A practice has helped me a lot in my career : to perform a post-mortem at the end of a project. You may call it a recap, wrap-up or a review. Post-mortems are common in the software engineering industry. Well, after all I worked for both Microsoft and Apple – I had to learn something…
Relocations : do you offer cash or services ?
April 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In essence, this question was recently asked on LinkedIn and addressed corporate relocation policies for candidates from one part of the USA to another, and whether companies provide money or support services. I’ll transfer it to the situation that a lot of us are faced with in the GCC : dealing with middle to high…
Earth Day – Will you care ?
April 22, 2012 by 2 Comments
It’s Earth Day today and this won’t be my usual post on Compensation & Benefits related topics. Caring for the environment – a family affair You see, I believe that we should all look for sustainability- the world population is now more than 7 billions, and we need to ensure that we can all live…
The Netflix Employee Value Proposition
April 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
When I was preparing for my previous post on Netflix, my attention was drawn to a small part of Reed Hastings’ interview. He said : “We care about great work. This requires thoughtful, mature high-performance employees.” (emphasis is mine). So I went on a path of discovery to try and find more information about the…
Don’t like handcuffs ? Join Netflix !
April 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
Reed Hastings is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix, which provides live streaming TV and video shows from the internet on a monthly subscription basis in the USA, Canada, UK and Ireland. A great concept and one that led to the ultimate doom of the local video/DVD rental business (think Blockbusters). In How to set…
Two Excel functions to save time in compensation files
April 15, 2012 by 1 Comment
Two functions in Excel can help you save time when performing analyses on big compensation files : conditional formatting and sorting. Imagine you have big file with salary information and you want to find out who are the lowest paid of managers in the organisation. But titles are all over the place, not specifically tied…
A view on emiratisation from the Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council
April 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
The Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council (ADTC) recently visited an internal Emiratisation Summit that was held at my company for us and the HR representatives of our assets. As per the official Abu Dhabi government website, “ADTC spearheads the efforts of the Abu Dhabi government in sustainable Emirati workforce development. It is dedicated to meet the…
