Managing your career also means knowing how to manage your personal life. Generally, we think about balancing work and home but when the time comes to make a decision about a new job we have a tendency to forget the person who will support us through the transition and help us to reach our goals.
A provocative film whose subject concerns all those who work in human resources, recruitment, executive search and those who have ever lost their job or who could potentially lose it tomorrow.
Managing internal careers? Myth or reality? My first position in human resource management was concerned with managing careers internally. In this position, I remember developing job maps and skill profiles to help employees change positions more easily within the company according to the skills and key competences they were developing.
Your time is precious I know! But recently a HR Director told me that he had stopped waiting for internal managers to “pass over recruitment instructions” to him and that he was getting ahead by suggesting candidates.
Go back to square one. You have let that rare gem slip through your fingers again, yet you know that talent is scarce and good candidates do not grow on trees. But what came over you? Too eager? Attack of paranoia? Act of vengeance against your manager by making him miss his chance?
Open letter to candidatesYou ask me what you must say or do in order to get a promotion or a new job, well then you should know what I don’t want to hear anymore! So, in 2006 please don’t say to me anymore...
The corporate clock This morning, while opening the door to your office you realized that it has been ten years (already!) since you came through it for the first time. You’ve just realized how time flies, as if suddenly a voice inside whispered to you: “Help, I’ve become part of the furniture.”
Admit it!You didn’t see that one coming did you? Since you have at last finalized the salary equity program, and your salary scale has been minutely studied, “benchmarked” and revised with your financial advisors, you think that things will be peaceful for some time. But lo and behold, this morning one of your colleagues came to ask you for a salary review, basically: They want a raise!
X, Y, and soon Z, each generation follows the next and is not like any other—except in its difficulty to be understood by the one before it. The baby boomers certainly had as much trouble with their elders as the Ys will have with the Xs and so on. In short, each generation views the new wave of young professionals as though they were a bunch of space aliens, while the newcomers, for their part, find their elders out of date and not in synch with the "new realities."
Evaluation: Directions for use Who actually appreciates the “notorious” ? It’s rare to find someone who perceives the event in a positive and constructive manner, whatever side of the table they may find themselves on.