Why Are Interviewers So Selective?
Unlike past scenarios, job interviews have become harder and harder. Employers have an abundance of very qualified applicants, many of them working with interview coaches to elevate their interviewing skills. The outcome is that it raises the bar for everyone. There are many books available to job seekers to read and brush up on interviewing …
How to Overcome Office Politics
You’re sitting in the breakroom enjoying your lunch when you overhear your coworker talking about your boss getting fired because he lied to his supervisor. As you listen closely to the conversation, you find the story hard to believe. After lunch, you decide to confront your boss about the situation, and it turns out, it …
Why Your Boss Probably Hates You
As a career coach specializing in communication, I’m presented with a wide spectrum of work stories. Some end in, “I don’t know why my boss hates me.” Variations on this are:
My supervisor hates me The project manager hates me The recruiter seemed to hate me Everybody at work hates meOf course, hate is …
Personal Branding Weekly – Stand Up to Stand Out
I did say that you need to stop doing it yourself.
This week I wrote that you have to get out of the mindset of “do it yourself” when it comes to networking.
Yet, one thing you can do yourself is stand up to stand out when you network.
Get off your rear! I mean …
Good-Natured Humor Enhances Your Personal Brand
You should have humor as part of your personal branding – but make sure your humor fits the situation: Choose the right time and place to use suitable, relevant, and brief wittiness. Still, if in doubt, go for it. Good people will be grateful for your attempt to put them at ease.
To ratchet up …
Battling Age Discrimination – Young and Old
Age discrimination is a reality in the current job market. It affects two vastly different groups:
Young – The young men and women graduating from college over the last five years have had it tough. In fact, this generation has the highest unemployment in the last fifty years. Age discrimination is rampant because this generation…How Super Stars ACE the Job Interview!
Make no mistake about it, even though the job market is improving in key sectors, it nonetheless remains one of the most challenging, most competitive markets in recent memory. Even highly qualified candidates are still sometimes being subjected to an often lengthy and quite daunting job search process.
If you happen to have made it …
The Real Deal About Passive Income
You don’t have to surf the Internet very long before you run into get-rich schemes offering big bucks through passive income. The problem is that the programs make it appear that earning passive income is a set-it and forget it proposition. For little money and even less time you can make a fortune. As a …
Build Better Twitter Engagement for your Personal Brand
Social media is now the main source of communication for brands between their customers and leads. People today are turning to networks to leave feedback, search for information, purchase services and products, and share what they had found.
Twitter is at the top of the social engagement list, and there are several strategies you can …
Innovate, Disrupt, Commercialize – Not Necessarily in that Order
There isn’t much new under the sun. However, there are a lot of things that haven’t been commercialized effectively.
What? You might be thinking there are countless things that have yet to be discovered and developed. And I completely agree. In fields ranging from Agri-Business to Robotics to Zero Gravity research there are many, many …