Management as experienced by Luqman

There is an intense competition in today’s job market and everyone’s searching for innovative and better ways to be memorable to hiring managers. As a Hiring Manager I always look for someone who can bring value, a person with an ability to articulate his/her message is what stands out from someone else with comparable skills. I have been interviewing people for various roles for almost 5+ years now and I have noticed that people articulate their experience in a monotonous way. What they fail to understand is that the art of storytelling can be applied to interviews as a strategy for making their case clear and impactful. But again, storytelling is not an easy task and neither is it a rocket science. Below are few tips which can help: 1)     The person needs to know the purpose of his/her story and how it will explain why he/she is the best person for the job. 2)     Once the person has a clear idea of specific information...

Picture Courtesy: https://resumesbyjoyce.com/ Interviewers can get away with mistakes more easily than interviewees. Candidates are supposed to stress about how to create a positive impression. Conversely, an interviewer can come in unprepared, they can slouch, boast or even offend and few of them are likely to be held responsible for a damaged employer reputation or the loss of an excellent prospective employee. Yes, there are a lot of avoidable gaffes that job seekers can make during the interview process. But what about the interview mistakes that hiring managers make? Without realizing it, you might be persuading talented candidates to turn down a job offer (or worse, refuse a second interview). Below is a list of mistakes hiring managers sometimes make: Arriving late:  Candidates do not get paid for their time. Interviewers do. It is considered OK to waste candidate’s time, but it is not. Being on time for a job interview is rule number one for interviewees....

Picture courtesy: https://www.eitrainingcompany.com/ We are emotional creatures. It is hard for us, as humans, not to be emotional. Whilst it is generally good to be in touch with our emotions and to not suppress them, there are situations where we must somehow manage our emotions especially well. That’s notably the case at work. ·        Have you cried in the work restroom or a meeting with your boss? ·        How about awkwardly try to comfort a co-worker in tears? ·        Or maybe you’ve been the culprit or victim of explosive, finger-wagging, temples-pulsing anger? If you’re nodding “yes,” it’s not so surprising. Despite the corporate expectation to check your emotions at the door, tempers and tear ducts continue to swell in workplaces everywhere. We’re all human, after all. Emotional outbursts at work could be due directly to work-related mat...

Picture courtesy: https://www.kbs.edu.au/news-and-events/blog/good-managers-vs-bad-managers/ One of the most common excuses for job changing that I have come across is "People don’t leave companies, they leave bad managers” Which is true because “Bad managers affect everyone.” Good employees work hard to produce, but they resent their manager if they’re not appreciated and treated well. When it happens to mediocre and bad employees, they will just shut down and under produce, creating dead weight on teams. Your good team members will eventually decide they’ve had enough and look elsewhere. In a competitive market, this will happen sooner than later If your employee suddenly has a different schedule or an unexpected missed day or two, they might be interviewing. If you wait until they have the offer it will be too late. Work is Emotional. Humans are emotional creatures. We make many decisions, like interviewing for other jobs, based on feelings. Then when w...