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A job hunter wants to know how many times to call back, and when you should take a hint and move on.

Content: Career Information | Author: Perri Capell | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

Most people learn leadership skills by observing their current leaders, but this works only when they have competent leaders to observe. My advice is to seek out and find the very best leaders you can. Watch them, learn from them, get advice from them. Learn from the best because leadership skills will be a hot currency in the years ahead.

Content: Quotation | Source: LeaderValues | Subjects: Career, Leadership

In delicious, bite-sized nuggets, Robin Wolaner’s Naked Truths provide universal and instantly gratifying lessons for advancing your career. They can be put into action regardless of your age, experience, industry, or whether you are a one-woman start-up or a big-company employee.

Drawing on her own career in magazine publishing and media development, Wolaner shows you how to succeed because of, rather than despite, your unique … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Robin Wolaner | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

Should you be the first to mention money? What is your main goal in negotiating a salary raise? How do you prepare for negotiation obstacles? A negotiation expert gives tips in this article from the Harvard Management Communication Letter.

Content: Career Information | Author: Mark Gordon | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Benefits / Comp.

This “is a free career advice website for jobseekers. Within this site you can find free career advice relating to career development, CV advice, employment issues, interview advice, job hunting, working abroad, training, education and much more.” Includes articles and discussion forums provided by the site’s volunteers or “submitted by businesses or individuals in the recruitment industry (some even by jobseekers themselves).” Searchable.

Content: Career Information | Source: Jobseekers Advice | Subject: Career Info

The work we do is supposed to reflect our talents, intelligence, and so on. Therefore, the meritocratic idea that you “make your own luck” is a very punishing one and explains many people’s anxiety and depression over the work they do.

A society in which only extraordinary achievements are valued is setting most people up for a cruel fall. You’re no more likely to become … [ Read more ]

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

Six no-nonsense ways women can close the gender wage gap.

Content: Article | Author: Linda Tischler | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

Age bias can be a significant obstacle for older professionals seeking work. But your odds of overcoming it improve if you can identify it early during the job interview process and know the best way to respond to age-related questions.

Content: Career Information | Author: Terryn Barill | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Interviewing

When we can psychologically check out from our work, we call it a job; when we can’t, we call it a career.

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

The famous concern for “legacy” among older execs often is little more than a tacit confession that the power and perks for which one clawed one’s way to the top are no longer satisfying.

Content: Quotation | Source: Across the Board (ATB) | Subjects: Career, Work

In a new study that compares Fortune 100 executives in 1980 with their counterparts in 2001, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, and colleague Monika Hamori document what many CEOs and other senior managers have no doubt already witnessed: The road to the executive suite and the characteristics of the executives who get there have changed significantly over the last two decades. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Career

Start with these keys for finding and interviewing candidates

Content: Article | Author: Harry Joiner | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

Experts generally agree that four traits are essential to predicting how a person will perform. Those traits are dominance, extroversion, pace (or patience), and conformity. If you understand which of those traits is most salient and how the other three factor in, you can identify the kinds of environments where a person will thrive. The logic works the other way too: If you can figure … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

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Job hunters can seem self-serving if they try to present their weaknesses as strengths during interviews. These seven strategies can help you to effectively answer the perennial interview question, “What are your weaknesses?”

Content: Career Information | Author: Arlene S. Hirsch | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

Being an insider doesn’t guarantee you the inside track to an inside job. Assuming colleagues know you’re terrific is among the most common mistakes made by inside applicants. It’s hardly the only one, however.

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

Career coaches or head hunters may have told you that creating an effective resume means punching it up with jazzy verbs and adjectives. Not so, say hiring managers. In fact, if you’re using glitzy modifiers, you could be doing your resume more harm than good. Here’s a look at some recruiters’ “favorite-hate” resume verbiage

Content: Career Information | Author: Molly Joss | Source: TechRepublic | Subject: Resumes

From small talk with the receptionist to assessing the “fun factor” in office decor, here are a trove of tips and tricks from people who know how to size up a prospective employer.

Content: Career Information | Authors: Charlie Hasbrouck, Dimitra Kessenides, Elizabeth Herr, Karen Hube, Suma CM | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

Will you be ready with a compelling anecdote when an interviewer asks you to describe problems you faced in past jobs? Use this formula for success in a behavior-based interview.

Content: Career Information | Author: Arlene S. Hirsch | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Interviewing

I think about fitting work in the same way we might think about other practices, often drawn from arts, games, or sports, like piano playing or baseball.

The first thing to ask is whether we have the right aptitudes. No aptitude, no fit. If you’re tone deaf, music is probably not for you. This kind of fit is what society needs: from a social point of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Career, Personal Development