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Resignation Letter templates

December 29, 2009 Career Issues

Below are resignation letter templates in ready to copy format. Be sure to change the names in the letter Resignation Letter Template -1 Resignation Letter Template -2 Resignation Letter Template -3 Note that all the three letters mention the notice period to be served. And Template -3 includes a request to shorten the notice period. [...]

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Companies manipulate using Notice Period

December 4, 2009 Career Issues

When you join a private software company, you usually would be asked to sign a document agreeing to their terms and conditions of employment. In that they would mention a point about something called period of notice. This point clearly states that after placing your resignation, you are entitled to serve the company, a specified [...]

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Is your team a Laser beam?

November 18, 2009 Career Issues

Fig. Light vs Laser Yes you read it right, is your team as efficient as a LASER or is it just another team that serves the purpose of its existence like an ordinary beam of light. This article covers how a LASER differs from an ordinary beam of light. And things to observe and learn [...]

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Change your job profile with least efforts

November 16, 2009 Career Issues

I recently got an email from one of our readers. “Hi, I’m an experienced software engineer working for an IT company as a software developer. I would like to change my job profile to that of a software quality analyst. I got stuck in a role that does not suit me. I am more interested [...]

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You may be working for the Sun, but you are no exception

November 4, 2009 Career Issues

The world’s largest business software company, Oracle’s recent deal for acquisition of Sun Microsystems is alleged to be deliberately delayed by Oracle. According to few legal experts, some legal weak points in the Sun deal are in favor or Oracle Corporation. Oracle is alleged of misusing those points to save more money out of the [...]

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Interview with The Working Geek

October 25, 2009 Career Issues

This is an interview of Andy Lester with Interview Mantra, on tips for job hunters and on his book “Land the Tech Job you Love“, which is about new guidelines for tech job hunting. [Sridhar Jammalamadaka]: Welcome to Interview Mantra! Can you tell our readers about yourself and your journey in Tech industry [Andy Lester]: [...]

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Want to learn more about your future employer?

October 17, 2009 Career Issues

Are you planning to change your job? How would you know whether you are landing up in a better/worse place? Salary hike / fancier job title, I reckon, should have motivated you to quit your current employer and join a new company. I’m pretty sure you would have asked the opinion of your friends working [...]

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Novice in many vs Expert in any

October 14, 2009 Career Issues

There’s a very good article in The Working Geek by Jeffrey Thalhammer discussing the breadth vs depth of technical knowledge. Jeffrey has done a great job of putting down his thoughts on why he considers it better to be a master of one technology / language rather than be mediocre in several. In particular, he [...]

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Does an MBA help you start your own business?

September 1, 2009 Career Issues

Can one learn to swim reading a book? Can one learn to play a musical instrument without hands on? Can one learn to ride a bicycle with the help of case studies? One can learn swimming only with weeks of rigorous practice in water. It is merely impossible to learn a musical instrument without hands [...]

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Fifteen things you can do when your job is lost

August 30, 2009 Career Issues

Check out this guest post on 15 things that you can do when you lose your job that I wrote for AmitBhawani.com. In that blog post, I had articulated 15 things that you could do when you are unemployed, to survive yourself and improve your job prospects. As always, your feedback is appreciated!

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