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Creating a cheat sheet will help you feel more prepared and confident at the interview. It’s not a list to check off during the interview, but more something to remind you of key facts. Here are some suggestions for what to include on it.

Content: Career Information | Author: Carole Martin | Source: Monster | Subjects: Career Info, Interviewing

Powerful and seemingly unpredictable forces compel firms and professionals toward failure or success. Here are 50 ideas you can use to get the “dragons” to work on YOUR side.

Content: Book | Author: Paula Gamonal | Subjects: Career, Management, Personal Development

It’s smart to give the recruiter a few minutes of your time, even if you’re not actively job hunting. You never know when you might be.

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Daniel McCool | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Career

A powerful way to improve executive effectiveness or promote connectivity in an organization is to work through each employee’s personal network. Research has shown that people in more diverse, entrepreneurial networks tend to be more successful. Providing executives and employees with a means of planning their personal network development is an effective way to promote connectivity. Such feedback can help employees identify biases in their … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Rob Cross | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Toxic managers are a fact of life. Some managers are toxic most of the time; most managers are toxic some of the time. Knowing how to deal with people who are rigid, aggressive, self-centered or exhibit other types of dysfunctional behavior can improve your own health and that of others in the workplace. This author describes the mechanisms for coping.

Content: Article | Author: Roy Lubit | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Throughout history, the great majority of people never had to ask the question, what should I contribute? They were told what to contribute, and their tasks were dictated either by the work itself by a master or a mistress. Knowledge workers have to learn to ask that question based on an understanding and melding of their strengths and passions. And the question must be revisited … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Leader to Leader | Subject: Career

If you’ve been job hunting lately or are about to seek new employment, you will most likely have to address your salary history or salary requirements. Learn what they mean and how to address this common employer question.

Content: Career Information | Author: James Gonyea | Source: Monster | Subject: Benefits / Comp.

Content: Online Resource | Subjects: Associations / Organizations, Career | Industry: Telecommunications

iHipo is a social network that connects students and young professionals with international employers. It serves as a platform for peer-to-peer communication and recruiting.

Students and young professionals that seek international assignments and networking opportunities can join iHipo. Furthermore, employers that seek to recruit international top-tier talent can create profiles and post vacancies on iHipo.

Content: Career Information | Authors: Cheng King Heng, Patrick Linden | Source: iHipo | Subjects: International, Jobs – International

It’s rarely discussed, at least as not as much as the habits of successful CEOs, but the truth is that it takes some special personal qualities to be spectacularly unsuccessful. This author has written a best seller on the subject, and in this article he discusses how leaders can be not only instruments of success, but sometimes also architects of failure.

Content: Article | Author: Sydney Finkelstein | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subjects: Career, Leadership

Not all resumes are created equal. See why recruiters say eye-pleasing designs can help draw their interest away from the competition.

Content: Career Information | Author: Sarah E. Needleman | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Resumes

Mere work ethic is not enough. The hardened criminal exhibits an excellent work ethic. What is needed is a work ethic conditioned by ethics in work.

Content: Quotation | Source: MBA Depot | Subjects: Ethics, Work

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Search executive Danny Sarch, who specializes in recruiting financial-services professionals, offers a selection of books, plus a Web site and movie, for b-schoolers eyeing careers on Wall Street.

Content: Article | Author: Sarah E. Needleman | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Career

Dick Costolo (aka Ask the Wizard) blogs about granting options or receiving an option grant.

Content: Article | Author: Dick Costolo | Source: Ask the Wizard | Subjects: Career, Entrepreneurship

Interviewing can be a gut-wrenching process. Most books on how to interview list hundreds of questions you need to be ready to answer, but few talk about the questions you need to ask.

Take more control at your next interview by asking some pointed questions of your own. Here are six must-ask questions and why you should know the answers.

Content: Career Information | Author: Joe Turner | Source: Monster | Subject: Interviewing

Have your eye set on a six-figure salary? Use these tips to identify lucrative opportunities advertised on the Web.

Content: Career Information | Author: Sarah E. Needleman | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Job Search, Jobs – Recruiting / Staffing

Each of us has a different career history. Your particular job search and career goals are also unique. So which type of resume will have the highest probability of getting you the interview that will lead to your perfect job?

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

Guy Kawasaki interviews Penelope Trunk, author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success.

Content: Article | Authors: Guy Kawasaki, Penelope Trunk | Source: How to Change the World | Subject: Career

A job interview questions guide for jobseekers and for interviewers.

Content: Career Information | Source: Job Interview Questions | Subject: Interviewing