Modern day headhunters from recruitment agencies in India and abroad prefer poaching full bodies and not just heads. Whether you are an MBA student looking for a job or a professional hoping to get better, high-paying jobs, if you’ve made yourself visible in the recruitment market, you are likely to be on their list.
A headhunter from a top recruitment agency may strike when you least expect it. Here’s what you can do to be ready for the initial call.
What can you do in the first few crucial minutes of your interview to make a great first impression? HR expert and soft skills trainer, Glancy, shares some advice. How to make a good first impression in an interview by Glancy Albuquerque The first few minutes can be nerve wrecking. You walk into … Read more
You prefer musing about life’s flashback or finding happiness observing the scenery as compared to your friends blasting their lungs out singing songs on a road trip.
Reading a book in a quiet corner of your house seems more enticing than cheering over a Knicks game with your besties.
If life was fair, you would have finished school, learnt a trade, and steadily climbed up your career ladder until you retired with a golden parachute. Unfortunately, as anyone above the age of three can testify, life’s experiences are not all that you hope them to be. You get a job, or don’t, when you … Read more
HR expert and soft skills trainer, Glancy, offers some tips on how to prepare for an interview and what to do in the waiting room a few minutes before the big interview. How ready are you before you walk into the interview? by Glancy Albuquerque Are you ready to impress strangers of your … Read more
The ratio of men vs woman scientists is skewed. And there are several unconscious behaviors that add to this disparity. Take for instance, research paper authorship in STEM. Even the first world countries face a dearth of women academicians, sharing a measly 25%, or even less, women in Physical Sciences, Computer Science & Math, and … Read more
Guest writer, Prateek Malik, shares how sports can help you in life in the areas of personality development, health, social skills, stress management and more. Whether you are a student or a professional, here are some benefits you can get from being involved in sports.
In our life, we involve ourselves into numerous activities, mostly with a known relation with the respective age.
For instance, we would like to learn cycling when we turn six years old or a learn to drive a car by the age of eighteen.
More than a few years ago, I chanced upon an opportunity to take up a job away from the hullabaloo of city life – teaching in a school set closer to heaven than a petrol station. Being on the mountains of the Western Ghats, electronic anything had a limited influence over my tranquil existence. What of it?
Well it’s official. You have finally achieved one of the crests of adulthood – you have a job. Or what we Indians colloquially jest around job lag gayi, which in literal translation turns out to be “job’s attached”. Probably a subtle hint at its parasite like nature, sucking away at your life juice. Oh, but … Read more
What is a Myers Briggs, or MBTI, Test?
Prepare yourself for the shortest crash course on pop-psychology. Imagine the people of the world to be divided into various permutations of four sets of rigid personality traits, or set of factors.
I am a millennial, much like all my fellow generationeers who were born between the early 80s and the late 90s. It is this generation that has lived through the queen-bed sized floppy disks and the internet revolution. We are the ones who must have, at some point, used brick’s clunky cousin – the first … Read more
There are two ways to treat a laid off employee – there is a nice way and an evil way. Think of the difference between a cold & calculating employer taking tough (seemingly) anti-employee decisions without batting an eyelid and a company doing whatever it can to ensure that their laid off employees are not … Read more