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Topics > Career Guidance
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professional help and guidance in choosing a career, making a career change, career management resource. Job search, resume management and etc...
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 Don Monteith writes: "Your career path is taking a trip down many different roads hoping to make 'right' choices in the decision making process. Everyone wants the key to a successful career. None of us want to be left at the starting gate feeling disenchanted and broke."
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Anonymous writes: "Most workers endeavor to work hard, and their performance usually is observed to be good or exceptional. However, at times supervisors are faced with employees whose performance has become unacceptable. This can be the toughest part of your job. As many managers have said, "My biggest problems are people problems.""
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Laura Smith-Proulx writes: "Given the dot-com meltdown, frequent corporate downsizing, family situations, and the never-ending parade of mergers and acquisitions, more leadership professionals than ever are presenting a gap in between jobs to their next employer."
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Anonymous writes: "There are many hedge funds that are continuing to look for great people and hiring due to the overall uncertainty in the larger market – hedge funds by their very nature are constantly dealing with variables in the market place and leveraging these discontinuities to find valuable deals. So, tough or difficult markets are not always bad for them, as there are still great deals to be found. Meaning, many of these firms are looking for hedge fund candidates who can work in a very vibrant market. "
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Anonymous writes: "It’s critical to know how to work with a private equity jobs recruiter if you want to get your resume in front of the right private equity hiring firm and to give personal brand broad distribution to a group of targeted private equity job recruiters. Here are some basic rules of the road to utilize to work for/with private equity jobs recruiters: "
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Robert Dinsmore writes: "My friend has been trying to find a job for weeks. His money in the bank is fast running out, credit card bills are mounting and even his car payments are two months overdue. Desperate to find a job, he’d scanned all known job postings in the internet and the local paper and asked for help from friends. He sends out his resume in a veritable mailing-list that would shame the mailing catalog of some newsletters. But he still can’t find a job."
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Michelle Dumas writes: "Do you wonder about how best to leverage and submit your references during your job search? Here are some tips to help you:"
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Carole Martin writes: "This open-ended question, and others like; "Where do you see yourself in five years?" throw most candidates off balance. The object of the question is to check for your self-awareness and communication skills."
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Anonymous writes: "So you need a new job then? A first job, a dream job, or maybe in credit crunch 2008 any job will do for now). No matter what job you're hunting you need a really sizzling resume in order to get interview invites flooding in. Problem: Creating a hot resume can feel impossible. Believe me, it's not hard at all, when you know what to do. However, it IS easy to make mistakes and mess it up - And messed up means shredded and shredded means no job interview."
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Anonymous writes: "Have you been dreaming of a job where you can work at home? Most people think how great the opportunity would be to work at home. However they do not know how to get started or what jobs are available. There are actually quite a lot of jobs that are great for work at home individuals. The following are just a few that are really great for this set up and that might work for you!"
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Deborah Walker writes: "If you're of the boomer generation, and looking for a new career, you could be getting the cold shoulder from employers. Your hair may be saying "under 40", but recruiters put your resume in the geriatric-reject pile. If you're feeling symptoms of age discrimination, your resume could be working against you, making you look out of date and one step from retirement."
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Deborah Walker writes: "Most interview preparation books are filled with sample questions that you'll have to answer during an interview. While it's certainly important to know how to answer tough interview questions, it's equally important to know how to ASK questions in an interview. There are three good reasons to be prepared to ask great questions during interviews."
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Anonymous writes: ""The purpose of the cover letter," a wise man once said, "is to get the resume read; the purpose of the resume is to get an interview." It is also believed by some resume experts that most cover letters never get read. They are more a formality. They get skimmed and tossed aside. In any case, be prepared. Submit a cover letter with your resume. Almost all resumes without cover letters are declined whether or not your cover letter is read. "
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Carole Martin writes: "This is one of those broad questions that can take you down the wrong road unless you have done some thinking about what to say ahead of time. This question deals with your ability to sell yourself. Think of yourself as the product. Why should the customer buy?"
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Laura Smith-Proulx writes: "Leadership professionals often spend significant time adding content to their resumes, showing career progression and detailing their strengths. So why does the average resume get only a minimal response?"
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Anonymous writes: "Web design is an emerging field these days, creating more opportunities everyday for web designing professionals. It has become an attractive career option for youngsters aspiring to be a part of this Internet bandwagon. Even the work and options are increasing accordingly with the time. But, to become a real expert of website design or graphics designing for websites one needs proper creative abilities and experience of doing the actual work."
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Ed Bagley writes: "Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
Female executives who are bold and aggressive do not rise up the corporate ladder as quickly as you may think. Bold and aggressive traits do not naturally match well with intelligence and savvy. Given the fact that there are many more male executives than female executives, being bold and aggressive gets fewer promotions on the way up."
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Ed Bagley writes: "Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
Female executives who are bold and aggressive do not rise up the corporate ladder as quickly as you may think. Bold and aggressive traits do not naturally match well with intelligence and savvy. Given the fact that there are many more male executives than female executives, being bold and aggressive gets fewer promotions on the way up."
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Anonymous writes: "If you want better performance from your employees, the following four statements may surprise you:
- Forget about making your managers? lives easier.
- Dump your performance appraisal and ?coach? moniker.
- Shift accountability away from employees.
- Stop paying them off."
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Anonymous writes: "Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley
My best advice to clients about to interview for a job is to treat the interview like an IRS audit."
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