When you take admission in a college, you choose a field for yourself. It may be science, management, language, medicine, engineering and so on. What makes you select that field of education? You are normally influenced by the people around you, your peers, and the people whom you seek guidance from. Many times we depend on our parents to take the decision for us. There are students who move to the area where there is a maximum influx (we call...

You are doing a job and doing well. You are skilled and your performance is recognised by the organisation. You are on a path of career growth and happy with life till the calamity strikes. You were so strong in your mind that “come what may I will tide it over” feeling was eclipsing everything else. But still the forces left you in a lurch. Can you imagine what these forces could be? Look at the sentences below to understand it. THE FACTS THAT...

It is very common to hear about the companies implementing innovative initiatives and proactive programs for building a culture of employee engagement. There are many others that are still thinking about where to start and have no foreseeable plans for the future. The organizations may have a strong company culture but may not have an engaged workforce. Thus, it is a wide open area and the industry must look at the employees’ perspective in...

The significance of practical training along with the theoretical knowledge is well understood by the educational institutions. During the school days, we had the laboratories for doing the practical for science subjects. Today, we have the computer labs and Mathematics labs also. Sports activity was anyway all physical work on the field. What we read in the theory was also seen practically through the experiments in the laboratories. It helped...

Every individual who is doing a job faces a situation in his career when he gets a chance to become an adult. It does sound confusing but it is a fact. You begin a full-time job after you attain the adult age but you enter the career track as a novice with practically little or no experience. The situation is that of an adolescent who may be a fresh intern or a trainee.  You get all the protection and guidance but are free to make the mistakes...

The companies that are searching for candidates are applying new techniques to hire people. A Bangalore-based start-up “Belong” is assisting the companies in hiring the candidates as per their needs. The latest technique devised by them for sourcing the best engineers from a professional network for programmers called “stack overflow.” This is an information repository and forum, all rolled in one and Belong feels that it is a place where the...