Most of the off shore jobs are available in the oil and gas industry. People want to go for offshore jobs because of the high pay package and other facilities. Working offshore can be a great challenge if you are not adoptable. It has its own disadvantages. However, the rewards are good enough to overlook the negative aspects of offshore jobs.

Let’s have a look at the different types of offshore jobs that you can apply for.

Offshore Installation…

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Welcome back. I got behind the proverbial eight-ball last week and was unable to finish this in a respectable time.Anyways we are back and ready to have a look at 'Aptitude'..The second half of the equation.

Like before, let s begin with a basic definition: According to Wikipedia: Aptitude is a component of a competency to do a certain kind of work at a certain level, which can also be considered "talent". Aptitudes may be physical or mental. Aptitude is not knowledge, understanding,…

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Tuesday after a long weekend, and I hope today, all is well. One of the more interesting things about long weekends (besides the copious amounts of food!) is that it allows most of us to hit the cosmic "reset" button and re-focus the way we approach work. Simply having a couple of extra days to mentally work through your problems, especially now that we are moving into the Christmas period, allows for a re-dedication of both mind and body to…

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 Welcome Back! Nice to see that last week moved some of you Socialytes enough to give me another look. I plan on returning to 10 Key Customer Service Traits later (possibly starting next week); however today I thought a little discussion of how to start properly at the new gig might be in order. Lets think on this for a couple of minutes: You…

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The Value of Hiring Best-Of-Breed Talent!

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Sheila Greco

Retailers Want Best-Of-Breed Talent!

The Importance of Best-of-Breed Talent To the Retail Industry!

There is no question about it; there is a difference between good talent and best-of-breed talent. My focus today is on the retail industry. Why? Keep reading to find out!

The retail industry as a whole is in the midst of a talent war. Faced with high turnover, access to…

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International Cemetery, Cremation, and Funeral conference - Photo source: Enchantment (Albums) Guy Kawasaki

Exactly what do the best Embalmers have in common with the best…

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Last Thursday, the CEO of one of the most successful businesses in the world announced his resignation. Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple is signing off to a new era. Jobs has been on sick leave since January of this year and has told the press, “"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let…

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Forbes recently announced a list of the 15 best cities in America for young professionals.  We took a look at hiring demand, trends and new jobs generated in these metropolitan areas over the past 60 days.

 

Forbes’ 15 Best Cities for Young Professionals …

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In January, Fortune released 2011’s 100 Best Companies to Work For report.  We took a look at hiring demand at the top 10 of these companies over the past 120 days.

 

Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For in 2011 – Top 10:…

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This is less of a blog of thought, and more a blog of questions proposed to all of you.

Recently the BP spill occupied front pages around the globe. Yet with all of our intellectual capacity on earth no one fixed the problem. Why?

I know of several engineers and folks with products that could have aided. They tried to get through. They wrote, they sent emails, they made calls to no avail. Then one day a man drove down to Louisiana and…

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Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter are extremely valuable hiring tools with today’s growing desire for instant information and dependency on networking. Facebook and LinkedIn fulfill the networking dependency. Twitter is better for delivering instant information.



Twitter has grown over 1000% in the last year – mainly b/c of the celebrity presence. But this doesn’t mean it can’t be used as an effective… Continue

Recruit MBAs, Interns and Alumni from BusinessWeek's Best Business Schools

"The Best B-Schools" issue of BusinessWeek is on newsstands now! No surprise Chicago Booth lands the top spot again – and Harvard, Kellogg, and Wharton remain in the top 5. What might be a surprise is that nearly all of these top 30 BusinessWeek programs are a part of an exclusive recruitment network, thanks in part to MBA Focus™.

MBA Focus is “redefining the way companies recruit MBA…

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