Considering the average recruiter spends 5 to 7 seconds to read a resume, as a job seeker you’re privileged with a time-frame not much longer than the blink of an eye in which to convince the reader your document doesn’t deserve to be binned. Ouch, that’s gotta hurt! Here’s some egregious mistakes people commonly make with their resumes.
If you were to ask any boss to share their stories about how they became successful, they would all have one thing in common. Staff training. The best and most successful businesses all recognize that their staff need to be the best to make money. However, they don’t realize years after the fact – they realize it at the very beginning.
The odds are against you as a startup, and there is a good chance you will fail. Staff training lowers those odds, and here’s how.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Technology may have become sharper, smarter and smaller, but the foundations at the core of tech still owe their genesis to inventions of the 70’s. And just as well. There is no need for an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality if your office continues to operate in an efficient and productive way.
Here are a few things using the technology from almost half a century ago, that are still used in the office of today.
Venture Capital firms now abound, but some are better than the rest. This is a list of the most prolific Venture Capital firms in India over the last year.
The most common cause for hating your workplace happens to be struggling with a “bad boss” or a hopelessly toxic work environment. A…
With today’s strenuous work place demands it is very important that you know how to manage workplace stress efficiently. Go through our list of some pro-tips to manage office stress and give a boost to your efficiency.
Numbers. We all love them. Pageviews, ‘uniques’, subscribers and of course Facebook fans and Twitter followers. The higher they are, the more your business can be validated.
However, once what used to be a metric to judge how useful your business is to the audience you cater to by way of number of people liking or following you, has now come to mean ‘the more the better’. And brands, even the most popular ones, are resorting to buying fans and followers to boost their social media stats. However, buying your social media audience could do more harm than good and here’s why.
The consumer of the digital age is empowered with a voice that finds its way on various channels of social media. One bad experience, and the beleaguered customers get on a personal vendetta to vent out at the brand. While the customer plight is understandable, and brands should make all efforts to provide a seamless, smooth customer experience, the truth is stuff does go wrong, people make mistakes and every once in a while the customer may not have the perfect experience he signed up for. However, as much as the business owes the customer, the customer too has certain responsibilities. Here are a few ways we can do better at our roles at consumers, and instead of trying to resort to aggression or rudeness, help both the company and themselves enjoy a mutually respectful, healthy and complaints- free relationship.
Apart from the stock market, which appears risky, there are several places where your savings can be invested. Many products are also purchased from a tax saving point of view and that too at the last moment, which often results in wealth erosion. We bring the five must-have investment options for any professional.