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Job Seekers Are A lot Like 450 Pound Pianos by Barbara Safani - Dec, 2009 I’m having a piano delivered to my house. Arranging for a piano delivery is no small feat. Besides making arrangements with the showroom, I had to coordinate the insurance with my apartment building’s managing agent and figure out if the piano would fit in my elevator. Delivering a baby seemed to be much easier than this ordeal. The delivery was scheduled for tomorrow, yet the piano showed up at my house today. It seems tha... |
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Will This Be Your Year? by Deborah Brown-Volkman - Dec, 2009 Another year has gone by. For some of you, it was filled with challenges. For others, the year brought some surprises. Wherever you are today, you are here because you said by your actions that you wanted to be here. Some of you set goals. Some of you wanted to wait to see what happened before you said what you wanted. Others told yourself that setting goals was not worthwhile. The pathway to achieving goals is straigh... |
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How to Find a Job 65% Faster by Kevin Donlin - Dec, 2009 Mary Berman, from Farmington Hills, Michigan, had been looking for work since February 2009 before starting a “Guerrilla” job search, in late September. Up to that point, 20 weeks of job hunting had produced zero job interviews. Just 7 weeks later, she accepted a job on Thursday, November 12, as a marketing executive assistant. How did she use Guerrilla job hunting tactics to find work 65% faster? “I saw a job adve... |
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What Is Your Stage of Identity Development? The Increasing Globalization of The Workplace by Sharon Cohen - Dec, 2009 Who are you? What is your Cultural Identity? What is your stage of Identity Development and how can this impact your career? How adept are you at working with diverse people and/or for a Global Employer? The workplace is increasingly global and diverse. Each of our job titles and roles increasingly is intertwined with both national and multinational interests, technologies, operations, suppliers etc. We all have multi... |
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Get a New Job Faster! Manage Your Job Search by John Crant - Dec, 2009 How to Achieve Your Goals for Your Job Hunt Taking on any tough project can be a daunting task, without the proper help. Before long, we are overwhelmed and dropping pieces of our important project here and there. Our follow-up gets lost. Entire areas that should be in focus get moved to a back-burner, and then forgotten. Soon, we have fallen into a rut of doing the same limited activities, over and over again, with less an... |
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How Can I Negotiate a Better Salary Offer? by John Crant - Dec, 2009 How Can I Negotiate a Better Salary Offer? - Signed I just want what I deserve. We all want what we deserve. Unfortunately, what I call the ‘Unwelcome Truth’ usually gets in the way. The Unwelcome Truth: Companies usually pay based on pay history, and they are not typically basing their offers on what you will bring to the company, or on what you will produce for them. That’s an equation that most individuals who st... |
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How Long Does an Interview Process Take? by John Crant - Dec, 2009 Question: How long should my Interview Process Take? - Signed, Tired of Waiting Interview processes vary widely, but let’s start by looking at the average length of time an interview process takes, from the company’s perspective. The average length of time for a company to start and fully complete the hiring process for any one position is usually between 6 to 8 weeks, in a normal market. That timer starts from the... |
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How To Get Hired If You Are Older? by John Crant - Dec, 2009 Question: I’m an older worker and I find myself looking for a new job and wonder: How to Get Hired If You are Older? -Signed, I’ve Got Experience! There’s no getting around it: this is a tough job market. The candidate pool of talent has expanded exponentially and that is leaving many wondering how they can compete. I had a similar question from an audience member at one of the seminars that I teach. This individual’s... |
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How To Make Your Resume Work For You! by John Crant - Dec, 2009 Your resume should be doing a lot of work for you. Many people have resumes that grow and grow over time. That may seem okay, as we do add more capability and expertise to our list of skills that we are ’selling’ when we are looking for a new job or a new career. But over time, your resume can grow more ineffective -as you add in more and more. It’s natural, especially in these days of harder economic times, to want to incl... |
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I Came In Second Place, Now What? by John Crant - Dec, 2009 Question: I just came in 2nd place, after a three month interview process, and I feel like it’s all a loss. Is there anything that I should do? - Signed, At a Loss It can be very trying and difficult for our ego to get all the way through a company’s hiring process, only to find out that you were not the one selected. But, don’t let your disappointment let the real value get away. First, I have to say, “Congratu... |
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