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Beware: Physical Actions Do Matter At Interviews by Ramon Greenwood - Aug, 2010 Physical actions by an applicant during the interviewing process do in fact make a great deal of difference on the hiring decision, according to a survey by CareerBuilder. Over two-thirds of interviewers declared that failure to make eye contact could cost a job candidate their chance at a job. More than three out of 10 said the absence of a smile was a killer. A third of those surveyed said poor posture could hurt a job se... |
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Interviewing? Choose a Strong Company by Alexandra Levit - Aug, 2010 Countless individuals were laid off or fired in the last two years due to their companies’ dire financial situations. Whether you are currently unemployed or employed but thinking of working somewhere else, you should know how to avoid this scenario in the future. Your safest bet is to select a new company with a high profitability ratio. In short, companies with high profitability ratios take in more income per unit so... |
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12 Steps for Climbing to the Top of Your Career by Thomas J. Denham - Aug, 2010 I have been climbing mountains across this country for more than 30 years. There are plenty of analogies between climbing to the top of mountains and climbing to the top of your career. I recently returned from a successful summit of The Grand Teton in Wyoming. It was the most difficult and dangerous ascent of my career. Here are some lessons from the top. 1. Pick Your Peak Carefully. Be sure where you want to go is in... |
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Want to rock your Customer’s World!!! - Send a thank you card, Just Because! by Bernadette Boas - Aug, 2010 “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Unknown….. Have you ever wondered how you could keep your customer completely satisfied with you and your business?????? Out of the blue, send them a Thank You card. Why? Just because! As business owners we get so caught up in the day to day; chasing the next sale, tracking the past invoice, stocking pallets of boxes, paying ... |
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Resiliency-How Do You Measure Up? by Sherri Edwards - Aug, 2010 This has been a year filled with endings: banks failing, businesses closing their doors, homes going into foreclosure. Everyone has been impacted by the turbulence in the business world, and the need to adjust quickly is greater than ever. If we don’t learn another thing from the economic wake left behind, resiliency is a quality everyone needs to understand and develop to carry on in the years ahead. The initial thought f... |
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Executive Coaching to Avoid Bad Leadership Decisions by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Aug, 2010 A growing body of research reveals that our behavior and decisions are influenced by an array of strong psychological undercurrents, all of which are more powerful and pervasive than we realize. Like streams, they converge to become even more powerful. By charting these undercurrents and their unanticipated effects, we can identify our faulty thinking that lead us to make irrational decisions. Despite a great need for them,... |
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Stop telling us, start showing us your talents by Elizabeth Freedman - Jul, 2010 Have you ever thought any of the following: I’m so bored with my job! I could be doing so much more for my clients…but they aren’t using me to my fullest potential! I know that I am capable of doing more than what I am doing and getting paid for. Why can’t anybody else see it? You’ve heard the expression, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Here’s a new expression to consider: It’s not what you know, it’s who yo... |
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5 Mistakes Job Seekers Make on their Resume by Jessica Holbrook Hernandez - Jul, 2010 I’m sitting in front of my computer trying to think of a new way to say the same things I’ve already said a million times. I think I’m beginning to feel border line preachy with my resume and cover letter advice. But I also feel a duty to share with job seekers the blunders and mistakes they make that prohibit them from getting the interview and ultimately the offer. After ten years of working as a human resources manager and ... |
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How a Vacation Could Save Your Job—and Your Life by Brad Karsh - Jul, 2010 Question: Is it even worth taking a summer vacation? Conceptually, vacation is a great idea. In fact, that idea keeps many of us going. Work can be tough and even unbearable, but there’s nothing better than the notion of enjoying an entire week with nothing to do except relax on the beach--and getting paid to do it! Yet it rarely plays out that way. A much more likely scenario is one of frantic preparations and a virtu... |
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Job Quest Underway? Discover Your Buried Treasure--Transferable Skills As Career Doubloons by Dawn Lennon - Jul, 2010 It’s unnerving to be out of work. Starting the job hunt can be gut-wrenching. We can even get confused about how to answer these simple questions: What do I know how to do? What jobs should I apply for? How do I get started? The temptation is to slap together a resume with a chronology of past jobs, titles, and duties. Then, with guns blazing, fire them out to every job board, classified ad, or on-line posting. Ugh! ... |
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