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You’ve just started a new job. Your company is expecting big things from you. Here’s how to live up to – and exceed – their expectations.

Content: Article | Author: Katie Beavan | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Management

Constructing a resume that earns interviews is remarkably simple. Here are six do’s and don’ts to follow when composing your document.

Content: Career Information | Author: John J. Marcus | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Resumes

Velocity – or rate of change – is important in many different kinds of systems. While you need to know where you are, it is often even more essential to know how fast you are going and in which direction you are heading. When applied to human beings, this becomes Lyle’s Law of Becoming: What you are becoming is as important as what you are … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Lyle D. Feisel | Source: The Bent of Tau Beta Pi | Subject: Career Info

You don’t have to be a savvy manipulator to get ahead — you just need to understand and apply your innate talents.

Content: Article | Author: Anil Saxena | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subject: Career

When your job is in jeopardy or no longer satisfying you can build a strong foundation for finding new employment. Here’s how.

Content: Career Information | Author: Karin Halperin | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Job Search

We frequently hear from job-seekers who are frustrated with job-hunting on the Internet. They have posted their resume on the major job boards or searched for and responded to job postings — but have heard nothing back from employers.

Let’s face it — the sheer volume of resumes and job postings on the major job boards make it hard for the individual job-seeker to get … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Katharine Hansen | Source: Quintessential Careers | Subjects: Job Search, Jobs – Listing Services

In a knowledge-intensive world of ceaseless innovation and change, I assert, every professional must be a leader. This is not a universally popular idea. Some people say, “leadership is fine for others, but I just want a job”. I want to argue that it doesn’t work that way. The skills that the leader exercises in building a critical mass of opinion around emerging issues are … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Philip E. Agre | Source: UCLA | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

One way to approach lifelong learning is to think about what’s threatening your job or your company. Go find out about the thing that threatens you. Understand it. You might pick the wrong company, but what you will learn will always be valuable.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Learning

This research report serves to help managers navigate in the complex change management environment. The report presents current models and methods used based on the collective wisdom and experience of The Conference Board’s Three Faces of Change Working Group members, a survey, in-depth interviews and case studies. Drawing on these resources, the working group sought to examine the state of the art in initiating and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Carole Weinstein, Gregory R. Guy, Karen V. Beaman | Sources: Accenture, The Conference Board | Subject: Career

CareerJournal.com spoke to Stephen Mader, a vice chairman at executive-search firm Christian & Timbers, about tips for would-be CEOs on working with executive recruiters.

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

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Most books about career advancement are either weighty examinations about success in the workplace or flippant, humorous takes on surviving the countless inanities of modern work life. Jeffrey Fox’s book is neither. Instead, Fox presents 75 commonsense rules about successfully conducting your career.

Rules like “Know Everybody by Their First Name” and “No Goals No Glory” may seem obvious; others, such as “Don’t Take Work Home … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Jeffery J. Fox | Subject: Career

Our survey of more than 10,000 IT pros finds base salaries creeping along, with bonuses as the source of growth.

Content: Career Information | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Benefits / Comp.

You may distribute more business cards at conferences, luncheons, and meetings than a clown does confetti, but are you overlooking one of your most obvious networking locales – your own association’s staff? This article discusses why and how you should network in your workplace.

Content: Article | Authors: Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon | Source: The Center for Association Leadership | Subject: Career

Competency in technical skills is necessary to succeed in this world but they are not sufficient to thrive. The question is what can one do differently so that he or she can distinguish and move above the commodity crowd? The goal of this manifesto is to provide 25 ways to do just that.

Content: Article | Author: Rajesh Setty | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Find out what employers want in business-school grads and how some interviewers evaluate candidates.

Content: Article | Author: Ron Alsop | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

In the early stages of your career, you build advancement through your expertise, but as you get higher, more and more of what you do is managing. As that shift occurs, charisma becomes more important. The more your job requires an ability to motivate and inspire, an ability to bring about change, the more helpful it is to have charisma.

Content: Quotation | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior

This earnest guide to career transition periods-when a new job or promotion puts an employee in an unfamiliar role-asserts, reassuringly, that navigating the all-important first 90 days is a “teachable skill.” Business professor Watkins, co-author of Right From the Start: Taking Charge in a New Leadership Role, lays out a “standard framework” for leadership transitions, based on “five fundamental propositions,” “ten key challenges,” and a … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Michael Watkins | Subjects: Career, Leadership

No book has captured the trials and traumas of the transition from star performer to competent manager better than Linda Hill’s classic Becoming a Manager. In tracing and analyzing the experiences of nineteen new managers, Hill reveals the profound complexity and difficulty of the process of developing into a manager. In their own distinct voices, these managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Linda A. Hill | Subjects: Career, Management

Few organizations know how to maximize knowledge worker performance to achieve optimum business results. Most executives focus exclusively on attracting and retaining talented individuals; few bother to ask how they can best support and enhance the performance of the knowledge workers they already employ. To determine how organizations can best enhance the performance of their knowledge workers, the authors studied how high-achievers solve problems and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Susan Cantrell, Thomas H. Davenport | Source: Accenture | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior