The characteristics of a good, though not-deep relationship include mutual respect as people and as professionals and commitment to help each other, if in limited ways. They do not need to include shared interests beyond the narrow field in which the two people network together.
The Case for Shallow relationships
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 9:14am
Ford Harding, consultant and expert on Professional Services Marketing, posts on his blog:
I'll be at the SHRM India meet at Hyderabad today
Fri, 05/09/2008 - 4:19am
If you are going to be there too, then let's meet.
SHRM India is the Indian chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management.
Details here. Call Shrividhya to get more info.by Gautam Ghosh | Linkedin | Facebook Page | Orkut | MyBlogLog
SHRM India is the Indian chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management.
Details here. Call Shrividhya to get more info.by Gautam Ghosh | Linkedin | Facebook Page | Orkut | MyBlogLog
Setting Up a Competency Center
Thu, 05/08/2008 - 10:13am
An email a reader sent me:
Let me introduce myself. I head the competency management center at xyz, inc.
I request you to share your knowledge on, setting up a Competency Center. I would want to work on the following this year
Let me introduce myself. I head the competency management center at xyz, inc.
I request you to share your knowledge on, setting up a Competency Center. I would want to work on the following this year
The role of trainer
Thu, 05/08/2008 - 8:18am
On a training e-group there was a discussion whether it is correct or proper for trainers to use the group as a resource bank to ask for presentations on various soft-skill topics.
This got me to think about the role of a trainer and I posted this email to the group:
This got me to think about the role of a trainer and I posted this email to the group:
Plaxo taking on Linkedin
Thu, 05/08/2008 - 4:53am
Stealthily contact management site Plaxo has been adding functionalities to take on business networking site Linkedin as well as trying to become a platform for people to integrate their disparate online personas (like Friendfeed for example)
Getting Free and Getting High
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:52pm
I recently completed an online survey on Career Anchors that my Organizational Behavior professor from XLRI, Dr. R.K. Premarajan asked his former students to do.
Insights You Can Get from Exit Management
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 12:37pm
Getting Insights from Employee Exit Process
Wed, 05/07/2008 - 11:05am
Ready for Chief Blogging Officers?
Tue, 05/06/2008 - 5:00pm
OK, this article on the Workforce site (hat-tip Kaushik) seems to be the perfect example of a link bait, and I'm biting it :-).
Using Blogs to Brand Yourself for Career Growth
Mon, 05/05/2008 - 7:44am
"Jigyasa" (meaning 'curiosity'), is the annual journal of MHROD (Master of Human Resource & Organizational Development) which was conceived by Delhi School of Economics in 1995.
Some really good HR related posts
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 6:09pm
The Evil HR lady tells someone working in a small firm how to deal with a lousy pay raise.
SystematicHR looks at the reasons why Taleo seems to be going downmarket.
SystematicHR looks at the reasons why Taleo seems to be going downmarket.
Getting my own domain name
Thu, 05/01/2008 - 6:54pm
In case you are wondering why I haven't been blogging too much, there are two reasons.
Twitter has been taking up my time for me to connect with social networks and other bloggers and social media enthusiasts, thanks to the absolutely cool Twitterfox - an extension for Firefox.
Twitter has been taking up my time for me to connect with social networks and other bloggers and social media enthusiasts, thanks to the absolutely cool Twitterfox - an extension for Firefox.
MonsterIndia adds video resumes
Sun, 04/27/2008 - 7:35pm
Just noticed that MonsterIndia has the feature for jobseekers to add and upload their video resumes.
Looking forward to work
Sun, 04/27/2008 - 6:48pm
Erik on the SucessFactors blog crunches some numbers:
For a global financial service company with about 2 Billion Euros of labor cost and 35K employees there is an average cost per employee of 57K Euros. With 6% absent for sick leave that would mean that 2100 employees are absent at a cost of 120M Euro per year. If that sick leave could be reduced to 5% this company would have 350 more people working while directly saving 20M Euro. This example though showing significant cost savings is only looking at the direct cost of this absence, and not at the more strategic impact of lost business opportunities, or the individual human costs. Though there are arguments for fixing systematic problems caused by over generous sick pay, there is really nothing organizations can do about it in the short term… or is there?
CR and not HR?
Sun, 04/27/2008 - 6:40pm
DubDubs has a very insightful post on how the "resources" in HR are Competencies and not Humans.
My theory is not that we are the resource, but we have the KSA’s (in old school terms) that can be resources. In today’s terms, I think we’re talking about competencies. In general, we can manage the competencies into a master repository (with a decent knowledge management practice), but in practice, this does not really seem to have been well applied in most organizations. We’re still dependent on people to bring competencies to work with them every day.
Network 18 vs The Times of India
Sun, 04/27/2008 - 6:25pm
It seems to be a good time to be a business journalist in India. With Network 18 getting ready to launch Indian editions of Forbes magazine and the Financial Times.
So good that it's making the big bosses at the Times of India jittery. They apparently approached network 18 for a no-poaching agreement that was rejected, according to media blog Sans Serif:
So good that it's making the big bosses at the Times of India jittery. They apparently approached network 18 for a no-poaching agreement that was rejected, according to media blog Sans Serif:
With ToI executive editor Jaideep Bose, aka JoJo, being mentioned as a possible editor of FT, the Times group is understandably apprehensive of a newsroom exodus and an exponential increase in costs to retain talented staff.
Goldman Sachs lures Peeyush Misra away from Bear Stearns
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 4:23am
It was a pleasant surprise to read on CNNMoney.com that my classmate from school days, Peeyush Misra was picked by GS. Way to go, Peeyush!
CEO and Co-founder of Reffster leaves
Thu, 04/24/2008 - 4:24am
The Jobster.com idea took 2 years to unravel in the US, however seems like the referral jobsite idea in India is just too premature to take off. Ranjit Jatar who was CEO of Reffster.com has left the startup (covered on this blog earlier) and is currently being managed by the other two co-founders Arjun and Arun Yadav.
Job Ad for Creating Spam Blogs
Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:20am
On doing a search for the keyword blogging on timesjobs.com this brazenly unethical job description made me sit up and take notice! It asks people to copy paste articles from other sites.
Lessons from History
Wed, 04/23/2008 - 7:03am
As the economy tightens and the 'good times' of the last couple of years head to a 'possibly not so good times' ahead, Sanjeev Bikhchandani looks back to the year of the dotcom bust. Good stuff for all wannabe entrepreneurs:
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