Career Planning is an activity that should not stop once you are done with your high school or college. In fact, it should be a constant process in your life
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You go to a family gathering or a friends’ reunion and you get asked, “What are your plans for higher education?” or “What have you thought about your career?” Such
This post is part 1 of 9 in the series Job Hunting -
Finding the career of your choice can be quite a challenge. There are so many options and so many opinions influencing your decision that it is almost impossible to be
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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in other blog posts (links to respective blog posts). In this blog, we will try to
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You are sitting on your workstation, wondering if your skills are getting dated. You try to update your resume and are hit by the hard truth: “You haven’t learnt anything
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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths in this other blog (link to Identifying Your Personal Strengths blog post). However, it is equally important to be
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You are at an interview at the place that you really like. The interview is going great, but then the interviewer asks you this question: “List down your greatest personal
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This is the second blog on the basics of job-hunting. The first blog took you through how to look for a new job and possibly a career shift. All of
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It is that time of the year when a lot of us will be going through annual evaluations at our workplaces. There will possibly be some increments and some disappointments.
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The Coronavirus pandemic is bigger than anybody expected. Although the UK has quite a small number of cases, the rest of Europe is struggling to cope and shutting its borders
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The Five Sources of a Leader’s Power, and how (and how not) to use them
Posted in: All Featured Articles, Best Of, Leader, Professional Tags: coercive power, expert power, leader power, personal power, positional power, power examples, reward powerWhere does a leader get power from? A leader can use 5 sources of power: here’s advice on when these powers should be used, and perhaps when not
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The gap might not be so big between business and IT after all…
Posted in: LeaderTake a moment to read this article in this month’s Information Age (in fact I strongly recommend you subscribe to this magazine). The article discusses research conducted by the magazine
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Getting noticed in your company or organization
Posted in: Leader, ProfessionalGetting yourself noticed by senior management or executives maybe easier than you think. These people, like all people, are human beings. I’ve found that if you treat them that way,
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A good book to read… Effective Measurement and Management of IT Costs and Benefits
Posted in: Leader, Other StuffHere is a good book to read for boosting your commercial awareness of IT. It explains how organizations view IT in terms of the benefits it provides against the ‘bottom-line’,
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Giving up control: losing the detail
Posted in: LeaderA number of people have said that one of their biggest issues when moving up the career ladder is knowing how to give up control of the ‘detail’, i.e. influence

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