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Avoid the Top Ten Resume Mistakes by Peter Newfield - Sep, 2011 You’re sitting at your desk, the coffee is cold, and you decide that your boss has annoyed you for the last time. You’re going to look for another job and get the hell out of this place. You turn to the blank computer screen in front of you and start writing your resume. How hard can it be to write your own resume? Apparently, it’s a task not to be undertaken lightly. Most of the resumes circulating out in cyberspace and sn... |
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Career Advice: Five Career Secrets to Becoming the Perfect Employee That Everyone Wants – Part One by Ed Sykes - Sep, 2011 With ever increasing deadlines, decreasing resources, and changing workplaces, sometimes it can be challenging to be a good employee, much less a perfect employee. The employee who can rise above the everyday problems and embrace challenges will be the person that every employer wants. The following are five career development secrets to being the perfect employee everyone wants: Respect. Respect others with whom you... |
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TEN SURE WAYS TO SUCCEED IN THE WORKPLACE by William Cottringer - Sep, 2011 “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” ~Oscar Wilde. It doesn’t matter whether you are engaged in your dream career or just working at a job; not trying your best to succeed at the workplace doesn’t make any sense. It is a third of your life and when not done right, it can lead to a lot of unnecessary unhappiness. Here are ten sure ways anyone can be successful on the job. And, they don’t ... |
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Afraid to Innovate or Don’t Know How? Problem-solving Skills Pay by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 "Innovativeness” is one of those performance appraisal categories that often befuddle supervisors and employees. We often don’t know how the term actually applies to us. After all, we’re just doing our jobs. Innovation seems to have more to do with creative work (maybe in marketing) or in science (like in a lab somewhere). Too often we just don’t think of ourselves as being innovative as we go about our daily work. To inn... |
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Bankrupt or Flush with Transferable Skills? A Telling Story by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 Transferable skills get us hired or promoted. They’re our career currency. Without them, there’s no deal. The more transferable skills we have the more valuable we are. Resumes market them. Interviews showcase them. Can you list your top ten, most marketable transferable skills, right now? Bankrupt or flush? Transferable skills are attached to us all the time, not just at work. It’s time to get a handle on your b... |
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Bridge Closed! A Leadership Opportunity by Andy Robinson - Sep, 2011 "Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that." - Louis L'Amour, To the Far Blue Mountains I had the pleasure this past Saturday of joining an executive coaching client on a local group bike ride. As a cycling enthusiast, I always welcome such opportunities, and have a number of clients who are excellent riders. Our route was no... |
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Can You Handle the Heat? A Mental Toughness Test by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 Pressure tests our self-confidence and mental discipline. Life is good on the job when predictable conditions give us a clear path for showcasing our talents. That’s when we’re convinced we have what it takes for our next step. Unfortunately, the unpredictable is also predicable. Are you ready for it? Do you know how you’ll handle the heat? Rings of fire No job is immune from surprises that test you. On any day and ... |
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Out of Work? Hire Yourself. by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 You think you can’t. I say you can. Don’t over-think it, make it too big, or get in your own way. Just try it. Plug the gap. Being out of work, creates a glaring gap on your resume. Your work history has come to a (hopefully temporary) dead end. This makes job seekers lose sleep at night and I don’t blame them. So the question is: “What can you do about it?” I say, “Plenty, if you have something of value to... |
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The Internship Game—Step Up or Get Left Out by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 Internships are almost a right of passage to getting hired. The thirst for them has stirred businesses of every stripe to offer internship opportunities, particularly unpaid ones. There’s an upside and a downside to unpaid internships. So you need to know how to get the most “up” out of your choices. Make your free labor pay. The CBS Sunday Morning program ran an eye-opening segment called, “Internships: A foot in ... |
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Turning Employees Around—What It Takes | Feedback Power by Dawn Lennon - Sep, 2011 Under-performers are part of the landscape in any workplace. You know who they are and so does your boss. None of us is perfect. Without guidance, it’s easy to adopt behaviors and habits acceptable to us that, ultimately, don’t wear well with others. As employees we need feedback from day one. There is no better (or cheaper) way to teach us the skills and behaviors we need to be successful. Performance feedback is one... |
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