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Guest Talk by Dr. Sitwat Hussain on Strategic Leadership.

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Dr. Sitwat Hussain, Group Head HR at Habib Bank AG Zurich, came to deliver a lecture on the grounds of Strategic leadership and related topics to the students of Leadership Class at IoBM.  Dr. Sitwat carries a diverse background of working in different industries while he himself is a Doctor in Medicine and carries an MBA degree in Marketing. He shared his views of whom he deems a leader and what actually a strategic leader is all about. He persisted on the fact that every person is born a leader. However a man is polished into being a leader through his environments and the situations he is based in.  Dr. Sitwat mentioned Mc. Gregors Theory X that says a man is always pushed to be working, Theory Y speaks of how a man is always self motivated to achieve better and Theory Z focuses on giving security to employees so that they offer loyalty to the organizations. X and y are what we see commonly being practiced in all organization. He also mentioned of the Manager

6 Basic Mistakes in Resume

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In my career of so many years, I have come across all sorts of resumes, some were very good and some were just terrible. And I have figured that somehow people take resumes very casually neglecting the fact that it reflects their work and professionalism. Here are a few mistakes in resumes that I have witnessed so far. Format A Resume must be very precisely written.  Professionally there is NO need to use color paper, only white paper is preferable. While writing your resume, be careful about the length and typing errors. If you have an experience of one year or so, then a page is enough but if your experience is of more than 10 years then approximately 2 pages are enough for a resume.  Also I've witnessed email addresses of people saying 'Please let us know on this address', that is not how an organization informs about the confirmation of your job. Please refrain from writing your email especially the ones like:  coolboyz1995@live.com  or  papaspr