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Resume Gaffes

Apr

2013

A couple of years back I had posted about some of the idiotic things that people write in their CVs. Lessons were not learnt it seems … till date we see thousands of such resumes with grammatical mistakes. If you have a grammar nazi for an HR team (and yes, we do) … then your ...

Financial Services: A sunrise sector

Oct

2012

In any developing economy, the one thing that’s always on the rise is the GDP, the expenditures and yes, the expendable income available with an individual. Over a period of time, the same individual realises that keeping money in the bank is the same as wasting that money away. This is due to the high ...

Focus 10

Apr

2011

Today, we received a query on our website from a 16 year old boy. It was about wanting more details about the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program. I was absolutely stumped. This program is generally attempted by folks who are doing or have done their MBAs, or at least graduates. Of course, the CFA Institute ...

CV Gaffes 11

Mar

2011

We are hiring, and are screening resumes of different candidates for interviews. Some of the resumes that we came across are hilarious and I thought I might take the liberty of sharing it here (I am not disclosing the identity of the people, but if your CV does contain a line or two from these ...

GoI and Careers

Dec

2010

When talking with some colleagues at work, I realized that they are working on a supposedly ambitious project – to categorize all the possible jobs and opportunities for people in India. It struck me that this has already been done by the U.S. Labor department; and very well executed at that. In fact that site ...

The Difference 4

Dec

2010

I do not consider myself as a blind person. He said this as a matter of fact. I have seen the U.S. Open, I have seen the Wimbledon, I like to see movies … I do not know why people think that a blind person will not enjoy all these things. The operative word is ...

Move on 6

Sep

2010

I still remember that day in 2007. It was the 17th of September. It was evening and I was stuck at the airport, waiting for my delayed flight at Hyderabad; making one of the biggest decisions of my life. I had been offered a meaty role in a start-up firm, and internally had decided to ...

Careers: Visibility is not the only problem 4

Jun

2010

One of my assumptions about career design lays shattered today. I thought that students do not have visibility into their next career spaces, and that is why there is so much confusion in the careers area. However, after reading this post by Rashmi Bansal, it’s not just career visibility that is the problem, but also ...

Panic! 2

Nov

2008

Your heart beats a pace too quick Sweat on your body a sheen too slick Tension in the air can be cut as thick That’s what it feels to panic