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Is Changing Jobs the Best Way to Get a Raise?

August 27, 2011
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| Categories: Career, Getting a raise, HR, Jobs, Salary, Workplace

In a recent employee survey by Mercer it was found that one in two employee is seriously considering leaving their jobs for better opportunities in terms of career and base pay. Interestingly around 66% of employees under age 24 are seriously considering leaving. It leads to an interesting question that I have been pondering over and researching informally:Is changing jobs the best way to get a raise?After say more than 15 years work experience, do you think someone who has hopped jobs more regularly will be paid more than someone…

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Lies While Quitting

March 4, 2011
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| Categories: HR, Jobs, Lies While Quitting, people management, Work, Workplace

@sidin posed a question on Twitter about lies we give while quitting a job. I am sure there’s a full article out with a lot more research. Over the years, I have heard many reasons that people give while quitting. These reasons are not necessarily lies in all cases. These are just a collection of some reasons that I figured were lies after the person had left the organization."I want to do something different" (when the will continue in the same industry doing the same thing)"I am getting a better…

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Career Paths for Trainers

December 20, 2010
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| Categories: Career, career paths, Jobs, Learning, Management, people management, trainers, Training, Work, Workplace

Someone asked a question on the career growth paths for trainers on one of our internal forums. And about the same time I came across this interesting blog post which talks about not worrying about career path and living your career story, written by Jason Seiden. It is from Dan McCarthy’s list of 20 Best Leadership Blog Posts of 2010. Just loved the way Jason explains the need to dump career paths and focus on building your career stories. . So, what could be a Trainer's career stories? While it…

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Collaboration: It’s Not About Technology, It’s About the Culture

November 21, 2010
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| Categories: Collaboration, Employee portals, Google Docs, Micro-blogging, micro-messaging, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Socialcast, Socialtext, Technology, Tools, Webex, Windows Live SkyDrive, Workplace, Yammer, Zoho

I got a chance to talk about how companies can use technology internally to collaborate and share more effectively. I started with examining what’s currently in use in organizations.Email is the most commonly used collaborative tool. Unfortunately it is also perhaps the worst tool for open collaboration in an organization. You can only collaborate with people you send the email to. And the information is then trapped in email inboxes of people who were communicating with each other, with no access to others. The information isn’t shared beyond the people…

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