The Workosaur Blog

Keep yourself updated to keep your career on the right track, yet another Workosaur Linkfest bring you the best career advice from around the world.

1. Hate social networks? Sick of people poking you on Facebook and asking for recommendations on LinkedIn. Suck it up! Your network will soon be your be a Job Qualification.
2. Marshal Goldsmith answers 2 relevant career questions on the Harvard Blog.
a. Do you have any advice for someone who is just getting started in the stressful workforce?
b. How to Overcome Discrimination and Get the Promotion You Want? The question was asked by an Afrian American woman in the workforce, but the response is just as relevant for anyway facing discrimination.
3. Anne Holland on how to survive and flourish despite marketing layoffs?
4. Sylvia Ann Hewlett on how the financial sector is maintaining gender diversity in tough times?
5. Too much competition among workers causes jealousy/envy among employees and reduces workplace productivity - University of Notre Dame Study.

What do you do when you want to impress at work? You make a PPT. PPT files unlike a Word document are easy to navigate; they can be peppered with cool visuals and multimedia in the forms of images, videos, graphs and more. With the help of these you can really drive through your ideas and make a great impression.

Yet when it comes to selling ourselves, we still use the archaic word document CVs. One company is out to change all that - VisualCV.com.

A typical VisualCV looks like this (the founder Philip Merrick’s CV). Read the rest of this entry »

Many of us have a dream company that we would like to work for. Getting the right person attention requires some serious networking and even then there is a fair element of chance.

Now it seems there is one more way out, some never say die souls are using their Facebook connections to help them out and they are not shy to advertise themselves, through Facebook ads.
Read more about it here.

Now I thought I would give it a shot myself to see how much it would cost. I mean come on, I never saw a newspaper ad for “Job wanted” or newapaper ads that look like Resumes right! That just costs too much! Read the rest of this entry »

Another feast of links for those in the career fast lane:
1. Simply Superb advice from Robert Scoble on how to get attention when applying for a job. A great list of do’s and don’ts.
2. Mukul Kumar has 5 hacks for startup hiring in India. Must read for startups who are looking to hire and those looking to join startups.
3. How to tackle troublesome team members – from Harvard Business Reviews Ask the Coach Blog
4. Seth Godin has great advice for those who only focus on 1 single aspect of their career. He says don’t! Break it up into 16 boxes… (works equally well when marketing a product)
5. Maybe you can’t make money doing what you love – its worth a shot, Seth Godin (again) tells you how.
6. Mark Drapeau over at Mashabale tells us how to execute AGAINST your resume. And why everyone should and will use social tools to help their career.
7. This one is for the ladies, actually its for Opportunistic Businesswomen. The very appropriately titled SNOBS – an Australian Social Network for Opportunistic Businesswomen. Men everywhere, be afraid, be very afraid!

Yash scours the web for some really interesting stuff for workosaurs.
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Recession and Job-loss related Articles:
Robert Scoble on what to do if you lose your job during this recession
Web Worker daily on how to recession-proof your career

Using the web in your efforts to get a Job:
Read Write Web on web-enabled job hunting
Marketing Pilgrim on Why your Google reputation hurt your career?
Web Strategist on How Andrew got a job at Forrester by reading a blog
Web Worker Daily on the social media resume
Importance of a simple online resume
How the Infosys blog is a recruitment channel

Many of us use our work computers for personal purposes as it can be quite a pain to keep shifting between the personal computer and the work computer. Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, it’s important to make sure that your personal information isn’t left behind when you leave your job. That way, you won’t have to worry about someone accessing your personal information in your absence.

Here’s a 10-step checklist that will guide you in the clean-up of your work computer, after which it can be turned in. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a guest post by Mr. Yash Asher - Online Marketing Specialist. He also blogs about Online Media at Asheresque.
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Who is the most efficient employee in your office? The one, who remembers everything, can pull out old mails in a jiffy, the kind that makes the rest of us look like monkeys attempting to play chess. You want to kill him but not before finding out his secret.  Have a look at his email inbox. I have a hunch you will find levels of organization an army general would be proud of.

For the rest of us mere mortals there are 2 options
• use Gmail as mail client (not allowed in most companies)
• or use Xobni (inbox spelt backwards, currently works well with MS Outlook) Read the rest of this entry »

This is a guest post by Amit Bhagria, a Recruitment Consultant at one of the oldest and largest recruitment companies in India. This post was originally published by him on November 14, 2007 on his blog titled Global Trends in Human Resource Management and is being published here with his permission. The post talks about how blogs are proving to be a medium for recruiters to spot prospective employees. Read the rest of this entry »