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March 23, 2012

Job Skills for 2012

Job + Skills In today’s competitive job market, employers are inclined to find talent that can contribute to the growth of the company through their skills, rather than their qualifications. While qualifications are required, employers are placing increased emphasis on skills. When job hunting, you must factor in the skills that the employer is seeking for that job. The [...]

March 19, 2012

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Reward & Talent Tips

Talent 1.Generation Y Employers were talking about Generation Y five years ago. They will still be talking about them five years from now. What will your organisation be saying? Stop trying to get Generation Y to do what you want. Start trying to do what they want. 2. Celebrate! Small wins, quick wins, any [...]

March 12, 2012

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Strategic Human Resource Planning

Linda Chingosho Human Resource Planning (hereafter “HRP”) is one of the first goals of the human resources management (hereafter, “HRM”) team, as it aims to formulate a way to seek and retain the best personnel to fit current and future vacancies in the organization. In determining the best strategy to employ, the HR team needs [...]

March 8, 2012

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Graduates & First Job

Graduates Are you joining the job stampede of graduates this year? Fresh out of college or university, graduates are overjoyed and panicking about landing their first permanent job. One that brings moolah into your bank account. Graduates that have not built their career before they graduated, should expect a difficult time to secure permanent employment. Graduates lack Experience Notwithstanding that graduates have [...]

March 5, 2012

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Reward & Talent

You can read Part 1 here Reward 9. Total cost packages have been around since 1990′s. Should you adopt, retain or dump it? Review the remuneration structure and get up to speed on the developments in this area. 10. Don’t reward incompetence. No excuses. Or you’ll keep getting more of the same results. 11. [...]

March 1, 2012

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Career Break Out & Come Alive in 2012

Career Another year of work is upon us. rolling past us. Are you enthusiastic or depressed about returning to the same office, with the same people, to do the same work again? How do you feel about the direction of your career? From experience with graduates, employees and seasoned professionals, there is a recurring career theme: [...]

February 27, 2012

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Manager : 4 Key Roles

Guest post by Simon Nko Manager According to the Walden University, management is ‘the organization & co-ordination of the activities of an enterprise in accordance with certain policies and in achievement of defined objectives”. Let us examine the four roles of a manager 1. The Educator A good manager is a good educator who enables [...]

February 20, 2012

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Budget Speech 2012

Budget 2012 Depending on your industry and job, December and January are the best or worst months of the year. You were either stressed out, delivering on demand; or you slowly drifted, waiting for the work to flow in your direction. As we roll into February, the “official” working year gets underway and not far [...]