How to talk about God on Job Interview

January 8th, 2012

You can mention God a few times and will not violate the separation of workplace and religion by simply using a word ‘dog’ as a testing example for your string reversal algorithm you just designed and currently explaining on a blackboard before an interviewer. The latter might even think that you are addressing h(im)er.

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November 11th, 2011
Modern corporate environments demand new forms of personal sacrifice (bit). Make an ultimate sacrifice by naming your child as your company name (tip).

Examples: <Your Company Name>ina, <Your Company Name>in, <Your Company Name>a with generic catchalls Companin and Companina.

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August 10th, 2011

Customer Facing skills are important (bit). What equally important are Support Facing skills (tip).

Support facing skills are vital to get the best response from support and manage customer support expectations (what they expect from you, what you expect from them you already know). One way to learn support facing skills in relatively mild manner is by purchasing your company product while you are still employed (especially in support).

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 3)

July 31st, 2011

“80% of energy is spent to get 20% of income.”

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 2)

June 14th, 2011

“Two minds are better than one… if each one has a separate activity.”

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Man Agement Aphorisms (Part 1)

June 10th, 2011

With the age come aphorisms. So I start with the first one:

“Empty office is the best office.”

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ECHO Stages of Corporate Citizenship

May 20th, 2011

One of the outcomes of the reading of a book Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (by Guy Debord) is the possible evolution of feelings of a corporate citizen where the last stage corresponds to a spectator:

ECHO

Enthusiasm
Confusion
Hating
Onlooking

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May 20th, 2011
Some employees rush to connect on Linkedin to many colleagues as possible (bit). Don’t rush, connect slowly from time to time in order to remind about your existence (tip).

This is because new connections are visible in updates you remind about your existence not only to a new connectee but to all previously connected people.

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April 4th, 2011
Some employees do not like their office space or complain privately when streamed (bit). If you happen to be one of them justify this misfortune as having a free office (tip).

You can’t get a nice office for free. Certainly, if you want to have a good office you have to pay for it. Alternatively, employ the novel BYOOS method: Bring You Own Office Space.

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February 18th, 2011
It’s important to see signs of the approaching troubles from any possible angle including social media like Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter (bit). For example, if your company or someone from the hierarchy above you follows you on Twitter monitor that to catch the moment when that account stops following you (tip).

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