Career planning is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. Personal empowerment is a key byproduct of effective career planning. Career Planning is a process that can help you decide what career path to follow and how to follow that path using your skills, competencies and abilities.

Here are some advises:
- Every job-seeker needs to take the time to step way from the day-to-day grind of work and spend quality time reflecting on your career and developing some plans for your future.
- Admit your mistakes, graciously. Forgive the mistakes others make. Figure out how to move on and learn from experience.
- Analyze your strengths and weaknesses. Step back and look at yourself from an employer’s perspective. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
- Ambition can be a driving force but it needn’t be obvious and self-serving. It certainly needn’t be aggressive. Let others become known for their ambition while you build a reputation for excellence.
- Work hard. Some people succeed without working hard, but some people win the lottery, too. Very few people achieve meaningful and lasting success without working hard.
-Set goals, write a plan of action and implement it. You may need some help in shaping your final career plan and implementing strategies for a successful search. There are many free and low cost services to help you do that. Look in your local Yellow Pages under career planning or career counseling and seek out job portals or organizations that work with women.

There are many job portals available in the market which provides jobs to the candidates but among them one is special because it’s only for female candidate’s means it is built for helping only female job seekers to get their desire job. http://naukriforwomen.com

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“If you are a Microsoft, I am your Google”. What on earth does it mean? At the very outset, it defines two ideologies, diametrically opposite, yet very relevant in the fast changing Web 2.0 era that we are living in today. Wealth, for Microsoft was the underlying goal of running business and incidental to Google. The spirit of internet is collaboration and unlimited flow of information, and Google struck to this fundamental core value of internet by offering every product of its free to the community, including search, browser, web analytics etc and latest, an Operating System. If one were to advocate this philosophy some 15-20 years ago, he or she would have been the butt of mockery, but Microsoft might admit Open Source Technology in general and Google in particular to be their biggest threat.

Scope for going open source is present in everything that is offered at a premium today, including a job portal. The classical way a job portal would work is by letting candidates apply for jobs free of cost and charging a premium for employers to advertise their requirements. The other way to look at it is, throwing open the entire system for employers and job seekers to make use of, so that it becomes a community driven platform working within a set of rules and conditions. Due to the absence of money, information flows freely, encourages participation and penetrates deeper into the demography.

One might well ask, why would anyone take the trouble of offering everything free? All said and done, money, is among the strongest of motivators, true. In the absence of a strong motivation, nothing of great value can be created and definitely not maintained professionally. There is no free meal, as they say. You just pay 2-3 rupees for a news paper that may not cover the cost of paper, you watch free channels, and listen to free radio. How do they manage to provide it free or almost free? Advertisements. The viewership or readership that comes incidentally to a free service, as long as it is of decent quality, throws up opportunity for the advertise his/her products or services. It creates a mutual win-win situation to the advertiser and the publisher, where the advertiser gets a large, defined captive audience and the publisher, revenue. Public is a winner too, as it should be.

BigMouth.co.in (http://www.bigmouth.co.in) is one such Job Portal that is open ended for both recruiters and job hunters. It provides all the necessary tools and features for a recruiter to post a job opening and manage the candidates who apply for that job, including deleting, saving candidates and sending out custom message to select candidates. If one has multiple job openings, they can download a spreadsheet from the site, enter upto 50 job openings with relevant details and upload the spreadsheet to post all those job openings in one go. Apart from job openings, employees can review the present and past companies they have worked for and rate the companies on different parameters such as Pay, Growth Prospects, Working Conditions etc. The collection of such employee written review helps one get a perspective of a company inside out.

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250 things she’s never done before.

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Be a Social Butterfly!, Dil Se, Masti On the Net, Skeletons in the Closet

Snow here and snow there, how can I go anywhere??

Last few weeks, it had been snowing through out, forcing me to spend my weekends at home.  And here I was, thinking of innovative ways of spending my day.  But at the end of the day it was all worth it.  You too try it and remember to try more than just the options listed here, depending on your likes and dislikes.  And this can be practiced by anyone, just because it’s in a female blog doesn’t mean it’s a girly thing. 

And so here I present my weekendlogue!

1. Begin with making your tummy happy

After a late rise, I prepared a filling brunch, consisting of yummy Chicken Fried rice after some hot soup.  The heavenly feeling of having piping hot soup in this weather cannot be described in words.

2. Organizing the wardrobe

I know this won’t last for long, but the work has been long pending.  For the next few days at least, I will save time trying to find my clothes.  A quick tip, to ensure your wardrobe smells nice spray some perfume in there, once you finish tidying it up.

3. Read a book

More than half the day is over, at this point I opened to read my favorite author Meg Cabot’s not so latest book, ‘The Guy next door’.  Nice book, wish I could just keep reading her books like this all the time.  With nothing else to do, just lie down, curl and read and read.

4. Telephonic bonding with friends outside city

For friends in the city there is always a time of the year to meet up and have fun but what about the friends out?  This I thought was the right time to catch up with them on the phone.  Interacting with women community online is so much different than on telephone. Sonia, Neha online chatting is fine but don’t you think we should hear each other more often? Don’t know about you, it had a therapeutic effect on me.

5. Download movies from net

Day is almost winding up but before I retire, need to save movies in my CD, the movies downloaded throughout the day.  These movies are lined up for tomorrow’s movie marathon. 

I always believed that it’s equally important to spend time with self, as important it is to spend time with friends and family, today that belief just got stronger.

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I am your lover,

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So you met that really cute guy in college, took an instant liking for his slow sweet smile, went out on a date, discovered that you both have a lot in common, dreamt of a life together, of home and hearth…

Got married, had a baby and then …as the years rolled by, the cute guy was replaced by a complete stranger. The face that you once loved changed and with the appearance of fine lines and gray hairs, there was the appearance of a disconnect, boredom, a lost spark, missing magic…

So what should you do? Log on to the various networking sites in the hope of getting some novelty back? Look for love again? Or should you try and get the good times flowing?

First of all do understand that all marriages go through a period where things are mighty stagnant. The ‘seven-year-itch’ was not coined for a single couple, rather in recognition of a common phenomenon. Only today the itch makes an appearance much sooner.

So what should you do to recreate the magic? Our tips.

· How long has it been since you’ve played a temptress? Before the baby came? Perhaps. That’s got to change, today, right now. Get out the sexy lingerie, the aphrodisiacs, the Kamasutra and whatever ammo you think can get your man craving. Your grandma was slightly off target when she said that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach. So go, launch an attack on your man, the kind he’ll love.

· Do something that’ll introduce romance back. Go out on a date. Leave the kids with someone you can trust. Act as if you have just met him. Dress for the part. Be interested in him more than anything else. Be the girl he once took out. Later carry the vibes to the bedroom and voila! Magic!

· Get out of your home. Take a vacation. A change of place can make it easier to look at your man in a newer light. With household chores off your mind, you’ll find it easier to bond big time.

· Tell him what you love about him, especially his manly moves. Some positive stroking can go a long way and lead to strokes of another kind.

· Do not be a clingy girl. Get a life of your own. A hobby, work that takes you out, friends, anything that’ll make him feel less suffocated. Let him loose and allow him his soccer game-meets-friends-meets-beer kinds of situations. This will make you come back to each other with a certain kind of freshness.

· Quit the blame game. Love your husband for what he is. He’s real, not an image picked up from some mush-filled movie or book.

· Laughter. That helps. Use humor to ease out situations. Also no one loves the female version of Snow White’s Grumpy.

· Build up your together time. It’s difficult when you both are busy. But do it. For every time you go separate ways, pencil in time for you as a couple too.

All this makes sense if your marriage is not abusive and causing you immense hardships. In that case it’s best to accept the situation and learn to let go. However be sure of your feelings, your spouse and the realities that bind you before you go either way.

And if you decide it’s worth it then…when the stars are bright and its quiet…link your hands into his, squeeze his hand, look into his eyes, rediscover the passion …and stay…happy and together.

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The infamous phrase “Love is Blind” is facing a trial next week. Two couples narmally a male and a female misunderstood the concept of these phrase and landed in a jail.

The story goes like this….to ba continued

Be a Social Butterfly!, Dil Se

If you are done with the present guy in your life and are on a lookout for a new lover, here are some ‘types’ that you might want to steer away from (mind you, I speak from personal experience). Many a times, initial hots can turn into a nasty itch even before you can slip out of the sheets after your first session! Take my word for it; these guys are no good in bed!

The Slick, Suave Stunner:

He is the living prototype of Reggie Mantle from Archie comics. This guy loves little else than the mirror. He spends most of his waking hours pouting and preening, looking for the perfect clothes and spending hours to get that perfect hairstyle. He will continue to indulge in self-grooming and admiration even if you walk about the room naked.

The Sloth Bear:

This one stands in stark contrast to the slick, suave dude. He does not believe in washing up, using cologne, doing laundry or even brushing his teeth. His favorite pastime is to lie on a couch with a few boxes of pizzas, some cola and chicken bones strewn around him. Go to bed with him only if you have a fetish for dirty underwear. And yeah, don’t be surprised if you get a bit from last day’s breakfast in your mouth while kissing.

The Non-Initiator:

Master of the harem, this guy just expects to take it all lying down. He is pathetically clueless about the concept of foreplay and will heavily rely on you for the initiation, the climax and everything else in between. He might be an ideal choice if you think of sex as a selfless, unconditional, charitable service.

The Insecure Freak:

A girl’s just got to give this guy a pass if she doesn’t want to substitute her carnal cravings with conversation about performance anxiety, body image issues and “I’m-just-not-good-enough-for-you” ramblings. This guy will constantly grumble about how you deserve someone better looking/smarter/richer/ hornier than him. Well, if he insists….

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