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 as you start working. There must be some regularity in this activity, because contrary to the general perception, people usually change their careers (not jobs) …
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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 questions can be very challenging to answer because most of the times, people do not have everything around their education and/or careers sorted enough to …
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The most important thing in finding the career that you will be happy with is to look into things that interest you
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 round off the SWOT analysis with the final piece of the puzzle – the threats. In personal development, threats are anything that can jeopardize the …
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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 new in a long while and neither have you challenged yourself enough to be mentioned in the resume.” If that is the case, then you …
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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 able to identify your weaknesses and find ways to counter them. A lot of us find it difficult to admit our weaknesses because it is …
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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 strengths.” You go blank and you start wondering what your personal strengths are (clearly making up strengths is not your strongest trait!). The need to …
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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. Most of us tend to reflect on our current situation around the New Year and many of us have “changing jobs” as one of our …
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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 that will help you get an invitation for interview, but there is a lot more that you will need to get the job. You will …
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