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The reason you will always struggle to prepare answers to every single question you are asked in an interview is that the interviewer themselves didn’t prepare them. They don’t really care too much about all the answers you give either. What we do know is that an interviewer has one major objective to fulfill and that is to get the answers to the five basic … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Interviewing

Popular culture insists our jobs are drudgery, and one survey recently made headlines by reporting that fewer than a third of American workers felt engaged; that is praised, encouraged, cared for and several other gauges seemingly aimed at measuring how transcendently fulfilled one is at work.

Those criteria are too high for most marriages, let alone jobs. What if we ask something simpler: “All things considered, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: The New York Times | Subjects: Human Resources, Work

How changing your trajectory can lead to greater innovation, success, and meaning in your work.

Content: Career Information | Author: Loren Mooney | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Career Info

Robert Katz, who wrote a classic article called “Skills of an Effective Administrator” [Harvard Business Review, September 1974], said that when you start your career, to succeed, you need a functional skill: For example, you need to be good at accounting, engineering, or HR. At the next level up, you need to be good with people. And at the very top, you need conceptual skills. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Cynthia A. Montgomery | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Career

The co-author of Influencing Up describes how to build a more productive relationship with the boss.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Allan R. Cohen, David L. Bradford | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Career

The difference between moderate and great success is mostly luck, not skill. Chance plays a much greater role in our careers than we might wish or even realize. Most of us can live with the upside of this observation: we tend to claim credit for good luck anyway. But the downside — the thought of our careers as the playthings of fate — is almost … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: N. Taylor Thompson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Career Info

Resumes and interviews provide scanty insights into someone’s actual ability to perform at work. They leave out information on other crucial criteria too—such as how well an applicant would fit into the organization’s culture, how much drive and motivation he or she has and how well the person would work with others. To screen for these criteria, you can analyze data from a wide array … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Most confident people are not as competent as they think, and most competent people are confident only as a result of being competent.

Content: Article | Author: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Research into career paths at major corporations has shown that early promotions greatly enhance an individual’s chances of reaching a senior level, while those who are “knocked out” of the competition at early stages can be locked out of any further advancement. The implication: Senior managers are drawn from a pool of individuals who succeeded early in areas of individual contribution such as efficiency, while … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Joshua B. Bellin, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

The goal of a resume is to let a potential employer know why you’re the best person for the job. Here are 10 practices that impede that goal.

Content: Career Information | Author: Toni Bowers | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Resumes

Here is a list of “quick tips” for mentors and their protégés taken from the book, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning by Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith.

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Waiting for a mentor to appear like a deus ex machina is a loser’s game. Some people luck out, but most don’t. This manifesto is about how to make your own luck—how to proactively identify the people you want in your life as mentors, cultivate real relationships, and look beyond the obvious.

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Career

A patchwork of unrelated jobs can be a tough sell to prospective employers. The secret: Knowing what to leave out.

Content: Career Information | Author: Anne Fisher | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Resumes

Too many training and development efforts fall short because they don’t factor in employees’ talents

Content: Article | Authors: Aniruddh Haralalka, Leong Chee Tung | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

It’s always enlightening—and enjoyable—to read business literature that actually qualifies as literature. And Mohsin Hamid’s new novel fits the bill perfectly.

Hamid creatively appropriates the self-help format in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. It’s the life story of an unnamed man, an amoral Horatio Alger who is born to a poor family in a rural village in a country that sounds a lot … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Mohsin Hamid | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Despite its popularity, the personality test has been subject to sustained criticism by professional psychologists for over three decades.

Content: Article | Author: Roman Krznaric | Source: FORTUNE | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that shape our lives—yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between the two. Imagine what we could accomplish if we were able to tease out these two threads, examine them, and use the resulting knowledge to make … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Michael J. Mauboussin | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Specialists are undervalued, on sports teams and in the workplace.

Content: Article | Authors: J. Keith Murnighan, Long Wang | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Whether you’re newly-promoted into your first management role, an established veteran of the C-suite, or somewhere between, your most powerful skill as a leader is the ability to hold effective conversations.

After a promotion to a management or leadership role, most people struggle with how to leave behind former priorities and mindsets. Leadership Conversations defines and distinguishes the very different mindsets of management and leadership, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Alan S. Berson, Richard G. Stieglitz | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

When job hunting, your résumé has a way of highlighting little career imperfections in black and white. Maybe you’ve job-hopped, had a long gap between gigs, or earned a degree that requires explaining (hello, art history majors!). Is there a way to smooth over these résumé imperfections—without being dishonest? You betcha.

You just have to get creative, be upfront, and do a little rebranding. We spoke … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Resumes