The Interview - A Few Tips for Making a Great First Impression Clammy hands, racing heart, and affinity for the word "Uh" can properly describe the interviewing process for some of us. Here are a few tips that can keep an interview on track and away from easily avoided interview mistakes.
Rich Career, Poor Career A rich career is one that has a rich return on investment. What is career ROI? It is more than a paycheck and healthcare benefits. Your career ROI is the entire package of what you receive in return for the investment of your
energy, time, and talent in a career and an organization...
Bringing Our Family to Work All of us bring our personal and family behaviors to work. How we act and communicate at home is mimicked in the workplace. It causes many of the same conflicts we have at home. The best way to improve both professional and personal behaviors is through good communication.
Job Search 101 Finding work in the heart of summer is difficult, to say the least. Don't get discourage, seek a summer job and wait for the fall. Remember, timing is everything...
Top Ten Reasons to Start A Catering Business You could well be the next Paula Deen, of the Food Network's Paula's Home Cooking. She parlayed her southern delights into a catering business, and ultimately opened her own restaurant. Remember, nothing beats a failure, but a try.
How To Get That Promotion If you're looking for that promotion or pay rise then you'll need
to be noticed by your employer, so here's a few tips to stand out
from the crowd:
Writing Resumes That Attract Your Perfect Job Your resume is often your first impression. Without the right information, it is the only impression. It has to speak for you and about you if you want to attract what you really want. This excerpt from the powerhouse book, "Breakthrough, The Hate My Job, Need A Life, Got Laid Off, Can't Get No Satisfaction Solution", will demonstrate how to create a strong professional brand that will catapult you to success.
Everyday Is Saturday: Help for the Suddenly Unemployed I recently was "unhired" by my former employer. Unhired is a softer term than "fired" but it means the same. With no warning and an immediate departure, I found myself at home enjoying the provisions of a severance package but curious about the next steps. Like most recently unhired people, I went through a range of emotions--shock, anger, grief, rebellion, self-reliant indignation, and so forth. Yet, after a few weeks I found myself wondering what day it was. For me, everyday was Saturday.
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Career Opportunities for New Graduates Career Opportunities for New Graduates
Studies show that lack of career opportunity is one of the top reasons why employees leave an organization. Also, continually hiring open positions from outside the organization can be detrimental to morale when a qualified candidate is available internally. This article shows how one company obtained valuable information from the season's group of new graduate applicants and combined it with the results of their own survey to identify retention problems and find new solutions.
The 10 Second Window of Opportunity, Resume Hour Glass Resume writing is a very interesting skill set. Everyone except the rich kid in the block has taken a stab at it at one point in life or the other. It is a mandatory sales job every earthling has to endure in their life. What could be tougher than selling yourself for the next step in the ladder. Do you know that a hiring manager spends just 10 seconds with each resume he comes across. This 10 seconds is what i call the resume hour glass, the life of which is just 10 seconds. this article focuses on how to grab the 10 second window of opportunity.
Finding Your Ideal Career Many people are now considering working for themselves. With the explosion of Internet opportunities you may be tempted to jump ship and set sail on your own. In this article, you will discover the character traits you need and how you can decide what your ideal career is.
Integrity At Work - How Do You Show Up? As the business sections of today's papers and magazines read more and more like the police blotter, 'Integrity' is fast becoming a hot topic of conversation in business boardrooms, around water coolers, and in today's business best-sellers. Integrity is defined as walking the talk when it comes to living one's true values, being authentic. Take this self-assessment and explore how you walk your integrity talk when you show up at work...
