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Here's Why You Should Appreciate Your System Administrator

Here’s Why You Should Appreciate Your System Administrator

Today, Friday, July 28, 2017, we are celebrating the 18th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special day, give your System Administrators something that shows your appreciation of their hard work and dedication.

Let’s admit it: Sometimes, we don’t even know who our System Administrators are. Or, we only remember them when we have troubles with the devices we use at work. Ther…

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#Appreciation Day #System Administrator

Stat Repository: Everything You Need to Know About Millennials in the Workplace

About 11 years ago, you won’t find jobs titles such as Digital Marketing Manager, Drone Operator, or job titles with affixes such as Generational Expert. Today, you can find job titles like Millennial Generational Expert.

Read: [Infographic] 10 Jobs That Didn’t Exist 11 Years Ago

Eleven years ago, most millennials were still at school. Today they’re a significant proportion of the workforce. And…

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#Human Resource Management #Millennial #Millennials #Talent Management

Where To Sit in Professional Settings

Apparently, where you are seated has a lot to contribute to your professional success.

Have you ever wondered why the “bibo kids” [translation: enthusiastic or achiever kids] always sit in front of the close and almost always close to the middle of the row?

Or have you ever found difficulty deciding where to sit in a room full of people you don’t know? Where do you usually sit? Why do you think…

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#Interviews #Meetings #Professional Settings

10 Jobs That Didn't Exist 11 Years Ago

10 Jobs That Didn’t Exist 11 Years Ago

In 2006, Facebook was in its infancy, Twitter was being launched, and nobody had iPhones. Ten years on, the world is a very different place, and so is the workplace.

Jobs exist now that we’d never heard of a decade ago. One estimate suggests that 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that aren’t on our radar yet.

This pace of…

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#Good to Know #Jobs

Establish Control over Your Digital Presence. Know How to Monitor Your Brand.

We’ve been through a lot already – from envisioning a brand plan, putting up your branding assets online and offline, and reaching out to people who can help you grow – so, what’s next?

In this article, we will talk about making sure your personal brand works for you and not against you. We will go through the reasons why it is important to monitor brand and how you can monitor it best.

The…

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#Branding #Career Development #Personal Branding

Learning From The Learned: How to Connect With Mentors

“What would you think if I sang out of tune

Would you stand up and walk out on me?

Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song

And I’ll try not to sing out of key

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends

Mm I get high with a little help from my friends

Mm gonna try with a little help from my friends”

The Beatles, With A Little Help From My Friends, 1997

Do we really need to have mentors?

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How to Build Your Personal Brand through Outreach

We already talked about building your personal branding assets. We’ve learned that these assets (i.e. your username, your professional/personal website, your social communities among others) serve as the “hub” of your personal branding efforts. As hubs of your branding effort, they serve as the servers of information about you.

However, it is difficult to actually build an audience if we let…

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#Personal Branding

How to Build Your Personal Brand Online and Offline

We’ve already covered how to build a personal brand vision or plan and how to define your target audience. It’s high time we talk about making your plan actually work. Of course, we start from the basics – building the brand you envisioned.

Just like any other brand, you must acquire a number of things that will communicate your brand. They are called branding assets. These include various things…

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#Branding #Personal Branding

Getting Seen, Getting Heard: How to Define Your Personal Brand's Target Audience

Getting Seen, Getting Heard: How to Define Your Personal Brand’s Target Audience

What’s the use of a great voice if only the bathroom walls hear you sing?

Similarly, your outstanding credentials, your terrific skills, and your valuable experience will never be known by the people who might truly spell a great difference in your career if you don’t let them get known, right?

If you want your splendid voice to be heard and recognized, you will need an audience. But it’s not…

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#Branding #Personal Brand

Getting Started with Personal Branding: Creating Your Brand Vision

Every time my little cousin catches a glimpse of that cute, smiling bee head with white and bright red colors, he’d yell “G-bee! G-bee! G-bee!”. Translation: Jollibee, the famous Filipino fast food chain. (This is not a sponsored post. LOL).

He doesn’t even know how to read yet. But every time he sees that red bee head, “g-bee” comes to his mind. Instantly. He knows what it is.

That is branding.

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#Branding #Personal Brand #Personal Branding

Why Women Stopped Coding

Modern computer science is a male-dominated field. A survey reveals that 92% of software engineers are men. But it hasn’t always been this way.

Did you know that there was once a time when computer programming was a women’s field?

Yes, computer programming used to be every girl’s dream job.

As a matter of fact, a lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers —

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#Programmers #Women

Talent Life Cycle 101: Fostering Growth Mindset in the Workplace

As an organization, we set goals and objectives so we can accomplish the overall business strategy and create and sustain a high-performance workforce.

By employing an appropriate performance management approach (PMA), we aim at establishing a ‘shared workforce understanding’ about what we want to achieve as a firm. We seek to align the objectives of the firm or the organization with that of the…

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#Career Management #Life Cycle #Talent #Talent Life Cycle

This Resume Builder Will Change the Way You Make Resumes

Writing your resume for the very first time can be very intimidating. For fresh graduates, writing a resume that gets the job is far more intimidating.

And we’ve all been there!

Staring at a blank document, wondering which of the many impressive attributes of yours to write is truly daunting.

Of course, deciding what information to put on your resume is one thing.

Presenting them on an actual…

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#Promo #Resume #Resume Builder

Talent Life Cycle 101: How to Sustain Employee Engagement Through Training and Development

Did you know that almost 9 out of 10 employees worldwide are not engaged at work? What happens then when your employees are disengaged?

For starters, employees who are not enthusiastic about their work will not reach their optimum level of productivity. In other words, they will not be very productive.

But when they are engaged and passionate about their work, magic happens. According to…

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#Career Management #Life Cycle #Recruiting #Talent Life Cycle

Talent Life Cycle 101: How to Ace Your Onboarding Process

This article is part three of our article series on talent life cycle. You can find the links to the previous two articles at the bottom of this article.

Did you know that 22% of employee turnover happens within the first 45 days of employment? What a shocker. Or, is it?

Many firms commit the mistake of expecting employees to get in the game and up to speed within the first week or two. That’s…

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#Career Management #How To Onboard #Onboarding #Recruiting #Talent #Talent Life Cycle #Talent Management

Talent Life Cycle 101: 4 Points to Consider When Assessing Candidates

This is the second part of our article series on talent life cycle. The first part of this series is “Talent Life Cycle 101: Talent Cannot Live Where There Is No Trust”.

In the first part of this series, we’ve talked about trust and how it helps organizations attract and retain great talent. We’ve established that a terrific employer brand is an effective way to foster trust.

To recap,…

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#Candidate Assessment #Candidate Screening #Interview Tips #Interviewing #Recruiting #Screening Candidates #Talent #Talent Life Cycle

Talent Life Cycle 101: Talent Cannot Live Where There Is No Trust

It was Edith Hamilton, in her world-renowned classic Mythology: Timeless Tales of God and Heroes who said, “Love cannot live where there is no trust.” Guess what else cannot live without trust? You got it right, business success through talent development.

For every business owner, each stage of the talent lifecycle is important to the growth of the company, and fundamentally, to the growth of…

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#HR Insights #Life Cycle #Recruitment #Talent

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