Back in July, I came across an article by Jim Stroud in The Recruiters Lounge about a recruiting tool called Zubed. I wrote about Zubed and how the technology was great – but scary. A quick review of Zubed Essentially, the tool allows a recruiter to have a position in Seattle to be filled, then… Continue Reading
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Scared to take this job
This weekend, I received a note from one of my readers asking if she should take a job with Countrywide in India, given their recent purchase by Bank of America, or take a job with IBM or Infosys. According to the note, here’s what the hiring manager said about the Countrywide merger with Bank of… Continue Reading
Job Interviews for Dummies — Part 4
If you read the news, you’d think every company on the planet was laying people off. Certainly, we’ve seen a lot more people heading out for job interviews — and getting shocked at the Interview Gauntlet. So I asked Joyce Lain Kennedy, author of Job Interviews For Dummies, 3rd Edition, published in January of this… Continue Reading
Career Management in India — Part Two
This is the second guest post on career management in India from Mrityunjay Kumar, who writes about career management in India on his blog Perspectives on Career Management. Mrityunjay is a software engineer by training and a manager in an IT company by profession. I’m privileged to have Mrityunjay write two posts on career management… Continue Reading
Career Management in India
One of my guiding principles here at Cube Rules is focusing on career management for the 40-million knowledge workers across the planet, not just here in the United States where I live. I’ve consistently tried to convey these career principles using a global perspective because the career field is now a sphere. But, there’s nothing… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Knowing where the jobs are
Look at your job function and skills right now. Then ask yourself this question: what cities on the planet are my job skills going to provide the maximum earnings, greatest career potential, and greatest opportunities to stay working? Can you name five cities? With at least three of them outside your current country location? When… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: Cost reductions
If you were a CEO of a multi-national corporation — with mini-companies in twenty different countries all with their own management, administration, finance, warehouse and support operations — how much money could you save if you reduced your financial centers from twenty to, say, two? Quite a bit, wouldn’t you say? There is tremendous fixed… Continue Reading
The Global Enterprise: IBM changes the rules
IBM is managing global operations in a way that will completely transform jobs for people who work in cubes. IBM continues to move to a global operation. In Business Week’s International isn’t just IBM’s first name, the article notes that “Big Blue has built a global network for client services and in the past three… Continue Reading
Beware managers as career coaches
Management is not set up to be your career coach if you work in a cube. That was brought home to me by Mrityunjay Kumar over on his blog, Career Management Industry in India. In his article, Manager as a mentor/coach, he notes: Traditionally, employees use their managers as their mentor/coach, entrusting their career development… Continue Reading
Bank of America and Countrywide
Yesterday, Bank of America announced that, with the acquisition of Countrywide, there would be about 7,500 layoffs. In a comment on a previous Bank of America post, I was asked if the acquisition meant layoffs for Countrywide IT operations in India. Since both Bank of America and Countrywide have IT operations in India, it is… Continue Reading