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Many new executives inadvertently set themselves up for failure within the first few months of their tenure through their own actions. As an executive hired from outside the firm, you’ll naturally want to add value and assure your employers and employees that you are the right hire. But based on my work helping executives transitioning into new organizations, I’ve discovered common traps new executives tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Sabina Nawaz | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

You need to conduct plenty of research to craft the perfect tailored resume and cover letter fitting the job and the company. That is already hard enough. Now, you need to email these documents to the organization you are applying to. However, that is easier said than done. Many applicants put so much time and effort in their cover letters and resumes, but neglect to … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Anastasia Belyh | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Cover Letters, Job Search

One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jack Canfield | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Learning, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

You’re probably bored of interview tips about dressing professionally and showing up on time; we know we are. That’s because these are the bare minimum you can do when you need to secure a new job – if you can’t dress yourself; it’s not so much interview tips that you need as another few years in school. So today we’re going to take a look … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Lisa Huyhn | Source: Business Pundit | Subject: Interviewing

Executives can view political moves as dirty and will try to distance themselves from those activities. However, what they find hard to acknowledge is that such activities can be for the welfare of the organization and its members. Thus, the first step to feeling comfortable with politics requires that executives are equipped with a reliable map of the political landscape and an understanding of the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Michael Jarrett | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Management, Organizational Behavior

When it comes to job interview questions, the question “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” is definitely among the most asked about. It’s also a question, which can be difficult to answer in a way that impresses the interviewer. In this guide, we’ll explain the reasons behind the question and provide you three strategies for listing your strengths, as well as your weaknesses. We’ll also … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Anastasia Belyh | Source: Cleverism | Subject: Interviewing

Salary negotiation techniques to put you in the top 1%. With videos, example scripts, case studies, myths busted and a new negotiation framework.

Content: Career Information | Author: Ramit Sethi | Subject: Benefits / Comp.

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier. Here are four ways to ensure your networking meeting is productive and meaningful, even if the agenda is amorphous.

Content: Article | Author: Dorie Clark | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Career, Networking, Personal Development

What I’ve found is that in the recruiting process, soft skills are under-assessed. In other words, they’re not properly measured.

Once people get hired, they are often slow to be developed by the human resources people. Only when there is a problem, only when somebody gets passed over for promotion, does a person realize that they undervalued, underappreciated how much the soft skills were going to … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: James A. Runde | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Human Resources, Success / Failure, Work

In the early phases of people’s career, the very first thing is adapting from the academic world to the business world. In the academic world, the teacher has the answer and is there to help you. In the business world, the boss is expecting you to come up with answer and you’re expected to help the boss, so everything’s turned on its head.

Content: Quotation | Author: James A. Runde | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: Career, Work

By many measures, the labor market has never been better, with historically low unemployment rates and historically high levels of payroll jobs and job openings. So one service worker might be reasonably optimistic about finding a better position at better wages. And yet anxiety and economic insecurity remains rampant — in part because an increasing number of people rightly fear that their work could one … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Daniel Gross | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Work

How many young college graduates have taken demanding jobs in high-powered firms, vowing that they will work hard to earn money that will enable them to retire and pursue their real interests when they are thirty-five? But by the time they reach that age, they have large mortgages, children to school, houses in the suburbs that necessitate at least two cars per family, and a … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Yuval Noah Harari | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

Ask a jobseeker what the most challenging and difficult aspects of a job search is, and you are likely to hear different answers. But you may come across several jobseekers who would readily answer that the toughest part for them is writing up their resume. After all, it is their weapon, their ultimate tool, in order to get their foot in the door, and be … [ Read more ]

Content: Career Information | Author: Anastasia Belyh | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Career, Resumes

You have more power than you think—here’s how to harness it.

Content: Article | Author: William Ocasio | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subjects: Career, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

In this guide, we explore 1) why to ask questions during the job interview and 2) the most helpful questions you should ask the interviewer.

Content: Career Information | Author: Martin Luenendonk | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Career, Interviewing

Taking on a new management position can create certain doubts and insecurities. A clash between expectations and reality is almost inevitable – but it can be minimized. Professor Guido Stein offers 10 tips to streamline your adaptation to a new executive role.

Content: Article | Author: Guido Stein | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Career, Personal Development

In this article, we will give you a short introduction on what a career objective is and what makes it different from other similar sections of the resume. We help you decide whether you need one at all or not and show lots of bad and best practices for a better understanding of the best method of writing one.

Content: Career Information | Author: Anastasia Belyh | Source: Cleverism | Subjects: Career, Resumes

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” And yet when I ask my executive clients, “If I cleared your calendar for an entire day to free you up to be ‘more strategic,’ what would you actually do?” most have no idea. I often get … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Ron Carucci | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Personal Development, Time Management, Work

You may indeed have gone into business in the first place because the subject of finance is relatively clean and clear; it doesn’t have the messy ambiguities of, say, psychology or literature. Such preferences don’t matter. You will end up distinguishing yourself (or not) on your ability not just to work with others, but to inspire them, draw insight from them, observe them accurately, and … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Kleiner | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Career, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Because of the demands of financial markets, companies often find short-term advantage in cutting employment, since driving the stock price gives owners a better return than actually employing people to get work done. Eventually “the market” sorts things out (in theory), and corporations are once again able to offer jobs to willing workers. But there is a lot of unnecessary friction.

One of the challenges … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Tim O’Reilly | Source: Medium | Subjects: Economics, Work