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effectiveness

Is Your Success Undermining Your Dreams?

January 4, 2010

“Good is the enemy of great.”
This, the opening statement of Jim Collins’ Good to Great, is a primary cause of dream abandonment.
You’re good at what you do. You’ve got skills. You meet deadlines. Your projects meet client needs. You bring home a paycheck that keeps you and your family comfortable.
It’s so easy to rest on [...]

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The Do-It-Yourself Behavioral Interview

September 14, 2009

Employers used to ask softball questions.
Of course, they didn’t think they were softballs, but as they started to realize their interviews weren’t predicting success, they switched it up a little.
They moved from “What would you do if…” to “Tell me about a time when…”
And the behavioral interview was born. While a behavioral interview is not [...]

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Managing your commitments, and a note on managing mine

August 12, 2009

On the one side, I encouraged all of you to say yes.  And yet there will come a time where you need to say no for your own sanity.  But how do you determine when to say no?
Here are some reasons that you should consider saying no:

If you’re only saying “yes” because you feel you [...]

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Great, effective resume keywords bring resume success

August 10, 2009

I’ve said before that every resume is written for three audiences.  Most people think about the recruiter and potential hiring manager but there’s less emphasis placed on the phantom third audience — the database.
And rightfully so.  The applicant tracking system — the electronic database that a great number of companies use to collect, sort, organize [...]

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Not getting the job you want? Double your efforts

July 28, 2009

A woman I met recently shared how she had been laid off,  and was able to get a great new job in slightly over a month.
Her experience defies the conventional wisdom about job search.  She didn’t search for one month for every $10k of target salary.  She searched for one month.  Period.
Lesson:  It can be [...]

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Too much networking: Is there such a thing?

July 22, 2009

Networking is the number one way to get a job.
If you subscribe to that notion (and it’s a smart one) then you would think that there’s no such thing as too much networking.  You may be wrong.
There’s a difference between networking and effective networking.  And if you overload yourself with new meetings, you’ll be doing [...]

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Your Job Search Partner: Working with an executive recruiter in your job search

July 16, 2009

Here, just for extra-special you, is the recording of last night’s teleseminar on working with recruiters in your job search.  There is some great info in here on how to build effective relationships with an executive recruiter.  Thanks again to Lynn Hazan and Jeff Lipschultz for giving their time and knowledge so that all of [...]

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How to lose a job in 10 days

July 15, 2009

This is what happens when I watch chick flicks on TBS.  For some much more serious business-oriented advice, try the free ebook and newsletter.  I promise to keep Kate Hudson out of it.
Imagine this: you meet the perfect company.  You have a great initial connection — this could really have potential!  Okay, don’t screw it [...]

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15 minutes a day to more productive work

July 10, 2009

In my house, no crime is more likely to end up in instant dismemberment than scuffing my Precious Portfolio.
I have a beautiful, classic black leather portfolio from Levenger that I use for all of my business “stuff.”  I carried it to meetings at my last job, I carried it to interviews when I was in [...]

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Personal power and leadership: The Obama factor

July 6, 2009

Last week we dissolved the stigma around personal power.  And rightfully so.  As this article about President Obama’s effective use of personal power argues, personal power makes us more effective in a number of ways.
The article shares some direct benefits of personal power:

Personal power frees us to listen. In the absence of a perceived threat [...]

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