Monthly Archives: November 2010

Hard work, loyalty, and congeniality are indispensable for survival, but are no guarantee for success in the workplace. The reason is that almost every employee is visibly (as far as the employer is concerned) hard working, loyal, and congenial, for otherwise he or she would not be still in the job. The question is how to strategize so that you stand out from the crowd, without attracting the ire of your superiors or colleagues, but only their appreciation.

Okay, you have ultimately decided that searching for and getting the right job has become so important for you that you wouldn't mind translocation. So, what's the harm in making a global job search? Chances are, you might receive more value, experience, and respect from a good job overseas than somewhere within the country. And the best part of the deal is that you would be increasing the foreign exchange reserve of your country by taking a job overseas.

When I was in college, I wrote a 500 page book that went into considerable depth evaluating the incredibly complex race relations that existed within the Detroit metropolitan area at the time. Specifically, I was interested in how African-Americans had, in many cases, avoided integrating into the larger society due to a need to strengthen their own society first. The theory I came up with was quite interesting because I noticed (in an exhaustive multi-year study) that the more religious and ethnic groups had historically come together and developed their own customs, unique beliefs and so forth, the easier it was for them to integrate into the larger society.