What is the professional culture you find yourself working in at the moment, is it in consonance with international working norms. How many hours do you clock each week, is that constant or varies on an ongoing basis. Professional Life Have you ever paused to ask yourself how is stress impacting your professional as well as personal life, if the impact is negative, to what extent? Do you avail all your paid holidays each year, or just half of them or even less? Work Ethic What is your opinion about taking pride in work ethic? Oftentimes when people consider themselves ...

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Job seekers often find themselves at the receiving end of persuasive advice, doled out to them from time to time and a recurring one happens to be about specializing in a given field in order to bag plum positions. Diverse Skill Set This is indeed great advice, what it omits is the fact that working in many different industries can be a big plus. When you have a varied job experience behind you, it is quite natural for you to have a diverse skill set as well and this in itself renders you more valuable to your employer. Pool of ...

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Did you ever ask yourself this all-important question, what are the secret ingredients that go into the making of an exceptionally successful career? Is your answer on the expected lines, a bit of hard work and some luck thrown in. Important Elements Hopefully, you studied hard and did all the proper things, made the right noises, you may expect to succeed and accomplish your aim with élan. Just ensure that you succeed in your endeavor by ticking all the right boxes. No doubt, all of these are really important elements of success. Caught Your Fancy Kalaripayattu the ancient martial arts was ...

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In today’s working world, going rogue in order to get things done is a usual requirement. Literally speaking, going rogue means ceasing to follow orders, and to act on one’s own discretion, which goes against the grain, the directions and most of all the expectations. The Best Course of Action Essentially it means pursuing your own interests. At the onset it may sound reckless as well as extreme, acting against orders and instructions. It is acting on your own and upholding your interests over those of other people. It is the daring to take initiatives, if it seemingly appears going ...

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Do you view creativity with suspicion, a necessary evil or something that can go a long way in helping you in your career in particular and your life in general? First of all, we need to acquaint ourselves with the basic premise of creativity, at its very basic, it is the tendency to go ahead and be able to generate and recognize ideas, consider alternatives and the possibilities. Complex Stimulation This finds implications in solving intricate problems, communicate with others, and entertain yourself as well as others. Now what exactly motivates people to be creative, well there is a pressing ...

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