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The beauty and bastard-ity of corporate politics

Are you caught up in the cobwebs of corporate politics? If you are: what is your immediate reaction towards it? Will it affect you? Will you let it affect you? Shall you choose to ride the tide and go with the flow? Or shall you just shrug it off and just learn how not to affect you. Politicking requires some form of mastery and sometimes it clouds your integrity just because you have to. Power is really blinding. In politicking, sometimes there is no God..people in position plays the God. Like they made you and you have to obey every whims and commands that these people would ask you to. In reality, these are the type of people you encounter within the corporate world: The Lazy - does nothing but kiss the Gods. Puts the best face in front of the Gods who appear to know it all when in fact, just does not know anything. The only task these type of people know are to get other people's task to impress and just let the people below do the work for him/her. The God - who acts an

What I've learned so far with Job hunting?

In my two months of job-hunting up to this moment, I’ve come into some experiences which I can say is quite note-worthy. I may have already been outdated when it comes to some job-hunting skills since I haven’t been pursuing this for the longest time in the past couple of years. I’ve not really been aggressive when it comes to applying for other jobs during my last tenure ship with the previous company. I’ve been wrong to think that I will retire into this company and just felt self-assured up until the inevitable came and my role was axed. But I have to move forward from this phase and boost my self-confidence again in terms of looking for another job. Here are some of my listed tips in job-hunting. 1.    Resume that speaks . I have been working for quite a time now and my last chronological resume is 3 pages long. I have trimmed-down some role descriptions and it still remains to 3 pages. I just have this perception that if resumes are this long, recruiters will get bored re