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Why Your College Major Doesn’t Matter by Lindsey Pollak - Sep, 2011 In honor of back to school season, I wanted to share an observation I’ve made over the past ten years of advising Generation Y on their post-college careers: When it comes to your job search and career aspirations, your college major doesn’t matter.* Yes, there are some professions (e.g., accounting), where you may need a particular major to land a job with a particular corporation. And job interviewers may ask why you chos... |
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3 Ways to Demonstrate Emotional Intelligence in a Job Interview by Marcia Robinson - Sep, 2011 Emotional Intelligence is defined as a person's ability to identify, assess and control emotions of themselves, others and groups of people. In today's highly stressed work environments where people are impacted by recession woes, you can see why employers might be interested in hiring and promoting people who appear to demonstrate higher levels of Emotional Intelligence. A recent Career Builder survey of 2600 employers sh... |
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How to job hunt in a stubborn job market by Miriam Salpeter - Sep, 2011 The job search news isn’t great…The feds report no new jobs added in August. What can you do to improve your chances in this stubborn market? Pause, but don’t stop. If you don’t have a great network and job search materials at-the-ready, facing an unexpected job loss can be very overwhelming. Take a moment to take stock, but don’t take a month. Consider potential next steps. Assess your skills and figure out what you ... |
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How to use your time in a job hunt by Miriam Salpeter - Sep, 2011 Are you looking in the mirror when you search for a job – to take a good, hard look and see if there is something about your attitude or approach that you can change? Staying positive and upbeat is important to your ultimate success. Another important tip? Use your time well if you are not currently working. It’s easy to let hours, days and weeks pass by before setting up a strategy that will help you succeed in your hunt.... |
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Career Visualization by Tory Johnson - Sep, 2011 Tory Johnson spent time over a holiday weekend creating a career vision dish for her desk. It took several hours to find all of the right words and put them all together, but the exercise allowed her to reflect on what she most wanted professionally in the New Year. No, it’s not going to make her work any easier or solve the challenges any faster. But starting out in the right frame of mind – with a daily reminder of the at... |
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Create Your Digital Identity by Tory Johnson - Sep, 2011 Step 1: Clean Up Your Digital Dirt! Do you or your kids have digital dirt? Digital dirt is the information about you – your hobbies, your photos, your rants and raves – that’s available on the Internet through personal Web sites, profiles on popular social networking sites, and comments on blogs. What you – and certainly your teenagers – might not realize is that employers are reading what’s out there and in many cases it c... |
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Find Great References by Tory Johnson - Sep, 2011 It is inevitable that at some point in your job search you will be asked for references, and when you are, you’ll want to be sure you have a great group of advocates who are prepared with answers that will help rather than hinder your chances at landing the position. References are something you should think about at the beginning of your interview process and not just at the end when you are under immediate pressure to provid... |
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Positive Energy and Self-Promotion by Tory Johnson - Sep, 2011 Confidence is Key Positive thinking can be harder than it seems. Most of us let “reality” squash our career dreams before they’ve even had a chance to develop. You think of how nice it would be to go for your master’s degree, but before you can even envision yourself in a cap and gown, you come up with a million reasons why you can’t do it. Maybe you don’t have enough time or money. Or you think you should wait until the kids... |
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Things to Do Before You Create a Resume by Tory Johnson - Sep, 2011 Curiosity Counts As graduate degrees are becoming the new bachelor’s, there’s little doubt that the competition for positions is stiff. Anyone looking for work must step up her game in the job search. It’s no longer just who you know. Now, you must focus deliberately on who knows you. That means aggressively marketing yourself to hiring managers and the people who influence them. Start by doing an honest assessment of yo... |
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Executive Wisdom for Smart Decision-Making - Wisdom in Action by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Sep, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the president of a professional services firm. We had an enlightening coaching conversation that revolved around whether wisdom can be developed or learned. My executive coaching client and I discussed how knowledge, social intelligence and experience have influenced his ability to make wise decisions. I am coaching my client to tap int... |
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