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Persuasive Communication and Career Success

Dynamic communication skills are one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, ...READ»

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Interviewer Psychology: What If the Interviewer Isn't American?

Interviewees for positions at true MNCs' are now seeing more and more Interviewers who weren't born and raised on U.S. soil. If you think this doesn't matter, you're wrong. Quick Tip: Your Interviewer likely isn't bumping 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" on the way to your interview this morning.READ»

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Learning for Success in Unexpected Places

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become an outstanding performer you ...READ»

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Create Your Success by Asking What You Can Do for Other People

Interpersonal competence is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become interpersonally competent, you ...READ»

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Resume Writing Tips for Success

Dynamic communications skills are one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become a dynamic communicator, you need ...READ»

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Positive People, Lifelong Learning and Success

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to career and life success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success and 42 Rules to Jumpstart Your Professional Success.  If you want to become an outstanding performer you need to do ...READ»

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What Not to Wear If You Want to Dress for Success

Ask yourself: "Does what I'm wearing today demonstrate that I respect myself and the people I'll meet today?"READ»

social media networking for job seekers

tips that might help people gain the most advantage from their career-oriented social media networking experiences. READ»

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Real Designers Sell a Process, Not the Result

Design isn't something you can buy off the shelf. Designers that try to sell their work as a product only undermine themselves by promoting the idea that design is a low-value, mass-produced commodity.READ»

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How to Search Optimize your Resume – Pt 1

Are you getting a 25% response rate to your resume? If you are, stop reading, this article isn’t for you. If you’re getting less than a 25% response rate to your resume, then your resume is working against you and blocking you ...READ»

Sony Announces 18.4-inch Notebook

For those power users who need incredible screen real estate and a big chunk of hard drive space -- video and photo professionals, here's looking at you -- the new Sony [SNE] Type A and AW Vaio laptops might be a tempting option. ...READ»

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LinkedIN strategies – Tight vs Broad Network

There’s been a controversy going on within the LinkedIN crowd for years. Is it more effective for your job search to build a LinkedIN network of close personal connections? Or instead, build a network with a broad reach, but weak ...READ»

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Finding Career Opportunity In Great China ?

Leading executive search and staffing service provide in Asia Bilast Associates Inc.an Executive Search Firm dedicated to National Executive Search and International Executive Search.Bilast Associates Inc. is designed to ...READ»

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10 Ways to Stay Motivated During your Job Search

How do you stay motivated while in career transition? A reader asked me to cover this topic. Especially during winter…if you live in the Northern part of the US, it’s cold, snowy, and tough. If you’re out of work, this ...READ»

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Academic Advice-Industrial Design & ???

I was wondering if I could ask for some communal advice regarding my current school status. I am an older student currently pursuing an undergraduate industrial design degree and should finish in about 3 years but since I never ...READ»

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You will sign up for a higher interest loan on purpose.

In reading Sway by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman, I found a study that was compelling enough to share.  As a sales and marketing professional hearing studies like this continues to dissappoint me.  I want to communicate objectively ...READ»

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Free TeleForum with FC "Leading Edge" blogger Dr. Mark Goulston June 25, 12 Noon EST

Dear Friends at Fast Company, I hope you will join me for a free TeleForum hosted by Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler on June 25, 12 Noon EST entitled: "Prevent Your Career's Biggest Tragedy." Info below: ...READ»

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Is Our View of "Work" Impacted by 'Mental Maps' Built During the Ages of 11 - 13?

In coming across a very interesting HBR Article from Tamara Erickson, "Are There Gender Differences Within Gen X?", I began to consider how not only the different generations, but also different genders within the ...READ»

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Thank You! Make an Impact in 5 Minutes

I’m amazed I actually have to write this article. Why do fewer than 10% of all candidates blow off the easiest way to stand out? It’s so simple…the thank you note. Yet so few take advantage of writing asimple thank you…so ...READ»

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Random Recruiting Thoughts on Opt-Out Marketing, Viral Loops, a Modern-Day Consilience, and a Readiness for Growth

HR, Recruiting, Third Party Search, and Talent Acquisition Professionals:  If I may play 'Mr. Marketing Devil's Advocate' for a moment, let me interject one of the new rules of marketing that exist within today's intersection of a ...READ»

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"If You Were An Animal, What Kind Would You Be?" - When You Hear This Question, Get Up And Leave The Room Immediately!

So the interview is going well - You're in upper management and have led many successful behavioral interviews yourself in the past.  All indications are that you're knocking it dead . . . and then the person on the other end of ...READ»

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Interview Like a Rock Star

You just had a Rock Star interview….you walked out of the office and knew the job was yours for the taking. The company is dying for you, and even you choose that this job isn’t the right move for you – at least the ego boost ...READ»

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The Hidden Beauty Of Dysfunctional Teams!

That despite it all, things still find a way to get done.  I mean, how many times have we seen a team of buddies that all loved one another, and spent nearly every minute of every day together . . . but couldn't collaborate ...READ»

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Hertz's Green Strategy: Is There a Marketing Lesson for Talent Acquisition?

Talent Acquisition (HR and/or Internal Recruitment) could probably gleam a thing or two from a new & engaging (at least to me as a marketing-head) Hertz commercial I watched this morning (see video below).  I make that ...READ»

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Do Bald People Make Better Employees?

Clarification: I'm talking cranial hair - you guys are terrible! So do bald people make better employees? What if you're simply on your way to being bald? (this is a gender-neutral question) :)    - What if said employee ...READ»

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