When the script for workplace success fails in real life
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. We have entered a strange, new world where your…
Why workplaces inadvertently sabotage employees
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. What is common between Michelangelo, Picasso, Illayaraja, Edison, Ennio…
The biggest reason for workplace dissatisfaction
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Beginning in school, we are taught to evaluate our…
Getting around the imposter syndrome
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. The "imposter syndrome" is a question that nobody will…
Sam Altman, The Gita and navigating careers
he Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. The fear of technological obsolescence drives a frequent question…
Careers 133 – Workplace lessons from the Cricket World Cup
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. After the World Cup final, the outcome was a…
When the script for academic success fails at the workplace
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Innumerable people I have worked with have fantastic pedigrees…
Ready for a holistic personal audit?
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Here is a thought as you begin the new…
Careers 125 – What is the shortcut to success?
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Hate to say this, but there is no shortcut.…
Careers 126 – What a cup of coffee can teach us about the workplace?
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Today, while drinking a cup of coffee, I had…
Careers 128 – A two-step framework to survive layoffs – Part 2/2
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Optimizing the job search process:If you have been laid…
Careers 127 – A two-step framework to survive layoffs – Part 1/2
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Look at the big picture:Today may have been the…
Careers 122 – The surprising connection between college grades and wealth
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. The average college grade of a millionaire in the…
The structural reason behind layoffs
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. I received a note in May 2023 from a…
Careers 106: Skills for the future – what, how and where to acquire?
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. I conducted a resume prep workshop today to help…
Careers 124 – The people behind Chandrayaan – Lessons from their careers
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. It was a remarkable day for India, the first…
Careers 130 – Is there a limit to how much you have to work in a company?
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. This is the long-form article of a post I…
Job search 105 – Five Ways to Understand the Real Truths about a Company’s Culture
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. When you interview with a company, everything looks great.…
Comp 108 – When high compensation becomes a Damocles sword + Skill Comp Matrix
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Every employee would love to get paid well above…
Choosing careers in an ever-changing world
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. One of the tough choices today is choosing a…
Careers 119 – The only meaningful argument as to why diversity makes sense
The Insider Guide to Careers Insider information, secrets and tips about getting hired and building careers. For employees and job candidates. Diversity is a hot topic for discussion nowadays. In…