| 311 | Emotional Ties to Jobs and Bosses Preview: In a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review, an article addressed the subject of Emotional Transference in boss-employee relationships. While that article addressed it primarily from the manager's perspective, I'd like to take a look at this important issue from the employee and job seeker's perspective. Emotional Transference is an idea, fi... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 312 | Being the Candidate Recruiters Want to Talk To Preview: Finding people through job sites can seem like a daunting task for many recruiters. If you reply to a recruiter's job listing on one of the popular job sites like Monster, HotJobs or CareerBuilder, chances are you'll be one of 200 or more people responding. Most recruiters will only look through the first 20 or so resumes. As we've mentioned in pr... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 313 | A Coaching Book Review: Preview: Win-Win Partnerships takes Coaching and Partnering to a new level. This book explores much more than employer/employee relationships. One gets a sense of the power that can come only through synergistic partnerships whether they be in or out of the workplace. The coaching process is given extensive, in-depth treatment. Each of the eight steps is ... (more) Published By: David Hone Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 314 | Developing your Job Search Elevator Pitch Preview: Have you ever had a conversation with someone who had the potential to help you land a better job and felt that they didn't get what's unique about you and what would make you a great catch? If you're going about your job search the right way, you're not confining yourself to the Internet. Instead, you use the Internet to get job leads but also ... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 315 | Resisting the Urge to Oversell in Interviews Preview: An interview is a selling situation. In most cases, you are trying to sell the interviewer on hiring you for the job. In our efforts to present ourselves in the best possible light, it's easy to forget that it is actually possible to "oversell" oneself. Most sales experts will tell you that listening to the customer is more important than talking.... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 316 | Dressing for Successful Job Interviews Preview: The first thing an interviewer will notice about you is how you're dressed. Even before you say hello or shake their hand, they are starting to form an impression of you based on your appearance. This week's job searching tip deals with making sure you are dressed properly for interviews. It's estimated that people gain meaning more from non-ver... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 317 | Job Search Etiquette Preview: For most people, the word "etiquette" conjures up images of privileged wealthy people and esoteric rules of social behavior that have no real meaning. When it comes to business interactions and especially those relating to job searching, etiquette is an important component in coming across as a candidate worth considering. Business etiquette is no... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 318 | #1 Fear that Holds People Back in their Careers Preview: Surveys have shown the average American is more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. No wonder many people have let promotions at work pass them by for fear of having to speak in public. It may not even have been a conscious decision, but public speaking fear has been shown to be the cause of missed opportunities for many people. As s... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 319 | Optimizing your Resume Presentation Preview: One of the unfortunate realities of the job search process is often, people who are a good fit for a job get passed over because of an inadequate resume. In this age of online recruitment, hiring managers and recruiters may review a hundred or more resumes before deciding on who they want to interview. Given this high volume, they are only able to... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 320 | Making New Career Habits and Resolutions Stick Preview: Whether it's for New Years' or any other time of year, it takes discipline to change your behavior. Many people realize that new habits like attending more networking events or taking on special projects at work could help them get ahead in their careers. Yet the number of people who follow through with making real changes to their habits is much ... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 321 | Conquering Interviews with Better Negotiating Skills Preview: Negotiation is a skill that we all use at some time in our lives. Whether it's with looking for a job, a dispute with a spouse, buying a car or a house, we all have occasions where we have to negotiate. Keys to Successful Negotiation Negotiation experts will tell you the most important aspect in a good negotiation is knowledge. This requires re... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 322 | Employers Requesting Background Checks Preview: This week's job searching tip addresses a question from one of our readers about about background checks. While many employers will hire people without them, some companies require background checks on some or all of their potential hires. QUESTION FROM A SUBSCRIBER: Q: If a person receives a job offer, and is told that there is going to be a d... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 323 | Using an Entrepreneurial Mindset in your Career Preview: People who come to the United States from other countries see America as the Land of Opportunity. This isn't just a cliche -- if you talk to recent immigrants, they'll tell you this is how they really feel. This country wasn't founded by professional warriors, as were many other nations. It was founded by entrepreneurs. George Washington was a bus... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 324 | Escaping from your Job Search Groundhog Day Preview: The actor Bill Murray earned critical acclaim for his performance in 2003's Lost in Translation. It was a great movie about someone feeling like he was in a rut - both with his career and his personal life - and how he escaped from it. An even more striking example of someone stuck in a rut can be found in a movie Bill Murray starred in ten years ... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 325 | Finding a job with the right Corporate Culture Preview: When people look for jobs, they are mostly focused on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as salary, job title, and commuting time. An important factor that most people don't give much thought to until after accepting a new position is the corporate culture. While just about everyone who isn't happy with the culture of the company they work for c... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 326 | Achieving Recognition at Work Preview: QUESTION FROM A SUBSCRIBER: There is an employee where I work who whines when she 2 things going on simultaneously. Although her hours are 8:30 -5:00, she shows up anywhere from 9:30 to nearly 2:00, and spends hours on personal phone calls and playing around. Meanwhile, I consistently come in to work at 8:00 and don't leave until 5:00 or even lat... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 327 | Career Advancement Portrayed in Reality TV Shows Preview: Hollywood has really hit it big with reality TV shows - especially some of the more recent reality shows that deal with the idea that winning a brief 2-month competition can launch your career into the stratosphere. In "The Apprentice," contestents are given a chance to earn a job with a hefty salary working directly for the billionaire real estat... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 328 | Selling Tactics Effective with Job Searching Preview: JOB SEARCHING AS A MARKETING EFFORT Most job seekers realize that the job searching process is a marketing effort. It requires some degree of "sales" skills. However, a common mistake job seekers make is perceiving sales skills as imposing their will on someone else. This comes from thinking about selling abstractly, or thinking about how stereot... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 329 | First Impressions: Dealing with Interviewer Bias Preview: DEALING WITH FIRST IMPRESSION BIAS Studies have shown a majority of interviewers do not have a scientific way of determining who would do best on a job. Instead, most simply use their own biases to determine whether they think the person is smart and would "fit in" with the rest of the people at the company. Deciding on this basis is really no be... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |
| 330 | Handling Strange Interview Questions Preview: In this week's job searching tip, we address an inquiry from a subscriber about an interviewer asking strange questions. As we discuss in this tip, persuading an interviewer to hire you often requires taking the initiative to find out what their root concerns really are, even if their questions seem strange or even illegal on the surface. QUESTIO... (more) Published By: Scott Brown Submitted: 20 May,2005 |