Achieving Personal Excellence
Personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all invisible and intangible assets that you can acquire. Achieving personal excellence in your business or industry requires lifelong dedication. But once you get into the top 10 percent of your field, you will be one of the highest paid people in the country. You [...]

Applying for job in Pakistan is taken lightly, I have seen many a times. Though the candidates need the job badly, they hardly do any work in the preparation for the job. They always apply in the same fashion for every job, i.e. they do it blindly.
It is very important and imperative that you must [...]

To be honest, the dearth of jobs in Pakistan compel the job seekers to just accept what looks slightly reasonable in the name of salary. The candidates know that they are lucky to be in job and employed and they just accept whatever comes their way.
Especially the rookies, beginners and fresh graduates tend to be [...]

Job seeking in anywhere in the world including Pakistan is becoming increasing difficult and competitive. The important role, the way we approach the job seeking, is adopting in our quest demands that we remain abreast of the demands of industry.
The industry out there not only want your technical or related-to-field know-how, they also demand that [...]

Almostgotit has a great posting up on Playing to Win.  She notes that the workforce is a tough place to be these days and asks:
“How should a person navigate these ever-deepening waters? At the risk of adding to the flood, Almostgotit would like to propose that:

Even the best advice is only as good [...]

Being able to communicate effectively at work is essential to any professional’s success regardless of which department he is working in. Most people do not pay much attention to their communication skills and as a result get easily overlooked at the time of annual promotions. Communication skills are not only important for interacting with the [...]

I love the beginning of a new year, it is a great chance to refocus and either re-evaluate goals you are working to or even set new ones. I don’t have any statistics to measure this but I am sure that one of the more popular new year’s resolutions in the general [...]

In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a follow up, I’d like to discuss cover letters. Here’s my basic philosophy on them: don’t bother.
That’s because the cover letters I see usually fall into one of three categories:
The recap: The [...]

Man is capable of performing miracles. A man can swim the English Channel three times, drink a hundred mugs of beer, walk barefoot on burning coals; he can learn thirty languages, become an Olympic champion at boxing, invent the television or the bicycle, become a general in the GRU or make himself a millionaire. It’s [...]

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.  ~Whitney Young, Jr.
One can not help but concord with young, jr especially in the context of ever increasing pain of unemployment in Pakistan. As per the record Pakistan is world’s 25th biggest economy yet it is ailed by unemployment, dwindling [...]

I think we need to write bit more on this subject in order to make the clear separation between “doing” and “being” at work.
when I used the word effort less I did not mean without effort or work.
By effortless I mean making something while being present (here and now) = being
What I think we often [...]

At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away.
“I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell [...]

Seventy years ago this summer, in June of 1940, an aging British politician, who for the previous twenty years had seemed to his countrymen to be one of those entertaining, eccentric, essentially literary figures littering the margins of political life, got up to make a speech in the House of Commons. The British Expeditionary Forces [...]

From the world’s poorest communities to the corner offices of its largest corporations, ambitious employees struggle with the same basic challenge: how to gain the strength and insights not just to manage but to lead. For more than a decade, from three different perspectives, we have been investigating what gets in the way. Robin conducts [...]

Editor’s Note: When the members of the class of 2010 entered business school, the economy was strong and their post-graduation ambitions could be limitless. Just a few weeks later, the economy went into a tailspin. They’ve spent the past two years recalibrating their worldview and their definition of success.
The students seem highly aware of how [...]

On the day of the big football game between the University of Missouri Tigers and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State, a football scout named Dan Shonka sat in his hotel, in Columbia, Missouri, with a portable DVD player. Shonka has worked for three National Football League teams. Before that, he was a football coach, and [...]

I’ve been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I’m far from the player I wish I were.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I’ve taken the opportunity, for the first time in many years, to play tennis nearly [...]

Captain Greg Davis is an outstanding fishing guide. I went out with him early one morning off the coast of Savannah, GA and came back a few hours later with several fish like the one in the picture. Most other guides came back that morning with nothing.
What makes Greg such [...]

Isn´t anyone out there reading “What Color Is Your Parachute?” by Richard Nelson Bolles? Write the decision maker a letter with specific suggestions about solving problems, creating opportunities. At the end you can add a P.S. with a sentence, maximum two, about your background, and that you are, of course, [...]

As someone who has been both a hiring manager and an applicant within the past year, here are my thoughts:
Ignore the cover letter at your own risk. Earlier this year we posted for an entry-level position and received over 1,000 applications. The roughly half that came in without cover letters went into [...]