Graduating from high school, most of us are pretty clueless about who we are and who we want to be in life. Typically, there's a lot of external pressure from families to go after conventionally respectable options such as engineering, medicine or law.

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Whether you're presenting in a classroom or a business competition, the question-answer session that follows the presentation is

Business competitions are a hot favourite as an extracurricular involvement for mostly business undergrads and sometimes even for most undergraduates of other subjects.

Cherry-picking new employees in itself is an extremely tedious and demanding process. Unfortunately, the process doesn't end here.

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One of the biggest challenges of working in a hierarchical company is the bureaucracy - it can slow you down and frustrate you.

In simple terms, BCS is the examination you need to pass, to get an appointment in government services. The exam happens nationwide, is highly competitive, and has three core stages that take approximately two years to finish.

I have been working with this company for 17 years and have been through a very emotional roller coaster ride while performing in 10 different roles along this long journey.

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One of the best ways to get an idea about the corporate life that awaits you is to do an internship in a company of your liking. It

According to research, bilingual people tend to be rational decision makers, perceptive thinkers and excellent multi-taskers.

When it comes to choosing between an apprenticeship or an internship, the factors to consider are very straightforward. Knowing how each of the two works should do 90% of the job. But when you have to choose between two similar positions, the choice becomes a little more difficult.

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When you're a young and naive freshman, you keep seeing seniors doing all these ECAs and jobs, and you wonder how to find similar opportunities.

The job market is becoming more and more competitive, with even entry level jobs requiring previous work experience. So doing

Getting a job, especially one of the sought-after ones, involves a good amount of strategy and effort just to get through the multiple stages of application and assessment.

BUSTING MYTHS ABOUT PROGRAMMERS

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Have you ever experienced any discomfort within the hierarchy, especially at the top? Perhaps the use of unofficial power by a co-worker of lower rank overriding your authority to destabilize your work plan and performance?