He informed me that he is planning to lay off a couple of hundred people in his company, in a phased manner. What surprised me was that he mentioned that out of them [...]

In these times of slow economic recovery, many of us are finding it difficult to hold on to our respective jobs. Work pressures, stretched working hours, stringent quality checks and – clubbed with all this – workplace politics. Ethically speaking, just how desperate are we to save our job? You need to be aware when [...]

It depresses me when I meet some smart talented youth, without a job. Scratch their surface and I am surprised with the findings. The observation is that many of them really do not even know what is the kind of job they are looking for!!! I have come across many a candidate who have not [...]

There is a good saying “Making mistake is not a crime but not learning from the mistake is a crime”, and that my friends is very true, when it comes to resumes. A resume is your identity, that the reader sees, and creates an impression about you. So we cannot afford to make mistakes with [...]

There’s no good news for Sanjay, Senior Sales Manager in a medium sized technology company. Recession has hit his company’s fortunes and he and his team have not been paid for the last few months. He also lost about Rs 7 lakh in the stock market which is also not doing good. There are also [...]