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Job Tips
How to Recover From a Bad Career Decision and Move Forward
"I knew by the third week." My friend Arun said that about a job he took in Hyderabad, a role he accepted mainly because it paid more and started quickly. He stayed eleven months,...
Career Advice
How to Identify Career Opportunities in Emerging Industries
"Nobody had that job title when I started looking." My friend Devika told me that in Bengaluru last year, about eighteen months after she moved from a bank operations role into fintech. She had...
Career Advice
How to Stay Relevant in a Rapidly Changing Job Market
"It did in four minutes what used to take me half a day." My cousin Sana said that over dinner in Pune, eight years into a marketing job she was good at. Nobody replaced...
Career Advice
How to Avoid Making the Wrong Career Move Early in Your Career
Rohan took his first job because it paid twelve percent more than the other offer. Fourteen months later he was doing work he could not describe to an interviewer, in a company where nobody...
Career Advice
How to Build Career Confidence When You Have Limited Experience
Meera applied to nine jobs in three weeks and then stopped for two months. Not because anyone rejected her. She read a posting asking for two years, counted her seven months, and closed the...
Job Tips
How to Know If a Job Is Helping Your Career or Just Paying the Bills
Nisha spent four years and two months as an accounts assistant in Coimbatore before realising something was wrong. Her salary rose about three percent a year, her hours were reasonable, and she had learned...
Job Search
What Type of Jobs Are Easiest to Get in India Right Now?
"They all want a degree," my cousin Vikas told me in February, five months into applying for office jobs around Nagpur. He had a 12th pass certificate and a phone full of rejections. Then...
Job Search
How to Make the Most of Job Alerts and Notifications
My neighbour Priya turned on job alerts last February and switched them off again in nine days. She had picked "Manager" as her title and left the location blank. Her phone buzzed forty times...