Top 10 Cities with Shortest Working Hours

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by Abhinav Kaiser - October 20, 2015December 12, 20180

Here are the cities with the shortest working hours – your guide to your next working destination.

Interview Series: Should you be 100% Truthful during Interviews

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by Abhinav Kaiser - October 8, 2015December 12, 20180

Let's face it, as an interviewer, I don't believe everything that I hear from an interviewee. It is my experience that interviewees will tell you what you want to hear, but not the truth, the whole truth, and the absolute truth. So, the point we are discussing today is how

Sweden, the Best Country to Work In, at 6 Hours Per Day Workday

by Abhinav Kaiser - October 1, 2015December 12, 20180

As the world looks to provide cheaper services to its customers at the cost of its employees, Sweden has moved away from the paradigm by implementing six hour workday. Yes, you did read it right. The Scandinavian country has a sole purpose, and that is to ensure that people spend more

Faux Pas: HP Fires Employees, Only to Return Back Stating its their Mistake

by Abhinav Kaiser - September 26, 2015December 12, 20180

HP blundered when it put some of its employees on pink slip notice and later denied ever doing it.

Interview Series: Get Interviewed 4th to Bag Jobs; plus Interesting Observations from Interviews

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by Abhinav Kaiser - September 20, 2015December 12, 20180

According to the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology's (JOOP) study, the person who gets interviewed fourth is most likely to bag the job. Just when you thought numbers and numerology don’t matter to your success, this study will flip your beliefs on its head. At an undisclosed university campus, JOOP studied over

[INFOGRAPHIC] Do We have to Work 8 Hours a Day?

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by Abhinav Kaiser - August 26, 2015December 12, 20180

It is standard these days that people who work for a salary work for eight hours a day excluding the breaks. Project costing and resourcing is also based on this theory. Some countries like India make people work for nine hours - with an eye on reducing their operation costs and

Take Control of Your Career with this Simple Formula

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by Abhinav Kaiser - May 31, 2015December 12, 20180

I recently got an email from a lady, an IT professional from the Netherlands who was sacked earlier in the week. She wrote to me asking my advice on how she can become employable and whether ITIL is a suitable option. She admitted in her email that a few weeks

Distraction at Work Impacts Effectiveness and Productivity

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by Abhinav Kaiser - January 22, 2015December 9, 20180

Normal IT crowd sit in cubicles. Your nearest neighbor sits within a hand-wave and you can hear every single conversation and all the human sounds such as coughs within a couple of meters radius. This distraction you might consider as normal and natural, and something that you cannot help. Let me continue