Do you think bullying only occurs in big corporate houses where you have to work with a large number of employees and get smarted under a bully? Did you think a PR or an Advertising agency is free from such a social menace? Think again, ask around and you would come across anecdotes that is [...]

I was fortunate to attend the awards ceremony of the Pink slip awards last year where creative awards were given to agency and companies for creative excellence in recruitment advertising. This is a new and interesting initiative from the Times Group to encourage both the clients and the advertising agency to produce great work in [...]

We launched the India PR Jobs Board six months back and since then, there have been 25 job postings, more than 4000 views, and more than 150 applications.
The most popular posting was that of CMCG India on Aug 30, 2007 that was viewed 175 times and had 18 candidates applying for the job. The second [...]

This week I want to talk about the state of the PR firm business. Are PR firms people friendly?
What are the latest trends in human resource development that qualify for being people friendly and enable organizations to retain and yet allow employees or consultants to be productive, despite challenges of everyday life like large commuting [...]

Some of my industry colleagues and I had a discussion on whether it is better to work in a big agency or in a small/ medium size agency for say a PR professional with 1-3 years of experience.
Lets say big agencies are those with more than 3 branch offices in India with more than 50 employees. [...]

Some of my colleagues and I had a discussion about what could be a good growth path of a PR professional in terms of work profile and these are what some of us agreed upon, subject to further discussion:

Inculcating PR style newspaper reading and studying habits – Scanning newspapers for relevant news items, identifying important [...]