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How people set their Salary Expectations ?
(Image Source: Wikimedia)How do people set their Salary expectations? Particularly the one who are returning to job-market after a break, returning from other country...
Sleepy students and early morning class !
Today morning when I met first year student in lift, she was not active as one should be. I casually asked, so do you have class now? And she cribbed - yes, this...
On being a teacher …
I attended Gurucharan Das's "India grows at night" book release function by BDB Book club. I liked his style and picked up his "Difficulty of being good"...
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Importance of re-writing speeches
Speech re-writing is very important condition for successful speech. Toastmasters Competent communicator manual also emphasizes the drafting of the speech. Andrew...
Perils of higher Education !
Unemployment vs. Education level. (Ref-1)The times of India article mentions , "Higher your education, harder it is getting a job" .So true .The data in the article is...
“7 Habits” : A Management Guru Stephen Covey – passed away.
Stephen Covey , The author of the best seller "7 Habits of highly effective people" passed away.I hooked to this book ,when I just passed out of engineering...
Personal Branding : Some useful resources
Personal branding is when you take charge of your career. It gels well with protean careers or boundary less careers. You want to take charge of your...
How to sale yourself ?
The following speech I made for my toastmasters project-7. Project was targeted at research skills and using the relevant data to drive , convince audience about...
Unanticipated Consequence of Productivity tools !
PCMag has interesting article on productivity. Opening of the article has interesting comment.Has anyone noticed that the computer revolution has turned its focus...
How to decide whether the job is great ?
I wanted to enter academics, and that is the reason I applied for research program at XLRI. The interview committee tried to probe, why I want to switch to teaching...
Three ingredients of Charimsatic leadership and Anna Hazare
Anna Hazare, a grass root activist from a small village flashed suddenly on India's national canvas with his anti-corruption campaign.In spite of his old age, humble...
Smile – There are so many reasons …
Interesting talk by Ron Gutman smile - A curve that straightens cranky things ...(Speech is supported by strong research findings from range of publications, and worth...