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5 Job Search Skills for New College Graduates by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 A successful job search strategy for new college graduates must include these 5 job search skills. New college graduates who are organized and focused around these 5 job search skills, will net better results than those college graduates who don't have job search plan to launch a career. Job search skill # 1 - Honest Self Evaluation Many new college graduates do not realize how much the success of their job search relie... |
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Considering a Career Change? Use Free or Low Cost Career Tests by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 If you find yourself in a job or career that no longer meets your criteria for career success, it might be time for a career change. If you are considering a career change, use free or low cost career tests to help you develop your next career move. Everyone has a list of different criteria for career success. These criteria could include wage levels, workplace power or occupational prestige. Regardless of our personal meas... |
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Employees Are Falling Asleep at Work After Working Long Hours by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 The fact that employees fall asleep at work made the news again when a Washington DC, Air Trafic Controller, fell asleep at work at the Reagan International Airport. The aviation industry made news alson in October 2009, when Northwest Airlines pilots missed the Minneapolis airport. Northwest referred to the mishap employees' "loss of situational awareness." That's the airline lingo for saying the pilots may have fallen asleep... |
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SIMPLE THINGS by Nan S. Russell - Apr, 2011 I still have the email. It's been years since a highly placed corporate boss, who had the reputation and approach that things were never quite good enough, sent it to me. He was long on critique and revisions while short on acknowledgement and appreciation. Anyone else reading his message would deem it ordinary. No flowery words, no glowing adjectives, no verbose flattery or deliberate feel-good rhetoric. It was written in ... |
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Supervisory Skills to Manage College Students by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 The supervisory skills necessary to manage college students should include skills that engage and motivate this segment of the workforce. Financial pressures or the opportunity to get work experience, often force college students into the workplace before graduation. Knowing how to manage college students at work present unique challenges requiring the following supervisory skills. Supervisors who manage college students n... |
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Aflac Auditions for New Spokes-duck; What to Do when Workplace Jokers Offend by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 Aflac recently conducted auditions to find a new spokes-duck when the most recent spokes-duck, comedian Gilbert Gottfried, lost the job. According to Aflac, Gottfried went overboard with jokes he posted on Twitter about the recent earthquake in Japan. If Gottfried didn't know at the time he was joking about the Japan earthquake that Aflac does 75% of their business in Japan; he knows now. Most workplace jokers don't post t... |
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College Grads Should Ask These 12 Job Interviews Questions by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 Many new college grads think the only important job interview questions they should know about are the job interview questions that will be asked by the recruiter. Not so. As part of an effective job search strategy, new college grads should develop their own list of job interview questions to ask recruiters. As part of the job interview process, job seekers are given opportunity to ask their own questions once recruiters ... |
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10 Ways Customer Service Pros Are Wired by Dawn Lennon - Apr, 2011 Does your blood run cold when you have to call a big company for service? Pressing 1 for this and 2 for that adds to the chill. The music plays. The automated voice says, “All agents are busy with other customers. Please stay…” You know the drill. We’re desperate to hear a live voice before nightfall, hoping s/he’ll be able to help. Bad things happen, sometimes. We remember when they do. We get an agent and the call... |
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Executive Hot Buttons—Press With Caution by Dawn Lennon - Apr, 2011 It can be stressful at the top where pressure might not bring out our best. Executives are vulnerable all the time to the unexpected. The winds of marketplace change are always in their faces. The potential for bad decisions by managers and misconduct by employees is also ever-present. Although executives can’t escape the unforeseen risks that come with the job, they will often show us how they cope. Making the com... |
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How Performance Reviews Brand the Reviewer by Dawn Lennon - Apr, 2011 It's a draw. All the arguments about performance reviews are correct. The process can be fair or unfair, useful or a sham, legitimate or bogus. It all comes down to us-the reviewers. Do you care? For many supervisors, it's about the paper, not the process. We whine about writing comments, deciding on ratings, and holding those dreaded employee review meetings. We forget that performance reviews are about feedbac... |
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