Staff turnover is the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees. High turnover is often related to unhappy employees, lack of career opportunities and challenges, dissatisfaction with the job or conflict with management; but it can also indicate unsafe or unhealthy conditions. High turnover rates are always a reason to be alarmed.
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By Cecile Rayssiguier – When I was a student (a French student studying in France), my roommate had gone to the US for a full year. I therefore had in exchange welcomed a very nice American girl. I happen to be very fond of cooking and had the chance to own a large flat. In a very natural manner, our living-room consequently became a well known meeting room for most of the other American students who had to spend their year in France.
If my memory serves me right, three of them did not speak a French word. When I expressed how surprised I was, they replied they were convinced that French was a dialect and that everybody would be speaking English in France.
Well, in fact no. In France, (and I’m afraid, in many countries) not everyone speaks English. And working aboard in a foreign country means, at least, that you should speak the local language.
This story dates from… the Middle Ages, when computers did not exist, nor did the internet and its tremendous ability to enable people to instantly -and virtually- travel worldwide.
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You are out of college. You may have little to no work experience in your field. What would make employers hire you instead of a seasoned applicant? And vice-versa.
I remember when I was still at college, trying to find my first job in the field. I had lots of difficulties ...
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There’s something special about doing what you like most. Energy never fades away when you enjoy what you are doing while you experience a limitless desire to constantly know and learn more. Freddie Mercury and Jimmy Hendrix were bonded to music; Einstein was devoted to physics and cosmology; Hemingway to ...
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So you got a new job… cool… but now you are more lost than a sneaker in a fridge, right? You know no one, everything is confusing, you feel like everyone is your boss and the pieces don’t fit. The list can go on forever. Don’t worry. Perfectly normal.
Every time we ...
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How do I start? It´s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don´t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues.
Also, I don´t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis ...
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