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It can be a nerve-wrecking prospect to think about your impending job interview. What will you say? How will you dress? What if the interviewer asks questions for which you don’t know the answers? These are all questions you may run through your mind before ever meeting the prospective employer.

But while interviews can be intimidating, they don’t have to be feared - especially if you come equipped with the right knowledge. So let’s look at three tips that can help you place the job you want in the palm of your hands. Read the rest of this entry »

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Companies, when they interview, focus their attention on learning about the candidate. However, equal importance should be placed on the candidate interviewing them so that both sides can make a solid decision on the relationship.
My wife Sharon and I dated for exactly two years before I proposed to her. Over our two year courtship, I got to know her likes and dislikes. I understood her goals in life and her aspirations. She knew the same about me. On July 24, 1996, in the White House Rose Garden (true story), I asked Sharon to marry me. She excitedly agreed. What might have been her response if she didn’t feel like she knew me well enough to make that kind of commitment? Would she still have accepted? Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr. Beth Erickson

Employers care about a lot of things that relate to their employees, who are, after all, their most valuable resource. But how many of them have discovered that happily married employees actually increase their profitability? Sadly, the answer is not very many. But that situation is changing, because increasingly a growing body of research points out the many benefits that companies enjoy when their employees are in stable, happy marriages. Read the rest of this entry »

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By Roberta Matuson

Companies spend thousands of dollars developing their websites. Although, in some situations, you wouldn’t know they spent a dime. The problem is that most sites are designed from a marketing perspective. That’s fine if your employee base closely resembles your market, but what if this isn’t the case?
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Work styles change. Every day. Sometimes they change radically from one year to the other. New concepts like the “virtual office”, “individual objectives” and “every employee is a small entrepreneur” make their way to the business environment. Companies change, and this generates a change in the way we work. Read the rest of this entry »

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Max Vogt

Leaders who hold the highest offices in the world have often abused their power with few negative consequences. As a result, the moral fiber of the workplace has diminished considerably as workers follow the lead of their often misguided managers. Managers who have serious performance issues with their employees may need to take a long, hard look into the ethical mirror of their business establishments and see what type of leadership reflection they see.

Integrity is personal Read the rest of this entry »

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Christina Archer

You’re the hiring manager with a major company, and you’ve just been given the task of hiring 5 new professionals within a 30 day time frame. Perhaps a nearly impossible task, you choose to distribute your positions to several contingency recruiting firms, in hopes that someone can find a “needle in a haystack.”
The problem is, if the recruiter finds your new hire, you’ll be in the hole between 25 - 30% of the new employee’s first year’s salary. Read the rest of this entry »

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This is a subject that I have been dying to write about with the coming of the Facebooks, MySpace, YouTube etc. I am going to coin this as E-Spying. I have been doing recruiting for well over 12 years and I guess I wish this option was available then BUT is it really fair?

Let’s consider a few things on both sides of the table: Read the rest of this entry »

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Robin Owens-Wright

Ok, now I might have opened up pandora’s box here but this is a HUGE wave however there can be both good and bad to using this video resume technology. I just thought I would put together some pros and cons based on people I have spoken with and read about. A huge issue seems to be the legality of it all.

On the flip side video resumes of a company may seem to be more appropriate to selling a company but again, is a company REALLY going to show you their bad side if they are trying to attract top talent especially in the New Media world and age? Read the rest of this entry »

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There is one thing I just discovered. Something I missed when I was very busy augmenting my finances. This is one recipe for a happier life.

I am a hospital worker, working in shifts and have to wake up in the middle of the night to attend to emergencies. At the early stage of my job, I was excited and happy as I tended to sick people. However as I plodded on and my financial situation remained the same, I became irritable. I become morose and bad tempered. I reached the point where I was alienating everyone at home.   Read the rest of this entry »

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