According to researchers, the average worker will change careers five to seven times in their lifetime. Career planning is an activity that should be done at least once a year. For an employee to succeed in a constantly changing workplace, he/she requires a career plan. An employer always wants to attract, hire and retain an
What Is Project Management? According to Wikipedia, project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. Project management is an important business tool that provides many advantages to small businesses and organizations. It makes provision for repeatable processes, guidelines, and techniques that can
People take time off and return to their jobs after an agreed period of time, while in some cases they leave completely to explore other frontiers. Sometimes, circumstances compel you into taking a career break, either by virtue of losing your job, being burnout with the job, or other responsibilities; like starting a family, having
In the job market today, there are a lot of job positions that employers keep advertising every day but getting a suitable candidate for the job can be very difficult sometimes. Employers rely on other people such as past employees or current employers to refer the appropriate candidate for a job position. As an employee
Introduction The process of hiring new employees to fill vacant positions in organizations is in different stages and phases; it begins with posting or advertising the available position and ends with the eventual selection of the most qualified and standout candidate, who ticked all boxes and successfully convinced interviewers. Depending on the organization, reference checks
Do you remember when you wanted to sell an idea to your superiors at work? No matter the outcome, you might need to talk about it one day – with an interviewer. It can be intimidating and scary to talk about this experience especially if it was not well-received. For interviewers, questions like these give
Organizations and companies often carry out performance reviews to ascertain if their workers are improving or not. Depending on the organization, such reviews are carried out quarterly or annually as the case might be. However, as an employee, you shouldn’t wait for a performance review before you take steps and strive to improve your work
Parallel careers. Are you familiar with the term? Maybe or maybe not but it is quite common to hear people say they work two or more jobs. Is that what holding parallel careers is? What is it not? Are there consequences? The concept of having parallel careers refers to having multiple professional careers at the
Competition means battling with another for the same thing. Incubating this in your workplace can add lots of advantages to your business. If you’re thinking that this will be tricky, then you are right which is why this should be undertaken carefully and we are here to help you out. Wherever there is competition, increased
The dream of every graduate or job seeker is to eventually be hired. Although the job market has become more competitive than before, every applicant remains confident about getting the job they applied for. Contrary to some opinions, several things determine whether you get the job or not. One of such things is the state
