Articles on Job Interviews and Career Development

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Articles on Job Interviews and Career Development

How To Energize Your Career

Do you bounce out of bed on Monday morning? Are you regularly presented with opportunities that challenge you to think and grow? Does your salary equal your worth? If you answered no to any of these questions you could be at risk for career fatigue. Read more.

Effective Strategies That Will Improve Your Resume

Not all advice is good advice. Last week I read an article in e-Week entitled “10 Ways to Tweak Your Tech Résumé” A better title would have been “How to Slow Down Your Job Search.” While the article did make a few good points, I found some of the advice so disturbing that I posted a response on e-Week. Here is what I wrote: Read more.

Taking the Work Out of Looking for Work

Finally you’re emancipated from the rigors of academia. Degree in hand, you set out on the road to the career of your dreams and hit a road block before you’ve gone a tenth of a mile. You thought companies would be clamoring to hire you. Instead they ask you to tell them about your work experience. You ask yourself, “How in the world do they expect me to have experience when I’ve spent the last several years in school?”

If you are in still school or have recently graduated, you can start preparing for tomorrow, today. Here are a few easy tips to put you in the drivers seat: Read more.

Let Your Light Shine

Human beings are like lights. There’s a light on in each of us. People either draw nearer or turn away if they even see us (or our light) at all.

Take a few moments to ask yourself: What is the reach and impact of my light? Does it shine where I want it to? The way I want it to? With the impact I want it to have? Is my light helping me achieve my goals? Or, does my light go unnoticed and become virtually invisible (just like me)? And lastly, what's really in the way of my own light shining? Is it ME? Here are 6 ways to increase the power of your light: Read more.

It's Just Another Game...

I was teaching a class the other day, where we discussed the concept of disconnecting yourself from the outcome of the sales call or job interview. Developing this ability, to leave your own aspirations outside the meeting is potentially the most important and difficult thing a sales person or job seeker can do. Read more.

Tis the Season to Job Search

Whether it's Christmas or Memorial Day, the perception is that employers are away on vacation and your career search comes to a standstill. This perception is a misconception. While others turn their search off, turn yours up! In a competitive market, if your competition feels that the holidays are a useless time to search, their loss can be your gain. Read more.

Taking the Work out of Networking

According to About.com at least 60% of all jobs are found through networking. Yet, you are thinking you would rather spend the afternoon in the dentist’s chair then spend an hour with strangers. Perhaps, you enjoy the social outlet that networking offers but wonder why you still haven’t had any interviews. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert learning to finesse the art of networking can do wonders for your career. Read more

The Last Thing You Need is a Resume

Jobseekers be advised; you need to have more than a resume to succeed in today's market. The restructuring of corporate America has allowed hiring managers to select from an exceptionally large pool of qualified candidates and you could easily be passed over. Read more.

Networking Etiquette

It is generally agreed upon that networking can be a powerful and effective method to expanding your contact base and obtaining leads and referrals. But this high-touch, extremely personal activity requires extra attention to a few simple rules of "networking etiquette." Read more.

What Was Your Name Again?

Have you ever forgot someone's name just moments after hearing it? Ever had to introduce someone whose name you’ve forgotten? Few things are as embarrassing as struggling for the name of someone you know you should remember. Read more.

Women in Leadership - Overcoming the Challenge

As baby boomers retire, corporate America addresses the need to develop bench strength. Legislative mandates require companies to comply with Equal Employment Opportunity and / or Affirmative Action laws and “Workforce Diversity” has become the buzzword of the 21st century. Nationwide, HR departments address the problem by ensuring companies addresses the needs of people who historically have been viewed as different. Read more.

The Leader in You

Jack Welch, former Chairman and CEO of GE wrote an editorial which appeared in the 1/23 edition of the Wall Street Journal about a question often asked of him - what makes a good leader. For more than 20 years he used a principal called the Four E's to evaluate if a person had the right stuff to be a great leader, and he says, this simple measurement tool has never let him down. Read more.

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