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We tag along as an expert networker demonstrates the art of the schmooze.

Content: Article | Authors: Diane Darling, Jeff Ousborne | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

You’ve handed out stacks of business cards, called all your contacts, and mailed reams of cover letters. Guess what, pal: So has everybody else. That’s why we’ve asked the pros for networking tips and tricks that’ll help you leave the name-tag-wearing, resumé-waving hordes in the dust.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexis Offen, Mickey Butts | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, Personal Development | Industry: Other

The Monster Interview Center covers all the bases with a number of tools to enhance your interviewing skills, including simulated interviews for twelve industries, advice on over twenty specific interviewing situations, and issues including internal interviews, second interviews, and executive interviews. The site also has a section devoted to typical questions asked and concludes with “Critic’s Review,” a section that focuses on post-interview considerations like … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subject: Interviewing

Do you get brain freeze when it’s time to write a cover letter? Focus on the answers to these five questions, and you’re off to a good start.

Content: Career Information | Subject: Cover Letters

The resume is one place where you cannot afford to make mistakes‚ but unfortunately this document is a landmine for potential errors. Make sure you know what the most common blunders are so you can avoid them.

Content: Career Information | Subject: Resumes

This site positions itself as the most complete and accurate resource for compensation data. It provides salary, benefit and cost-of-living information. As the site proclaims, it urges HR professionals to become educated by taking advantage of the sites on-line courses to improve their pay practice knowledge and skills. The site provides extensive data on assessing salaries for 30,000 job titles within certain geographic areas. [Babson … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: Salary Expert | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

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“The Global Workplace was developed from an analysis of the senior appointments marketplace. We spoke to alumni and employers to discover what they wanted. It soon became clear that we could offer a better, less intrusive and more dynamic service for senior positions.

This state-of-the-art website provides clear, straightforward access to generally unadvertised opportunities in local markets worldwide.

Our service offers outstanding benefits to both groups of … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Subjects: Jobs – MBA Specific, MBA-Specific Resources

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of work. With it, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subjects: Life, Work

This easy to navigate site from the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) offers articles, research, publications, meetings and links to other resources – all focused on stock options (note: they also have a section on ESOPs)

Content: Online Resource | Source: Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) | Subjects: Career, Entrepreneurship

With more than 20 million people registered on the monster.com job search site, it’s clear that we are a workforce on the move. In a recent executive education session, Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, explained how a dramatically different labor market is changing not just the way people are hired and fired, but how they view their jobs, their employers and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Human Resources

“What is an MBA, anyway? A degree, of course. A door opener, to be sure. A ticket to the top, perhaps. But for some 75 percent of B-school students, it’s also a new start—the first step in a journey from one field to another. And more often than not, that new field is consulting, banking, or marketing…Our guide to spinning the career switch—compiled with the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Paul Scott | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career

How do managers hone the skills they need to survive and thrive in different geographical and cultural environments? In this excerpt from a new book, experts Morgan W. McCall, Jr. and George P. Hollenbeck offer some answers. PLUS: Q&A.

Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Career

Three MBAs. Three interviews. The razor-sharp recruiter who scored them. And what you can learn from their mistakes.

Content: Article | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career | Industry: Investment Banking

What does an interview look like from the recruiter’s chair? Which answers impress? Which comments annoy? What shoots you dead? Top recruiters, career consultants, and psychologists offer shrewd tips and subtle tricks for moving from “How do you do?” to “When can you start?”

Content: Article | Authors: David Blend, Lisa Chudnofsky, Maria Spinella | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to ace the cases in a consulting-firm interview. In fact, a little preparation can make solving them seem, well, elementary.

Content: Article | Author: Michael K. Norris | Source: MBA Jungle | Subjects: Career, MBA Related

The secrets to saying thanks the right way—and the mistakes that’ll send your missive to the shredder.

Content: Article | Author: Lisa Chudnofsky | Source: MBA Jungle | Subject: Career

Everything you ever wanted to know about finding a career counselor (but didn’t think to ask).

Content: Article | Author: Ann Hornaday | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Career

Simple but powerful and useful service. Simply choose the job title and a zip code or metro area. What you’ll get is the average salary, a salary range, equivalent “Renter’s Buying Power”, bonus and benefits figures, national norms for the position, and a position description. Excellent!

Content: Career Information | Subjects: Benefits / Comp., Research / Corp. Info – General

The work you do should be a test of your perceptiveness. All great work becomes the art of seeing (paraphrased).

Content: Quotation | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Vision, Work