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Mary Jean Alvarado

My Mumbai Heaven | Suzette

If ever there was a piece of heaven in Mumbai it has to be Suzette. I’m lucky enough to live only 2 blocks away from this fabulous French haven in Pali Hill Bandra. It’s chique, it’s got a great buzz and it’s always full of good-looking people. Heaven! Established 2...
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Double Standards | Aarti Shyamsunder

Aarti Shyamsunder, PhD, is an industrial-organizational psychologist, with experience in various aspects of the organizational life-cycle – right from designing pre-employment tests for entry-level jobs to developing high-potential senior leaders, and consulting with organizations on their D&I (diversity and inclusion) strategy. In her current role as Director of Research for...
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Hiring Managers Advice

We asked experts – tips from 20 top Hiring Managers. WATC asked 21 leading Hiring Managers from different sectors within the City to provide their views on CVs, interviews and a list of those all important do’s and dont’s to help you land that job. What do you look for...
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Interview Tips

We asked experts – tips from 20 top Hiring Managers. WATC asked 21 leading Hiring Managers from different sectors within the City to provide their views on CVs, interviews and a list of those all important do’s and dont’s to help you land that job. What do you look for...
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Connecting via Social Media – Advice

You know what your business is all about.  You have defined objectives,measurable, specific detailed goals and actions that you refine regularly.  You’ve decided to expand your traditional ways of marketing to your customers and embrace conversational marketing.  You’ve decided to add a SocialMedia component to engage in Web 2.0 dialogue with your customers and hopefully grow your business. So you start broadcasting...
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7 tips for using your contacts to get a job

Do you ever feel like you have lots of contact names from networking, your current job, and life in general, but you don’t know how to use them properly? It can be difficult to think of ways to approach contacts, or to even know what you want to approach them...
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Using Social Media Networking in Job Searching

Nowadays social media is becoming a key element to one’s job search campaign. Making sure that you are making use of social media effectively to harness it’s potential and benefit to you can really help you move forwards in your job search. There are a few key things to be...
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Top Networking Tips for those affected by Redundancy

Have you been made redundant or find yourself on gardening leave and need to kick start your networking? Have you worked extremely hard and performed well in your job over many years at the expense of your personal networking? My quick guidelines below will get you started but there are...
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Top tips for… Building your Mentoring Mesh

The world of business is very challenging these days. Companies are being put under extreme pressure to satisfy shareholders, employees are been squeezed to the maximum in terms of performance. It is easy to just put your head down and “just get on with it”. Throw experience into the mix,...
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How Networking can help you Become an Influencer at Work

By Nisa Chitakasem, creator of the 135 Networking Career Tips eBook and founder of career consultancy, Position Ignition. A lot of us consider networking to only be a way of finding a new job or attracting external interest to our current employer. We don’t really consider how powerful networking can also be...
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