Should your firm pay for your MBA?
Are you considering pursuing your MBA designation? This substantial commitment will involve much time, energy and expense, particularly if your firm does not pay for the total tuition, only a portion, or in some cases, not at all. Have you conducted your due dilgence on this subject?
One would naturally assume that obtaining your MBA will translate to promotions [...]
Are You in Charge and in Control?
In many of my posts, I have emphasized the importance of a proactive and accountable approach to your own career. Do you feel that you have a handle on it, are you ‘in charge and in control?’
If you are not sure of how to respond to these questions, or cannot respond quickly, then I would [...]
Are You Proactive or Reactive in Your Career? (Part II)
To begin on this journey, we will begin with small steps so that you can build your confidence and desire to move forward with this new proactive approach.
An example of a first step may look like one, or all, of the following:
Anticipate project requirements;
When you receive a project, analyze what the logical follow-up will be;
Ask [...]
Are You Proactive or Reactive in Your Career? (Part I)
What is the difference between these two characteristics? The main difference of course is ‘results’, and the precious, and expensive commodity involved is ‘time’. A proactive person goes out and ‘makes things happen’, whereas a reactive person ‘waits for things to happen to’ them.
I am sure you have heard the expression ‘timing is everything’. In [...]
Are You Embracing the Opportunities that Restructuring and M&A Offer?
Over the past couple of years, severely marked by our global recessionary state, many organizations have had to face very difficult decisions in terms of their overall structure, long-term goals, and future vision for the organization overall. While these decisions and quiet introspection takes place, firms endeavour to maintain client service excellence, and their positions [...]
Preparing for A Promotion
We touched on this topic briefly last month in my post ‘Could A Promotion Be Imminent?’ in which we discussed your Performance Reviews and the Performance Review Panel’s decision on your listed goals for your firm’s next period.
Today, I would like to share some tips on how to ‘Prepare for a Promotion’ by providing some [...]
‘Inter-Viewing’ Techniques
First, and foremost, do your homework – ‘Research’. Secondly, remember that ‘inter-viewing’ is always a two-way street. Try to remember that the firm you choose to interview with are just as anxious to make a good impression on you through the ‘information exchange’ process of the interview. The fact that you have been asked to [...]
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