<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893</id><updated>2011-11-27T15:24:54.337-08:00</updated><category term='Pakistan'/><category term='Boston'/><category term='Lean'/><category term='TED india'/><category term='Startups'/><category term='economy'/><category term='Jobs'/><category term='TED Fellows'/><category term='TED Conference'/><category term='digital'/><category term='Hiring'/><category term='TED Fellows Video'/><category term='Tom Rielly'/><category term='Organizations'/><category term='TED'/><category term='employment'/><category term='opportunities'/><title type='text'>Faisal Chohan's Personal Blog- The Change Through Innovation</title><subtitle type='html'>Personal Blog of Faisal chohan</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>TED Fellow, 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15160096973780584700</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-8509563697040199151</id><published>2011-07-10T04:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-10T04:43:40.311-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='employment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opportunities'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><title type='text'>Unemployment,poverty and opportunities in digital economy</title><summary type='text'>

When we talk about available work opportunities in developing countries like Pakistan, we often describe developing world as a land where we have poverty of opportunities. 



The current un-employment rate stands at 5.5 ( ministry of labour stats)  and government seemes quite happy with these numbers while comparing these rates with other south Asian  countries.  However, people living under </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/8509563697040199151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2011/07/unemploymentpoverty-and-opportunities.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/8509563697040199151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/8509563697040199151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2011/07/unemploymentpoverty-and-opportunities.html' title='Unemployment,poverty and opportunities in digital economy'/><author><name>Mohammad Faisal Chohan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05538772647337842887</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-4671814402587784614</id><published>2011-01-29T04:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-29T05:57:37.501-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hiring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakistan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Boston'/><title type='text'>Job Descriptions- Skills or Personality</title><summary type='text'>Boston Hiring Blog that covers all about Hiring in Boston has discussed in a post that hiring for personality is way more important to sustained employment than skills-based hiring. 

This makes perfect sense for job descriptions to be
First explain about your company,values and culture. Treat it as a "Personality of your company"
Mention the qualities that you want to have before skills
Then </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/4671814402587784614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-descriptions-skills-or-personality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/4671814402587784614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/4671814402587784614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-descriptions-skills-or-personality.html' title='Job Descriptions- Skills or Personality'/><author><name>Mohammad Faisal Chohan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05538772647337842887</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-1982792004417345201</id><published>2009-12-26T01:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-29T07:04:45.142-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Organizations'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hiring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Startups'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lean'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pakistan'/><title type='text'>Who is writing job descriptions in your organization ?</title><summary type='text'>Do the people who are writing job descriptions in your organization, follow these guidelines.1. The job description is a text required to fill in the job advertisements space.2. Job description is a set of few requirements prepared by HR to just fill a vacant position.3. Job descriptions are what written by the manager, given to the HR department, who modifies them and publish them.4. Job </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/1982792004417345201/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-is-writing-job-descriptions-in-your.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/1982792004417345201'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/1982792004417345201'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-is-writing-job-descriptions-in-your.html' title='Who is writing job descriptions in your organization ?'/><author><name>Mohammad Faisal Chohan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05538772647337842887</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-4811143593035306819</id><published>2009-12-26T00:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-26T02:01:16.331-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New serices of posts. Path to Successful Organizations</title><summary type='text'>I am starting to write a series of posts to improve an organization's fundamental strengths. Almost every organization try to do it best with its resources, but fixing the fundamentals early, asap is one of the important step. The organization in my mind are the startups, counting companies like google as startup, keeping in mind that any organization that wanted to succeed need to be working in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/4811143593035306819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-serices-of-posts-path-to-successful.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/4811143593035306819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/4811143593035306819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-serices-of-posts-path-to-successful.html' title='New serices of posts. Path to Successful Organizations'/><author><name>Mohammad Faisal Chohan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05538772647337842887</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-9032472486884588803</id><published>2009-05-29T05:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-31T13:12:08.045-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED Fellows Video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tom Rielly'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED Fellows'/><title type='text'>TED fellows program magic explained in 6 minutes.</title><summary type='text'>Esther K. Chae,  Juliana Machado Ferreira , Kyra Gaunt, Sheila  Ochugboju , Taghi Amirani, Yatin Sethi, 6 of the 40 TED 2009 fellows, explaining the magic of TED Fellows Program in 6 minutes.This short video conveys the intense, potentially life-changing experience of becoming a TED Fellow, through interviews with some of the TED2009 Long Beach Fellows and with TED's Community Director, Tom </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/9032472486884588803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/05/ted-fellows-program-magic-explained-in.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/9032472486884588803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/9032472486884588803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/05/ted-fellows-program-magic-explained-in.html' title='TED fellows program magic explained in 6 minutes.'/><author><name>TED Fellow, 2009</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15160096973780584700</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279427667891030893.post-6679887568226218197</id><published>2009-05-29T04:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-29T05:26:39.685-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED Conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED Fellows'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TED india'/><title type='text'>Best place to be in the world for inspiration. Once in a life time opportunity..</title><summary type='text'>TED Conferences are one of the best places to be, and sometimes it comes out to be a life time opportunity.  On a journey of spreading ideas and going global TED Long Beach Conference ( TED 2009, The Great Unveiling) is followed by TED Global 2009  July 21-24, 2009 (The Substance of things not seen)  in Oxford UK, and TED India (The Future Beckons) November 4-7, 2009.TED fellows program under the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/feeds/6679887568226218197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/05/best-place-to-be-in-world-for.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/6679887568226218197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/279427667891030893/posts/default/6679887568226218197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://faisalchohan.blogspot.com/2009/05/best-place-to-be-in-world-for.html' title='Best place to be in the world for inspiration. 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