How to improve organizational performance through personal growth
Job openings easily draw hundreds of resumes and yours could just as easily drown in the white noise. How to make your resume stand out and get you the phone calls from recruiters? What to include and what to leave out? Today, we have a special guest, Mary Springer, CPHR, Principal Consultant in a recruiting […]
Barry B Benson, the lead character in the animated comedy The Bee Movie had to challenge the entire premise of the bee society that forced its members to choose one job for life. We, the humans, on the other hand, are not constrained by that kind of societal order. Not only we are free to […]
Happy New Year and hope your holiday season was great. I am one of those people who expected to get a lot done during the holiday downtime in terms of catching up on my personal goals and planning. Yet, what I actually accomplished during that time was less than what I had anticipated. The remaining […]
Can you believe a whole year passed since the launch of this blog? It has been quite a journey and it would have never been so joyful and meaningful without all of you, my dearest readers – those who have been with us since day one and those who have joined in the more recent […]
I have a wish for Christmas and I hope you can kindly make it come true. It all started the first year I moved away from my home in Azerbaijan to go to school in the US nearly two decades ago. During the months leading up to my first winter break, my university roommates instilled […]
Have you ever noticed that truly successful, self-made people, who achieved higher highs in their profession and their life, are, usually the humblest ones too? They treat others with the utmost respect and are quick to point out what’s good in people. On the other hand, those who only have limited power in their hands, […]
Feedback is integral to our improvement and growth in any area – whether in personal or professional life. Even for someone with a high work ethics who is already producing quality results, feedback provides the much-needed outsider’s perspective in identifying any areas that need attention and finding the best solutions for them. I would like […]
Those of you who are friends with me – on Facebook or in real life – know that early in the year I chose “Be Yourself, But Be Your Best Self” as my motto for 2017. Now, as the year is rapidly nearing its end, I would like to look back and ask – what […]
Always Remember Always remember to forget, the things that made you sad, But never forget to remember, the things that made you glad. Always remember to forget, the friends that proved untrue. But never forget to remember those that have stuck by you. Always remember to forget the troubles that passed away, But never forget […]
Clocks fell back by an hour on November 5th in most of the States and Canada as the Daylight Savings Time ended for 2017. Sure, this gave us an extra hour of sleep this past Sunday, but are the benefits of this semi-annual tradition of changing clocks really worth the trouble of going through it? […]