Career Advice

Demand more pay - Get fired sooner!

7/30/09 •

Many people used the last boom period to vastly inflate their salaries - by hard bargaining, threats, and strategically timed and frequent jumps. Today, when companies are looking to cut costs, these people stick out like white elephants and are invariably the first to get the boot.
Here is something I’ve been advising people for a [...]

The difference between a job hop and a career move

7/27/09 •

In a day, you have 24 hours. If you are like me, you will spend

* at least 8 hours of that sleeping
* Another 1 hour on hygiene.
* An hour and a half eating (breakfast, lunch and dinner).
* Another hour and a half traveling to and from work, if you are lucky, that is.
* A [...]

Interview with PC Ramakrishna - Documentary Narration and Voice-overs

6/28/09 •

We have all heard of singer SP Balasubrahmanyam who has recorded well over 35,000 songs. We have heard of Lata Mangeshkar who has sung for nearly a thousand movies and of course we have heard of AR Rahman who has scored the music for hundreds of films.
I take great pleasure in introducing to you [...]

Alternate Careers - Radio Jockey

4/27/09 •

Are you multi-lingual?  Do you love to talk?  Are you a chatterbox?  Then, this may be the career for you!
Today in India, there are over 425 FM radio channels.  Each of these FM channels require radio jockeys(RJs), sound engineers, script writers, sales and marketing folks. To give you a quick overview of the opportunities, here [...]