Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories
Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, The Search, Uncategorized — July 29, 2010 at 2:40 pmI was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ of the crucial importance of storytelling to job seekers who desperately need to set themselves apart during the job search process.
The importance of the personal story was perfectly illustrated to me last week when I was approached by a friend asking for help in getting back in the job...
read more
Workplace
5 Tips for a Better Relationship with the IT Guy
The IT guy in your office might be a perfectly likable member of the team. But in many offices, he or she is an odd, introverted...
Jul 8, 2010 12:11
Management
Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs
I’ve collected a number of articles and interviews with some of the country’s most innovative and successful...
Jul 28, 2010 14:43
The Search
Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories
I was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ...
Jul 29, 2010 14:40
Work/Life
The Post Crisis Job?
In this video, John Gerzema talks about the post crisis consumer at TEDxKC. Basically, he’s talking about finding...
Mar 12, 2010 10:54
-
Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories
July 29, 2010 14:07
-
Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs
July 28, 2010 14:07
-
Could Creativity Save the Economy
July 16, 2010 01:07
-
5 Tips for a Better Relationship with the IT Guy
July 8, 2010 12:07
-
Manufacturing Skills in Short Supply
July 7, 2010 13:07
-
Jarrod Lansey: There’s a book known as “Avoid Retirement And Stay Alive”. The concept will be the actuality that retirement has n...
-
Susan: I feel that this philosophy is a by-product of the me-generation that still does not understand teamwork and only focuse...
-
Suzanne Bates: I've been searching around for some of the "rules" on blackberry use in meetings and this article makes an excellent poi...
-
Roseline Disano: Good luck everybody! - I will come back again. Are you on facebook or twitter? Will like to follow you. Thanks...
-
resume cover letter: Thank you so much for these great ideas you have posted about job cover letters. I cant stress enough just how crucial ...
- 13 Best Job Sites for Baby Boomers - Investing Answers
- How to Get a Job in Financial Regulation - FINS
- Job-hopping has its perks, but some employers may be wary - Vancouver Sun
- Employee retention: How to keep your best - New England Business Bulletin
- Study: Over 1/3 of IT Workers Ready to Jump Ship - ReadWriteWeb (blog)
- Spouse jobs program to relaunch in October - Air Force Link
- New Lansing health center to generate 120 jobs - Lansing State Journal
- Increase in IT Jobs Led by Contract Worker Demands - IT Jungle
- Recruitment firm Hays sees pick-up in banking - Reuters UK
News on Jobs
must revisit Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun for a meeting next week. As I recall, I enjoyed the read 20 years ago.3 hours ago from HootSuite
Your most powerful and memorable differentiator: your stories. New from The Job Shopper http://ht.ly/2itfo5 hours ago from HootSuite
"Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs" thanks to @richmeyer http://bit.ly/cEX5cW ^eric7 hours ago from CoTweet
amazed how many job seekers haven't Googled themselves. Afraid of what you'll find or worried that you don't exist?9 hours ago from HootSuite
amazed how many job seekers haven't Googled themselves. Afraid of what you'll find or worried that you don't exist?9 hours ago from HootSuite
When you find talent, hire it! ...and 4 other hiring lessons from the nation's top execs at The Job Shopper http://ht.ly/2igDB11 hours ago from HootSuite
Recent Articles
Your Most Powerful & Memorable Differentiator: Your Stories
I was reminded today when I read a terrific post on the importance of storytelling in corporate branding at Beg To Differ of the crucial importance of storytelling to job seekers who desperately need to set themselves apart during the job search process.
The importance of the personal story was perfectly...
July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, The Search, Uncategorized | Read More
Top 5 Hiring Lessons From the Nation’s Best Execs
I’ve collected a number of articles and interviews with some of the country’s most innovative and successful executives to discern exactly how they attract highly talented and energized employees to their organizations that continually fuel their success.
There was a lot of overlap and similarity...
July 28th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management | Read More
Could Creativity Save the Economy
In a recent interview on NPR, Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein spoke about how big nonbanking companies have been sitting on huge cash reserves, rather than making capital investments. Pearlstein says CEOs love to blame regulation, but there are a host of reasons companies are...
July 16th, 2010 | Featured, Leadership, Management | Read More
5 Tips for a Better Relationship with the IT Guy
The IT guy in your office might be a perfectly likable member of the team. But in many offices, he or she is an odd, introverted person that pops up every once in a while to tell you what you’ve done wrong with your computer.
The gap between IT and the rest of us has turned into a cavern as...
July 8th, 2010 | Office Politics, Technology, Workplace | Read More
Manufacturing Skills in Short Supply
A recent article in the New York Times captured the current employment turmoil that defines our domestic manufacturing sector. Although a number of companies do have staff openings, they’re discovering it’s very difficult to find candidates with the advanced technical skills that the company...
July 7th, 2010 | Featured, Hiring, Management, Strategy, Training | Read More
5 Ways to Make a Shorter Work Week Work
Sounds like a dream doesn’t it? Every weekend a three day weekend. No hump day. Two Saturday nights! It actually turns out that the dream of a shorter work week isn’t such a dream so much as a debate we are having with ourselves.
Experts tell us that the average worker would have...
July 2nd, 2010 | Communications, Employee Satisfaction, Management, Strategy | Read More
7 Tips to Ace Your Telephone Interview
Most first job interviews are conducted via telephone. Once your resume has caught the hiring manager’s attention, and they believe that your qualifications match their needs, they will typically call you to determine quickly if you have the potential to fit into their organization. It’s...
June 29th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, The Search | Read More
6 Tips For A Great Prezi (The PPT Alternative)
The idea behind Prezi is simple: let’s build an alternative to PPT that isn’t difficult to use, looks great, and is sharable. Prezi has definitely accomplished a lot and you should give it serious consideration for your next presentation for the ‘Wow’ factor alone. You can...
June 14th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More
The Marshmallow Challenge
In this TED video, Tom Wujec explains the Marshmallow Challenge and why kindergartners perform better at it than CEOs or business school grads. Wujec focuses on it as a design process, but it really applies to any business situation.
Basically, The Marshmallow Challenge gives teams some sticks of...
May 25th, 2010 | Workplace | Read More
The Most Ingenious Way to Land a Job Ever. For Less Than $6.
Alec Brownstein decided he wanted a job with one of NYC’s top creative directors, and wasn’t going to wait around for a job opening to apply. In a bold and impossibly creative move, he spent six dollars and came up with this:
Alec’s approach was so simple and so direct, that it will undoubtedly...
May 14th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More
- July 2, 2010 7:30
- June 29, 2010 9:40
- June 14, 2010 16:11
- May 25, 2010 14:52
- May 14, 2010 10:37