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Job Searching During The Holidays by Katie Lindbloom - Dec, 2009 Job searching at anytime can be discouraging, but hang on because it is especially hard during the holidays. In my experience, companies that are not retail focused tend to curtail their job openings toward the end of the year. Some common reasons for not hiring during the holidays include: • Staff are taking holiday vacations so there isn’t enough time or personnel to train new staff members. • Departments may be waiting ... |
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A Vision Without a Plan Is a Hallucination by Rob Taub - Dec, 2009 Success is not always something you necessarily find when you arrive. It may be the journey that gets you there. It seems as though people make career management more difficult than it has to be. When something threatens to make it simple, they almost invariably find a way to make it more complicated. For example, in recent years there's been much more activity in the small- to mid-size companies, yet the majority of people... |
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Personal Branding for Dummies by Mary Sherwood Sevinsky - Dec, 2009 Personal branding can be something as simple as a title or label: General Contractor Nurse CEO Stay at Home Mom These “tags” allow others to immediately know something about who we are and what we do. As adults, most of us identify ourselves by our jobs or what we do. We understand others in these same terms as well. We are known by these tags until we choose to provide more insight or information into who we are a... |
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Temping is Tempting by Claudine Vainrub - Dec, 2009 Why Temporary Work May Be Good for You With unemployment at more than 10%, the job market for traditional careers has become very challenging. According to briefing.com, goods producing payrolls declined in 129,000 posts, the construction and manufacturing sectors lost 123,000 jobs combined, and the service sector lost 61,000 jobs as of November, 2009. However, all is not lost; the professional and business service sect... |
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Finding A Job Is Like Earning A Degree by Bob Roth - Nov, 2009 College students receive their diplomas at the end of the senior year; and, there aren?t many shortcuts to get there. Students understand that they must proceed through college one semester at a time, take the required courses and successfully complete each course with a passing grade. Otherwise, they will not have enough credits to graduate. At most colleges, a well established sequence of courses exists for each field ... |
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Five Tips on Giving Performance Reviews by Suzanne Bates - Nov, 2009 Tis the season when we are called upon to deliver end of the year performance reviews. Hardly what most people regard as a task of “good cheer.” While these are crucial conversations which can be pleasant, more often they are difficult. Even top performers need guidance, and of course there are those who have slipped or not lived up to their potential. If you tend to avoid conflict or are simply feeling too busy with other... |
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Maybe Scrooge Was Right by Nan S. Russell - Nov, 2009 Thirteen percent. That number should make you pause if you manage staff, lead a group, or own a business. It's a number recently released from an on-line survey reported by Reuters. According to Right Management, a subsidiary of Manpower Inc, only thirteen percent of employees surveyed said they "planned to stay in their current positions." Two-thirds reported they're looking to change jobs in 2010, and another twenty-one p... |
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The Worst Interview Questions Ever - And How To Answer Them by Debra Wheatman - Nov, 2009 Where do you see yourself in ten years? I am sure you are thinking – how the heck should I know? I agree. I don’t know where I am going to be tomorrow, much less ten years from now. Hopefully it’s on a boat sipping Mai Tai’s with my husband as we gaze into a sunset. Is that likely? I don’t know, but I am going to try. Unfortunately, when you get that question in an interview, the boat answer will probably not work in you... |
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Five Ways Body Language Can Cost You The Job by Debra Wheatman - Nov, 2009 What your body conveys can tell far more about your feelings than you suspect. How you stand, your eye contact (or lack thereof), and the position of your hands, among other things send a message. Depending on your body’s language establishes a tone that you subconsciously convey. Most of the time, you have no idea that you are giving off these signals. They are quite automatic. Oftentimes you have no idea that you are conv... |
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Is it Time to Just Say NO? by Barbara Giamanco - Nov, 2009 "Most of us are busy, but undisciplined. We are active, but not focused. We are moving, but not always in the right direction." – Jack Canfield In the things they never told me before I became an entrepreneur file is how important it is to be a good steward of time. For most of us, we start our careers working for other people who have a schedule they want us to adhere too. Even though I lived in the world of sales where t... |
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