Career Executive

Recent surveys indicate that a large number of HR Departments in Swiss companies consult fortune tellers and mediums before hiring candidates.

While prestigious companies across the West are known to sometimes have recourse to private investigators in vetting their most sensitive executives, Switzerland clearly scores points for rural creativity in its sourcing techniques.

Apparently the practice of resorting to fortune tellers, mediums, and handwriting analysts is also current in France. The french refer to a fortune teller as ‘Madame Soleil.’

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Europe intends to launch in 2010 its own rankings of top universities. The French are behind the initiative to publish via a new ‘Brussels Listing,’ a new international ranking systems of the world’s universities. They hope to thereby better position their school’s graduates on the international jobs market.

Rankings of the world’s institutions of higher learning tend to have the greatest weight for graduates of management schools, medical schools, and law schools, often having a direct correlation on their starting salaries. In fact, many management schools publish data on the average starting salaries obtained by their graduates.

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Are you wondering if a management jobs path is right for your career? We’ll try to help you decide whether or not management job is for you.
The good side of being a manager is obvious, you’re generally paid more than others, and if you manage to reach top manager in a company you’ll be paid more than anyone else in the company… that’s it? No, a manager also has some power, like setting work schedules for the group. But the true power comes from your ability to lead your group and of course from the people in your group itself.
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