25 Things You Should Never Include on a Resume

Applying for a new job comes with its fair share of rejections, setbacks, frustrations and perhaps even lonely periods of unemployment. If you`ve been turned down for position after position, you could be getting desperate and may want to shake things up a bit so that your résumé will stand out from the piles of others stacked quietly in HR. Before you decide to get too creative, there are some rules to résumé etiquette that you should follow. ...
Published about 09-08-2008 | Rated +29

Recruitment process

Recruitment & Selection What we understand by that? Recruitment is a positive action, which results in receiving lots of application. But we are concerned and paid for selecting the right candidate from the whole bunch of applications that we receive. But when we talk about hiring or filling a position, we don`t refer to has selection process, rather it is referred to as recruitment process. For the very reason, that selection is the end result of recruitment. If we follow the proces...
Submitted by Radha | Rated +27

Whacky One Liners {}{}{}

Hi, ================================================== == Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee. ================================================== === I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash. ================================================== Don`t marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without,,, but whatever you do, you`ll regret it later. =========================================...
Submitted by Arun | Rated +14

6 in 10 HR Professionals Think They`re Underpaid

Well over half of human resources professionals believe that they are underpaid, according to the combined results of a recent HR.BLR.com/Compensation.BLR.com poll. When asked "How do you feel about your pay?," 60 percent responded "I am underpaid." Meanwhile, 38 percent responded "I am paid just about the right amount." Just 2 percent responded "I am overpaid." Interestingly, respondents to the HR.BLR.com poll were much more likely to report that they...
Published about 09-08-2008 | Rated +11

*Important for girls.... ..*

*Important for girls.... ..* * Tell this to all your female friends and save them from a possible situation... * A woman at a Gas nightclub (Mumbai) on Saturday night was taken by 5 men,Who according to hospital and police reports, gang raped her before Dumping her at Bandstand Mumbai. Unable to remember the events of the evening, tests later confirmed the repeat rapes along with traces of rohypnol in her blood. Rohypnol , date rape drug is an essentially a small sterili...
Submitted by Cute Boy | Rated +11

Art of saying NO

We`ve all been in this situation. Somebody asks us to do him or her a favor and, though there are a gazillion other things we should do first, we find it difficult to turn the other person down because he or she has done us a favor in the past, or is a close friend or a family member. The concept of gratitude prevails and we find ourselves trapped in something we really didn`t know why we committed to. We can sometimes be so worried at causing disappointment in other people, often at the expe...
Submitted by Psy.Visesh... | Rated +10

A rags to riches story of two techie brothers...

Please read this, very inspiring. From the humble environs of the village in which they were born to the sophisticated corporate world, successfully breaking the shackles of poverty that ruined the mirth of their boyhood, the two brothers - Kumar Srinivasan as the General Manager, Vice President of Technology and Head of Amazon Bangalore Center and Kalyan Raman as the CEO of Global Scholar - today reign the corporate world. On Diwali morning in 1987 Kumar Srinivasan woke up just as he did ev...
Submitted by Rajesh | Rated +10

Future CEOs may emerge from HR departments

Successful officers from marketing and finance departments were so far finding it easy to make it to the top position of CEO or COO, but the present time recommends human resource (HR) directors to be having more qualities to take up such prestigious posts. In a tough economic situation companies are more conscious about employee relations and development. Leaders with strong people skills who can drive their work force to achieve high levels of performance are in great demand. As poor financ...
Submitted by Adarsh.N | Rated +10

An Engineer from IIT, now a Farmer

One of the most interesting themes at this year`s Pan-IIT event was the session on rural transformation. IITians who have chosen an offbeat career hogged the limelight at the event. In this series, we feature some of the IITians who preferred to be different, rather than get into a corporate rat race. The star at the event was R Madhavan, an alumnus of IIT-Madras. This is Madhavan`s success story as a farmer. . . Passion for agriculture I had a passion for agriculture even when I was ...
Submitted by Srinivas | Rated +9

What Does HR Do, Anyway?

Pop-quiz: What does HR do? (Hint: “Get in the way” isn’t the right answer) I’ve heard a lot of answers to that question, but the one I like best is short and simple: HR aligns employee behaviors with business strategies. If you read my last article, then you already know how to conduct an analysis of your company’s competitive strategies. Today we’re going to be talking about defining and assessing behaviors that support those strategies. In order to really drive employee behav...
Published about 10-02-2009 | Rated +9