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Is emotional intelligence just a buzzword, or is it a valued trait in the hiring world, and how far do you think you would be able to harness it to your advantage. It is a given that highly emotionally intelligent people come across as more successful and it is also true that companies at times bend over backwards to recruit them. Openness to Experience It may be less prominent in the IT field and might be highly sought after in sales and marketing. Personality and EQ are closely connected; hiring managers try and gauge you for essential personality traits like ...

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Have you been harping on your current skill set for a long time? Well you are most likely to retort back saying you have been on the right career course making satisfactory progress and hitting every target and personal goal of yours. Step off the Beaten Neural Track All of that is entirely correct; however the path you have treaded so far has been in the most parts just incremental rather than being transformational. Are you basking in the glory of adroitly dealing with the vagaries of life, it may appear that you have set your sights really high, at ...

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Have you ever considered the spaces where we work, the people we work alongside, when you come to think of it you would realize, they make the most of our working lives or should we say they are a significant part of our lives. Patterns for Workplace Happiness When it comes to workplace happiness, it is viewed as some distant outcome rather than being an enduring prerequisite of our working lives. Are you in the habit of interrupting people when they express either fondness or intense dislike for their jobs and go ahead and candidly ask why. Well what ensues, ...

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Visualize a person clasping a stress ball, the same malleable toy that fits in the palms, squeezed with hands and manipulated with the fingers ostensibly to relieve stress and release muscle tension, alternatively it is used to exercise the muscles of the hand. The point is no matter what one does to the ball, its extraordinary ability to return to its original form after being kneaded, crushed, pressed, flattened and compressed with a vice like grip is indeed phenomenal. Though just an analogy and an apt one at that, it depicts the ability of a person to readily recover from ...

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When people envision a career as kids, their perception is, they have figured it all out. They eventually reach college and start harboring the feeling that they would surely get a job doing what they love in college, then work their way up the career ladder, they envision themselves as becoming all the more effective as well as fulfilled with time and as each year passes by and the performance reviews happen they would emerge more and more successful career wise. The reality dawns when the situation one finds oneself in is not near as rosy to the youthful vision ...

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