career management
Demystifying Salary Negotiations!
By Dilip Saraf on 23 Jun 2014
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Playing Snakes & Ladders with Your Career!
By Dilip Saraf on 08 Jun 2014
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The Most Critical Business Skill!
By Dilip Saraf on 13 Oct 2013
With so many skills to master to improve your professional standing, clients often ask me what one single skill would be most helpful in improving their career and their future. My answer is always the same: Your verbal skill, especially your story-telling skill is the most valuable.
Why?
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Delusions of a Perfectionist
By Dilip Saraf on 14 Sep 2013
I have many clients—thankfully not too many—who are driven by the concept of perfection. They come to me asking how they should structure their work, surroundings, and even their boss’ attitude so that they can achieve perfection in all their assignments. This applies to all their endeavors: writing code, designing products, and even writing a short email.
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When to Make a Career Change?!
By Dilip Saraf on 14 Jul 2013
If you think change is hard, try having to deal with becoming irrelevant –Tom Peters
Clients often come to me when they find their situation at work unbearable. Bad boss, stagnant career, constant firefighting, backstabbing colleagues, no growth prospects with never-ending promises for a promotion, morally challenged management, and so on. And, this is just a partial list!
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Some Habits of Effective Professionals!
By Dilip Saraf on 14 Jul 2013
My client-count meter is rapidly heading to 6,000 now. As I reflect on my working with this pool of clients I have learned much from this experience. Not all my clients succeed in their endeavors, but they often emerge more effective in what they do as a result of following what I suggest to them as a course of action, behaviors, and habits.
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Ethics in Career Management!
By Dilip Saraf on 13 May 2013
As I look at my client pool, having now worked with about 6,000 clients globally, I’m surprised by some that are ethically challenged, even today. The reason I say “even today,” is because in today’s information age it is so easy to quickly check facts and expose the truth.
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How Astrology can Influence Your Career!
By Dilip Saraf on 31 Mar 2013
As a career and life coach I have some clients, who regularly consult astrologers in their major career decisions. In fact some of them come to me after consulting an astrologer, who tells them about impending problems with their career and who tells them what is in store for them because of the how the planets and stars are aligned in their chart.
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avoiding Interview Traps!
By Dilip Saraf on 04 Feb 2013
As a part of my career coaching practice I work with clients to coach them for effective interviews. In my last blog, Sabotaging Your Interview, I listed some of the common ways one can derail, even scuttle their own interview. Most of these focused on asking questions that raise doubts about your sensibilities in the interviewer’s mind.
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Sabotaging Your Own Interview!
By Dilip Saraf on 29 Jan 2013
Many of my clients are often puzzled and surprised when they do not get through an interview process and don’t end up with an offer, despite their “dynamite” interviews. When I ask them about the details of those interviews I am often surprised by their ignorance about what to say and how not to say it.
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