As a career professional, to grow your career, you must be very intentional about your personal brand, online and your digital footprint. The things you post online would shape your online personal brand and your digital footprint, and then your career, inevitably. These things are what Employers / Potential Clients would see, if they check you out, whether at the early…
One out of the many challenges many professionals have in the work place is building relationship with their Boss/Managers/People. This is a relationship that needs to exist and must be professional because YOU need them, whether you are looking for more opportunities, promotion, and career change within the same organization, to take on a secondment opportunity or to get an…
The dictionary defines Career as an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person’s life and with opportunities for progress. That definition is simply saying that we spend majority of our lives working and secondly that promotion should come with our careers. So, because of those two factors, it is important that we should be in a career that we love and secondly, our career path should come with progression.
Gone are the days when people take on jobs for the sake of having a job to pay their bills. These days not only do the employees know what they want, employers do their best to accommodate the needs of their employees so they can hire and then retain their talented, dynamic, diverse and high performing people, if not, they lose them to competitors who have better offerings in the market place.
Research has proven that being strategic in your job search helps you get the job faster. The days of seeing a job online, applying and hoping to get the job is gone. Even if you have the strongest academic qualifications, skills and experience, applying to a job and landing it must take intentional efforts on your part. If you have…
Many Congratulations to you dear dedicated graduate (with less work experience) for starting and finishing college. You worked really hard to get where you are now, so you should be proud of yourself. Well done. I am a cheerleader of college education and this is why I am championing #educationisaskill. Don’t let anyone tell you different because more than the…
It is not unusual for an internal candidate to get a job over an external candidate. There are a lot of factors for this but here is one: Internal candidates are part of the organizational culture already and they know the company. Part of the responsibilities of an organization to their employees is that they MUST continue to present opportunity…