Career Management

By Goke Ilesanmi   Since we stopped discussion on job-search strategies and briefly mentioned types of curriculum vitae in our July 19, 2010 edition, job-seekers have been mounting pressure on me that I should discuss types of curriculum vitae in detail. Well, I do not have a choice but to yield to your requests now.

By Goke Ilesanmi   Let me first apologise to our teeming readers, especially fresh and old job-seekers who said I concentrated on elaborate discussion of how to get promotion last week, without giving as much attention to their own need. I am prostrating. Can I get up now? Thank you. We are addressing your request

By Goke Ilesanmi    In hiring a manager, you will naturally be looking for a combination of characteristics in your prospective candidate. You will want him or her to be an experienced and mature person who is also very dynamic, energetic and able to do the job for you. Ideally, you will like to hire

By Goke Ilesanmi To be able to achieve business goals, managers need to build effective teams. They also need to define success in terms of the overall team performance and allow people to be responsible for the work they do. They need to provide their team members with necessary information and effectively coordinate subordinates to

By Goke Ilesanmi     More than ever before, employees are getting de-motivated due to many factors. One of these is delay in or outright lack of payment of salaries occasioned by the global economic downturn. But beyond the issue of delay in or outright lack of payment of salaries is the failure to motivate

By Goke Ilesanmi    Last week, it was reported in some national dailies that employees of some affected organisations in a sub-sector of the Nigerian financial services industry were jittery over the likely outcome of a particular action to be taken by the regulator. The long and short of this is that they were (and

By Goke Ilesanmi It was a sunny Friday afternoon at Financial Standard, my last place of work, where I left as Acting Editor. A man who had earlier called me on phone came in, sweating profusely and almost gasping for breath. His facial expression betrayed his mood. He was seriously sad because he had graduated