One Trait Every Good Boss Appreciates
Great employees, the ones who get picked for the best projects and most frequently get promotions are generally more tuned into the needs of their boss and can work well with others. They can anticipate needs and address issues before they become problems. They are also good at harnessing others’ strengths and they exude a …
How to Use Other Sites to Boost Your Personal Brand
There are a lot of ways that you can build your brand online and it certainly starts with your own website, blog and social media profiles. In order to take your expertise to the next level, though, it’s important to find ways for third-party sites to reference you – either by name or through linking. …
Three Things Every Grad Should Be Doing
As we enter the graduation season I’d like to ask every graduate to consider these three things. For some people this is already part of their DNA and they’ve been doing them for years. For others they might be doing one or two of them regularly. I’m suggesting at this important milestone that you do …
How to Craft Job Search Emails That Get Read
AS A PROFESSIONAL HEADHUNTER I GET LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF EMAILS EACH AND EVERY BUSINESS DAY FROM POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR POSITIONS I AM ATTEMPTING TO FILL for our recruiting firm’s hiring company clients. Here is a sad, depressing, discouraging fact about the overwhelming majority of these emails: Most are very poorly written and constructed, confused and …
Is the Employer Always Right?
In this new, chaotic, and uncertain century, with its more and more minutely specialized occupations and skill sets and with nothing to do with the faltering economy, it’s not only human resources employees who might not be familiar with certain job skills and the actual needs of the open positions in their organizations. Believe it …
Moving from no communication to harmonious relationship
You might have just landed a new and exciting client. Putting your best foot forward is essential for building a long lasting relationship.
But sometimes, although your best was delivered, the communication seems to die. It completely ruins your day and sometimes even an entire week. It’s not worthwhile to allow this to happen because …
Lies They Tell in Business School
Anyone who has been to business school knows that there can be huge discrepancies between what’s taught in the classroom and what happens in the working world. These discrepancies aren’t the fault of professors, but are the result of what occurs when humans – and their penchant for unpredictable and less-than-scientific behavior – are thrown …
The 3 Job Interview Questions You Never Expect
Would you be shocked into dumbfounded silence, if a hiring manager asked you these three questions in a job interview?
What have you invented? What is your greatest achievement in life? When have you stood up to authority?What? These are BIG questions, taken from a real interview. They get at the meaning of your …
10 Hardest Interview Questions
Competition for finding a job is getting fiercer every day. There are many talented candidates applying for the same positions. Therefore, companies are highly selective and ask the hardest questions they possibly can to put the candidates under more pressure. Thus, they evaluate if the candidates can succeed under any circumstance.
It would be to …
3 Steps to Improve Workplace Communication
Every problem small business owners face in their workplace can be directly linked to a communication issue.
If you were to ask employees in a workplace what things need to be improved communication is always among the top three answers.
As a number of small business CEOs told me at a seminar and networking session …