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Aug 23, 2011

If you're looking for a job ...

... go out and look for one. Don't sit at home playing on the Internet. Won't work, and you won't either.
A growing body of research is showing how today's job seekers are often getting it wrong. Able to communicate with prospective employers around the globe, they are firing off resumes by the hundreds, trying to make far-flung electronic connections before focusing on their closest,

Aug 17, 2011

Be a hostage negotiator to get the salary you want

Dress the part.
Imagine the HR director sitting across from you is a lunatic in a bank vault with 10 hostages, Jim Hopkinson writes in the Wall Street Journal. Instead of demanding millions and a private jet, he's guarding the spreadsheet containing the payroll budget.The Federal Bureau of Investigation publication "Crisis Intervention: Using Active Listening Skills in Negotiations,"

Aug 16, 2011

The new face of work

Use it to sell buggy whips.
Some years ago I met a fellow who sold fine art prints out of a store here in my town. Buyers either stumbled upon him or heard of him by word of mouth. Why don't you put your business on the Internet? I asked.

He hadn't heard of the thing -- this was awhile ago. But he got someone to do a website, and soon he was connecting with buyers all over the world.

How

Aug 5, 2011

Want a better idea of how you're doing?

Ask other people three simple questions.
What should I stop doing?
What should I keep doing?
What should I start doing?
Thomas J. DeLong, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, learned this from a psychology professor in college.He called it the SKS form. It was simply a process whereby we would ask others what we should stop (S),keep (K), and start (S) doing, given a

Jul 29, 2011

Give a little, get a lot

Will get a promotion.
The support we get from friends and families has a direct bearing on our well-being, Shawn Achor writes.
Studies even show that high levels of social support is as predictive of longevity as regular exercise, while low social support is as damaging as high blood pressure. That's amazing.This also applies at work. In his research at Harvard, he learned:
The greatest metric

Jul 19, 2011

Let's tune up your personal brand

"This changes everything."
The idea that "you are the brand" isn't new. As more of us find ourselves out in the wilderness on our own, it does matter. The idea: how are you perceived by others? Particularly, others with money to give you if they perceive you just right.

Ira Kalb is president of Kalb & Associates, an international consulting and training firm, and professor of marketing at the

Jul 10, 2011

How to get a job. No, really.

You're perfect for the job.
The rule: Have no idea what you want to do.

Susannah Breslin, writing in Forbes:
These days, everyone has an answer for you when it comes to looking for a job. Your resume should look like this. In interviews you should say this, but you shouldn’t say this. It’s OK if you email this person, but you must never email this person. Wear this. Do this. Don’t do that. You

Jul 7, 2011

Stand up and be counted as alive

We all just kind of sit around all day, and think that's normal. Maybe it is, but it's bad. I've written about this before.

Better writer than I am.
So maybe while you work you should stand. A lot of people a lot smarter than I am have done so: Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, guys like that.

The Art of Manliness website has a nice article on standup desks. Papa

Jun 20, 2011

How to detect a liar

When evaluating a potential liar, consider these three behavioral signals — that is, both what they say and how they say it:

Discomfort
Does the person seem uncomfortable about what she is saying? The visible anxiety may be caused by guilt or fear of getting caught, which leads liars to hurry to end the discussion and even look relieved when it's over. Their feet might be pointing in the

May 8, 2011

I'm doing a life repair day

Before
I got the idea from David Allen, who runs a training and consulting company and is the author of Getting Things Done. Here's the idea:
By the end of a “life repair day,” the following needs to be true:Every email is answered (yes, every one-in that other email address, too).
Every bill is paid or put in place where you’ll pay it later.
Every piece of paper, envelope, and post-it is in a

May 6, 2011

Maybe you are the problem

You work with a bunch of idiots, or you get undesirable projects, or you keep getting fired? The common denominator: you. Are you the jerk at work?

Here are five ways to tell:

1. You have had multiple micro-managing bosses.
Micro-managing bosses exist, but if you’ve had two or three in a row, there’s a real possibility that they aren’t so much micro-managers as they are managers who recognize

Jan 20, 2010

Headhunters

The agency on employment Monster continues to develop a theme "wrong job".

Misoperation

Prints develop subjects "wrong job". On posters the hairdresser and the stomatologist which talents have found not quite true application are represented. To the stomatologist the trade of the assembler is would obviously more, and the hairdresser should search for a vacant place of the butcher urgently.

Barber

Stomatologist

The stomatologist-assembler

Umi Devi