In his book What Color Is Your Parachute, Richard Bolles stresses the importance of the first two minutes in an interview. In that first few minutes, it is critical to initially build trust with the person interviewing you. […]
What would it be worth to kick start your job search by increasing your job opportunities and decreasing the time spent on your search? What if you didn’t need to pay anything to get these results? We all […]
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July 17, 2013 – Even with hiring up over last year, the number of new full-time jobs being created continues to lag behind. Getting hired full-time may increasingly be turning into a two-step process: Get on board first […]
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According to a recent survey conducted by OI Partners, it costs two times a manager’s salary and two and a half times an executive’s salary to replace one who leaves. Let’s extrapolate a bit from the data and […]
These days, a former employee has multiple outlets to express their dissatisfaction with a company after a layoff. Glassdoor.com is an example of where unhappy former employees can voice complaints about the way their layoff was handled. New […]
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For the past several years, I have coordinated monthly job networking meetings in my community. In the meetings, participants want to know different techniques and tools they can use to “give them an edge” in finding positions. Here […]
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June 20th, 2013 – The number of workers quitting their jobs is up 8% over last year – and up 19% from two years ago – as almost 1 million new jobs have been created in 2013. With […]
We all know that the leadership qualities exhibited by effective leaders must include being strategic, “smart” in their industry, able to build and motivate teams and, of course, get results. Through the years and thousands of people we […]
We have entered into a remarkable period where there are four (soon to be five) generations working side by side in the workforce. As the result of dwindling numbers of new entrants within the workforce and older workers […]
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Most Popular Methods For Retaining High-Potentials, Middle Managers, Senior Execs & Front Lines May 28th, 2013 – With the job market improving, half of companies are reporting higher turnover than last year and three-quarters are bracing for still […]