Hunting Jobs, Conscience Careers, Help, Tarun!

Business Today, December, 2006 by Deepti Khanna Bose; E. Kumar Sharma; Nitya Varadarajan; Rahul Sachitanand; Shaleen Agrawal; Tarun Sheth; Kapil Bajaj

HUNTING JOBS

Hunt That Dream Job, Smartly

Millions of new jobs are being created every year. So, what are the smartest ways to zero in on them?

These are the best of times for job seekers. There are, literally, thousands of new jobs being created every day; executives across the hierarchy are switching jobs every other day; and it's not uncommon for people in some industries to be juggling multiple offers at the same time. But the point is: what's the smartest way to take advantage of this boom?

"Ideally, an individual needs to set goals (learning, job satisfaction, challenges, growth, family) at different stages of his/ her career and monitor achievements and accomplishments. Think of a switch when your employer does not provide opportunities to strike a...