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Here’s a test of your current level of influence in your organization. Do people hold up meetings, waiting for you to arrive to make important contributions or interpretations of current events? Do people remember what you say and perhaps quote you in other places and venues? Do people tell your stories and share your lessons as though those stories belong to them? Do people learn … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James E. Lukaszewski | Source: Leader to Leader | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Founded in 1999 as the first and only company devoted to a comprehensive array of recruitment services for women, Women For Hire offers signature career expos, inspiring speeches and seminars, a popular career-focused magazine and customized marketing programs. Our website, womenforhire.com, offers a wide variety of career-related information and videos geared to working women, and an online job board that helps leading employers connect with … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subjects: Career Fairs – General, Career Info

High compensation and high happiness are not incompatible. It’s not that we shouldn’t seek money, and lots of it; many of our clients do. But we should first seek to love, or at least to like, what we’re doing. That’s the realization of our highest calling.

Content: Quotation | Author: William S. Frank | Subject: Career

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Content: Article | Author: Judd
 Rogers
 | Subject: Career

CareerIntelligence.com announces top-flight career opportunities from over a thousand services monitored daily and focused on the Middle East. The site offers a free basic registration for executive candidates and, if you’re working with recruiters or are looking to recruit senior candidates, the Recruiters’ section offers free job posting and CV database access.

Content: Career Information | Subjects: International – Middle East, Jobs – Listing Services

The founder of Silicon Alley Reporter and Mahalo.com offers advice to employers trying to make the right hire and candidates struggling to land a job.

Content: Article | Author: Jason Calacanis | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Career

There’s a great saying: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” I find that in business a lot people take the time to write the really long letter, but they don’t take time to write the short one, and it even applies to doing investments.

Content: Quotation | Author: Greg Brenneman | Source: The New York Times | Subject: Work

You are not talented at your job. You never will be. But wait: That’s the good news—because talent, argues Geoff Colvin, doesn’t exist in the first place—at least not in the traditional sense of the word. It is not, he points out, an innate ability. The sooner you realize that Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and you were not meant to be great business … [ Read more ]

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Geoffrey Colvin, Vadim Liberman | Source: The Conference Board Review | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Readers who accept poet and Fortune 500 consultant Whyte’s invitation to enter into “an imaginative conversation about life and work” are likely to be challenged as well as delighted by the beauty of his writing and the expansiveness of his views. Gracefully using the metaphor of a sea voyage to depict the journey through the world of work, Whyte views work not only as a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: David Whyte | Subjects: Career, Miscellaneous, Personal Development

Are you surprised to see how little you spend on meeting new people and re-connecting with long-time contacts? Or are you shocked to realize how much you spend and want more return on your investment? If you want to make the most of your memberships here are 10 tips. They’ll help you enhance your reputation, establish your credibility, and raise your visibility.

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Authors: Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Whether we realize it or not, often our career choice is based on values rather than the work. Values are the beliefs, attitudes and judgments we prize. Are you aware of your values? Do you act on them? Use this checklist to get a better idea of what’s important to you.

Content: Career Information | Author: Pat Boer | Source: Monster | Subject: Career Info

Taking a scattershot approach when networking is the biggest mistake we see people make. Don’t try one mailing, one dinner, and one speech – in rapid succession – then say, “Well, those things don’t work!” Neither does joining all the area Chambers of Commerce and an alphabet soup of civic and service clubs. But strategic networking can bring in the business. Use these … [ Read more ]

Content: Member-Contributed Content | Authors: Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

“What is your greatest weakness?” is the most stressful question posed during interviews — and in today’s market, the wrong answer could weaken your chance of employment.

Content: Career Information | Author: Joann S. Lublin | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image before others do it for you. An interview with professor Laura Morgan Roberts.

Content: Article | Authors: Laura Morgan Roberts, Mallory Stark | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

When it comes to connecting with the right job opportunity, timing isn’t everything, but it’s certainly something. Tuning into industries’ and employers’ annual recruitment cycles just might give you a decisive edge. That’s the consensus of recruiters and employers with fingers on the pulse of seasonal variations in hiring. Here’s a quarter-by-quarter summary of how these hiring dynamics play out.

Content: Career Information | Author: John Rossheim | Source: Monster | Subject: Job Search

MBAinteract is designed to give students, alumni, employees and recruiters more levels of interaction and more opportunities to establish meaningful career interactions. Beyond a normal job posting site, MBAinteract provides a professional network, exclusive job board and proprietary matching technology to evaluate fit between students and employers.

Content: Career Information | Authors: Adam Neff, Jeff Condon | Source: MBAinteract | Subject: Jobs – MBA Specific

The Simple Dollar blog details how to build a killer resume from start to finish.

Content: Career Information | Author: Trent Hamm | Source: The Simple Dollar | Subject: Resumes

So the interview for your next great job is coming up and you’ve got answers for your strengths, weaknesses, and teamwork skills—but can you explain the 5-4-3 rule of computer networking? InterviewUp, a social website focused on industry-specific interview questions, could help you prepare for your time in the hot seat. No account is required to search, post or answer questions asked of candidates, but … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subject: Interviewing

MinorityMBAs.com is the diversity job site for leading corporations and talented minority MBA professionals and students. Our mission is simple: Make it easy for the best companies to find the best talent. MinorityMBAs.com fills the gap between highly qualified diverse candidates and the companies that are committed to recruiting them.

Content: Career Information | Subject: Jobs – Minority

Anxious applicants increasingly use professionals to assemble impressive-looking résumés, but the wrong service can waste time and money.

Content: Career Information | Author: Joann S. Lublin | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Resumes