1. Job Advertisements and Job Sites
2. Networking & Informational Interviewing

3. Recruiters, Headhunters, & Placement Specialists
4. Job & Career Fairs
5. Resume Database Submissions
6. Volunteering
7. Consulting & Self-employment

Job Advertisements and Job Sites

Job advertisements can be found in many places, including: newspapers, company Websites, industry publications, and job posting sites on the Net. See a [...]

Introduction
In 360-degree appraisal, also called as multi-rater assessment, the employee receives feedback from his immediate boss, his subordinates, customers, and others. Multiple raters as well as multiple techniques (Role Play, Business Games, Interviews, In-Basket Exercise) are used for assessment. The basic idea is to eliminate the various errors as well as the effect of bias [...]

Introduction
In economic downturns, you must constantly evaluate the impact of your actions on both your short-term and long-term financial performance. Three general rules to be followed are: Avoid reactionary budget cuts; position with value engineering; and select products, services, and above all, customers.
Avoid Reactionary Budget Cuts
During difficult economic times, often organizations completely abandon their marketing [...]

New Generation Islamic Banks

Introduction
The ideology behind Islamic banking, i.e., `interest-free banking’, is based on basic ethical standards with just one main difference – Muslims are not allowed to pay or receive interest. This does not mean that business activities or making a profit are not encouraged, in fact, they are, but only as long as [...]

Citigroup’s tale is considered to be a case of bad market conditions and not necessarily of a bad model. It admits that its own internal risk management team and other executives never understood what it takes to succeed as an integrated financial supermarket. Reports indicate that its past acquisitions were not properly integrated, cultures were [...]

“Life is the sum of all your choices”, said Albert Camus aptly. The same holds good even for organizations—their success or failure is the culmination of a series of decisions taken over their lifetime. Thus, decision making remains at the very heart of not only personal and professional lives, but also business organizations.
Bill George, former [...]

The all-pervasive economic gloom—rising unemployment, foreclosures and corporate bankruptcies, capped by a forecast of fall in growth in world economy by 0.8 percentage points to 2.2% by the IMF—made everyone expect something dramatic to come out of the recent economic summit of G-20 countries held on 15th November in Washington, DC. Indeed, many have gone [...]

If you are a manager, do not spend time on technical or production tasks that can or should be delegated, and do not micromanage employees past where it is useful or effective. Many managers engage in these activities because they are comfortable, familiar and make you feel more productive. You need to exercise some discipline [...]

“iPhone is Winning!”
iPhone was first termed and phased in the year 2004, when Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc. declared that Apple will create a touch-phone which will revolutionize music. iPods were still in the nascent stage at that time, and something like iPhone was never heard of. Still, the hopefuls claimed that Apple was [...]

Nothing is constant. The same is true in the business environment too. Strategies and ideas on which business and industries operated 20 years ago, or even in the last decade, no more find a place in the CEO meeting agendas of today’s organizations. The age-old strategies no more work. Because, competitors are already copying the [...]