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Cultivating Meaningful LinkedIn Connections by Michael Cohn - Apr, 2011 Anybody who has any professional life at all (or even those who don’t) should have a profile on LinkedIn. It isn’t enough to have a profile. The profile must be complete and it must be working for you effectively. LinkedIn is an extremely effective way to build relationships that will eventually lead to opportunities for you in business. It is also a great way to strengthen your network, keep it strong and get the most out of... |
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How to Turn an Internship into a Job: A Q&A with Nate Whitson of Intern Match by Lindsey Pollak - Apr, 2011 This week’s post is a Q&A session with Nate Whitson from Intern Match. As you’ll see, Nate shares some valuable tips and pointers on getting, keeping and making the most of internships. 1. How has the internship world changed over the past 5 to 10 years? The value and importance of internships have changed in many ways over the last 10 years. First, internship experience has evolved from simply a resume booster to esse... |
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Identify Your Interview Fears ... and Tackle Them by Wendy Enelow - Apr, 2011 In my experience as a career practitioner, I know that too few people actually think about their interviewing weak points. Too many ascribe interview failures to an act of fate (wasn’t meant to be), or abject apathy (oh well), than consider that maybe, just maybe, the fault lies in their court. And while accepting that not all jobs, and hence not all interviews, are good matches, what if you lost a truly plum job, a dream ... |
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Local Government Salary Negotiation by Wendy Enelow - Apr, 2011 “More?? You want more??!” is the cry we remember from Oliver Twist’s warden when poor Oliver asks for more gruel at the orphanage. Well, this is actually not the common response from employers when candidates have negotiated their salary, even in this economy. I have coached several job seekers in the last month to successfully increase the salary of job offers. Two come to mind in particular, both in local government jobs w... |
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The Marriage of HR and Social Media by Carolyn Cohn - Apr, 2011 Human Resources (HR) people work with human beings. Because of that perspective, HR people have not been among the first to jump on the social media bandwagon. However, it enhances their ability to recruit people. It is a natural. Although HR has many different responsibilities, one of them, of course, is to protect the company for whom they work from legal issues. Another very large responsibility is to cultivate and protec... |
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5 Job Search Skills for New College Graduates by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 A successful job search strategy for new college graduates must include these 5 job search skills. New college graduates who are organized and focused around these 5 job search skills, will net better results than those college graduates who don't have job search plan to launch a career. Job search skill # 1 - Honest Self Evaluation Many new college graduates do not realize how much the success of their job search relie... |
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Considering a Career Change? Use Free or Low Cost Career Tests by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 If you find yourself in a job or career that no longer meets your criteria for career success, it might be time for a career change. If you are considering a career change, use free or low cost career tests to help you develop your next career move. Everyone has a list of different criteria for career success. These criteria could include wage levels, workplace power or occupational prestige. Regardless of our personal meas... |
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Employees Are Falling Asleep at Work After Working Long Hours by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 The fact that employees fall asleep at work made the news again when a Washington DC, Air Trafic Controller, fell asleep at work at the Reagan International Airport. The aviation industry made news alson in October 2009, when Northwest Airlines pilots missed the Minneapolis airport. Northwest referred to the mishap employees' "loss of situational awareness." That's the airline lingo for saying the pilots may have fallen asleep... |
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SIMPLE THINGS by Nan S. Russell - Apr, 2011 I still have the email. It's been years since a highly placed corporate boss, who had the reputation and approach that things were never quite good enough, sent it to me. He was long on critique and revisions while short on acknowledgement and appreciation. Anyone else reading his message would deem it ordinary. No flowery words, no glowing adjectives, no verbose flattery or deliberate feel-good rhetoric. It was written in ... |
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Supervisory Skills to Manage College Students by Marcia Robinson - Apr, 2011 The supervisory skills necessary to manage college students should include skills that engage and motivate this segment of the workforce. Financial pressures or the opportunity to get work experience, often force college students into the workplace before graduation. Knowing how to manage college students at work present unique challenges requiring the following supervisory skills. Supervisors who manage college students n... |
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