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Workplace trends of 2022

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The pandemic has changed the way we work; while 2021 was a year of reinventing organizations & solidifying their new role The year 2022 is all about pushing the boundaries of how Organizations can add value The beginning of the pandemic saw employees being quite enthusiastic about working from home. As it dragged into 2021, and now into 2022, that emotion has transformed. The leadership has to play a pivotal role in shaping the organizations for the future, thanks to the ongoing pandemic #keydirections1: Refresh and Strengthen the talent of the teams through continuous training and development for Upskilling and Reskilling #keydirections2: There is an increased need for diversity in organizations The need for diversity, equity, and inclusion is something the leaders are increasingly realizing Diversity and inclusion provide business benefits, like improved productivity, profitability, and stability #keydirections3: Hire and retain a diverse workforce, with the fle

Career Guidance is an investment - An Investment in Career Guidance can save lakhs in the future….

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Career Guidance is an investment An Investment in Career Guidance can save lakhs in the future…. Schooling is an unavoidable cost the parents must bear for their children. And one can not say it is an investment. The reason is, we are seeing more and more examples of how, after a particular education, the person takes up a career for which he or she has never been educated. Except for the medical profession, pure sciences, or engineering profession involved in research and development, Accountancy, Law, etc where the education and the post-education professional have a direct linkage, most of the other professions/occupations have no direct linkage to the academics one has undergone for 15 to 20 years (depending on the level of education). The world is changing more rapidly than ever before. It is very difficult to predict what the world will look like by 2050. For sure, we would have dried up all the conventional natural resources of energy, like petroleum products, coal which may b

The Lure of High Salary and what one needs to guard against

Most of the students graduating are still in their early twenties, and without the process of any formal career guidance in either school or college, most of them simply follow the herd i.e., what are my peers and friends doing or what my parents want me to do in life? The initial salary levels of youngsters nowadays graduating from college even at the UG levels are making new records every year. This is a fantastic new development on the progress of the new generation of India, considering high salary level equals to success in one’s career. But many professionals, who are already a few years into their jobs, would agree that alone a high salary package does not really mean being successful in one’s life. Peers, societal pressure have a strong influence in today’s career decision process, instead of a structured and scientific process of career guidance from as early as the 7 th or 8 th standard in one’s education level. Added to this understandably, parents have their set of expect