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Why You Can’t Accurately Predict a Candidate’s Future On-the-Job Success <strong> </stron
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes...
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6 Reasons Why Public Sector Employees Need a Social Media Presence
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) annual conference is providing personal career consultations with conference attendees....
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6 Secrets to Enjoying a Rewarding Career from a Hiring Manager’s Perspective
We all know the role talent, knowledge, and experience play in getting hired and succeeding in any professional career. But little is...
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5 Signs You Suffer from Career Entropy™
Your career and your professional brand can suffer from entropy as well (“Career Entropy” doesn’t seem to exist as a formal term, so...
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Why Video Résumés are a BAD Idea
“First Impressions Video”, “Video Cover Letter”, and “Video Résumé” all sound like creative and unique ways to be remembered by hiring...
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Do You Suffer from “Twitterhea”?
You know how some pop music radio stations play your favorite song so much that you quickly get sick of it? When that happens, that song...
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5 Factors that Influence Your Promotability
How promotable are you? Your promotability within the organization hinges on several key variables including these I consider critical:...
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10 Ways to Embed Your Brand in the Minds of Hiring Managers
All hiring managers want to hire experts and while it’s relatively easy to become an expert, it does require time (the experience...
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10 Reasons to Purge Your Professional Networks
About once a year, I go through a purge of my professional networks. I do it more often with social media networks as “friends” drop off...
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3 Critical Factors for Getting a Job Offer: No. 3 – Your Value Proposition
Your Value Proposition The third critical factor for getting a job offer is your value proposition. Your value proposition clearly states...
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3 Critical Factors for Getting a Job Offer: No. 2 – Establish a Continuum of Belief
My previous post addressed the importance of creating value in the mind of the hiring manager. Closely related to creating hiring manager...
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It’s Your Likeability Factor That Moves You Forward in the Promotion or Hiring Process
Someone once asked me at one of my seminars if “impression management” meant she had to somehow morph her personality into someone or...
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Do Hiring Managers Bypass Introverts for Extroverts?
A Huffington Post article entitled “13 Habits of Exceptionally Likeable People” listed these characteristics: They ask questions They put...
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On the Job: 6 Ways to Avoid Seeking Affirmation and Acknowledgement of Your Expertise
We all have some form of insecurity that is usually overcome with age and wisdom (the flip side of insecurity is confidence and that...
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Cultivate an Attitude of Being in Business for Yourself
The consultant's attitude Truly successful individuals always understand that no matter where the paycheck comes from, they really do...
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18 Reasons Why You Are Still Unemployed (repost)
I am reposting this article from www.careerrealism.com. This article does a pretty good job of highlighting some of the prejudices and...
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What’s in a Name? PLENTY!
Kim O’Grady, an experienced management consultant in Perth, Australia, couldn’t figure out why his résumé was generating no job leads for...
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