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“No Problem, Mon”: A Lesson in a Jamaican Job Search You Can Apply Today
I was at the boat yard last week and got an unexpected reminder on how to conduct a networking based job search from a Jamaican boat worker.
He was an older man with the rough weathered face of someone who has spent a lifetime working in the glare of the sun on the sea. He was repairing [...]
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Pick Up the That Outdated Old Phone & Get a Job
In the last couple of weeks I have had conversations with several twenty-somethings about professional communications and the job search. I was shocked but should not have been surprised when they told me how uncomfortable they are talking on the phone.
Why? Because this group rarely uses the phone to communicate verbally to one another. They [...]
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Fake Engagement
Have you ever taken an employee survey where you are asked to respond to items like this?
“I have the opportunity to do my best each day.”
“I would recommend the company as a good place to work to my friends.”
“Even though I work as hard as a dog, have no personal life and have not seen [...]
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Degree-less and Doomed??? You have got to be kidding.
I am all for college degrees. In fact I have a couple myself. But for many people, getting the college degree didn’t happen either by plan or by circumstances. Despite this they have built a good career holding the types of professional jobs even though their peers in similar positions had degrees.
How does this happen?
Simple actually. These degree-less people [...]
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The Pure Useless Terror of the Team Interview
Team interviews have been around for a long time now. Think of the Inquisition.
The darkest group interview I ever had was a time when the group included other applicants seated in a circle with one another along with members of the team. Applicants were asked a number of “self disclosure” questions to see how [...]
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Wouldn’t It Be Great If You Could Look Under Your Boss’s Hood?
Okay, so I have a quick question for you. Are you a nut? If I gave you this cup right here, would you be able to confidently take it into the bathroom, knowing that the results wouldn’t hurt your chances of a job? How do you blow off steam when you’re tense? If you found [...]
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If You’re Worried About Acing the Job Interview, You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree
It’s hard to be choosy these days, isn’t it? It’s hard to hold onto hope and high standards for what kind of job you’d like to ultimately land when you’re surrounded by messages that the job market world is coming to an end. Buy into the terrible headlines that people are losing jobs right [...]
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Should You Take a Job That You Don’t Want?
“Should you really take a job you don’t want?” In today’s job marketplace, it seems terribly ungrateful to look a gift job offer in the mouth. But let’s face it, just because the job market is squeakingly tight that doesn’t mean you should take the first job that’s offered to you.
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Discouraged? How to Re-Energize Your Job Search
Did you happen to see NY Times article about how the nation is flooded with millions of would-be job seekers who have just plain given up? No? Well. Don’t bother. It’s a bummer. (But I linked this article to the online page anyway, just in case you’re like me and you just have to take [...]
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