Ensure Your Swift Promotion! As a career consultant, I have been fortunate enough to get an opportunity to work with clients across career stages right from the level of a fresher, a junior professional all the way up to senior roles and CXO's. And over the years, certain patterns become obvious irrespective of the career stage the professional is at. One constant complaint I hear from my clients apart from having hit the glass ceiling at the current organisation is that they have been passed over for a promotion. CLASSIC MISTAKE PROFESSIONALS & HIGH-PERFORMERS OFTEN MAKE Moving up the career ladder involves a lot of deep self-introspection and professionals often make the mistake of not paying attention to them. The high performer clients I work with love to assume that their accomplishments will do the talking! Others feel that they deserve a promotion because they have been loyal to the organisation, while the others left for greener pastures or sought better o
COMPETENCY VS. FUNCTIONAL INTERVIEWING: Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles is Betting on Eight Competencies to Build its Talent
Eight Competencies - Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles India Competency-based hiring is not new. Several companies have a list of competencies – both position-specific and organisational – that they look for when they hire. For some companies integrity may be the top competency. For others it may be interpersonal skills, and so on. But Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV), the joint venture between the Volvo group and Eicher Motors, decided to overhaul its approach to competencies. “All organisations have competencies in some form or other. We wanted to be different. Instead of doing the usual leadership, communication, relationship management type of competencies, we thought of coming up with a list that would stick in the minds of our people,” says Kinjal Choudhary, senior vice-president & CHRO, VECV. In competency-based interviews, questions are specific, with the intention of drawing out anecdotes. “The functional interviews tells you what the candidate