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You’ve just landed a job interview for a position you really want. Congratulations! Now, you know you only get one chance to impress, but how exactly do you do that? Given all of the conflicting advice out there and the changing rules of getting a job, it’s no wonder that job seekers are confused about how to best prepare for and perform in an interview. … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Amy Gallo | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Interviewing

Today’s work environment has been dubbed everything from the Age of Distraction and the Age of Inattention to The Multitasking Generation. The bottom line is this: regardless of your job title, we are all trying to accomplish increasingly more with increasingly less resources—whether those resources are money, time, focus, or energy. How can we achieve success—however you define it—given these constraints?

I study successful people for … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rory Vaden | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Money never comes first in self-expression of any kind.

Content: Quotation | Author: William J. Reilly | Source: Brain Pickings | Subject: Career

In a world marked by constant change, the only security is your ability to produce something of value for your fellow man, and your only guarantee of happiness is your joy in producing it.

Content: Quotation | Author: William J. Reilly | Source: Brain Pickings | Subjects: Achievement, Career

Being out of work for two years or longer makes candidates harder to place than people with a criminal record, recruiters say. Gen Y, take note: A history of job hopping is a deal-breaker, too.

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

Most MBAs may look for a structured career path, but a surprising number – more than 20% of Wharton MBAs surveyed — became entrepreneurs and found themselves happier than their peers because of it.

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Entrepreneurship, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

Why mere potential can be more impressive than actual achievement.

Content: Article | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Marketing / Sales, Organizational Behavior

Warren Bennis discusses the importance of mentors.

Content: Article | Author: Warren G. Bennis | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Career

The myth of personal freedom—the idea that you are at liberty to pick whatever path in life you want—is the unspoken agony of the modern person. It ignores the fact that life has order, and that order bears heavily upon your choices—on what makes sense to do with the time you have.

Content: Quotation | Author: Larry Ackerman | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

The most important skill for the next generation of knowledge worker is not learning what to do but rather determining what not to do, and instead focusing on key objectives. It’s only as we embrace the incredible volume of noise in our work and our lives that we can silence it—or at least reduce it to a dull roar. Ignore the noise. Conquer the critical. … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rory Vaden | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Knowledge, Personal Development, Skills

People who are struggling with inaction invariably have one of the following three deep-rooted attitudes:
Fear: “I’m scared to do it.”
Entitlement: “I shouldn’t have to do it.”
Perfectionism: “I won’t try to do it if I can’t do it right.”
These all-too-common problems affect people across all professions, ages, and endeavors. You show me a person who is not achieving life at the level they … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rory Vaden | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips, Success / Failure

Tech startups can be exciting places to work. If you’re wondering how much you would typically earn at a startup—whether your job is in management, sales, engineering, or administration—check out Wealthfront’s Startup Compensation Tool.

The interactive graph uses data from 135 privately held tech companies’ 8,362 employees. The bubbles show the range of salary and equity compensation (percent of the company) for various positions.

You can filter … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subject: Benefits / Comp.

How many people would use a drug that prevents baldness? Name as many uses for a brick as you can in one minute. If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and dropped in a blender, how would you get out? Major companies are asking challenging job interview questions like these. Here’s how to prepare.

Content: Article | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Interviewing

If you’ve made a significant difference at past employers, but your resume doesn’t provide this evidence, you’ll lose your shot at winning an interview (while employers hire your competition instead). Consider adding these quantifiable measures of your performance to your resume

Content: Career Information | Author: Laura Smith-Proulx | Subject: Resumes

Like any opportunity, an internship can also be a potential minefield. Mistakes that can sabotage any hope of a future with the employer are shockingly easy to make. Here are seven of the biggest blunders MBA interns make and how to avoid them.

Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Career

Every year around this time a wave of anxiety ripples through most of the nation’s newly admitted business school students: How to depart a job without burning any bridges, and ideally, leaving a positive, lasting impression? It’s important to leave your current employer on good terms. Here’s a list of nine things I tell soon-to-be students to keep in mind as they say good-bye.

Editor’s Note: … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Tami Fassinger | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources

When we work only to do, we most often find ourselves helplessly doing again without having placed the first doing in any context, without having celebrated any accomplishment… Most people who exhibit mastery in a work or a subject often have left it completely for a long period, only to return for another look. Constant busyness has no absence in it, no openness to the … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: David Whyte | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Work

To thine own self be true, the oft-quoted William Shakespeare line, is advice that MBAs should take to heart as they undertake the job hunt. That’s the conclusion of a study by two business school professors who find that candor is the best approach job seekers can take when interviewing, even though the temptation can often be strong to misrepresent oneself to appear a stronger … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Alison Damast | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

An employer might give your résumé all of 45 seconds. To make the most of that brief time, start with this advice for job seekers age 50-plus.

Content: Career Information | Author: Rachel Louise Ensign | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Resumes

“Tell me about yourself” doesn’t really mean, “tell me about yourself” in the traditional sense. Still, the overwhelming majority of job seekers usually respond to the question with an inane, irrelevant answer. When asked at the beginning of a job interview, the “tell me about yourself” question is certainly not a request for a brief personal biography! Your answer to the question definitely should be … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Skip Freeman | Subject: Interviewing