(10min 43) Click on "Play" above to hear the podcast. Psychometric tests can evaluate your personality in the workplace. Does this make it a useful tool for recruiting the right sort of person for your business? A very fiery red Phil Dobbie talks to...
A reader writes: I'm a 41 year old female with experience in different fields from retail to medical office manager to account executive for a local newspaper but have no idea what I want to do. Everyone says I'm terrific at sales, have a great personality BUT I've had...
A reader writes: Help! My boss is a complete idiot! He doesn't bother to get into the details of my reports or work assignments. He just makes motherhood statements and when asked for details, he turns to his staff. He delegates everything, even assignments that should be done by...
Apparently, something called ‘achievement amnesia' is blighting jobseekers' chances of getting an interview. Research by iProfile has found a mis-match between what employers look for on a CV and what job applicants deliver. Employers consider work-based achievements essential to a good CV. But job...
When an employee's career hangs in the balance, a person can expect a court to give very careful scrutiny to any claims of inevitable disclosure - and to be reluctant to act without substantial probability that an employee will not be able to function in a new job without making...
Current research and scholarship asserts inevitable projected trends of highly diverse student population demographics within the landscape of post-secondary institutions over the next decade while simultaneously forecasting a paradoxical ebbing of non-minority faculty members from that same landscape in academe. Such portrays current and future hiring trends of minority or...
The turbulent winds of a stormy job market are here, and if the winds should blow in one's direction, there is a way to handle things. Nobody likes drastic change when it comes to careers. Americans, on average, spend 70% of their waking hours, Monday through Friday, on work-related activities....
No company can function for very long without a team of productive employees supporting it. It's important not only that employees' feel appreciated, but that they also feel they are progressing steadily in their careers. One of the best ways to ensure this level of job satisfaction is by holding...
In many cases, conflict in the workplace just seems to be a fact of life. Everyone has seen situations where different people with different goals and needs have come into conflict. And everyone has seen the often-intense personal animosity that can result. The fact that conflict exists, however, is not...
The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...
Your career plan doesn't include putting a hit on the person you may report to. But you can seriously ramp up your job search speed and get significantly better results by avoiding the old-fashioned methods and learning the exciting strategy of "Targeting." The best news of all is that there's...
If you're serious about finding a job you must avoid these fundamental flaws that can sabotage your job search campaign. Your resume can not focus on you and your past! It must show employers how you can make a difference to them going forward. They could care less about your...
There are lots of folks out there - just like you - looking to get ahead. And if you don't have your ducks in a row...if you can't stand out from the pack...you'll get eaten alive by your competitors. That's why you must use innovative strategies to gain every competitive...
Most of us are resigned to living life in the fast lane and have accepted our monotonous and robotic routines as normal. There is hardly any time to sit down and plan or organize important issues relating to our general well being or our careers. While the home front may...
Let's face it. We live in a world of competition! Any alternative job success strategy worth its salt has to take that into account. If you're bent on success in your work, you have to be realistic about competition. So, what's an alternative job success strategy? Well, you already probably...
Remember when job-hopping was anathema? Well, you better take nowadays' hot new non-traditional career advice...start job-hopping! Things have changed. The economy is booming, Younger job seekers are much more ambitious and almost instinctively understand that if they want to get ahead,...if they're heading for the top, they have to job...
It's natural for all executive job seeking individuals to reach for career progression and development. It brings in the feeling that all of their heavy work has been very worthy and that a promotion is, indeed, the finest honor they can get. But for some whose luck seems to be...
Most job changers limit their vision by thinking about moving forward in the very narrow course they've been working in. Taking the next logical step forward in this career direction may be exactly the right move. But that decision should be made after you've explored other options . . ....
Proven: altruism will make you happier. This should cheer Arpad 'Arki' Busson of hedge-fund investor EIM, who is just about to hold a fundraising dinner for his seven-year-old charity ARK ('Absolute Return for Kids'). The annual shindig is famously high-powered -- last year Busson...
Whether you are graduating from college, returning to the work force, or contemplating a career change, career fairs have lots to offer a job seeker. This paper explains few basic guidelines can help you make the most of the experience and maximize some great networking opportunities. Dress as you would...
