1

Showing Articles 1 - 20 of 20, Total 1 Page

	Are You Following Your Calling? “How did you get started in your career?” It is as interesting a question as asking a married couple how they met. Start by asking yourself. Did things just happen to you, or did you follow a ...
	Be serious about your job search The other day a frustrated employer came to tell me his troubles. He told me a story, which I had heard many times before. This employer runs a popular retail store in a shopping centre. Recently, ...
	Can You Judge a Book by its Cover? The correct answer to this question is probably that you can tell a book by its cover in nine cases out of ten! You might give it a second glance and flip through it to look at the index, the ...
	Cold Calling There is nothing easy about job search – and sadly, cold calling, one of the most effective ways to look for work, is also one of the most difficult. A cold call is an approach to a company to ...
	Credibility Counts in Your Job Correspondence Are you a person who feels highly challenged when you need to express yourself in writing? You are not alone. Believe me, it is not always as easy as it looks to come up with the right ideas and the ...
	Etiquette The word “etiquette” has a kind of antiquated air, and may sound like something your grandmother talked about. In the modern workplace though, ignore etiquette, and you could be passed over for ...
	Fear and Anxiety When an employer asks you for an interview, the first response is happiness – and then the fear and anxiety set in. If left unchecked sometimes the fear and anxiety can grow to the point that they ...
	Handling Rejection Life has conditioned us to look for applause. Warm fuzzies feel better than cold pricklies. One of the most difficult aspects of looking for work is the ongoing handling of rejection. Most of us are ...
	Hiring Young Workers We used to hear a lot about the generation gap and its impact on relations among family members. Now, when you hear the term generation gap, it’s more likely to be in reference to relationships in ...
	I didn't get the job? Have you ever received word that you’ve been turned down for a job, and your fist thought is “But I thought we really clicked during that interview!”? You may have been lulled into inappropriate ...
	In the Good Old Summer Time For students the summer might be a wonderful and relaxing time. However, this is no longer typically the situation. High tuition fees and other economic necessities drive students into the work force ...
	Interview There are many resources available to guide job seekers through different types of interviews - behavioural interviews, panel interviews, group interviews, “stress” interviews – but not much advice ...
	Job Fairs It seems that every week in the paper, there are ads promoting job fairs. If you haven't attended a job fair, a good one can be job seeker's dream - a big room filled with employers who are hiring, ...
	Job Search Alternatives One classic source for job leads is the want ad. These used to appear only in the newspaper, but are now on electronic job boards or company web sites. It’s tempting to restrict your job search ...
	Leaving a Job In my dad’s day, people stayed with one company from the start of their working lives until they retired. It’s different now: people will changes jobs – and careers – several times. It’s important to ...
	Minding Your Phone Manners is Important We take common sense on the telephone for granted. Not everyone respects the rules of etiquette. Just yesterday I received a call from a human resource professional who wanted to contact me in order ...
	Negative Issues? We all have something in our background or work history that we think will make an employer reluctant to hire us. Some issues, such as having been fired, being out of work for a long period of time, ...
	Selection Process It is becoming increasingly common for employers to put candidates for positions through a series of tests, as well as an interview. Employers want to do whatever they can to avoid making a bad ...
	Technological Change on Work I recently attended a conference and had the pleasure of hearing Evan Solomon deliver the keynote address. Evan Solomon’s credentials are impressive (co-host / host of numerous television series and ...
	Who Moved my Cheese? Dr. Spencer Johnson’s simple story has been around for a few years. For $30 you can buy his little book that contains less than one hundred pages. It is a tale of mice and men who have to face ...