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Five Words You Don’t Want to Be Caught Saying After a Layoff by Mary Sherwood Sevinsky - Nov, 2009 Today a long time friend was laid off “unexpectedly” – she was given no notice and turned in her company computer and phone on the spot. Nothing against her employer (business IS business), but she was left ill-prepared, to say the least. “I have a few cards,” she told me in a flat monotone. “I am eerily calm.” Of course, I offered my commiseration and any help in the way of a resume and contacts. HOWEVER, I was absolut... |
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Goals and Plans, Not Dreams, Lead To Career Success by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2009 It’s very difficult --no, it's impossible-- to get there if we don’t know where we want to go. Do you know of anyone who disagrees with the common sense wisdom of setting a final destination and having a plan for the journey before beginning a trip? Then why do many of us act as if we can drift along day to day, thinking somehow we can achieve our dreams of career success without defined personal goals, as well as plans... |
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Handling Career Time Outs on Your Résumé by Mary Jeanne Vincent - Nov, 2009 So you have taken time off from your career to raise a family, pursue a personal goal, or assist an aging or ill family member. Now you are ready to go back to work and are concerned about how to handle the gap on your résumé. The goal of your résumé is to pique the interest of the reader. Use the tips below to create a marketing tool that makes the hiring manager focus on what you can deliver rather than the fact that you ... |
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Is Your Brand the Ultimate Narcissism? by Joshua Waldman - Nov, 2009 My grandmother, who is 86 this year, always told me that, “humility was for people who could afford it” and when I was 10, I “couldn’t afford it”. She wanted me to be more confident, brag a little bit. I’m sure she was just a proud grandma, and I love her for it. Now, only after years of corporate experience did I finally understand what she meant. Of the many cold hard facts of the work-world, one of them is, “You have ... |
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There Are At Least 14 Ways To Sabotage An Interview by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2009 After all your efforts--networking and distributing your resume--you've landed an interview for a job that looks just like the spot you've been looking for. It's a good fit between your qualifications and the requirements of the opportunity. You feel confident it will be another step on your career path. Now, it's up to you to conduct a winning face-to-face interviews with those persons who will make the final hiring decis... |
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Busy About by Nan S. Russell - Nov, 2009 Once upon a time, a prince and princess lived in stressful palace, surrounded by a stressful village, inside a stressful land. They knew it was stressful because everyone said it was. Their parents, the king and queen, worked from sunrise to sunset hearing issues from their kingdom, weighing the requests, and appropriating the collective harvest to the people of their land. The people also worked from sunrise to sunset, doi... |
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Office Politics Dos and Don'ts by Alexandra Levit - Nov, 2009 DO - Set boundaries as to how you use various social networks (e.g. Facebook for personal, LinkedIn for professional) and make sure you communicate those boundaries so that feelings aren't hurt. DON'T let your boss and co-workers catch you chatting and playing with Facebook applications when you should be working. DO - Use your real name on Twitter to network with people you wouldn't have the chance to communicate with in ... |
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Entrepreneur, Visionary, Virtually Synonymous by William Lemerond - Nov, 2009 Your financial position will always catch up with, and match your mindset. When individuals think of money attraction, normally they are thinking of money that they can physically hold and take to the bank. Cash flow is important, but it is your mindset that will determine your future wealth, and the scope of your money attraction. Your ability to adapt your mindset to envision and stay open, creative, and positive is very imp... |
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Breaking Through Networking Stigmas by Kris Parfitt - Nov, 2009 “My intention is to meet five people at this function who I really connect with and that two of them eventually become clients.” My friend was impressed while somewhat doubtful of my declaration. My actual success that night was that I met ten people with whom I connected, but I didn’t find the opening to give all of them my business card. It’s not that I’m shy - by nature I’m quite the extrovert. But I have a stigma about net... |
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Tell-Tale Characteristics of Company Culture by Rob Taub - Nov, 2009 Many companies today promote building teams over individuals; respecting the entry-level mailroom clerk and the top salesperson equally; consider failure the beginning not the end of developing talents and careers; and where ‘Values’ are not fads. Still in other companies you will find a lack of esprit de corps where departments operate as fiefdoms not work in partnership with one another; where leadership is assigned not earn... |
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