Archive for January, 2010
Leveraging International Experience to Launch a Global Career
The world economy is in flux but emerging economies continue to drive significant growth for global enterprises. Global companies recognize that their best chances for success lie with recruiting managerial talent with international experience – it’s the big resume differentiator.
For students who have studied abroad, this is good news, especially considering the contracting U.S. job [...]
What You Need to Lead – Negotiating Tactics
If you think about it, we’re negotiating on the job all the time. Whether we’re asking for the big promotion, the funding to attend a training or conference, or to take a vacation during “busy” season, we’re in more bargaining situations than we realize at work.
Women, in particular, need as many negotiation tools as possible, [...]
Six Ways to Be a Smart Career Risk Taker
To be highly successful in your career requires that you engage in risk taking. But risk is accompanied by fear–fear that you’ll screw up, fear that others will judge you, and fear of the unknown. Confront your fear and use it as a motivator!
The benefits of being a courageous risk taker are many. If you [...]
Green Careers: Targeting Eco-Friendly Companies
Until fairly recently the main measure of a company’s success was determined by its financial bottom line. Was it making a profit or was it sustaining losses? Although companies have been managing their activities by using their financial profits as their guiding light for a very long time, many stakeholders have sustained losses while the [...]
How Accommodating Disabled Workers Pays Off
Disabled workers are known to fly under the radar of unemployment statistics and recruiters. But in a fast-growing job market, companies may be eager to explore new ways to tap their talents.
There’s no issue on the supply-side. New studies show that disability payments are increasing at “an accelerating pace,” with a 51 percent rise in [...]
Gen Y’s Retention Deficit Syndrome
Employers fret about holding onto Gen Y workers who may be less inclined than previous generations to stick around through thick and thin.
One-On-One Interview — Part I
by Andrea
Usually a one-to-one interview dialogues last for two hours and are totally customized to ones needs and personal conditions. One-to-one interviews cover all the significant features of interviews, from wide-ranging skills to ethical/complicated work scenarios, present issues affecting your area of expertise and other hot topics.
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 A usual session is performed as follows:
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Tampa Houses for Sale are helped by Four Groups: Buyers, Sellers, Homebuilders and Mortgage Lenders
According to a Tampa realty company, there are several small signs rising through the fog of recession that the housing market is starting to stabilize, even in places like coastal Florida, Las Vegas and Washington, DC – some of the hardest hit with foreclosures and new home buildings sitting empty. Since 2004, sales of existing [...]
Engage Workers By Letting Them Think
At a time when study after study confirms that only about 20% of employees are engaged in their current work, it’s hard not to conclude that something’s not working! Many employee engagement approaches are still one-way communication efforts on steroids that fail to tap into the ability of employees to think and act differently.
Are You Happy With Your Work/Life Balance?
Maintaining balance is an ideal that permeates our lives in multiple ways. People go to chiropractors when they have a “misalignment” in their body. A professional coach can work with you to help put your life back “in-balance”.
