Probing for Pain Points in an Interview
Probing for Pain Points?
Probing for pain points should be one of your first steps in an interview. Every business has problems. Your first job is to ask probing questions to uncover those pain points.
Initial Phone ScreenMost of the time in the interview process, there will be an initial phone screen with either …
Essential Things You Need to Know About Taking Risks
We are continually evaluating risk in our lives. We try to decide what’s safe and what’s dangerous. These decisions are usually based on emotions rather than on reliable information.
In many ways, the world is a much “safer place” than it’s ever been. For most of us, infant mortality is down, life expectancy is up …
Boost Creativity in Your Career
Whether you have a job or a business, the daily grind can get tedious, sapping your energy and productivity. Learning to tap into your creativity can insure that your ideas don’t get stale and old, and increase engagement in your work. Here are tips to boosting your creativity:
1. Clear away the clutter. I know …
Build Your Personal Brand with a LinkedIn Blog
Having an account, or a presence, LinkedIn is just the beginning to building a strong personal brand on this social network. Engaging in places like the many groups and posting on a Company Page are also good practices. But there is also another powerful tool to use, and that is publishing a blog on LinkedIn.…
The One Action That Makes or Breaks Brand You
It’s not attitude. And, communication is a close second.
The one action is appreciation.
When you are more appreciative; when you look for opportunities to be appreciative; and when you are appreciative of yourself and your surroundings it changes how you react, interact and respond to other people and your environment.
Genuine gratitude goes a …
How to Upgrade Your Resume, Part 1
Having reviewed and re-written hundreds of resumes over the last 12 years, it is likely I have seen all of the typical shortcomings of professional resumes. In this series of blog posts, I want to alert you regarding how to identify resume weaknesses and eliminate as many as possible so that this self-marketing tool is …
How to Prepare for a Job Interview
A job interview is the final step before getting the job. It’s the most critical step because if the candidate does not convince the decision maker of being the ideal candidate, the job goes to someone else. Preparing for the interview is not to be taken lightly. To win this tough competition, one needs to …
How to Say No To Your Boss
You all had times where your boss wants you to take on a new assignment or asks you to do something that is outside of your job description. In this case, you have two options. You will either do whatever your boss says or push back. However, you should be careful when pushing back your …
Why the Good Survive and the Best Enjoy Success
I believe there’s a list in the universe like the one we believe Santa keeps all year. At his annual retreat with senior elves, Santa wrestles with finite resources he allocates at the end of Q4, among all the good boys and girls. At work, the good get to come back next year, and keep …
Personal Branding Weekly – Cursed By This Myth?
Have you heard that knowledge is power?
Well, that’s a myth.
Knowledge alone is not power. Applied knowledge is power.
If you want to be average and not stand out, then you’ll operate on this myth. Think about it. How many people do you know who really know a lot? Ask them any factoid, piece …