Having a friendly personality helps in winning that dream job :-
Two people having equal qualifications walk into an interview. Jack answers every question in a cool professional manner and says just what the interviewer wants to hear from him. Jill, however, tells a compelling story, she intuits more of the interviewer’s personality and leaves him [...]

If you are visiting corporate headquarters for a job interview, take a comfort break
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There is a corner of every office that is much frequented but seldom explored. No management experts write about the washroom or facilities as they are euphemistically called. The boss probably has a loo of his own. So he is [...]

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT A COURSE OF YOUR CHOICE:-
Should the UN be reformed? Should India retain its nuclear deterrent? How can SAARC be re-invigorated? These are the kinds of questions defence analysts ask. Defence studies aims to act as a channel between civil society, business and the armed forces in dealing with [...]

Check out the restaurant business — it’s tough and risky but can be rewarding…..
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It sure sounds like a fine job, doesn’t it? Owning the most coveted commercial address on the corner of the city’s main street, where lip-smacking dishes are tossed up day after day, and where the city’s glitterati habitually drops by to literally [...]

It seems to be the hottest emerging destination on the educational radar of GenNext. The land of Joyce, Yeats, Wilde and the band U2 has come calling. A delegation from Education Ireland — Ireland’s education bureau — arrived in India this month with a clutch of representatives from its premier universities and educational institutes in [...]

Mary Ellen Slayter has some tips on how to keep that job:-
Anyone who has been in the workforce for a while has advice to share — and it doesn’t always sync up with mine. Stephen Farina says that workers who hate their bosses shouldn’t be so quick to resign.
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It is important to give out positive vibes during an interview :
You are facing the interviewer and feeling like things are moving along nicely when all of a sudden the interview takes a turn for the worse. What has just happened? You may have hit one of the interviewer’s pet peeves, one of those [...]

Working part-time may be the best option for new mothers, says Amy Joyce
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I love my new job. It was absolutely the right choice for me. But — isn’t there always a but? — when I come in to work, I have to leave a little guy at home who has just learned to wave [...]

Knowing the latest buzzwords gives one a cutting edge in an organisation.
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Do you regularly need a heads up (update) to figure out what people around you in the office are talking about? If you are in a particularly fertile environment, there could be a lot of blue sky thinking going on. The occasional inter-departmental liaison [...]

The German Academic Exchange Service has announced scholarships for working professionals to pursue postgraduate subjects at universities in Germany. The scholarships are available in 42 different courses in the areas of economic sciences, business administration, political economics, development co-operation, engineering and related sciences, mathematics, regional planning, environmental sciences, agricultural and forest sciences, public health, [...]