From My Desk

For readers who have followed my blog for quite some time, you will observe I have written a couple of posts about job hunting over the last few years, providing job seekers with the requisite resources that will come handy in the pursuit of their dream jobs. Unemployed graduates have been of major concern to me since I have found myself in this situation time and again, and never found it funny. My focus in this post is to drum home the absolute necessity for thorough preparation when job hunting. It was Benjamin Franklin who aptly noted, “ By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”             Scores of unemployed graduates are focused on submitting job applications and getting invited for job interviews with hopes of landing their dream jobs. This is well and good. However, there is also the tendency to while away time while on a job hunting drive. Many unemployed graduates simply hope that their efforts at landing jobs will one day ...

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude” –Zig Ziglar            Professionals are recruited into organizations not on the grounds of charity but largely on the basis of applicants` qualifications and competence. In the scheme of things, the employer expects a certain level of productivity from the employee. In some quarters, there are performance indicators and quotas. The more productive an employee, the better for the organization he or she works for. The sad reality, however, is that, for one reason or the other, some employees who definitely are skilled, competent and well qualified for the job over time develop some sort of a lackadaisical attitude towards work and only put up their best when they are under the watchful eyes of supervisors. Some hitherto efficient employees attend to their daily tasks with a less than appropriate attitude and this impact negatively on their productivity. The reverse is the case with emp...