These days, a lot of news stories about the economy and job market are filled with doom and gloom. But there are people who do well in their careers and launch successful businesses in a down economy. In fact, GE, Hewlett-Packard and Burger King all started in a down economy. General Electric Co. was established… Continue reading
Archive for September, 2010
Maximize Twitter in Just 15 Minutes a Day
You can integrate Twitter into your job search activities and you can do it in 15 minutes a day (after some learning-curve time for setting up your account and reviewing the basics). It’s disturbingly easy to spend hours watching and responding to your Twitter stream—it’s as easy as spending hours applying to positions online, or… Continue reading
Things Not to do at a Networking Event
If you are a compulsive business card collector, please stop it. Handing out your business card to 50 people you talked to for about 30 seconds each, not only makes you look self-serving and desperate, it also sends off a clear message that you’re most likely going to spam people with your newsletter, resume or… Continue reading
The Art of the Bear Market Resume
You’re managing your career in tough times – probably like no downturn you’ve ever experienced. Even as financial markets improve, the structural, economic, and political aftershocks of the economic calamity will keep job search very competitive for many years. Even as overall trends improve, the markets will continue bouncing back and forth and back again…. Continue reading
Five Ways to Boost Your Loyalty and Happiness at Work
How loyal are you to your employer? Would you be willing to cut pay, benefits, or hours to help keep your company afloat? Do you feel as if you and your company are “in this together”? If you said “No way!” to the above questions, you’re not alone. A new study by research giant Ipsos… Continue reading
Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success
In today’s job market, you’ve encountered a huge, fundamental shift in the corporate world: many companies are no longer routinely grooming employees for long-term career advancement. Career development is now up to the individual. You must chart your own roadmap for career development, in order to be resilient when the job market fluctuates wildly. Now… Continue reading
9 Steps to Prepare for Behavioral Interviews
In a job interview, you may field questions about your situational behavior and decision making. That’s based on the premise that past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. Behavioral questions (often not even framed as a question) typically start out: “Tell me about a time…” or “Describe a situation…” Example questions are: “Tell… Continue reading
Seven Things to Say After Hearing You’re Fired
Let’s talk about getting fired. So the boss calls you in to her office. Things haven’t been going well lately at the company. Sales are down. So is new hiring. You take a seat and your boss says, “I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but we need to let you go.” What do… Continue reading
And Do You Have Any Questions for Us?
As a job seeker, your goal in an interview is twofold; you need to gather enough information to decide if you want to work at a company, and you need to convince the interviewer that you are the candidate for the position. Part of convincing the employer that your worthy of a role is showing… Continue reading
