There you are, determined to finally finish that report you’d been avoiding for the last week. If not you are in for a serious scolding from either your boss or the client… This gives you that all too familiar pain in your stomach. “I am cretainly going to finish it first thing in the morning,…
We use personality tests for our recruitment. This test is one of many tools we use to predict the personality of the person before hiring them. As recruitment specialists know very well that tests alone do not make or break the deal. This test is only one of many data to aid us in making…
During the years I worked as an employee, there’d often be notifications posted around the working area by the company. I started working at a time of fear and submission following the 1980 coup. The air of subservience ran through every level of society, so when the people programmed to obey saw such notifications, they…
Life is just what happens to you, while your busy making other plans” said John Lennon, in his song Beautiful Boy. Although most of us tend to deny it, life is never a straight path, but a winding road with lots of ups and downs. In both our work lives and in private (often they…
Youngsters today take distinct paths when determining their career. Some make their decision at an early age, and though they may make and change their minds countless times in time, they are dead set on making that decision alone, with the motto “I know what is best for me”. Recently I was, in a way…
Most of us grew up hearing jokes about marrying into money; if we could marry a wealthy man or a woman, we’d have got it made. Jokes aside, transforming your life through such a marriage is what dreams are made of, in the past and the present. Isn’t this what makes the story of Cinderella…
In the book “Plato and a Platypus Walk into Bar” which I have recently read, two academicians named Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein explain philosophical concepts making jokes and using plain language. There is a story about Aristotle in this book and it goes like this: They asked him who was his best friend and…
Recently, I ran across a discussion on the subject of online dating in The Dark Side of Technology; a radio show on Turkey’s independant and “intellectual” radio Açık Radyo. Since I had some extra time before my meeting I used to listen to the discussion. It appears that in the USA, one marriage out of…
