Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers, skills and the world of work. The cartoons and sketches are mine.
How to discover what YOU really want
It is hard to discover what you really want. You are influenced intensely by the role models, friends, family, colleagues and neighbours and even strangers. Then there are influencers that social media keeps pushing. How will you ever know what you REALLY want. The answer can be hard to handle.
Algorithms cannot #breakthebias - humans can
Algorithms cannot hashtag#breakthebias
Chances are that you have been a victim of bias in hiring (and you don't even know it). You were passed over because you were the wrong gender/ qualification/ sexual orientation/age/ or not from the "right college"... You may have been a beneficiary of biased decisions. It works in your favour too!
How do we break the hashtag#bias?
hashtag#breakthebias hashtag#iwd2022 hashtag#iwd hashtag#iwd2022 hashtag#hiringbias hashtag#hiring hashtag#algorithms hashtag#gender
How I fell in love with Sketchnotes
How I Fell In hashtag#love With Sketchnotes
This post has the MOST number of hashtag#sketchnotes ever used in a newsletter anywhere in the world. (Even the partly visible ones count). And there are more in the newsletter.
How many did you count? Leave your answer in the comments.
Wake Up Call for the Sleep Deprived
India is one of the most hashtag#sleep deprived countries in the world.
If you have an important meeting or exam the next day, make sure you get 8-10 hours of sleep the previous day.
And if you have a colleague who tells you that they can get by with 3-4 hours of sleep, share this post with them.
Let the kids get bored. And you too should get bored
Children are spending less time playing. When they do, it is done under the watchful eye of a coach. Playtime has been turned into a time to build the kid's resume. The result is frightening
The Pulse of Talent 2022 by Ceridian
The 2022 Pulse of Talent by Ceridian finds 61% employees are a flight risk. The employers have to go beyond money
Neil Young
Young has consistently demonstrated the unbridled passion of an artist who understands that self-renewal is the only way to avoid burning out. For this reason, he has remained one of the most significant artists of the rock and roll era.
— Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website
Book Review: What The Heck Do I Do With My Life
Book Review: What the Heck Do I Do with My Life
A number of you have asked me to add book reviews in the newsletter. Here is a review of Ravi Venkatesan's new book. Check out the hashtag#sketchnote on the entrepreneur's mindset.
Ravi is the first guest on Season 4 of my weekly LinkedIn Live called Dreamers and Unicorns. Do let me know the questions you have about tech and talent.
Republic Day 2022
The Ceridian report on pulse of talent 2022 says employers have to think beyond money. Here are three big take aways for #employers
LinkedIn Talent Trends 2022
LinkedIn Talent Trends 2022 talk about the organisations going through a period of redesign. What are people looking for when they browse the jobs? The data is powerful in view of the Great Resignation triggered by the pandemic.
Culture Building For Remote Teams
Culture Building for hashtag#remoteteams
I was invited by LinkedIn News India to join Pallavi Pareek (She/They) and Ankit Vengurlekar (he/him) to discuss this topic. This is a special edition of my hashtag#newsletter
Three Ms That Matter (The other two are explained in the newsletter)
Mental Health: This matters HUGELY in case of a remote work culture. Build the skills of the managers to recognise emotions like grief, stress, burnout etc.
Are You A Career 3.0 Person... Stuck in a Career 1.0 Job
"Why can't you focus on doing JUST ONE THING, " is a constant advice you get. You like juggling a number of projects and excelling at all of them.
You teach yourself new skills continuously - even when you could just get by. Sometimes you are better at it than even the people who have studied the subject. Does that sound like you?
You have a great job, but you wish you could do more. You may be craving to follow a Career 3.0 path but stuck in a Career 1.0 job.
What Makes TikTok Tick
TikTok is more popular than Google: Chinese-owned video-sharing app clocked up more visits after surge in popularity during pandemic. The app received more visits than Google for the first time, said Cloudflare.
The surge comes after the app became popular during the Covid-19 pandemic