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Re: Can Emotional Intelligence boost your career?

agibowska — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:27:56 -0000

Thanks for the comment. There are people who are naturally blessed with great social skills, others need to work hard on them. Fortunatelly, SI can be imporved and nurtured especially during childhood and adolescence. I think it should be made developmental priority in scholl education and then later in professional education as well. SI in the worplace reduces conflicts and improves the collaboration which, in the long run, is so crucial for companies.

Re: Is planning the career path pointless?

agibowska — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:05:46 -0000

Thanks for the comment. I think for young people it's very good to have a plan. In reality, it often happens that the younger you are the more shaky your plans are and are more prone to changes.

Re: Are company meetings useless?

agibowska — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:09:29 -0000

Andrew, thanks for the comment! I have to look up what Basecamp exactly is.

Re: 5 reasons why software developers fail in their first jobs.

agibowska — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:43:20 -0000

As promised, in my next post I will include some tips on how to settle yourself smoothly into a new job without making these mistakes. Hope you will find it helpful to fix yourself :)

Re: 5 reasons why software developers fail in their first jobs.

agibowska — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:36:14 -0000

Rakesh, thanks for the comment and RT. Please feel free to forward this article to IT juniors :) Hope it'll be useful and give them some food for thought.

Re: How many contacts can you manage through a social network?

agibowska — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:22:51 -0000

Thanks for the comment. That's exactly what I meant writing this post. The more connections are made the less valuable this network becomes to us. I think the strong trend towards personalization and privacy is now emerging. More and more people are turning their backs on Facebook and other social networks. Will "Post-Facebook Generation" come sooner than we think?

Re: Web 2.0 is the millionth word in the English language

agibowska — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:34:50 -0000

Fully agree. The way English shapes other languages and the pace of this spread is really amazing. I guess we can also call it a natural creation of slang that relies mostly on borrowings from English. One of the primary functions of the language is to make the communication easy. When living in the English speaking environment picking up the words that are often heard and to incrporate them in native speech is considered a completely natural process. Searching your brain for the equivalents of commonly used words in your mother language might be too time consuming for our brains. We are just lazy :)

Re: Web 2.0 is the millionth word in the English language

agibowska — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:13:08 -0000

Thanks for your comments. Just to let you know, there is a term for a Polish-English hybrid, "Ponglish" :)
Web 3.0 definitely is in wide circulation but it seems that it hasn't had enough citations yet to qualify for the finals.

Re: How will recruitment change in 2019?

agibowska — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:53:12 -0000

Thanks for all the suggestions and comments :) I bet all employees will like the idea that they are in control :) Ally, do you belong to a Y Generation?

Re: How will recruitment change in 2019?

agibowska — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:48:22 -0000

Thanks for the comment Brett. I will definitely take up on your suggestion about the book. Since you do not agree with the fragmentation theory the futurologists included in their report, what are your predictions then? Really curious how the world of work will look in ten years' time. Share your ideas please :)