tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59182951188745558762024-03-14T03:36:56.348-05:00JobSearchJedi.comtimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.comBlogger1188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-27332758481943744122024-01-30T02:00:00.001-06:002024-01-30T02:00:00.130-06:00The No. 1 reason people ‘fail’ job interviews, says ex-Amazon recruiter: ‘It causes a lack of trust’<p><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--_ANaL" href="https://www.cnbc.com/morgan-smith/">Morgan Smith<span class="Author-styles-makeit-authorUnderline--xAmYs"></span></a><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorTwitter--q9X48" href="https://twitter.com/thewordsmithm" target="_blank">@thewordsmithm</a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Some job interview faux pas are obvious. Showing up late or
badmouthing your former employer are almost guaranteed to ruin a first
impression. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But there’s one sneaky interview mistake that can cost you the job: <b><u>Forgetting to provide specific examples in your answers. </u></b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done"></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Holly
Lee, a former recruiting leader at Amazon, Meta and Google, says it’s
“hands down, the number one reason” people tank a job interview. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“People
are either overconfident and think that their resumes speak for
themselves, that they only need to provide a vague, short answer, or
don’t take the proper time to reflect on how, exactly, their work is
benefitting a company’s bottom line — the who, what, when, where and why
of it all,” says Lee, who is now a leadership career coach based in
Phoenix.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For example: An interviewer might ask you, “What is the biggest impact you’ve made in your career at this point?” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“If
you answer with a brief line like, ‘I saved my company $1 million on a
project’ or ‘I made our onboarding process more efficient’ without
providing specific context or details, it’s not clear how, exactly, you
did that and who you helped,” Lee explains.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Neglecting to provide
specific examples of your strengths, contributions and impact in
previous roles can hurt your chance of getting an offer because it
signals to a potential employer that you’re not thoughtful or
trustworthy, says Lee. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“There’s no such thing as a perfect
candidate, but you have to demonstrate what you’ve done in order to
build trust and positively influence the person who’s interviewing you,”
she examples. “Giving vague, clipped answers causes a lack of trust, it
shows me that someone is unprepared and doesn’t have a deliberate
approach to their work.”</span></p><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><u><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/26/ex-amazon-recruiter-the-no-1-reason-people-fail-job-interviews.html" target="_blank">Tips for acing your next interview .... Read the full MSNBC article</a></u></i></span><br /></h2><p> </p><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-88293035428466938732024-01-11T13:41:00.000-06:002024-01-11T13:41:08.153-06:00The No. 1 job interview phrase that will set you apart from everyone else, says career expert: It’s the ‘most powerful’<p><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--_ANaL" href="https://www.cnbc.com/erin-mcgoff/">Erin McGoff, Contributor</a></p><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">A <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/20/i-help-people-land-jobs-at-google-facebook-meta-heres-what-i-never-want-to-see-on-a-resume.html">well-tailored resume</a>
with relevant experience will often get you in the door for a job
interview. But if you want to land your dream job, you need to
convincingly articulate why you are the best person for the role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As
a career coach, I’ve found that there are a number of compelling and
powerful phases that hiring professionals love to hear. One of the most
powerful ones you can use in a job interview is: </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>“One thing that excites
me about this role is ... .” </b></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done"></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here are 3 reasons why this phrase will set you apart from other candidates:</span></p></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;">1. It makes you sound confident</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">Job
interviews are designed with a built-in power imbalance. You want the
position, and you have to impress the hiring manager. But when you use
this phrase, you subtly convey to the interviewer that you aren’t just
in desperate need of a job.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It shows that you are a passionate, curious and capable candidate who
is genuinely interested in what the work entails. By flipping the
script, you are no longer asking the interviewer to be interested in
you. You are telling the interviewer what’s interesting to you about the
role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This subtle power dynamic shift can only help you gain leverage.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/11/the-no-1-job-interview-phrase-that-will-set-you-apart-from-everyone-else-says-career-expert.html" target="_blank">Read reasons 2 & 3 plus the full CNBC article </a></u></i></b></span><br /></p><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-1825995186035908252023-12-11T07:37:00.004-06:002023-12-11T07:37:54.025-06:00Taking this one extra step after a job interview can pay off—‘hardly anyone’ does it, says career coach<p><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--_ANaL" href="https://www.cnbc.com/gili-malinsky-bio/">Gili Malinsky</a></p><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">In-person job interviews typically last between 45 and 90 minutes, according to job search <a href="https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/how-long-do-interviews-last" target="_blank">site Indeed</a>. In that time, you’ll probably be asked about your work history and be told about the role you’re interviewing for.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When
the interview’s over, it’s customary to send a thank you email to
everyone who interviewed you within 24 to 48 hours — but if you want to
go that extra mile, send a physical thank you note as well.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done"></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Hardly anyone does that ever,” says Vicki Salemi, career expert at <a href="https://www.monster.com/" target="_blank">Monster</a>. But it can pay off — here’s why.</span></p></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;">It shows you ‘really put in the effort’</span></h2><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Interviewers
likely speak with many candidates, many of whom will remember to sent
over a thank you email after they meet. But most probably won’t send
anything by snail mail.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“A handwritten thank you note can help you stand out in the job interview process,” says <a href="https://www.angelinadarrisaw.com/" target="_blank">Angelina Darrisaw</a>,
a former manager at Viacom and CEO of C-Suite Coach. “It can signal
that you are willing to go the extra mile, which can be very attractive
to potential employers.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When you see someone’s handwriting, it feels like you “really put in the effort,” says Salemi.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Not
only will they remember that you were willing to go a little further to
show your gratitude about the interview and excitement about the role,
but they’ll have a physical reminder of it sitting right in front of
them.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Salemi remembers the effect these notes had when she was a
recruiter herself. “As we were determining who was going to get the job
offer, I had that thank you note on my desk for at least a week,” she
says. “And I always thought of that person.”</span></p></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;">‘It’s a nice touch’ - <i><u><a href="In-person job interviews typically last between 45 and 90 minutes, according to job search site Indeed. In that time, you’ll probably be asked about your work history and be told about the role you’re interviewing for. When the interview’s over, it’s customary to send a thank you email to everyone who interviewed you within 24 to 48 hours — but if you want to go that extra mile, send a physical thank you note as well. “Hardly anyone does that ever,” says Vicki Salemi, career expert at Monster. But it can pay off — here’s why. It shows you ‘really put in the effort’ Interviewers likely speak with many candidates, many of whom will remember to sent over a thank you email after they meet. But most probably won’t send anything by snail mail. “A handwritten thank you note can help you stand out in the job interview process,” says Angelina Darrisaw, a former manager at Viacom and CEO of C-Suite Coach. “It can signal that you are willing to go the extra mile, which can be very attractive to potential employers.” When you see someone’s handwriting, it feels like you “really put in the effort,” says Salemi. Not only will they remember that you were willing to go a little further to show your gratitude about the interview and excitement about the role, but they’ll have a physical reminder of it sitting right in front of them. Salemi remembers the effect these notes had when she was a recruiter herself. “As we were determining who was going to get the job offer, I had that thank you note on my desk for at least a week,” she says. “And I always thought of that person.” ‘It’s a nice touch’" target="_blank">Read the full CNBC article to learn more</a></u></i><br /></span></h2><p> </p><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-21830021896616564522023-10-26T15:37:00.003-05:002023-10-26T15:37:25.393-05:00A scientist explains the surprising influence of body language in job interviews<p><span style="font-size: large;"><cite class="post__by">By <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/tomas-chamorro-premuzic">Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic</a></cite></span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">Despite rapid advancements in the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Delusion-Intuition-Unlocking-Potential/dp/0349412480?tag=wwwfccom-20">science of assessments</a> and a booming market for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Future-Recruitment-Science-Talent-Analytics/dp/1838675620?tag=wwwfccom-20">recruitment technologies</a>, it is still virtually impossible for anyone to get a job without first going through a traditional interview. </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">This is bad news, since typical job interviews tend to be <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Many-Incompetent-Become-Leaders/dp/1633696324?tag=wwwfccom-20">poor predictors</a> of future performance, and <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-06635-001">unreliable markers</a> of someone’s true talent. The reason is that all humans <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90925597/a-psychologist-explains-5-ways-to-tell-someone-is-biased">are biased</a>, to the point that it’s impossible to resist the impact of <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-04/implicit-bias-training-isn-t-improving-corporate-diversity?embedded-checkout=true">first impressions</a>, even when we are determined to do so. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As a result, intuitive inferences of people’s potential are <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555?tag=wwwfccom-20">generally flawed and contaminated</a>
by a range of irrelevant signals. Those are the things that
interviewers cannot ignore but should because they are poorly correlated
with future job performance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A common example is body language or nonverbal communication, which is <a href="https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/joop.12186">known to impact</a> others’ evaluations of candidates’ job potential far more than it predicts candidates’ future job performance. </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, it takes just <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1993-27364-001">30 seconds</a>
for people to make consequential judgments about us based on their
initial gut feeling, so there is really no second chance for a first
good impression. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To put things into perspective: Imagine that
wearing a red sweater increases your chances of being hired, but without
boosting your probability of actually being good at that job. In other
words, our nonverbal communication, which <a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103145">includes</a>
face, voice, body, touch, and interpersonal space, plays a significant
role influencing others’ views of our employability without actually
being a relevant indicator of it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">To make matters worse, the
commonly held belief is that body language matters a great deal more
than it does, with popular estimates absurdly claiming that <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Body-Language-Business-Decoding-Signals/dp/0230241468?tag=wwwfccom-20">80% of communication is nonverbal</a>;
if this were true, we would not need subtitles when we watch a movie in
a foreign language, or interpreters when we travel to a remote
country. </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">But while we cannot stop people from making <a href="https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00300.x">conscious and unconscious</a>
evaluations of our nonverbal behavior, we can pay attention to the
signals we send, curating our professional self-presentation, and using
our knowledge of what people look for to our own advantage. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, a fundamental component of <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001879107000991">social and political skills</a> involves displaying the right kind of verbal <em>and </em>nonverbal communicational signals to improve how we come across to others. </span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;">Status</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">The more deliberately you seem to engage with the interviewers (e.g., nodding, smiling, making eye contact), the <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19076316/">lower the status</a>
you will project. Conversely, if you want to project a powerful and
high-status image, you may want to seem disengaged, disinterested, and
basically play hard to get. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90972662/scientist-surprising-influence-body-language-job-interviews" target="_blank">Read the full Fast Company article to find out about more about Body Language and Interviewing</a></u></i></b></span><br /></p></div><p><cite class="post__by"> </cite></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-78553146611887936302023-08-30T11:39:00.000-05:002023-08-30T11:39:04.496-05:007 Unspoken Job Interview Rules That Everyone Needs To Know<p><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0">Monica Torres</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Rule #1: Interviewers want a highlight reel, not an exhaustive list of everything you have done. </strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">Job candidates are guaranteed to be asked some version of “<a class="link " data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Tell us about yourself;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-answer-tell-me-about-yourself-job-interview-question_l_5dc99dcde4b02bf5794433e2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tell us about yourself</a>” and “<a class="link " data-rapid_p="8" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Why are you interested in our company/role?;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/job-change-interview-question-tips_l_5de92971e4b0d50f32b00e81" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Why are you interested in our company/role?</a>” said Anyelis Cordero, founder of <a class="link " data-rapid_p="9" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Propel on Purpose Coaching;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.fearlesscommunicators.com/anyelis-cordero/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Propel on Purpose Coaching</a>, a career coaching service designed for first-generation professionals.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You may think you can just repeat what your resume says. But that would be a mistake.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Interviewers
are going to expect [you] to be able to concisely walk them through
your career. This is an area many experienced professionals struggle
with, especially first-gen professionals, because the unspoken rule here
is that the interview wants the highlight reel,” Cordero said.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“Since
most interviews are 30 minutes, if you don’t practice, you’ll make the
mistake of spending too much time on this answer and not leave enough
time to answer other questions.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Other job interview questions come with silent subtext and expectations, too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The job search is all about demonstrating your competence, commitment, and compatibility, said <a class="link " data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Gorick Ng;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://gorick.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gorick Ng</a>, a career adviser at Harvard University and the author of “<a class="link " data-rapid_p="11" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://amzn.to/3stPKmz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right</a>.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“The
interview question ‘Tell us about a time when…?’ is really a competence
question of ‘Have you done a similar job before?’ and ‘Do you have a
good head on your shoulders?’ The interview question ‘Do you have any
questions for me?’ is really a commitment question of ‘Do you care
enough about us to do enough research to ask a question that you
couldn’t have found the answer to on Google?’ And the interview question
‘Tell us about yourself’ is really a competence, commitment, and
compatibility question,” Ng said.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Rule #2: To be a stronger candidate, you need to understand the role of each person you interview with. <br /></strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">Tailoring
your questions and answers based on the roles that individual
interviewers hold is one of the best unwritten rules to a successful
interview, saidDaniel Space, a senior human resources business partner
for large tech companies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“The way I answer what a peer is
going to ask me in an interview is going to be a little different than
what I tell a manager,” he said. “I know what the peer wants is: ‘Can
Daniel do his job? Can he hold up the team? Is he good for
collaboration?’ What the manager wants to know is ‘Can Daniel do his job
without a lot of interference from me? Can I trust him to make tough
decisions? What level of support do I need to provide him?’”</span></span></p><div class="caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" data-src=""><blockquote class="caas-blockquote caas-pull-quote"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="quotemark icon"><svg height="29" viewbox="0 0 20 14" width="42"></svg></span></span></blockquote></div><div class="caas-pull-quote-wrapper caas-img caas-lazy caas-loaded" data-caas-lazy-loading-init="1" data-src=""><blockquote class="caas-blockquote caas-pull-quote"><p><span style="font-size: large;">It’s
important to go into a job search process knowing how to tell the story
of your career. But if you want to be an even stronger candidate, you
need more than one story to tell interviewers, because often, they
debrief each other.</span></p></blockquote></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a class="link " data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Sharai Johnson;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://twitter.com/raijohnson_" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sharai Johnson</a>,
a sourcer for Latinx and Black engineering talent for a large tech
company, said she wants job candidates to understand the differences
between a sourcer, a recruiter and a hiring manager. Johnson said a
sourcer’s job is to gain the interest of passive talent; sourcers may
schedule the first interview, then pass off duties to a recruiter, who
will be in contact with candidates through the end of the hiring process
but doesn’t make final hiring decisions. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“A
recruiter and a sourcer can advocate on behalf of a candidate, but at
the end of the day, the hiring manager is the one that actually can get
the budget approval and send the ‘yes’ or the ‘no,’” Johnson said. “It’s
just important to understand those moving parts and those people, so
you know who to reach out to and who to direct questions to.” </span></span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;"><span><strong>Rule #4: You need to be prepared with more than one career story to tell. </strong><br /></span></span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">It’s important to go into a job search process knowing <a class="link " data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:how to tell the story of your career;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vhy5DhQcJFioEF8qX_nwuAz8_Dnmax4SpYg68xJISzY/edit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">how to tell the story of your career</a>.
But if you want to be an even stronger candidate, you need more than
one story to tell interviewers, because often, they debrief each other.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Space
said that ideally, you should have three or four success stories that
you can rotate between interviewers because he has seen hiring panels in
which it counted against candidates if they told the same story to
every person they talked with.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“If they have that one amazing
story of how they sold that really difficult client, if all five people
were told that story, sometimes it helps them because it helps reinforce
it,” he said. “But in other cases, it actually helps to have different
stories.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/7-unspoken-job-interview-rules-094504813.html" target="_blank">Read the complete Yahoo Finance article for all 7 rules</a></u></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">** I half disagree with #5 and #6 so take them for what they are worth ** </span><br /></p><p><span class="caas-author-byline-collapse" data-id="m-0"> </span></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-80393972634605921472023-08-02T13:41:00.005-05:002023-08-02T13:41:48.759-05:00I’ve done over 30,000 interviews, says hiring expert: Here are 3 ways to ‘instantly impress’<p></p><div class="ArticleHeader-styles-makeit-authorContainer--J1oE_"><div class="ArticleHeader-styles-makeit-author--H14Iw"><div class="Author-styles-makeit-author--wYKW1"><div class="Author-styles-makeit-authorInfo--kQh6L"><img alt="thumbnail" class="Author-styles-makeit-authorPortrait--CgZ2I" src="https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107135771-1666022022927-2022_Headshots-5329.jpg?v=1666022059&w=60&h=60&ffmt=webp" style="border: 0;" /><div><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--_ANaL" href="https://www.cnbc.com/morgan-smith/">Morgan Smith<span class="Author-styles-makeit-authorUnderline--xAmYs"></span></a><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorTwitter--q9X48" href="https://twitter.com/thewordsmithm" target="_blank">@thewordsmithm</a></div><div> </div><div><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">The first five minutes of a job interview can make or break your odds of landing an offer. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Those
fleeting moments set the tone for the rest of the conversation: If you
show up late, unprepared or glued to your phone, it’s hard to convince
the interviewer that you want the job, even if you are qualified. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done"></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">To
capture a hiring manager’s attention, you need to project a friendly,
confident and professional demeanor from the onset, says William
Vanderbloemen, the CEO of executive search firm Vanderbloemen Search
Group.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Vanderbloemen has interviewed over 30,000 job candidates
throughout his career — and the ones who stand out, he says, always do
these 3 things to instantly impress a hiring manager during the job
interview:</span></p></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;">Dress for success</span></h2><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">You
might have gotten comfortable dressing down for online meetings during
the pandemic, but a more casual ensemble isn’t going to cut it for a job
interview — even if it’s on Zoom. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While it’s likely that the
interviewer will only see your upper half online, they could catch a
glimpse of your sweatpants, depending on the camera angle, Vanderbloemen
warns. Some interviewers might even ask you to stand up during a video
call, to check that you’re wearing professional attire. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I know
that sounds like old curmudgeon stuff but if you want to impress a
recruiter, you really need to dress for the job,” he says. “It’s an
important sign that shows you’re taking this opportunity seriously.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Regardless
of the interview setting, Vanderbloemen recommends checking out a
company’s website and social media to figure out what people are wearing
to the office or, if the company is remote, to corporate retreats and
in-person events. Then, match your outfit accordingly. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/02/ceo-shares-3-ways-to-instantly-impress-during-a-job-interview.html" target="_blank">Read ways 2&3 + the complete CNBC article</a></u></i></b></span><br /></p></div> </div></div></div></div></div>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-4824655193218194982023-08-02T08:59:00.005-05:002023-08-02T08:59:43.022-05:00Ex-Google recruiter shares the No. 1 thing to do after applying for a job: ‘Everyone fails’ at it<p><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--_ANaL" href="https://www.cnbc.com/gili-malinsky-bio/">Gili Malinsky</a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If you’re applying for a job, it may seem like all there is to it is making sure <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/29/how-to-format-your-resume-according-to-experts.html">your resume</a> reflects the language of the job description, your <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/cover-letter-writing-hack.html">cover letter</a>
explains why you want the position, you’ve had multiple people read
both — and then, finally, you’ve sent in all of your material.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">While
those are all crucial steps in the job application process, there is
one more step that comes after applying which “everyone fails on,” says <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/10/former-google-recruiters-no-1-job-interview-tip-teach-him-something.html">Nolan Church</a> former Google and DoorDash recruiter and the current CEO of <a href="https://www.joincontinuum.com/" target="_blank">Continuum</a>,
a talent marketplace for executives. That’s following up the
application with a message on LinkedIn and a personalized email to the
company hiring manager and even its CEO.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="transition-fade-appear-done transition-fade-enter-done"></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">When
Church was at DoorDash, CEO Tony Xu would get such emails and “he would
forward them directly to me every time,” he says, adding that “probably
90% of the time, we took calls with those people.” </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Even if the
company you’re applying to is Amazon and you’re sending an email to Andy
Jassy, do it, Church says. He might not be the one reading that email,
but someone on his team could see it and forward it along to HR or even a
VP.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s how to go about writing these messages and why he thinks they’re critical.</span></p><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;">Explain why you’re a perfect fit for the role...</span></h2><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--JP3GH"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><u><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/ex-google-recruiter-shares-no-1-thing-to-do-after-applying-for-a-job.html" target="_blank">Find out more about writing the messages and the complete CNBC article </a></u></i></span><br /></h2><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-30826823657107461112023-04-18T11:50:00.004-05:002023-04-18T11:50:50.733-05:00Does Your Résumé Pass 6-Second Test? - 4 Tips<p><span style="font-size: large;">By <span class="css-nyr2iw-AuthorContainer e1575iv83"><a aria-label="Author page for Kailyn Rhone" class="css-mbn33i-AuthorLink e10pnb9y0" href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/kailyn-rhone">Kailyn Rhone</a></span></span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">No pressure, but your résumé has six seconds to make an impression before it is sent to the don’t-even-bother pile.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">That
is how long a recruiter typically skims a résumé to decide whether to
pass it on to a hiring manager, said J.T. O’Donnell, chief executive of
career-coaching site Work It Daily. Recruiters often have hundreds of <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-people-who-apply-for-jobs-by-showing-up-11658360546?mod=article_inline" rel="">online applications</a> to wade through, even with <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-need-more-workers-why-do-they-reject-millions-of-resumes-11630728008?mod=article_inline" rel="">algorithms helping filter many of them out</a>. They will likely give yours little more than a glance to judge whether you make it onto the shortlist of candidates.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words, your résumé has to be highly “skimmable,” Ms. O’Donnell said at <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/video/events/resume-refresh-and-online-profile-critique/3269ED7A-D229-4E8B-85FA-759778FEE5C1.html?mod=article_inline" rel="">The Wall Street Journal’s recent Jobs Summit</a>. “The human eye works in a Z-pattern, and I’m going down, looking for <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/resume-tips-job-search-artificial-intelligence-readers-11652475916?mod=article_inline" rel="">four to five things</a> that I was told you need to have or you cannot be considered.” </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">The
CV won’t clinch a job offer, but it gets you to the next step, she and
other career coaches say. A résumé that’s hard to skim or fails to
mention key skills needed for the job could keep you from ever getting
the chance to make your case in an interview. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">Some ways to <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/18-resume-writing-tips-to-get-you-noticed-11605107446?mod=article_inline" rel="">make your résumé stand out</a>, and some job-search killers to avoid, according to the experts at the summit: </span></p><h3 class="css-drfk52-Subhed e1ql5nkk0" data-type="hed"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong class="css-11kxzt3-Strong e1ofiv6m1" data-type="emphasis">1)</strong> <strong class="css-11kxzt3-Strong e1ofiv6m1" data-type="emphasis">Forget the professional statement.</strong></span></h3><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">Job
seekers have long been advised to include a short paragraph atop of
their résumé summing up their skills, experience, achievements and
goals. No more.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">“Recruiters
don’t have time for that,” Ms. O’Donnell said. Instead, open with a
one-line “headline” stating your occupational specialty—ideally with
words matching the role you’re applying for, like “digital marketing
specialist” or “technical writer,” she said. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">Follow
the headline with two short columns of bullets with concrete skills. If
you coordinated a team to pull off a big assignment and the job posting
mentions project-management experience, use that same language, since
that’s what recruiters and their applicant-tracking-systems will screen
for, said <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink el06won0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/video/events/hot-new-jobs-and-how-to-get-them/762E0569-9922-463C-B521-6971E8A4C218.html?mod=article_inline" rel="">Jane Oates</a>, president of WorkingNation, a nonprofit focused on workforce development. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">“Every
job you apply for, you should customize your résumé just a little bit
by putting in some of the words that are in that job description,” Ms.
Oates said.</span></p><h3 class="css-drfk52-Subhed e1ql5nkk0" data-type="hed"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong class="css-11kxzt3-Strong e1ofiv6m1" data-type="emphasis">3)</strong> <strong class="css-11kxzt3-Strong e1ofiv6m1" data-type="emphasis">Use numbers.</strong></span></h3><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">Avoid
subjective, ambiguous language, such as “passionate self-starter” or a
“dedicated hard worker.” The hiring manager or recruiter will assess
your soft skills when they interview you, Ms. O’Donnell said. A résumé
is about your hard skills, which are best told through numbers. </span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">Her tip: Circle all of the nouns on your CV, because they can usually be quantified.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;">If
you are describing your experience as a receptionist, for instance,
don’t just say “Answer phones.” More effective is something like: “Work
for a 300-person company, answering more than 100 calls a day, on a
12-line phone system,” she said.</span></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/does-your-resume-pass-the-six-second-test-b63f4c02?" target="_blank">See all 4 tips + video and complete WSJ article </a></u></i></b></span><br /></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"> </p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"></p><p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph"> </p><p><span class="css-nyr2iw-AuthorContainer e1575iv83"> </span></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-16592658610620693902023-03-27T04:30:00.012-05:002023-03-27T04:30:00.184-05:00Here's How to Land a Job in Tech — and What Can Blow Your Interview <p><span style="font-size: large;">By <a class="hover:underline uppercase font-semibold tracking-wider text-blue-600" href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/dorothy-cucci">
Dorothy Cucci</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A former Google recruiter says layoffs may be trendy, but tech workers
are always needed. Here's how to land a job at a major tech company. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeff Sipe, a private tech career coach and former Google recruiter. </i><i>It has been edited for length and clarity.</i></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Big Tech layoffs were always going to receive backlash — that said,
I don't think any of them have been handled perfectly, and many of them
could have been avoided. Yes, companies needed to cut down on costs,
but more than that, I think <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-big-tech-companies-laying-off-spoiled-workers-perks-2023-2" rel="nofollow noopener">layoffs have become trendy</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">After
layoffs, the company's stock price usually goes up, and the board of
directors and shareholders (most of whom don't work there) are happy. It
starts becoming more and more acceptable to conduct them; Twitter did
it, so Google can do it, so Microsoft can do it, and so on.<b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But there are other ways to cope with a recession. A Stanford business professor says that <a href="https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">layoffs often don't cut costs and suggests companies could implement other strategies</a> like a 10% wage cut across the board.</span></p><div class="adbox flex-none box-content text-center a2ad py-4 sm:py-6 min-h-[50px] sm:min-h-[90px]" data-display="" data-key="a2ad" data-pos="ab-0" id="uXsk9SUiyYIHl19">
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">That said, I don't think anyone who's been laid off or wants to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-hired-at-google-ex-recruiter-interview-tips-2022-4" rel="nofollow noopener">break into the industry</a>
should be discouraged — it's always a good time to get into tech. Tech
workers will always be needed. So if working at Google or Amazon has
always been a dream, I always advise people to go for it.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1) Use LinkedIn to work smarter, not harder</b></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">Whether <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-to-do-after-getting-laid-off-30-day-plan-2022-12" rel="nofollow noopener">you've been laid off</a> or are hoping to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-company-layoffs-2022-meta-layoffs-recruiter-advice-2022-12" rel="nofollow noopener">break into tech</a>
for the first time, the first thing that you should do is clean up your
LinkedIn profile. You could be sleeping, working, or going to the gym,
and your profile will do the work for you. Every aspect of your profile,
from your picture, to your headline, to your name, to your about, to
your experience, that should be buttoned up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I rarely see true red
flags on LinkedIn, but I think it's unappealing when candidates don't
include their photo. Your headshot should be shoulders and above; I see a
lot of people use a photo of themselves with sunglasses on or a photo
with their families, and it's just not professional. I recommend just
taking a selfie or having somebody take a picture of you against a clean
background.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You should also be <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-job-optimize-linkedin-profile-jasmine-bortters-2021-10" rel="nofollow noopener">using the platform</a>
to reach out to recruiters at target companies — with a giving
approach, rather than just asking for a job right out of the gate. A
message like this will go a long way: <i>"Hey Sue, I came across this really cool article about machine learning, I thought I'd share it with you."</i></span></p><div class="adbox flex-none box-content text-center a2ad py-4 sm:py-6 min-h-[50px] sm:min-h-[90px]" data-display="" data-key="a2ad" data-pos="ab-1" id="e6vFvMjazmQJJYM">
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">Take a look at what's trending in your space and devote time to
sending notes like this, as well as commenting on other people's posts.
It will make you much more noticeable to hiring teams on LinkedIn.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I
also like when people keep track of what we've spoken about in the
past. Let's say you send another message to Sue a month or two later.
Keep track of your connections in a spreadsheet so that it's easier to
follow up. Trust me: continue with that giving approach, and eventually
Sue will ask how she can help you out — it will come full circle.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><b>2) Be open about your layoff</b></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">If
you're coming out of a big tech company, chances are you've built up a
great network. You should be announcing to the world that you're looking
for work. Make a LinkedIn post saying, "Hey, I got laid off. Here are
the types of roles I'm looking for."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I've noticed that many
employees who have been laid off add the "Open to Work" feature to their
LinkedIn, but don't necessarily make it clear that they've been laid
off.</span></p><div class="adbox flex-none box-content text-center a2ad py-4 sm:py-6 min-h-[50px] sm:min-h-[90px]" data-display="" data-key="a2ad" data-pos="ab-2" id="xo802SNs7l4rS4V">
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<p><span style="font-size: large;">I recommend creating a banner to set as your profile's background
photo. Anyone can create one for free, using Canva for example, that
says, "Impacted by Google Layoffs." I'd also include the types of roles
you're interested in, as well as your contact and locations.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">From a
recruiter's point of view, I'd see this and immediately understand your
status — I know you've worked in a tough environment, and I know how to
contact you. I haven't seen laid off candidates do this yet, but I
think it would definitely help them jump up the list.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/how-to-get-a-job-in-tech-according-to-an-ex-google/448355" target="_blank">Read more tips and the complete Entrepreneur article </a></u></i></b></span><br /></p><p></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-49742838252162575652022-12-06T17:23:00.000-06:002022-12-06T17:23:09.791-06:0010 Résumé Hacks That Are Proven To Work And 7 That'll Probably Just Send Your Application To The "No" Pile<p></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>It's about to be a new year, which means it's the best time of
year to be dusting off those résumés and getting ready to take a leap
in 2023 with your career. According to <a class="link " data-rapid_p="7" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Business News Daily" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessnewsdaily.com%2F4817-best-season-job.html&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Business News Daily</a>,
January and February are the best months to look for a job. So, let's
avoid getting dumped into the "Thank u, Next" pile and get hired right
away!</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Peacock</span></span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Résumés seem so
simple, but some hacks will actually help you advance to round two in
the job application process. If you're tired of applying and feel like
you are hitting a dead end, check out some of these hacks that will
guarantee you receive a callback.</span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>3.</span><span>Achievements</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> ABC Network / Via <a class="link " data-rapid_p="13" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:giphy.com" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fgifs%2Fabcnetwork-blackish-zoey-yard-shahidi-fCUU2LzzLyCVVvkN9A&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">giphy.com</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of articles recommend tailoring your language when describing your work experience. <a class="link " data-rapid_p="14" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Resume Worded" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fresumeworded.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-20-best-resume-tips-and-tricks%2F&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Resume Worded</a>
says your résumé should be "achievement-based," not
responsibility-oriented. Instead of stating your job duties, mention
what made you stand out in that role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>4.</span><span>Meaningful File Name</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Deedle Dee Productions / Via <a class="link " data-rapid_p="15" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:giphy.com" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fgifs%2Fparksandrec-parks-and-recreation-rec-peacocktv-iF8IaDx2N6vfzS2k52&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">giphy.com</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Stop turning in résumés labeled "Résumé." It's that simple. At least add your last name or the job position you are applying to.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="link " data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:Indeed's employment site" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indeed.com%2Fcareer-advice%2Fresumes-cover-letters%2Fresume-file-name&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Indeed's employment site</a> recommends candidates keep the file name under 24 characters. A perfect example of a file name for a résumé would be <i>Brenda-Murphy-Resume.docx</i> or <i>AustinStaadt-Resume.pdf. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>7.</span><span>PROOFREAD</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Peacock / Via <a class="link " data-rapid_p="22" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:giphy.com" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fgifs%2Fparksandrec-season-4-parks-and-recreation-rec-XW7QL1Oj14vuKNrcgo&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">giphy.com</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">No
matter what, before you hit that submit button, make sure to proofread
and proofread. Reading out loud will really force you to hear how you
sound and can save a job application in a heartbeat.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="link " data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:CNBC Make It" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fexamples-biggest-resume-mistakes-according-to-harvard-career-experts.html&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">CNBC Make It</a> reports grammatical and spelling errors are one of the top five mistakes candidates make on their applications.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>And here are some things that will definitely not move you on to the next round of the job process.</span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></h2><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>12.</span><span>Photo</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> BabyWay Productions / Via <a class="link " data-rapid_p="31" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:giphy.com" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fgifs%2Ftheme-song-the-wayans-brothers-bros-xTiTnlc6LNKx2n2l5m&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">giphy.com</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Photos
are a complete "NO" because a photo isn't needed if it's not a modeling
or acting career. If you feel a photo is important, then a great
workaround would be to include your LinkedIn page in a hyperlink.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a class="link " data-rapid_p="32" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:LinkedIn" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fpulse%2Fshould-you-include-photo-your-resume-get-hired-by-linkedin-news%2F&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>
says, "Résumé standards have changed, but photos on résumés are still
rare." Unless it's necessary, photos shouldn't be on résumés.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;"><span>13.</span><span>Personal Information</span></span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Bravo / Via <a class="link " data-rapid_p="33" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:giphy.com" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74679X1524629&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fcacheroberts%2Fresume-hacks-that-are-proven-to-work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgiphy.com%2Fgifs%2Fslice-rhoa-nene-leakes-not-okay-ygy71up6ljM8lumOaO&xcust=6357578%7CBF-VERIZON&xs=1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">giphy.com</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Maybe
adding your address was useful back in the day, but employers don't
need to know where you live. A city and state will suffice. Also, never
include your age; recruiters shouldn't ask your age. Though there isn't a
law advising against it, it could be viewed as evidence of bias.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">They'll do the math from your birth year if they really want to know.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/10-r-sum-hacks-proven-224602732.html" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Read the full BuzzFeed Via Yahoo article for all the Hacks! </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p><h2><span> </span></h2><p> </p><p><i> </i></p><h2><span> </span></h2>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-14780631504890834232022-10-23T12:43:00.003-05:002022-10-24T07:55:30.444-05:00Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might.<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="byline-prefix" face="nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #363636; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">By<span> </span></span><span class="css-1baulvz last-byline" face="nyt-franklin, helvetica, arial, sans-serif" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #363636; display: inline-block; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="css-n8ff4n e1jsehar0" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/tripp-mickle" style="border: 0px none; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-content-quaternary,#727272); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tripp Mickle</a></span> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">“One of the things that excites me about archives is the warts and all,” said Courtney Chartier, an archivist at Columbia University who has worked on Martin Luther King Jr.’s archive and the papers of Tony Kushner, the playwright. “People are complicated, and that’s something we shouldn’t shy away from.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Steve Jobs Archive deviates from the repositories of other famous business leaders who largely left their material to corporate or library archives. About half of Harvard Business School’s 25 greatest business leaders of the 20th century left behind personal archives that are open to the public in libraries or museums, including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Asa Candler, who built Coca-Cola.<br />Other iconic business founders such as Walt Disney, Sam Walton and Ray Kroc entrusted their papers to the companies they built, allowing those collections to become the cornerstone of corporate archives.<br /><br />Much of that corporate archive material is closed to the public, but some companies, such as the Walt Disney Company, make personal correspondence, notes, speeches and other items available to authors for research.<br /><br />“We don’t censor,” said Becky Cline, director of the Walt Disney archives. “We just vet.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The new Jobs archive debuted with a minimalist website containing eight pieces of video, audio and writing that express what the archive calls Mr. Jobs’s “driving motivations in his own words.” The items, three-quarters of which were already public, can be accessed by clicking through maxims made famous by Mr. Jobs, including “make something wonderful and put it out there” and “pursue different paths.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The next steps for the archive are shrouded in the kind of mystery associated with the way Mr. Jobs ran Apple. About all that’s been publicly disclosed is that Ms. Powell Jobs hired a documentary filmmaker to gather hundreds of oral histories about Mr. Jobs from former colleagues. Where that material will be stored and who will have access to it has not been revealed.<br /><br /><br />Read the full NYTimes article“One of the things that excites me about archives is the warts and all,” said Courtney Chartier, an archivist at Columbia University who has worked on Martin Luther King Jr.’s archive and the papers of Tony Kushner, the playwright. “People are complicated, and that’s something we shouldn’t shy away from.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Steve Jobs Archive deviates from the repositories of other famous business leaders who largely left their material to corporate or library archives. About half of Harvard Business School’s 25 greatest business leaders of the 20th century left behind personal archives that are open to the public in libraries or museums, including Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Asa Candler, who built Coca-Cola.<br />Other iconic business founders such as Walt Disney, Sam Walton and Ray Kroc entrusted their papers to the companies they built, allowing those collections to become the cornerstone of corporate archives.<br /><br />Much of that corporate archive material is closed to the public, but some companies, such as the Walt Disney Company, make personal correspondence, notes, speeches and other items available to authors for research.<br /><br />“We don’t censor,” said Becky Cline, director of the Walt Disney archives. “We just vet.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The new Jobs archive debuted with a minimalist website containing eight pieces of video, audio and writing that express what the archive calls Mr. Jobs’s “driving motivations in his own words.” The items, three-quarters of which were already public, can be accessed by clicking through maxims made famous by Mr. Jobs, including “make something wonderful and put it out there” and “pursue different paths.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The next steps for the archive are shrouded in the kind of mystery associated with the way Mr. Jobs ran Apple. About all that’s been publicly disclosed is that Ms. Powell Jobs hired a documentary filmmaker to gather hundreds of oral histories about Mr. Jobs from former colleagues. Where that material will be stored and who will have access to it has not been revealed.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/technology/steve-jobs-archive.html" target="_blank"><u><i><b><br />Read the full NYTimes article for the complete article <br /></b></i></u></a></span></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-29902898626373232362022-10-18T07:50:00.000-05:002022-10-18T07:50:04.690-05:00How Steve Jobs Hired and Retained His Top Employees - A-players are worth their weight in gold. Here's how to treat them.<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: ibm-plex-mono; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 2px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">BY</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: ibm-plex-mono; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 2px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span></span><a href="https://www.inc.com/author/tommy-mello" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: currentcolor; font-family: ibm-plex-mono; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 2px; orphans: 2; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" title="Read more Inc. articles by Tommy Mello">TOMMY MELLO</a></p><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">All it takes is one<span> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/1-trait-to-instantly-spot-a-great-employee-says-warren-buffett.html?_ga=2.24389821.622706731.1665672470-1246277811.1665672469" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">great employee</a><span> </span>to change the<span> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/magazine/202205/anna-meyer/kristy-caylor-for-days-pivot-sustainability-subscription.html?_ga=2.24389821.622706731.1665672470-1246277811.1665672469" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">whole business</a>. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just ask<span> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-2-word-phrase-steve-jobs-used-to-inspire-his-team-to-make-worlds-most-iconic-products.html?_ga=2.24389821.622706731.1665672470-1246277811.1665672469" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">Steve Jobs</a>. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's what he said in a<span> </span><a href="https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/steve-jobs-explained-1-clear-way-to-build-a-team-that-people-will-love-to-work-for.html?_ga=2.24389821.622706731.1665672470-1246277811.1665672469" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;">1998 interview</a>:</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I noticed that the dynamic range between what an average person could accomplish and what the best person could accomplish was 50 or 100 to 1. Given that, you're well advised to go after the cream of the cream ... A small team of A-players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players." </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">It's not just Steve Jobs. After interviewing more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs for<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194?tag=wwwinccom-20" rel="nofollow " style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">his book</a>, Geoff Smart emphasized the value of A-players:</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">"We define an A-player this way: a candidate who has at least a 90 percent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only the top 10 percent of possible candidates could achieve."</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's been true in my experience, too -- 20 percent of your people will generate 80 percent of your results. My A-players get more five-star reviews, close more jobs, and charge more because they believe in the product and company. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">A-players are especially important when most industries are getting disrupted. Even in my industry, home service, there are vultures all over. Google and Amazon are coming in big time. If you don't have a team of A-players -- and you don't move fast -- you're screwed sooner or later. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">So how can you find and hire your best employees? Here's what I recommend: </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Create an "A-player avatar"</span></h2></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hiring the wrong employees can cost you a fortune. A study by<span> </span><a href="https://lrshrm.shrm.org/blog/2017/10/essential-elements-employee-retention" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom: 1px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-decoration: none; transition: all 150ms ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)</a><span> </span>shows that an employee is worth six to nine months of their salary. If your employee has a $5,000 per month salary, you lose up to $45,000 when you let them go. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">So make sure you understand what the perfect employee is. Don't hire until you figure this out! Ask yourself the following questions to define your "A-player avatar":</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 30px 42px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 31px; position: relative; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">What are they like? Where do they hang out? (This helps you run ads to target them.)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 31px; position: relative; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">What are they motivated by? (Everyone's different: Some people might want PTO. Some people might want to go out of town regularly. Make a list of common motivations.)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 31px; position: relative; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">And, most important, what makes them great? Who's the perfect employee for your business? </span></li></ul></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recruit, don't hire</span></h2></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">There were times when we were forced to hire people I didn't get along with. And I thought, "Man, there just aren't good people out there." Then I realized that recruiting -- finding great people -- is not putting an ad up and waiting for them to come to you! Recruiting is going out there and getting them. </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Think about this: Can you build a baseball team or a football team by just having people show up to the scrimmage? Or should you go out and get 'em? What's going to work better? </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">The best employees are the ones who are recruited. The majority of your hires -- over half of your employees -- should be amazing people you recruit away from other companies! </span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; line-height: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, how do you do that? Call customers up and ask them if they know anybody who might fit a certain role. And, more important, ask your best employees.</span></p></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; orphans: 2; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><h2 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; scroll-behavior: smooth;"><span style="font-size: large;">Turn your A-players into recruiters - <a href="https://www.inc.com/tommy-mello/steve-jobs-hire-best-employees.html" target="_blank"><u><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read the rest of the Inc. article </span></i></u></a></span><br /></h2></div><div class="standardText" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #474747; font-family: le-monde-livre-std, serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; orphans: 2; scroll-behavior: smooth; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></div><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-59658638740453684032022-09-20T13:32:00.004-05:002022-09-20T13:32:50.461-05:00Mark Cuban Says the Worst Career Advice is 'Follow Your Passion.' What Should You Do Instead?<p><span class="sc-fzoLag jGCBHT eyebrow-container"><span class="sc-fzoyAV kKCIPp eyebrow">By <a href="https://www.inc.com/author/jeff-haden" title="Read more Inc. articles by Jeff Haden">Jeff Haden</a></span></span></p><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ask just about any motivational speaker or career expert. Or ask <a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/steve-jobs-said-1-thing-separates-successful-people-from-everyone-else-and-will-make-all-difference-in-your-life.html">Steve Job</a><a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/steve-jobs-said-1-thing-separates-successful-people-from-everyone-else-and-will-make-all-difference-in-your-life.html">s</a>: As the Apple co-founder <a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/steve-jobs-said-1-thing-separates-successful-people-from-everyone-else-and-will-make-all-difference-in-your-life.html">once said</a>,
"You've got to find what you love. The only way to do great work is to
love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking." </span></p></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Most people believe passion comes first.</span></p></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">But not Mark Cuban. When <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/rethinking_with_adam_grant_mark_cuban_doesn_t_believe_in_following_your_passions?rss=172BB350-0305" target="_blank">Adam Grant asked him</a> if there was a "worst piece of career advice you've gotten," Cuban said:</span></p></div><div class="standardText"><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">Follow your passion? No.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">Follow your <em>effort</em>. No one quits anything they're good at.</span></p></blockquote></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">While
passion can spark effort, the reverse is more often true. Effort, and
the improvement that results, creates passion. Do something poorly? You
probably dread doing it. Do something well? You enjoy it -- and the
better you get, the more you like doing it.</span></p></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Science agrees, especially where starting a business is concerned. According to a study published in <em>Academy of Management Journal</em>, the more effort entrepreneurs put into their startups or side hustles, <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthias-Spitzmuller/publication/274693926_I_Put_in_Effort_Therefore_I_Am_Passionate_Investigating_the_Path_from_Effort_to_Passion_in_Entrepreneurship/links/55ea1a0a08ae21d099c4528b/I-Put-in-Effort-Therefore-I-Am-Passionate-Investigating-the-Path-from-Effort-to-Passion-in-Entrepreneurship.pdf" target="_blank">the more enthusiastic they get about their businesses</a>. </span></p></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">As
startup founders gain skill, expertise, and experience, their
enthusiasm grows -- with or without early financial success. Effort, and
resulting improvement, creates passion.</span></p></div><div class="standardText"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Not the other way around. </span></p></div><div class="standardText"><h2><span style="font-size: large;">'Follow Your Passion' Can Be Disastrous - <a href="https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/mark-cuban-says-worst-career-advice-is-follow-your-passion-what-should-you-do-instead.html" target="_blank"><u><i>Find out why and the rest of the Inc. article</i></u></a></span><br /></h2></div><p><span class="sc-fzoLag jGCBHT eyebrow-container"><span class="sc-fzoyAV kKCIPp eyebrow"> </span></span> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-28858587346522528322022-09-15T11:15:00.003-05:002022-09-15T11:15:21.896-05:007 updates your résumé needs now<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Without a refresh, your résumé can quickly look dated. Here are seven ways to give it a quick update.</span></p><h2 class="post__deck" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: CentraNo2Book, sans-serif; font-size: 1.03125rem; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.01312rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px 0px 1.3125rem;"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/user/gwen-moran" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; font-family: CentraNo2, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 1.4px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">BY<span> </span>GWEN MORAN</a> </h2><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-size: large;">Résumé-writing
typically comes with a list of best practices. Tailor your résumé to
the job. Focus on the impact you made instead of the tasks you
performed. And, most of all, be sure it’s accurate and free of typos. A
recent analysis by job search platform Adzuna found that meaning almost
roughly two-thirds of résumés contained at least one mistake. More than
13% of the résumés analyzed contained five or more errors.</span></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5625rem 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But,
beyond that, there are a few more nuanced details that can make your
résumé look modern—or dated, says career coach and résumé consultant
Marjorie Sherlock. “The résumé has evolved as a marketing tool, driven
by what the market is telling us,” she says. And much of what was
expected even 10 years ago is “completely dead.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5625rem 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The
risk of submitting a résumé that looks a little behind the times is
what it says about you: Perhaps you’re not up on trends or how
industries evolve, Sherlock explains. So, if it’s been a few years since
you’ve updated your professional calling card, give it a look with
these tips in mind.</span></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: MeretPro, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: CentraNo2, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.4375rem; padding-top: 0.3125rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: large;">4) GET THE FORMAT RIGHT</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-size: large;">While<span> </span><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90342360/how-to-ai-proof-your-resume" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ef5b24; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">applicant tracking systems have come a long way</a>,
it’s still a good idea to avoid heavy graphics or tables to present
information in your résumé, Sherlock says. And use one space after a
period rather than two. (Word processing programs automatically adjust
spacing—typewriters didn’t—so, there’s no need for the extra space.)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-size: large;">**
I have looked at a lot of resume that would have looked nice if they
were printed out but the parsing function doesn't like all of the
columns and graphics so it cuts down on your odds of being found through
keyword searches. <br /></span></p></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: CentraNo2, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.4375rem; padding-top: 0.3125rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: large;">5) BE SUCCINCT</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-size: large;">Résumé
consultant Donna Svei limits clients’ résumés to 700 to 800 words.
“Very few recruiters and hiring managers want to read more than that,”
she says.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5625rem 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Similarly,
she advises avoiding large blocks of text, which are hard to read,
especially on mobile devices. People start losing interest after about
four lines, she says. “Technology shifted résumés from paper to screens,
and job seekers who haven’t adapted to the change with shorter
paragraphs that are easier to read on screens look dated,” she says.</span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: CentraNo2, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.03125rem; line-height: 1.375rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.4375rem; padding-top: 0.3125rem; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="font-size: large;">AVOID TRIPS DOWN MEMORY LANE</span></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5625rem;"><span style="font-size: large;">Periodically,
it’s a good idea to cull the information you include on your résumé to
keep it more focused on today. Since 2007, the pandemic and Great
Recession have changed so much about work and the way things get done.
Unless the experience is “stunningly relevant” to your goals, consider
dropping it in favor of more recent and relevant experience. Awards,
speeches, and publications older than about four years may be past their
expiration date, she adds.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90788642/7-updates-your-resume-needs-now" target="_blank"><b><u><i>Read the full Fast Company for all 7 updates article </i></u></b></a></span>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-11553367050677049752022-06-29T04:00:00.001-05:002022-06-29T04:00:00.159-05:00Networking on Slack Is a New Way to Find a Job, but It Takes Work<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">By<span> </span></span><a class="author-name" href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/lindsay-ellis" style="background: transparent; color: var(--color-blue); display: inline; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Lindsay Ellis</a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Networking forums on Slack have become fertile ground for finding new jobs fast. Getting into the right professional group and navigating its dynamics can take some effort.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A popular<span> </span><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/slack-has-made-remote-office-communication-easier-it-can-also-be-less-civil-11597915801?mod=article_inline" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">workplace communication tool</a>, Slack is becoming<span> </span><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-hunters-workers-use-slack-to-find-job-offers-fast-11653918510?mod=article_inline" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a growing force in professional networking and recruiting</a>. Many industry and professional groups have formed on the platform in recent years, allowing those in marketing, cybersecurity and other fields to exchange career advice and job leads. Members of these invite-only communities often connect each other with hiring managers at their companies, putting them on the fast track for openings. </span></p><div class="paywall" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Retina, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">But job seekers first have to gain access. And some Slack networking groups can be<span> </span><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-networking-makes-you-feel-dirty-youre-doing-it-wrong-11631883600?mod=article_inline" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">like awkward parties</a>, members say: A few people occasionally show up, and no one has much to say.</span></p><p style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">To make the most of these private forums in your job search, it is important to know how to find the people with connections to open the right career doors and how to navigate each group’s social norms, veteran Slack networkers say. Just as in<span> </span><a class="icon none" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-back-to-networking-after-covid-11646159740?mod=article_inline" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">traditional meet-and-greets</a>, for instance, it’s wise to introduce yourself and show collegiality before asking for favors. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Alexis Scott looks to make a career transition, the 39-year-old says she is honing her Slack networking approach. She wrangled invitations to join several online communities for professional women. Some she discovered by finding Slack offshoots of other professional forums—such as Ladies Get Paid, a career-networking and professional development site for women. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In each of the 10 groups she has joined, she has figured out how to quickly gauge how engaged members are and whether they are posting worthwhile job openings. She says she looks for groups where users respond to one another’s questions. “If someone posts, are people replying, or is it sitting in dead air?” she notes. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If things seem quiet, Mrs. Scott says she won’t hang out there, aside from occasional check-ins.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are more tips she and other Slack networkers offer:</span></p><h6 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif-display); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 27px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Find the right community</strong></span></h6><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once you find a Slack group of professional peers, getting in isn’t tough, many group members and founders say. But finding the right group can take legwork. Slack Technologies, which is owned by<span> </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/CRM" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Salesforce.com Inc</a><span class="company-name-type" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span><span> </span>, says it doesn’t know how many networking groups exist on its platform. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It does seem to be kind of an insider club,” says Jimmy Daly, who co-founded Superpath, a Slack group for content marketers. “For the most part, people let you in on the secret as they discover it.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Daly, 36, recommends asking professional networking organizations about relevant Slack groups, and googling “Slack community” and your career field—for instance, “engineer.” Some of Superpath’s roughly 8,500 members discovered the group, he says, by coming across a tweet or blog post listing relevant Slack forums. Others did so by word-of-mouth.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some more recently established Slack groups do direct outreach via social media. When the Cybersecurity Marketing Society set up on Slack in 2020, its founders sent LinkedIn messages to people in the field, urging them to join, says Gianna Whitver, one of the group’s creators. </span></p><h6 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif-display); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 27px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not all Slack groups are equally useful</strong></span></h6><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-network-on-slack-groups-communities-11656254985?" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Read the full WSJ article for more tips and info</b></i></u></a></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p></div><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Exchange, Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span> </p><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-11811643463548093722022-05-25T11:21:00.002-05:002022-05-25T11:21:58.914-05:00How To Choose The Right Next Job<p><span class="fs-author-name"><a class="contrib-link--name remove-underline not-premium-contrib-link--name" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/">George Bradt</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In an earlier article I suggested a <a aria-label="BRAVE approach to finding your next job" class="color-link" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2012/04/11/a-brave-new-approach-to-finding-a-job/#76173a895a2e" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2012/04/11/a-brave-new-approach-to-finding-a-job/#76173a895a2e" target="_self" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2012/04/11/a-brave-new-approach-to-finding-a-job/#76173a895a2e">BRAVE approach to finding your next job</a>.
It gives you a framework for adding deliberate thinking to an emotional
process and your ultimate choice. The crux of the issue is getting at
the right weighting of the dimensions driving your choice – especially
between your short-term ideal job criteria and long-term goals to
optimize the growth potential of your next role. Ask:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Where to play to focus your job search on where you can be most successful next.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">What matters most to you in terms of the balance of doing good for others, things you’re good at and doing good for yourself.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">How you can win to sharpen your focus on what makes you differentially valuable to potential employers.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">How to connect to guide your message and story.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">How to understand and communicate the impact you can have on potential employers.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span><ol><li><span style="font-size: large;">List your likes and dislikes - your raw data pulled from past activities and jobs - about specifics, not generalities.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Lay out your ideal job criteria.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Identify your long-term goals.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Create a broad range of options.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">Make choices by evaluating your options against your criteria and goals.</span></li></ol><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Job Search Steps</strong></span></h2><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Prepare your positioning and messaging before contacting any prospective employers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Between your first contact and their offer, all you’re doing is selling.
Everything you say and do, including every question you ask, should
help potential employers understand and believe you have the right
combination of strengths, motivation and fit to help them. You can’t
turn down a job you haven’t been offered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">An offer or multiple offers switches you from selling mode to buying mode. Do your <a aria-label="due diligence" class="color-link" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/08/10/be-like-zappos-tony-hsieh-answer-three-key-onboarding-due-diligence-questions/#53bc8e8bb5bb" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/08/10/be-like-zappos-tony-hsieh-answer-three-key-onboarding-due-diligence-questions/#53bc8e8bb5bb" target="_self" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/08/10/be-like-zappos-tony-hsieh-answer-three-key-onboarding-due-diligence-questions/#53bc8e8bb5bb">due diligence</a> to understand potential organizational, role and personal risks. Rule out potential jobs with too much risk for you.</span></p><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><strong>Read the full Forbes article to learn about <br /></strong></i></u></span></h2><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><strong>Job choice</strong></i></u></span></h2><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i>
</i></u></span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i>and <br /></i></u></span></p><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><i><strong>Ideal job criteria versus long-term goals</strong></i></u></span></h2><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span class="fs-author-name"> </span></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-26737720194548485972022-02-24T10:18:00.002-06:002022-02-24T10:18:29.480-06:005 factors that will make you more promotable<p><cite class="post__no_highlight">By Jennifer Kraszewski</cite></p><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">When I was seven years old, I decided that I wanted to raise
chickens. For some, this might be a little odd. Even in my small
Oklahoma town, a young girl managing chickens isn’t an everyday sight.
But I was committed. Thankfully, my beloved grandad was all in and even
encouraged me to consider starting a business selling eggs.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">My
time as a chicken manager was chaotic but lucrative (more on that
later). Those days offered something else: opportunities to fail, learn,
and experience deep joy from a job well done. The business world isn’t a
chicken coop, but it’s had its fair share of chaos the last couple of
years. As an employee, you have the desire to feel valued. Maybe you’re
considering a career jump. Perhaps an opportunity that speaks to who you
are, holistically, and what you can offer. And in return, you’re
wanting more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Within the unexpected is an opportunity to step up
and stand out right where you are. As the vice president of human
resources at a high-growth S&P 500 company, I’ve had the privilege
of seeing team members soar to new heights in their careers. At Paycom,
we move quickly. In my role, I expect and notice excellence. Promoting
from within is competitive advantage for successful businesses. It
fosters institutional knowledge and loyalty. Unfortunately, the flip
side of the equation can be costly. A <a href="https://www.gallup.com/workplace/351545/great-resignation-really-great-discontent.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">workplace study</a> from Gallup reveals the cost of replacing an employee is as much as 200% of the original worker’s salary.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">For those looking to position themselves for a promotion, below are some beneficial traits to consider.</span></p><div><h2><span style="font-size: large;">1) Be adaptable</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">Adaptability’s value is only going up.
Flexibility and the ability to manage change are imperative now more
than ever. Adaptability fatigue is behind us. Let’s settle in to our new
normal and take a breath. As a little girl, my grandad inspired me to
create my own egg company. I was seven years old, and in my mind,
anything was possible. I began selling eggs around the neighborhood and
quickly found out that there were a lot of neighbors and a lot of eggs,
but only one me. Instead of quitting, I did what any tenacious girl
would do: I found a few more baskets and asked my friends to help. When
managers look to promote, they’re not looking for employees who restate
the problems. Believe me, we know the problems. Leaders offer solutions.
Leaders find the baskets and make it happen.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;">2) Take initiative</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">In
my career and life, I’ve observed the importance of pitching in before
someone asks you. I’ve carried that with me and promoted team members
who have the tenacity to show they want more responsibility and can
handle it once given. Taking advantage of professional development
opportunities demonstrates the drive to learn and perfect your skills.
Extra points if your company provides professional development,
leadership trainings and growth opportunities, through HR technology
accessible 24/7. This is direct access to training and upskilling so
you’re able to succeed where you are and develop skills for tomorrow.
You should be in control of your data and track your goals through tech
software.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">When I’m looking to promote someone, employees thinking
steps ahead and prioritizing their own development sets my mind at ease
and shows me they are strategic thinkers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90723234/these-5-factors-will-make-you-more-promotable" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Read all 5 factors and the complete Fast Company article </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p></div><h2><br /></h2><p> </p><p><cite class="post__no_highlight"> </cite></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-87627083763497807872022-02-23T09:32:00.005-06:002022-02-23T09:32:52.770-06:005 Ways To Improve Your CV | Resume<p><span class="fs-author-name"><a class="contrib-link--name remove-underline" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewfennell/">Andrew Fennell</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If your job search isn’t going as planned, and you’re seeing more
rejections than you had hoped for, your CV is probably the main culprit.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">A CV that doesn’t reflect your strengths adequately to recruiters and
employers is never going to help you reach your lofty careers goals.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, if you’re currently being held back from your next big career
move, here are five fool-proof ways you can give your CV an upgrade and
start getting more responses in the job market.</span></p><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;">4) Upskill </span></h2><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">One way to instantly boost your employability and make your CV look
great is to learn some new skills. For example, you might wish to learn
how to use new tools or software, <a aria-label="remote working practices" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://jobdescription-library.com/remote-working-statistics-uk" href="https://jobdescription-library.com/remote-working-statistics-uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://jobdescription-library.com/remote-working-statistics-uk">remote working practices</a>, or even just upgrade your knowledge in your current field. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">There are multiple ways you can do gain skills nowadays; you could
take an online course or digital workshop, listen to podcasts or watch
tutorials. Alternatively, you could join an evening class or ask someone
in your current workplace to teach you. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">However you choose to go about it, it’s a good idea to work out your
objectives first as this will help you choose the right type of course
or training for your career. Let’s say you have an ideal new job in
mind; you can take a look over similar job descriptions to find out what
sought-after skills or know-how you’re missing. This will help to guide
you in your pursuit of knowledge and new skill sets. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><h2 class="subhead-embed color-accent bg-base font-accent font-size text-align"><span style="font-size: large;">5) Strip out irrelevant details </span></h2><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">When you’ve had a long or established career, you might have years of
experience and multiple qualifications behind you, but over time these
can become less relevant and simply take up precious space. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, when it comes to your CV, the information you choose to
leave out can be just as important as the information you choose to
include.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">The best approach to take is to examine the job description and see
what the employer is after, then omit any information that is not
relevant or required for the role. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">For example, in your employment history, you can leave out any roles
that aren’t relevant to the industry or position you’re applying for and
cut down any older roles to just one-line summaries. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">By stripping out any outdated or irrelevant information, you make it
much easier for the recruiter to find the relevant information that
proves you’re a good fit for the role. </span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">So, if you are looking for a new position this year, keep this advice
in mind when writing your CV. Even just one of our five tips could be
enough to instantly boost your CV and help you secure an interview.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewfennell/2022/02/22/5-ways-to-improve-your-cv/?sh=735359996172" target="_blank"><u><i><b>See tips 1-3 and the complete Forbes article </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p><p> </p><p><span class="fs-author-name"> </span></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-11629209433932582412022-02-17T08:28:00.004-06:002022-02-17T08:28:27.509-06:00What The Great Reshuffle Means For Your Job Search - 7 Tips<p><a class="contrib-link--name remove-underline" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/people/tammyhomegardner/">Tammy Homegardner</a></p><div class="contrib-label-container"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Millions of workers have resigned from their jobs over the past year,
deciding that they need to make a change. Most are searching for new
positions that align with their needs and values. In contrast, others
have decided to switch careers entirely. No matter the reason behind
your job hunt, I have some good (and bad) news for you.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
The good news is that companies are offering employees more than ever
before to attract, acquire and retain top talent. This is excellent
from a negotiation standpoint as higher salaries, flexible schedules and
increased perks and benefits are all on the table. However, there are
countless candidates to choose from. So, even though the opportunities
posted seem endless, competition for these positions is fierce. If you
are looking to change your career, you can still land your dream
position. It just requires some strategy on your part.</span></div><div class="contrib-label-container"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="contrib-label-container"><span style="font-size: large;">1)<strong> Do not search blindly.</strong></span>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">When making a career change, your search must target one or two
different positions — tops. Trust me when I say that you will get
nowhere if you search for many different roles across numerous
industries. Your LinkedIn profile and resume will not be targeted the
way they should be, and you will be less focused when presenting
yourself for any role. If you are unsure what you want to do moving
forward, you need to take some time to assess.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">4) <strong> List your negotiables and non-negotiables. </strong>Group what
you want from your next role into “non-negotiable” and “negotiable”
categories. For example, a non-negotiable may be a flexible work
schedule or working within the environmental industry. A negotiable may
be the salary range or specific responsibilities associated with the
role.</span> </p> </div><div class="contrib-label-container"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>7) Do not underestimate the power of networking.</strong></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">Because the job market is saturated with candidates, many positions
are filled through referrals. It is vital to strengthen your online and
in-person network by optimizing your LinkedIn profile, attending
networking events and speaking with those you know. This is another
reason why being targeted with your job search is integral to your
success.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">To network effectively, consider having a short pitch that you can
use when meeting people and discussing your professional goal. Building
on the example listed above:</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><em>I have been interested in transitioning into a sales position for
quite some time. I have more than 10 years of experience in marketing —
creating strategic campaigns that engage customers and achieve goals. I
believe my background within marketing transfers seamlessly into a
business development role, and I am excited about a new opportunity.</em></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2022/01/19/what-the-great-reshuffle-means-for-your-job-search/?sh=63f1de3073c2" target="_blank"><u><b>See all 7 tips and the complete Forbes article </b></u></a></span><br /></em></p> </div><div class="contrib-label-container"></div><div class="contrib-label-container"><span class="contrib-byline-type"></span></div>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-4842867309352574292022-02-10T08:40:00.004-06:002022-02-10T08:40:34.677-06:0024 Phone interview tips: How to land a second interview<p>Written by
<a class="author-modal-open" data-author-modal-options="{"selector":"genevieve-carlton-modal"}" data-component="authorModal" data-omniture-track-data="{"moduleInfo": "byline-author", "pageType": "article"}" data-omniture-track="moduleClick" data-vanity-rewritten="true" href="https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/" rel="author">Genevieve Carlton</a> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">How should you prepare for a phone interview? What are the most
common phone interview questions? And how can you stand out during a
phone interview? Our phone interview tips walk you through the steps to
take before, during, and after a phone interview to help you move on to
the next stage of the interview process.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;">Why do companies have phone interviews?</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">Companies
often use phone interviews to screen applicants and decide which
candidates to meet in person. Phone interviews save the time and expense
of arranging in-person interviews as the first step in a job search. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During
a phone interview, companies want to learn about the applicants'
experience, qualifications, and if he/she is a good fit for the
position. Candidates who make a strong impression land a second
interview.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: large;">1) What to expect during a phone interview?</span></h2><p><span style="font-size: large;">Most
companies use phone interviews to screen applicants in the early stages
of the interview process. As a result, candidates should prepare to
answer questions about their work history and all the duties they have
performed in their previous jobs. Interviewers might also ask about the
candidate's career goals and knowledge of the company. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Salary
might come up during a phone interview, particularly when speaking with a
recruiter. The interviewer may ask about salary expectations or provide
the salary range for the role. Phone interviews might last as little as
15 minutes to as long as an hour.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">Common phone interview questions</span></h3><table data-title="1x2 Table"><tbody><tr><td><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Tell me about yourself."</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What makes you a good fit for this role?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What interests you about this role?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What do you know about our company?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What are some of your strengths?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What are some of your weaknesses?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Why do you want to work for our company?"</span></li></ul></td><td><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Why are you looking for a new job?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What are your salary expectations?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What type of work environment do you prefer?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"What type of management style do you prefer?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"How would you describe your management style?"<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">"Do you have any questions for us?"</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><h3><span style="font-size: large;">2) Start prepping as early as possible</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's
important to start preparing for a phone interview as early as
possible. When scheduling the interview, consider blocking off time to
prepare. Use that time to learn more about the company, practice your
answers to common phone interview questions, and prepare questions for
the interviewer.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">3) Get the details down</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">You've scheduled a
phone interview for 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. But what time zone? Is it a
true phone interview or a video call? Who should place the call, you or
the interviewer? Make sure you know the details or reach out to the
company for clarification. While getting the details down, make sure
they have both your phone number and email. If the call is on Zoom, make
sure you have the link and test it 10 minutes before your call.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">4) Research the company</span></h3><span style="font-size: large;">
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</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">During the phone interview, you'll want to demonstrate your
enthusiasm for the position. Researching the company — and determining
why you want to work for them — will go a long way toward landing a
second interview. Learn about the company, its values, and its goals.
Reach out to anyone in your network who's worked for the company to get
an insider perspective.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">5) Make an accomplishments cheat sheet</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">The
interviewer will want to know why they should hire you. Make a cheat
sheet of your experiences, skills, and accomplishments. Read the job
posting again and write down specific qualifications that the employer
is looking for. Make sure you talk about these qualifications in your
interview. Use the cheat sheet during the interview when they ask you to
provide specific examples of your accomplishments. </span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">6) Practice answering common questions</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">Many
phone interviews start with an open-ended question like "tell me about
yourself." Practice a concise, focused answer to that question and other
common questions. Practice speaking about your strengths and your
professional accomplishments. Planning these answers will help you relax
and sound confident during the interview.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">7) Plan out your salary answer</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">Salary
expectations might come up during a phone interview. Research the
salary range for the role in your area to avoid undervaluing yourself.
In fact, you might want to ask about the salary range to make sure the
company's pay matches what you're looking for. Plan out how to answer
the salary question without selling yourself short. For example, you can
avoid saying an exact number but give a range. Or, you can ask the
interviewer what the company's salary range is and base your answer off
of their range.</span></p><h3><span style="font-size: large;">8) Prep three questions for the interviewer</span></h3><p><span style="font-size: large;">Almost
every interview ends with, "do you have any questions for me?" Use your
prep time to come up with three questions for the interviewer. Asking
questions shows your interest in the role and demonstrates that you've
done your research. You can ask about the day-to-day responsibilities,
the company culture, or the metrics for success in the role.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/education/interview-tips-recent-grads/" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Read all 20+ tips and the complete ZDnet article </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p><p> <br /></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-35823711073483113432022-01-26T08:56:00.009-06:002022-01-26T08:59:08.166-06:00Hiring Experts Say These Are The 3 Most Revealing Interview Questions They Ask<p><span aria-hidden="true">By</span> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/author/monica-torres" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Monica Torres </b></i></u></a></p><div aria-hidden="true"><br /></div><div aria-hidden="true"></div><p></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Prepping for a job interview means knowing how to handle curveball questions about your <a class="js-entry-link cet-internal-link" data-vars-item-name="past jobs" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/job-change-interview-question-tips_l_5de92971e4b0d50f32b00e81" data-vars-target-content-type="buzz" data-vars-type="web_internal_link" data-vars-unit-name="60c0f24ce4b0b449dc34ce90" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/job-change-interview-question-tips_l_5de92971e4b0d50f32b00e81" role="link" target="_blank">past jobs</a>,
boss and projects. Impressing an interviewer means not just having
great career stories to tell, but also thinking two steps ahead to the
kind of questions hiring managers like to ask. </span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">So
here’s a peek behind the curtain: We talked with recruiters and human
resources experts about the go-to interview questions they ask when they
want to know how a candidate <i>really</i> thinks. Take notes, job seekers! </span></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><h3><span style="font-size: large;">3. “Walk me through a project that you’re most proud of.”</span></h3></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Gabrielle
Woody, a university recruiter for the financial software company
Intuit, said her go-to question is asking people to share their proudest
project or accomplishment.</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s
a really great question. Candidates get really nervous, but if they’re
talking about something they truly love, they’re more comfortable.
They’ve already done the project. It’s not a hypothetical,” Woody said.
“It just allows us to evaluate a lot of their impact ... and it
addresses a lot of the key skills and competencies.“</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Woody
said this question can lead to follow-ups such as how they accomplished
the project under constraints, what metrics they used, and how they
measured success or failure. </span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Woody
recommends preparing a story around two to three projects you are proud
of that are related to the role you are applying for.</span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">She said a great answer happens “i<span style="font-weight: 400;">f
it’s clear to me that they are passionate about what they do and the
project involves skills they would be using in their future role,” while
a bad answer is “just very vague, or you can tell they’re just sharing
what their team did and they might not have had many contributions to
it.”</span></span></p><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><h3><span style="font-size: large;">Here’s how to craft an answer to these type of questions: </span></h3></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">If you are stumped on how to answer an interview question that asks for a story, Woody recommended the <a class="js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="STAR method" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-target-content-id="https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-star-interview-response-technique-2061629" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-unit-name="60c0f24ce4b0b449dc34ce90" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" href="https://www.thebalancecareers.com/what-is-the-star-interview-response-technique-2061629" role="link" target="_blank">STAR method</a>.
She said this checklist helps you stay on track and be very clear about
the situation at hand and what your individual deliverables were. </span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">With STAR, you tell an interview story with these four parts:<br /><b>1. Situation:</b>
Which job was this? When was this? You set the scene and describe the
context within which you performed a job or faced a project at work. <br /><b>2. Task:</b> You remember to highlight which specific responsibilities you had in the situation. <br /><b>3. Action: </b>Share what actions you took and showcase how your contribution made an impact. <br /><b>4. Results:</b> You share why your actions mattered to the team or business. This can be said with data<b> </b>or by detailing steps you took to improve. </span></p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text"><p><span style="font-size: large;">“I
literally have STAR written down as candidates are answering
interviewing questions, and that helps me probe more if they’re missing
one of these areas,” Woody said. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/most-revealing-job-interview-questions_l_60c0f24ce4b0b449dc34ce90" target="_blank"><u><i><b>See questions 1 & 2 plus the complete HuffPost article </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p></div><p> </p></div><p><span aria-hidden="true"></span><span aria-hidden="true"></span></p>
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<script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-10006231698991451502022-01-19T09:15:00.005-06:002022-01-19T09:15:45.407-06:003 better questions to ask in your next job interview<p><cite class="post__no_highlight">By Patrick Mullane</cite></p><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Job interviews are stressful
events. Even if the interviewer tries to put you at ease, you know
you’re being evaluated. But many who throw themselves into prospecting
for a new job forget it’s a two-way street: Not only is the company
evaluating you, but you’re also evaluating the company. At some point in
the discussion, they’ll turn the floor over to you and ask, “Do you
have any questions for me?”</span></span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In
my 30-year career, I’ve learned this is a critical moment that many
interviewees flub. Candidates forget that when they’re given control of
the discussion, it’s an opportunity to do two very important things.
First, it’s a chance to learn something genuinely useful about the firm
you might be joining. Second, you get to show that you’re thoughtful and
conscientious. Both are hugely important as you look to make a change.
Don’t waste the opportunity.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are three questions </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">candidates typically ask</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and their better alternatives—to help you achieve the two-pronged goal of impressing </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">learning in a job interview.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Common Question #1:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Can you tell me about the culture here?”</span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Better Question:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Can you think of a time when the company’s culture</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made you excited to work here or helped you during a challenging time?”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s
easy for an interviewer to answer the first question with platitudes
you’d expect from somebody representing their company. You can already
guess what the answers will be. “It’s collaborative.” “We like to work
hard and have fun.” “It’s inclusive and supportive.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The second version, on the other hand, gets to the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">intersection</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">
of employee and culture. Since that’s the intersection you’ll live in
if you get the job, it’s important to understand how you’ll fit with
that culture. Imagine how much more you’d learn if you asked the better
question and got an answer like this: “I had an unexpected death in the
family and my peers proactively contacted me, not just to offer
condolences, but to assure me they’d cover for me while I was out.”
Wouldn’t that answer help you instantly understand what the culture is
like?</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90710792/3-better-questions-to-ask-in-your-next-job-interview" target="_blank"><u><i><b>See Better Questions 2,3, and the complete FastCompany article</b></i></u></a></span><br /></span></p><p><cite class="post__no_highlight"> </cite></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-82249367260289226152021-12-15T14:04:00.000-06:002021-12-15T14:04:16.482-06:00Santa and Facebook<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbtWyAYrDxSrEIy_YO9aRLjpMe1FG2uCo7JvYo1OsDs6m6UQ-AFUy0jIgyhcQrqtWNr_Q-W97_blDwbiGqiXq8bn2O227fM9fUBbUFBuYa16llSjL5hWeA4P0lZxqJyWZDSBAx9DmF9hw68-vUEqLgNS6tM5ovyLGarLPQD8a_Lw0aX9a5RN_zFojp=s775" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbtWyAYrDxSrEIy_YO9aRLjpMe1FG2uCo7JvYo1OsDs6m6UQ-AFUy0jIgyhcQrqtWNr_Q-W97_blDwbiGqiXq8bn2O227fM9fUBbUFBuYa16llSjL5hWeA4P0lZxqJyWZDSBAx9DmF9hw68-vUEqLgNS6tM5ovyLGarLPQD8a_Lw0aX9a5RN_zFojp=w496-h640" width="496" /></a></div><br /><p></p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-48782403421630507302021-12-07T11:57:00.002-06:002021-12-07T11:57:48.605-06:00There is one in every crowd<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifMgOYUK_24EtyQv5yzoEUB2nrZZzk_gbpfS0vTKePUJaRgBXaPEQGPbU5Exar1dSKp_OXxpcBw0IUDqbqcFQhlnBNmS4D5p-lemMv-5fBXJgxfmhBFM966A52t79USnGTOW7twZMSiIdzPwbINtCjPre_jn7fZrzA-2nvfvAmckBPNayEB0lh9n91=s705" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: left; float: left;"><img alt="" border="0" height="600" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifMgOYUK_24EtyQv5yzoEUB2nrZZzk_gbpfS0vTKePUJaRgBXaPEQGPbU5Exar1dSKp_OXxpcBw0IUDqbqcFQhlnBNmS4D5p-lemMv-5fBXJgxfmhBFM966A52t79USnGTOW7twZMSiIdzPwbINtCjPre_jn7fZrzA-2nvfvAmckBPNayEB0lh9n91=s600"/></a></div>
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<script src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US"></script>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5918295118874555876.post-10308884574999049432021-09-16T09:11:00.006-05:002021-09-16T09:11:43.914-05:00Never make these 7 job interview mistakes ‘that will instantly destroy a first impression,’ says CEO of 20 years<p><span></span><a class="Author-styles-makeit-authorName--tiaxO" href="https://www.cnbc.com/gary-burnison/">Gary Burnison</a></p><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">It’s a <a href="https://www.kornferry.com/insights/this-week-in-leadership/job-interview-first-impressions" target="_blank">statistic</a> you’ve probably heard before: It only takes a <a href="https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/how-many-seconds-to-a-first-impression" target="_blank">few seconds for people to make a judgment</a> about you, especially when it comes to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/07/the-most-impressive-answer-i-ever-received-to-tell-me-about-yourself.html">job interviews</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">During that very short time, a hiring manager will make crucial determinations about you, including your <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/improve-your-small-talk-skills-by-using-the-agree-and-add-method-says-former-fbi-agent.html">likability</a>, your <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/02/jeff-bezos-says-this-is-how-you-earn-trust-and-build-reputation-it-really-is-that-simple.html">trustworthiness</a>, how aggressive or passive you seem and how well you would fit in with others on the team.</span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">As the CEO of a <a href="https://www.kornferry.com/" target="_blank">large job recruiting firm</a>,
I’ve seen a lot of sloppy job interviewing mistakes in my decades-long
career. Here are some of the biggest that will instantly destroy a first
impression:</span></p><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--LnHeO"><span style="font-size: large;">3. Having no relevant examples of accomplishments</span></h2><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">The
interviewer asks you to elaborate on the accomplishments you’ve listed
on your resume, and because you’re nervous, you mind goes blank. You
stumble along, maybe even reading from a copy of your resume.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But
the interviewer is listening for specifics to determine how you match
the demands of the job and how well you would communicate with
colleagues and clients.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The examples you give should cover four key areas:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">The challenge (or opportunity) faced</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">The actions taken</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">The results achieved</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;">The lessons learned from the experience</span></li></ul></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--LnHeO"><span style="font-size: large;">4. Talking too much or too little</span></h2><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">The interviewer asks you a question that you’re not prepared to answer: “Tell me how you would handle [X] challenge…”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In
a panic, you either you go on and on, hoping that you’ll say something
relevant, or you give a short answer and then go silent. Yikes!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The
best way to prepare is by rehearsing. Do a mock interview with a mentor
or friend and practice giving clear and concise responses to common
interview questions. (Don’t forget to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/03/interview-questions-i-wish-more-candidates-had-the-guts-to-ask-career-expert.html">ask the interviewer your own questions</a> as well.)</span></p></div><h2 class="ArticleBody-styles-makeit-subtitle--LnHeO"><span style="font-size: large;">5. Appearing desperate</span></h2><div class="group"><p><span style="font-size: large;">Nonverbal
cues like sitting on the edge of your chair or saying things like “When
will I hear from you?” can radiate desperation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It may also raise doubts about your abilities, your fit with the organization and why others haven’t hired you.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Some quick <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/16/steve-jobs-surgeon-body-language-hacks-to-make-you-more-likable-respected-trustworthy.html">body language tips</a> that will make you look more confident:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Make eye contact:</strong> You’ll appear friendlier and more focused.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Avoid looking down</strong>: You’ll appear distracted or lacking in confidence.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Arms free, not folded:</strong> You’ll project openness, while keeping your hands free to gesture.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Sitting forward/back:</strong> Leaning forward helps you present your ideas. If you lean back while listening, keep your posture open.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Smile:</strong> You’ll convey happiness and confidence, while making others feel good about themselves.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/never-make-these-job-interview-mistakes-that-will-instantly-destroy-a-first-impression-says-ceo-of-20-years.html" target="_blank"><u><i><b>Read all 7 mistakes and the complete CNBC article </b></i></u></a></span><br /></p></div><p> </p></div><p> </p>timhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08334037198505730154noreply@blogger.com0