Terries Job Tips

Although no one seems to have the real numbers, from what I can gather there are about 50,000 tertiary students studying in North America every year. Of this number, about 4,000 are doing an MBA or other Masters course. Outside the USA, there are probably another 30,000 people studying in similar ratios in Europe, […]

If you’re a bilingual software engineer, a bilingual senior manager, or a high-powered sales person, don’t bother reading this. However, if you’re one of the “rest of us”, then listen up.

Like many people in the recruiting business, I’ve been getting calls on a daily basis from highly qualified people who didn’t plan to be […]

I recently had the good fortune of hearing FutureBrand’s Asia-Pacific CEO, Matthew de Villiers, speak about how his industry, the branding industry, has changed dramatically since the New York Trade Center disaster. His clients have curtailed their media and marketing spending and become much more conservative. Then it occurred to me that indeed the […]

These days, getting a pay raise is not just a matter of being in the company a long time. CEOs and managers are getting smarter about rewarding innovation and increased contribution. But the big question is, “How can I increase my contribution when I’m already working my guts out?”

The answer is by working smarter, […]

Back in 1990, I believe that I was one of the first entrepreneurs to bring skilled PC and network engineers into corporations to cut costs and boost quality. Today, this process is called Outsourcing. We didn’t have a name for it then, but it was an obvious development of the ongoing search for better […]