Negotiating Skills: How to Obtain the Salary You Want Salary negotiating is an important topic that must be addressed prior to your initial interview with a prospective employer. You can win at this cat and mouse game by incorporating the following strategies.
Networking - A Key Factor in a Successful Job Search In today's economy, job seekers need an edge beyond their experience, education and specific industry and job-related skills, in order to find and secure a position. Regardless if you are looking for an opportunity as CEO, Vice President, IT Manager or Customer Service Representative, you need effective tools to compete within a market that is job-poor and candidate rich.
Networking is the Key to Star Performance in Everything You Do. Many people's idea of networking relates to the 'size of their Christmas Card List, rather than the quality of their relationship with each person on that list. Similarly those people network, but few reap the rewards of zeroing in on their potential. Dream Architect - Margaret Stead gives you some ideas to help fill the gap between where you are now and where you can be.
New Job Blues Starting a new job can be intimidating, stressful and even scary. It takes time to adjust to the commute, the people and the new tasks in the new job. Often times it's enough stress to want to quit in the early stages. But understanding the process of starting a job, can help give a person the patience to stick it out!
Nine Career Zappers Professionals are constantly looking to avoid these 'career zappers". Read and see if any of these behaviors are impacting your career in a negative way.
Nine Ways to Tell Youre Ready for a Promotion So you noticed the new job board posting on your way back from lunch. They finally decided to fill the assistant manager spot in your department! Trouble is, you've only been in your current position for about eight months. There's also been some talk of hiring from outside. Should you go for it anyway? Here are some ways to tell if it's time to power up the corporate ladder.
No Degree, No Problem Most times, if the candidate has a solid background and the chemistry is strong with the organization, the company hires the person. Remember 70% of hiring is Chemistry. Degree isn't the most important factor.
No Experience? No Problem! Are you a new graduate with little or no work experience? Sometimes it can be tough to get a job without experience, and how do you get more experience if you can't get a job? Well, your chances are better than you think...
Nonverbal Interview Behavior The ability of your nonverbal behavior to drown out your answers in an interview is reviewed.
Now, Do You Have Any Questions? "Who is that hot babe in the picture?" isn't the type of reply an interviewer expects to hear when he or she invites you to ask questions near the end of an interview. In fact, the way you approach t...
Ode to a Spoon I am offering, I suppose, a slightly different view of materialism. It's a different way of looking at the objects in your world, one where you have a mutually beneficial relationship with them.
Offer Letter Limbo Waiting for the formal Offer Letter can be difficult. If they are not careful, Jobseekers can get stuck in Offer Letter Limbo. Here are 3 ways to avoid Offer Letter Limbo.
Offshore Oil Rig Jobs This article features information for those contemplating working aboard an offshore oil rig installation.
