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The term 'Marketable' usually people understand is nothing but 'Presentable' in common word. We as an HR representative closely understand how important is to be always ready to convey assistance on any kind of information being responsible head, of course this can be either at your workplace or by the interviewers point of view. We can say being presentable is an vital aspect for being marketable.

Being Marketable is an idea to put yourself as you are but it can be in various ways. Answer for why should we do this, is to update yourself by decorating your experience/ work profile by festoon of skills in polished way to make sense according to the specific industry. One can realize the real need of being marketable when he put step ahead in the market where everyone ask him something unusual, may be something which is never done earlier.
Understanding the need for being marketable considering the specific purpose for specific area of work can be more easier to get exact idea of each level where you deserve success and appreciation.

1) Make your-self marketable at the point of looking for job as a fresher.
2) Be marketable when you describe your experience.

Now how to make it possible is by following the steps taking into consideration the requirement of market in which you are eligible and interested into. Understand the key points to be highlighted which are most attractive and important to be mentioned while presenting yourself/ your work.

Here if we look in case of fresher, one need to work hard while presenting themself for the interview.
Now, not only about yourself but as a fresher even your marketing document should be up to date which is more crucial then you. Pre-work is very important when you show up as fresher because you have nothing to express about yourself except your personal stuff. So, what a fresher usually thinks to be a presentable? here, he focus more on dressing, posture, gesture and communication. This is equally important but not more than how your marketing document; your resume should be. One should understand that marketing is not a content but is a way how your talent box is designed and how you put in front. Certain points to be noted on this:

High Priority

(1) One should look on the priorities what and how you design your resume.
(2) Sequence is important to get key points to be notified.
(3) After heading, summary is must to let interviewer get noticed what you own as your specialties. It may give interviewer the reason to look your resume thoroughly.
(4) Education details can be immediately followed by summary. The least but professional way to specify about your academics is into Grades and not the percentage. Do not forget to mention the year of passing which clarifies your continuity of academics.
(5) Technical skills or certifications or projects are equally important as they are treated as additional tags which can play important role in selection and rejection process.
(6) Being fresher, let interviewer understand about your interests, strengths and weaknesses, (Strengths and Weaknesses shall not mention in the resume) 
(7) Be confident when introduce yourself . Ensure you describe only about you and not about family unless it is asked to you.
(8) You should consider every question as if it is been asked to you what is required by position and what responsibilities are expected by the organization.
(9) While talking about your skills, be strong on the points which are required by the position to perform, not only what you possess.
(10) Most crucial : Be ready for the questions start by 'Why' than 'What'. They seems to be judgmental on how you describe the matter and express your thoughts.

Low Priority

(1) Dressing : Just think about showing off professional and light.
(2) Posture and Gesture could not be important that you may get conscious on how you sit, where should your arm and  vision should be. Staying 'Confident' is more than enough to show ignoring much about posture and gesture.
(3) Avoid talking more about yourself and only about your positive aspects.

In case of experience candidates, the experience itself matters almost everything to be marketable. Experience is your asset and asset is always valuable and to be nurtured. Experience cannot be always determined by no. of years but should be determined how well you justify proving your experience. Still, if anyone has around 3-5 years of experience and interested to enter in new market for new scope, he has to start looking where he stands in the market, how much he has scope in his current role, how much he has to develop to start with new search and most important how you will do this. Of course marketing them self is mandatory but what should be the resulting ways? Lets discuss :

High Priority

(1) Resume should consist of summary without fail, which should include your no. of years of experience into current role with your position and about overall earlier experience. 
(2) One should start with their current or latest experience and roles & responsibilities, where only key points of your work profile should have mentioned rather to explain your daily tasks.
(3) Describing about projects and technologies on which you have worked can help lot to identify your work platform.
(4) While describing your responsibilities verbally always use words "my role was to..." instead "I was doing...", it shows you have perfectly identified what organization expected from you and you performed as per requirement.
(5) One should not convey negative reply for the similar role even if he has not performed what is been asked for, because interviewer expects at least you should have knowledge to explain what is been asked. Although that is not much considerable but negative reply will affect so far.
(6) Always consider the requirement of the role, what skills required, what attitude required to work on role can help to answer the questions starts with 'How'. It answers your ability, capability, strength, weakness, decision making, self developing qualities.
(7) Answer for "Why looking for change?" should be diplomatic and should think twice before any reply. Mostly one can answer related to expand his/ her knowledge of technologies, opportunities on new platforms etc. 

Low Priority

(1) Never describe more than what is asked even you have something more to explain about your work profile. It totally depends on the interviewer so this can be changed according to the situation on which one should not give much importance.
(2) Avoid describing into points each and every activity  you performed .
(3) Adding references cannot attract as interviewee might think that interviewer will have a look and assume what people has opinion about you which is least important to the interviewer.

There are some common ways to make yourself marketable socially which is now a days has become important and effective way to reach to the maximum and exact audience. Connecting with professionals and experts can help you to reach till destiny by much easier and exact way if you develop contacts. Remember the way of marketing skills is the first impression where you can catch attention of interviewer by which he will never experiment the way to ask you the mind boggling questions. These are just simple ways to keep always yourself updated by smart and impressive ways.    

A resume is a document prepared with the motive of marketing the skills and talent, achievements and your potential. This document explains about qualification, the academics, potential areas and about your interest. It must be arranged all information about yourself that maximum is known at a glance.

Resume is a personal information document which is viewed not more than for 30 seconds and it should be constructed in a way that interviewer get all the basic information about the candidate. The idea is to grab the exact information through effective keywords which attract interviewer. So while packing overall your personal material on a page, the care should be taken how simple but informative your winning resume must be.

Lets have a look how and what can be the ingredients the fresher's resume should consist of:


(a) Plan the content of resume

Writing resume takes a thought and planning. So before creating a resume you should be clear what exactly you want to show. Although the professional background does not hold value still writing summary stating aims and goals can add value in the fresher resume. But should be taken care it is not more than 3-4 lines.

(b) Things to remember before starting resume

While creating resume the foremost part is to consider the typography  - the font and size. Next make sure the effective keywords to be added defining your skills. The format and the layout should be decided and accordingly the arrangement is plan before creating resume.

(c) Information in the resume

The basic information such as; updated and correct contact - full name, address, contact and email.Educational qualifications should be in the chronological order and better to show the information including with the names of institutes.

(d) Avoid unnecessary formatting

Avoid unessential formatting such as; capitalization, bold or underline. Unnecessary editing or unprofessional fonts should be avoided as it shows bad impression. Proper spacing of lines and characters is also important. Borders and watermarks is not really required as it cannot be a professional and formal way to present the resume.

(e) Choose effective titles and heading

Headings to get an idea of  the matter should be simple. Heading be as such that it can be understood the information what exactly is instead reading the matter. It should be constructive and headings are not used to mention every small information in descriptive way.

(f) No Grammar mistakes

Not a single grammar mistake be done while constructing resume. Using short forms and local speaking language is strictly avoided. It should be formal and words used should simple and impressive.

(g) Things must be avoided

Never use images or pictures to express any sentence or phrase. Do not mention expected salary. Do not put the references at end before it is asked to show. There is no need to mention hobbies as well, your strengths and weaknesses be mentioned that also only in 2-3 sentences.


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To work with teams and work groups is one of the critical aspects of the Organization Development process because Organization Development believes that teams are the most important factor which helps in building organization. Appreciation of importance of work teams comes from cultural anthropology, sociology, organization theory and social psychology.

A team is a formation of group but has some different characteristics which are unusual than the ordinary groups, including commitment to form common goals and interdependency and interaction. It is this commitment which differentiates a team than just a group. The characteristics of the effective team can be:

(a) The culture tends to relaxed and comfortable.

(b) The group task is well understood and accepted by team members.

(c) People express both their feelings and ideas.

(d) Conflicts and Disagreement are present but are centered around ideas and methods.

(e) Decisions are usually based on consensus and not majority vote.

Teamwork is a process that constantly be assessed and restructured to help teams to achieve their goals efficiently and effectively. Employees are always treated as the assets of the organization and its success is directly related to the hard work every employee. Members should contribute their work in bit different way and always be motivated to give their best individually and in team as well.Team Building feature increase the trust factor among the employees.

The basic start is done through setting the goals which are accepted by every member of the team. It starts with the discussion altogether which is the step towards evolving with new ideas and agreed to follow the same. A team has been set up to achieve the set of prescribed goals. The time should be spent for discussing the task and should have the opportunity to negotiate them with their management. The team should have the right mix of skills which should be brought to the task at hand. The members of the team need to have problem solving and decision making skills as well as technical skills.

The team needs to agree on set of rules and ensure that their efforts are purposeful and all the members contribute to work. The most critical rules pertain to attendance, open discussion and analytical approach. This will ensure that work is done well and done on time. For team to be able to develop an appropriate strategy, it must have a clear definition of the problem. Team activities are in fact a powerful vehicle for building skills. The implementation should include the achievement of a range of performance improvement goals.


Key points of the effective and successful team:

(a) Motivation and encouragement is the key factor of the successful team.

(b) The proper goal setting and shared them with members is the another factor.

(c) Criticizing must be avoided at any level of discussion.

(d) Prefer to communicate each task, decision to every member through mails or any into writing.

(e) The decision maker is everybody, the team leader should not decide solely.

(f) Employee Engagement activity or fun activity can also be preferred in the team to share each other's views and thoughts.

(g) To accomplish goals the set of targets are made for members to achieve it in the given time.

(h) Feedback can be the best way to recheck or revise any decision before implementing.

(i) At last building cooperation avoiding conflicts is the major input by every team member.


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How you attract employee at workplace is very important but how you attract employee before he joins is the big skill. The factors you think to attract resources is only in monetary terms by offering salary more than they deserve, attracting incentives or extra beneficial allowances. But searching and hiring talent do not need the brownie. When organization required talent then it required only talent, which literally means the perfect deserving resource for the position who can own the work from day one almost in no time.

For this, most importantly recruiter should know what exactly the organization's requirement for the specific and niche position. If there is need of talent, recruiter has to change all the traditional ways of getting resource in. Before all this, recruiter should understand the importance of position and accordingly should evaluate the description, skills, matching eligibility and talent required for the position. This is very important as recruiter is a key person who leads the organization to introduce with the candidates. Its recruiter's words that make talent to step up in the organization. Of course the suitable position, appropriate salary, extra benefits matter to them but recruiter convince them to show their first impression in talent hunt is the crucial role.

But unfortunately sometimes it does not happen as it should be. Recruiter's convincing skill or other factors such as good salary hike, accommodation, transport facility pulls employee to attend the interview but sometimes recruiter fails to convert candidate into their employee or if hired, to retain them on the position. Suppose a recruiter schedule the interview after explaining according to the requirement, then he/ she is selected for the position and joins. But after couple of weeks he/ she says the work profile actually is not as per described, or say, this is not my kind of work, this has not been explained at the time of joining. Then what?? or it might happen organization feel the candidate is not suitable for the position. Isn't it weird!! Once the resource is qualified for the position achieving successfully the interview tasks then why one should feel he/ she is not suitable for the offered position.

This can be avoided if the recruiter and hiring and manager are clear about their requirement, ideas, goals and tasks need to perform on the particular position. The matching qualification, suitable designation (if experienced), suitable skills only are not enough, one should identify the capability and talent required to perform for the particular position. Talents are identified by their ability, skills, knowledge other than experience. Hiring resource and hiring talent is different and can be identified by their general awareness and knowledge required not only for meet the requirements and achieve task but to understand the responsibility and deserve the position. This process is initiated by recruiter in introducing position with talent and talent with the organization. Something has to attract them and something recruiter should found challenging in them. Like this could be the entry of the resource to go further with challenges to get hired.

Let us have a look what the resource should do to complete the challenges in meeting organization's requirement to become a Talent.

Role of the Recruiter

(A) Understand the required skills and abilities need to perform on the position much accurately as sourcing good resource is the basic step where recruiter has a challenge to identify without having any interaction with the resource.

(B) A Recruiter must be clear with the requirement demanded by the hiring manager and should ask resource the basic understanding about the position, and not what his/ her experience.

(C) For recruiting talent some specific challenges should be planned to find out the success areas.

(D) Necessary aptitudes can be arranged to get introduce with the organization and so the recruiter is able to understand what qualitative and quantitative knowledge the resource possess.

(E) Personal interview should consist in stages:
      1) Self Introduction
      2) Knowledge about required position
      3) Why makes candidate to switch the current and why he/ she feel to get hired by you

(F) Next round should be the technical as required for the position which should consist:
      1) Basic computer knowledge (Excels, PPT, Sharepoint, Salesforce etc.)
      2) Technical test required for position (IT/ Non IT)
      3) General IQ test
      
(G) The interview with hiring manager should include the challenges required for the position. Certain situations could be presented which are required to be perform on the role of the position. Hiring manager has to review by all means the suitability of the candidate.

(H) Hiring talent is a challenge to the organization, the tasks should be as such that it should review the knowledge, willingness to work, ability to perform task, capability in accepting challenge, sustainability, stability. This could be done in many ways and the resource can be purified by examining through different ways.

(I) The process should also consist the case study or presentation where the recruiter and hiring manager can judge the qualities of communication, will come to know how much the candidate is presentable, how he/ she is good in interacting with other team members, how much is organized and planned.


These are few techniques to judge and make the resource eligible for the position. Hiring talent can be identified not only by the qualification, communication or by previous experience. The qualities that specifies the talent other than experience and syllabus, the skills that proves the capability and willingness to sustain on the position is more and more important to develop the resource with high responsibilities and challenges to lead the position.