An interesting post on Forbes.com by leadership expert Mike Myatt got me to thinking. What about leadership skills in “non” leaders. Why can’t you and me—the bottom half of the ladder, okay maybe the middle third—take a page from the leadership manual and be leaders in our own right? Here are three highlights, taken from [...]
Read more →When it comes to interviews and ‘getting the job’ my philosophy is to be optimistic, perhaps to a fault, but better than the alternative of making assumptions about who may know who. If I see a job I am particularly interested in, I go in assuming I will know someone, somehow. I keep digging, from [...]
Read more →It’s no mystery why interviews make us nervous. We’re asked to travel to a place of business we’ve likely never been to, to meet a person or persons we’ve most likely never met, to answer unknown questions we may or may not feel confident answering. We might even be asked to take a test or [...]
Read more →No, not your height, but your growth as a human being (and job seeker). Let me explain. You’ve heard the rants about cell phones. And maybe you were the one doing the ranting. Or maybe you’re the one being stared at (or worse, railed at) for impolite cell phone usage. Regardless, cell phones are ubiquitous—we [...]
Read more →It doesn’t take much time to find a blog post discussing the importance of social media to the job search. In fact, new tools and communities seem to pop up almost everyday making it difficult to avoid hearing about them from friends or other contacts in your social networks. What are some of those bigger [...]
Read more →More and more job seekers are searching for jobs using social media sites, and one of the most popular sites for job hunters is Twitter. Twitter not only has thousands of jobs going through their feeds everyday, but it is a great resource to learn about new companies that are hiring and new jobs that [...]
Read more →With all of the excitement of being employed again, or getting to work for a new company, you may not remember to prepare a few basic things before you start. It may be a good idea to look up what the new company’s policies are regarding clothing, eating, scents (perfumes), etc… You may not be [...]
Read more →One thing that some people will put on their resume is use the type of job they had like Accounting or Finance for their job title instead of their actual job title while creating the section for their work experience. The problem with this is that your department doesn’t say what level you are at [...]
Read more →I was remembering this weekend when I was hunting for a job years ago and wasn’t that confident in myself. I was sitting in the lobby of a company and they were doing back to back interviews. Because they were back to back interviews, I knew that the people interviewing candidates would be tired and [...]
Read more →At some point in our careers almost all of us hit a point where our jobs no longer challenge us. A lot of times our initial reaction is to want to find a new job. The reality is that that isn’t always the best option, especially when you are entering into a competitive job market. [...]
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