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Discussions about startups often focus on founders or investors, but most people in the startup game are regular employees. So how do you find a startup job?

Content: Article | Author: David Beisel | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Career

Striking the right balance between good management and good leadership is a daunting but necessary challenge for anyone endeavoring to be a good boss. In Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill and former executive Kent Lineback discuss the steps to take and the roadblocks to avoid in order to meet that challenge. Q&A … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Kent L. Lineback, Linda A. Hill | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Management

Jeffrey Pfeffer discusses the difference between treating certain career building activities as tasks versus skills.

Content: Article | Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer | Source: BNET | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Whether you’re looking for a new job or just pruning up your paperwork, one of the keys to nabbing the job you want is creating a successful resumé. Here are our top 10 ways to make sure yours stands out.

Content: Career Information | Author: Whitson Gordon | Source: LifeHacker | Subject: Resumes

MBA graduates with an overall optimistic outlook spend less time and effort searching for jobs and receive offers more quickly, research shows

Content: Article | Source: Futurity.org | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

The four components of that certain something that tells the world: “I’m a winner”

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

RezScore is a webapp analyzes your uploaded resume and provides surprisingly accurate advice. If you’re applying for a new job and need to get your resume in shape, it could be a very helpful tool.

The functionality of RezScore is very, very simple. You upload a resume, opt in or out of being contacted about further help, and RezScore generates a page full of advice to … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subject: Resumes

Richard Jolly, Adjunct Associate Professor of Organisational Behavior, discusses the obstacles facing middle managers who want to progress.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Richard Jolly | Source: London Business School | Subject: Career

In my role as an executive coach, I am asked to work with extremely successful people who want to get even better. They are usually key executives in major corporations. They are almost always very intelligent, dedicated and persistent. They are committed to the success of their companies. They have high personal integrity. Many are financially independent. They are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Success is no longer defined as simply reaching income goals and achieving a leadership position at any cost. We also want to be happy, to feel that our life has meaning and that the work we are doing taps into our greatest talents. It’s easy enough to evaluate a job based on salary, title and perks, but judging other elements that often lead to true … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Clay Primrose | Source: University of Texas at Austin Exchange | Subject: Career

Generalists, men and women who have amassed experience with a broad spectrum of management areas, stand a better chance of making it to top management positions than those with more specialized resumes.

Content: Article | Author: Edward Lazear | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Career

Imagine that you are trying to understand someone’s job function. You walk up to them as they’re standing next to a fax machine and ask them to tell you “what” they are doing. They are likely to look at you a bit surprised and say “I am sending a fax.” You might ask some follow-up questions about whether sending a fax is a necessary step … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ric Merrifield | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Work

Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, has met very few people who have a plan for their lives. Most are passive spectators, watching their lives unfold a day at a time. They may plan their careers, the building of a new home, or even a vacation. But it never occurs to them to plan their life. As a result, many end up discouraged and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael Hyatt | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

When you walk into your first job as an MBA, whether it’s as a seasonal associate or a full-time employee, all eyes will be on you. Here, corner-office types reveal a portfolio of secrets for brandishing the confidence, wisdom, and polish of someone who has worked at the company for three years—even when you’ve only been there three weeks. Secret number one: The thing nobody … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Anne Dunham, David Blend, Dirk Standen, Jacob Kalish, Maria Spinella, Michelle Boyde | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career

Congratulations: You’ve made the high-potentials list. As a HiPo, you’re now a prominent blip on HR’s radar. More importantly, you are about to be sucked into the machinery of the company’s accelerated-development system, the centerpiece of which is probably some kind of rotation: a “better than random walk” through a series of assignments designed to test your mettle, provide you with a “macro view” of … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jean-Louis Barsoux, Preston C. Bottger | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Every day the market you work in—regardless of the industry—asks ‘Are you invaluable?’ Did you answer the question satisfactorily today? Well done. Get ready to answer it again tomorrow.

As the speed of innovation and information ever quickens, so does the need for you to have clear answers for this ‘invaluable question.’ It is no longer enough to simply have a job. It is no longer … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Dave Crenshaw | Source: ChangeThis | Subject: Career

31Projects is an online platform that helps connect such graduate students with companies and organizations in need of business expertise. It bills itself as “a project marketplace connecting organizations with top MBA and graduate students through real-world projects.” The site maintains a network of prescreened students interested in solving real-world business problems—it’s open only to full-time students and recent alumni from the top graduate management … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

During interviews, we love when potential hires ask questions. But all questions aren’t equal. A red flag goes up when someone asks how. “How do I do that?” “How can I find out this or that?” You want people who ask why, not how. Why is good — it’s a sign of deep interest in a subject. It signals a healthy dose of curiosity. How … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Jason Fried | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

The working world would be a happier place if more of us aspired to roles that were just right — if we valued job fit and performance at every level and stopped overemphasizing the very top.

Content: Quotation | Author: Nancy Lublin | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

You have your dream interview lined up. But how do you ensure that you get the best possible salary?

While the pay for junior-level positions is typically fixed, mid- to senior-level employees and managers have more flexibility to negotiate their salaries. Here are eight tips from recruiters and human-resource managers that can help improve your chances of snagging a high salary.

Content: Career Information | Author: Shefali Anand | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Benefits / Comp.