We are pleased to announce that a number of new articles are now live on the National Hug Your Boss Day website. In our attempt to highlight relationship issues at work and resolve problems, we have written some advisory articles for you.
You will find articles for the managers/bosses and more for the employees.
Head over to the National Hug Your Boss Day website and click through to the "Motivational Articles" page. You will find articles on a multitude of topics, for example, "5 ways to manage your boss effectively", "How to deal with your employees office affair", "Clear signs that your boss is taking advantage of you", "10 things that really annoy your boss and solutions", "What behaviour is acceptable at work", "Sure signs you have a great boss" and more.
If you want to see something specific that we have not covered, please feel free to email us directly. We would love to hear from you.
We hope we can help many of you out there to deal with relationship issues at work and make them better to allow your working life to be more enjoyable :) Let us know if we have helped you deal with or overcome anything.
You usually hear about the boss shouting at their employees but have you ever thought about an employee who shouts at their boss?
Our latest survey results reveal that 79% have NEVER shouted at their boss, which is a promising figure showing most of our users do respect their boss or have never had the need to express any negative emotions towards their leader.
Although the majority sit in this bracket, we do still have 21% who HAVE shouted at their boss in anger at some point in their career. Although we have not dug down into why, we can assume that it may have happened for a number of reasons.
Did the boss do something to provoke the attack and did the boss deserve it? Maybe the boss has shouted first? But even so, should the employee then shout back? How could this make the employee then feel after the action? Do they resign and leave or apologise and pretend it never happened?
Whatever the reason behind shouting, it is not the best course of action, even if it is a reaction to a poorly behaved boss. Our advice is that if a boss has acted in this way to you, then remain calm and approach your boss with a professional attitude. Take some time before you speak to them to gather yourself and calm down if you need to. You do not want to make other employees uncomfortable and you certainly do not want to ruin your chances of a decent reference in the future.
We are pleased to announce that all of our job postings in India can now be found on Career Rocks. In an attempt to spread our wings and drive new talent to our vacancies, we partner with new organisations all of the time.
India is a market that is consistently bubbling and to have all of our jobs within India listed on this site is a great move.
We currently have 1,992 vacancies live in India and this is growing day by day as we continue to market our jobsite as a free portal to post unlimited job vacancies on in.TipTopJob.com.
If you or anyone you know are advertising jobs in India, please do point them in the direction of our site. It is quick and easy to register and your jobs can be live within minutes.
On the other hand, if anyone is in need of a new vacancy, then it is simple and easy to register as a jobseeker, upload a CV, set up Email Alerts and apply for jobs online.
You are sitting with your friends having a catch up when they start talking in riddles and using abbreviations or random words you have never heard before! Corporate jargon otherwise known as corporate lingo, workplace jargon, business speak to name a few is often commonplace amongst large corporate companies and especially those originating in the USA. For some, it can be frustrating to be lost amongst such language so we have collated some common terms and provided you with an explanation for each. There are many references to such jargon which include using abbreviations, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Here they are……….
Abbreviations
COB – close of business
CSW – completed staff work
EOD – end of day
FTE – full-time equivalent
FY – fiscal year
HIBBIS – heads in beds, butts in seats
KPI – key performance indicators
NDA – non-disclosure agreement
PCP – previous corresponding period
POS – point of sale
PQQ - pre qualification questionnaire
RFP - Request for Proposal
RFQ - Request for quote
RIF – reduction in force
SBU – strategic business unit
SME – subject matter expert
TCO – total cost of ownership
TTT - this time tomorrow
WC – week commencing
WE – week ending
YTD – year to date
Nouns
Blue sky thinking: Idealistic or visionary ideas
Cascade: Array of possible actions to take in response to a problem: protocol
Check in the box: complete the task
Flavor of the month: the current popular activity/person as directed by the company/client/management
Hub: an idea which other ideas are linked to
Joined-up thinking: Discussing the viewpoints of each organization and coming to an agreement or compromise
Kill two birds with one stone: doing one action will result in achieving two goals
Low-hanging fruit: Tasks that have the greatest positive effect for the least effort, used when promoting new projects to show the advantages
One belly button to push: Reduced number of suppliers
Raft of measures: A collection of proposals or schemes
Tent pole: the task or item most likely to delay a project or consume the most resources
Silver bullet: One solution for everything
Under-pinning: The foundations of an idea, which helps another related scheme or proposal
Womb to tomb: An idea or program that is killed before it has a chance to grow or flourish
Verbs
Baked In: Same as "included," in principle. Something which has been "baked in" is implied to be impossible to remove
Boil the Ocean: An effort or task which is perceived by the speaker to be impossible or impractical
Build Capacity: Take actions which produce no useful output immediately, but increase the amount of useful work which can be done in the future
Cover all directions of the compass: Try to make things acceptable for all stakeholders
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32% of employees exist in a company with 4 or more hierarchies of reporting. Latest research into the number of hierarchies within businesses also found that 25% have 3, 23% have 2 and 20% have 1.
The graph below illustrates the results of the survey highlighting the differences between the number of bosses and the number of hierarchies. We can clearly see that there are more employees with just the 1 boss that they report into and there are more companies using 4 or more levels of hierarchy.
With National Hug Your Boss Day fast approaching, we are turning around our survey questions rapidly to gather lots of interesting data to report. Do help us by casting your votes on the homepage of the website.
Last week, we asked how many bosses you report into. Surprisingly, we found that 12% report into 4 or more bosses.
However, more obviously, there were 54% of people who only report into the 1 boss, making it a little easier for them.
26% report into 2 bosses and 8%, 3.
Having many tiers a hierarchy is fairly common practice but the number of bosses you directly report to is different and can clearly vary from company to company.
So, all of you out there that report into more than the 1 boss, would you prefer to have just 1 boss to report to or do you find multiple reporting OK?! Do tell us here.....
We are pleased to share some changes to TipTopJob. We have now increased the limit of the CV/Resume sizes you can upload into your account. They used to have a limit of 500Kb but it is now 750Kb giving you 250Kb more space! This may not mean much to you in terms of Kb but you can be rest assured that you will be less likely to receive any errors when uploading larger CV/Resumes.
It is however still recommend to limit the number of pictures includes as this can greatly increase the size to an unmanageable amount. Including pictures of yourself can also add an element of bias or judgement to a recruiter and in some Countries it is probably best avoided as less common practice. You will also want to leave out any pictures of visas/permits etc and supply these directly to a recruiter upon request. There is no need to include them in your CV/Resume at this early stage and usually they increase the size too much.
Given the adjustments in limits, we have reduced the number of CV/Resumes allowed in the accounts from 5 to 3. We have found many duplicates and therefore unnecessary to have these multiple items. If you want to apply for more than 3 jobs and require a different CV/Resume for each, once you have made an application you can simply remove an existing CV/Resume and upload a new one.
If you have any questions relating to these changes, please do get in touch with us via email.
Have you ever wondered whether job searching via the Internet in Kenya is dominated by mobile access and how it compares to the users across the UK? Or if the residents in the USA sit at a desktop computer looking for a new job more than those in Russia? No need to wonder any longer as we can now reveal some interesting stats and facts illustrating the differences between 186 Countries across the Globe.
So, it turns out that the Internet users in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Gabon, Cuba and Chad use desktops to search for jobs more so than mobiles and tablets. In fact, 97% of people in Kyrgyzstan use a desktop computer. 93% in Russia, 89% in Gabon, 86% in Cuba and 86% in Chad.
Mobiles were used the most in Sudan, Kenya, Palau and the Falklands. 94% of users in Sudan chose a mobile over a desktop or tablet.
Interestingly, Internet users in New Caledonia were the only users more likely to use Tablets. In St Lucia, Jersey, Guadeloupe and Greenland, tablets were used more than any of the other Countries analysed.
The UK and the USA rank right in the middle when it comes to its usage of the desktop and mobile. The UK found 57% using a desktop versus 33% a mobile and the USA, 52% versus 43%, respectively. A similar result was found in Australia with slightly more internet users choosing a desktop in comparison to a mobile; 49% v’s 41% and India; 50% v’s 48%.
The stats turned on their heads for a few other Countries where there were more mobiles being used. For example, in the UAE, 43% chose a desktop to job search over 53% a mobile. In South Africa; 38% v’s 51% and Japan; 43% v’s 49%.
The data comes from the usage of TipTopJob over the last 6 months and compares the sessions from 186 Countries. You can see a full breakdown in the chart below.
Source: TipTopJob.com
Our latest survey results reveal that 73% believe they are "hard" workers compared to 25% who felt they were "smart" workers.
Funnily enough, less than 1% of people admitted to being a slacker and 1.7% a chancer. It was an anonymous survey so it is not like people did not feel they could tell the truth! We are pleased to have this feedback :)
So, why are more people "hard" at work, than "smart" at work? Quite possibly because people feel that because they work long hours and put in as much effort as they possibly can, then they quite simply feel they work "hard" and maybe do not understand the difference between the two. Smarter work involves using others to assist you, managing your time, organising your diary, networking, working within the right industry, being creative, recruiting the right people around you, asking for help and knowing when to cut your losses, to name just a few.
Reading that, we do wonder if people may feel they are more "smart" workers now.....do you? Let us know here.....
We are currently asking our users if they are a hard worker, smart worker, chancer or slacker. We believe that being smart in your daily chores is a better option than the others. Being smart means you would not need to be sitting at your desk working (or pretending to be working!) for long periods.
Tell us here in our latest survey what kind of worker you are.....
CLICK HERE to cast your vote.
