Abhijit Bhaduri’s Blog
I write about careers in the AI Economy and about the world of work. The sketchnotes are my own.
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.
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.
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
What 3000 People Want In 2022
More than 200,000 people were asked about what they would want if one wish of theirs could be granted. More than 4000 people responded. More money in the same job was the second choice on their wish list. What did they want more than money, I wondered.
Lying Is A Superpower - Use It Sparingly
Lying is socially undesirable. Yet, most of us lie several times a day, the rest do it all the time. It is a superpower that people routinely use to tempt fate, defy death and achieve the impossible. Sometimes we call it reality distortion. Sometimes we call it meaning making.
Handling The WFH Question During A Job-Interview
As businesses are slowly opening up the offices, the candidates are facing this tricky question in the job-interviews. Do you prefer to work from home or come to the office. How should you answer it.
Decision Fatigue
There is a cost of working long hours. We start taking increasingly poor decisions. Being well rested is a good business strategy
How to Onboard New Hires
What does a cooking video and a music video have to do with designing a corporate onboarding program? Both tell us how learning experiences must be designed.
Lack of Experience Can Be An Advantage
It is so frustrating to enter the world of work if every employer wants to hire only those people who have prior experience. After all everyone has to start somewhere. Research shows that even first-time CEOs have that problem. There is an advantage the novice has.
The Invisible Enemy
Having the wrong leader is a recipe for failure whether it is a Dreamer organisation or a Unicorn or a globally present Market Shaper. We look for three wrong qualities when we choose leaders. That is the beginning of a disastrous stint for the institution.
Don't Ban "Sensitive" Topics at Work
Should some topics be off-limits in the workplace? Some companies have started putting restrictions on what can and cannot be discussed at the workplace. Muzzling the employees may have unintended consequences.
The Experience Economy - II
To get the top 1% talent, the candidate experience has to be designed to attract the top 1%. These are people who are chased by head-hunters. You can't hire them. They have to want to work for you. Experiences create a pull that we cannot resist.
How to be better at giving advice
Three tips to better at giving advice1. ASK WHY: Find out why the advise thought of reaching out to you in the first place.2. MODEL THE BEHAVIOR: When leaders give speeches to employees about Learning Agility it rings hollow if the employees have never seen the leader struggle to learn something new.There is third piece of advice that matters even more.