Today is International Women’s Day and I want to take this opportunity to reflect upon a few women that have influenced my professional life. Many, many years ago I did an HR internship at French car manufacturer Renault. The company was very advanced in terms of HR practices, being studied in all business schools like…
A few career and life lessons from my last job in Italy
February 26, 2012 by 7 Comments
5 years ago I was in Italy for my third job in that country in less than 10 years. I love Italy, and really enjoyed Turin. It’s a great city with beautiful architecture, nice, contrasted weather with cold winters (after all they held Winter Olympics there in 2006) and hot summers. The food is great,…
Compensation generalist or Compensation specialist ?
February 2, 2012 by 4 Comments
Did you ever think that Compensation & Benefits can be a generalist role, not necessarily a specialist one ? Of course, in the GCC most companies don’t have a massive HR team, and even having one C&B person on board is not always a given. Often, mid-size companies have an HR Generalist or the HR…
Fresh professional goals for 2012 as a Compensation leader
January 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
I don’t do New Year resolutions any longer. I used to go through the ritual in the past, but my motivation, like for many people, never lasted long. After a few weeks or even a few days, I was back to my past behaviour and never gave these resolutions another look back… until the end…
Socialize your Compensation & Benefits annual business plan
December 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
So the time has come to socialise your brilliant Compensation & Benefits annual business plan. You spent hours gathering and integrating feedback from your internal clients, thinking about the company strategy and how your team can help accelerate the organisation’s vision and objectives, and putting together a detailed program inclusive of organisation chart, resources needed…
How to get started in your new Compensation job
November 10, 2011 by 5 Comments
One day, one of my acquaintances on LinkedIn wrote to me. His company never had job descriptions and he wanted me to share some of the JDs from my team. He also asked how to get started as he was getting into his new position as Performance and Compensation Manager. Here is some of the…
No, no one becomes a Compensation Manager in 2 days !
October 13, 2011 by 17 Comments
Today’s Career Corner is a rant about the so-called “certifications” that are offered in the region on the topic of Compensation & Benefits and Performance Management. I had already planned to write about certifications, but what I received in my LinkedIn inbox 2 days ago made me jump and I decided to post my reaction…
