Top 12 Asian Business Leaders to Follow on Twitter in 2014
While there are a great many lists of business leaders from Asia, it seems that not many Asian leaders have a presence on or are using Twitter. For example, you won’t find the heads of some of Asia’s biggest companies such as Toyota, Samsung or Lenovo, tweeting. Therefore, it is with painstaking attention that I’ve […]
Talent Management Predictions and Solutions for 2014: Talent will Rise (Again)
Talent related initiatives have taken a beating since 2008’s economic downturn, resulting in cost cutting via salary reductions. Due to scarce alternative employment options, employees remained silent as cultivating talent was put on the back burners by corporations. Salaries increased at a marginal pace and wherever possible, employers did not replace people who left or […]
My Top HR Posts of 2013 and How You Can Help in 2014
2013 is whittling down. On behalf of Engage Consulting we’d like to wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful year ahead. I also want to take a quick look at how this year shaped up in terms of my blogging and where it’s headed in the future. – I wrote approximately 60 […]
Is There a More Outdated Term on a Resume than “References Available on Request”?
Your resume is the first impression a prospective employer gets of you, so ideally everything you want them to know should be presented in clear, open and concise manner. We all know the basic contents of the most important document for a job hunter. But the one phrase which can almost declare the best of […]
3 Bad Ass Ways to Recruit and Retain Talent like Breaking Bad’s Walter White
Breaking Bad’s Walter White had such a lasting impact with viewers that Time magazine named him as the most influential fictional character of 2013. Your top leadership team needs to build the same kind of fierce loyalty and dedication by making the right crucial hiring decisions. When you attract, recruit and retain talent like Walter White, you build a close knit loyal team that works powerfully well together. Here are three talent recruitment principles that Walt practiced.
5 Steps to Becoming a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor
Glassdoor is an online employment portal that lets employees rate the companies they work for on multiple criteria like compensation, culture, CEO’s effectiveness and more. Its ratings model is unique because, unlike corporate research publications, Glassdoor’s company ratings are completely crowdsourced. This opens up a goldmine of opportunities for companies to get on Glassdoor’s radar […]
Top 5 Morning Activities that Successful Leaders Do While Still in Bed
Do you reach for your smart phone as soon as you wake up? If you answered ‘yes’, you’re not alone. According to a 2013 study by IDC and Facebook, 4 out of 5 people reach for their smartphones within 15 minutes of waking up. However, most of the world’s successful leaders are not just waking […]
What Women Can Do To Succeed in the Pakistani Workplace
This is the last blog on my Women@Work special. Over the past weeks I shared with you a number of insights on the state of gender diversity in corporate Pakistan; what female employees want from their employers, how Pakistani companies are living up to their expectations and how they can create more female friendly workplaces. […]
How To Become A Female Friendly Workplace
Today is the third blog of the Women @ Work series. We spoke about how Pakistan has a long way to go in driving gender diversity, what women are looking for and how Pakistani companies are scoring against these expectations. Today, it is all about how organizations can create a Female Friendly Workplace, a workplace that genuinely believes […]
Only 2 Out Of 14 Leading Pakistani Companies Are A Female Friendly Workplace
Last week we launched our Women @ Work Pakistan 2013 report. We had some great responses and would like to thank you for your interest and support in moving the gender diversity agenda in Pakistan forward. One of the key objectives was to find out what women in Pakistan are expecting from their employers and […]
