Over the years I have been involved with many a hiring selection for ______ specialists at all levels, and I can share an observation that I believe will surprise nobody.There is an abundance of ______ job candidates with impressive resumes who do not possess even the minimum basic ______ skills. Resume inflation is only partially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘business’
August 26th, 2007
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Making Work Fun!: # Employees need to know they are working on worthwhile things # Employees need to know they are appreciated # Employees need to receive compliments on their work # Employees need to know their input and opinion is valued # Employees need to know their work makes a difference # Employees need [...]
Moved
June 1st, 2007
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Wanted to write something witty like – we moved the cheese for our programmers or something but Swati has already done it at http://www.sanisoft.com/blog/2007/06/01/sanisoft-moves-to-new-premises/ So instead I will write a word about the blog which we have set up at SANIsoft site For long I have rarely written anything elaborately related to technical stuff in [...]
31st March – “All smile” day!
March 31st, 2007
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31st March is the day when Swati gives incremented salaries to all our employees. This year the average raise has been 53% the highest is 75% – this is in line with what we have been doing for past 6 years, the %ages have varied but there never has been a year with 0 raise. [...]
Reflect…
December 14th, 2006
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How so ever hard I may long for the days when programmers were opinionated and they wrote code for software which “just worked” I know it is not happening fast, at least for me. So the option is to reverse the paradigm and have the code based on “opinionated software” and somehow make programmers “just [...]
Busy again
October 16th, 2006
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Looks like life is going to be very very busy… Two significant things happened last week. #1 We finally got a good bunch of trainee programmers #2 SANIsoft purchased a commercial property and the sale-deed was signed. Some who knew about commercial property had asked why purchase? Why not rent? We had considered that but [...]
Random Rules
September 30th, 2006
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17 Pithy Insights for Startup Employees: If you’re not having fun, you’re in the wrong place. Tweet
September 25th, 2006
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I can tolerate anything in my organisation except rabble-rousing and back stabbing. She agrees as well Tweet
The “Mere paas Maa hai!” factor
September 5th, 2006
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I had been struggling since some time to give a name or a phrase to the set of conditions which drives a person to work and continue working in a small setup. While this is very easy to define within a start-up – the “Lucy in the sky with diamonds” factor, a maturing but still [...]
The second rung re-visited
August 28th, 2006
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Some time ago I had boasted about how I had successfully nurtured a second line of command in the office and how well it was working. Since experience has taught us not to get complacent about any aspect of our business if we are to succeed and also since I was on look out for [...]
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