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The Five Career Stages by Thomas J. Denham - Nov, 2011 I always ask my clients their age. I don’t mean to make them feel bad about how old they are. But someone that’s 55 is at a different stage in their career and life than someone that’s 25 or 45. As a career counselor, I know that a 25 year old client presents dissimilar issues than someone who may be close to retiring and asking themselves the question, “What’s next?” One of the pioneers in the field of career development,... |
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Market Transferable Skills in Job Interviews by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011 Knowing how to market transferable skills in the job interview is a skill successful job seeker has to develop. As part of an interview team recently to identify a new Vice President, I watched many strong candidates miss opportunities to speak about their transferable skills. Many of the candidates selected for job interviews did not have specific industry experience, but had excellent transferable skills from other industrie... |
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Five Ways to Lose Your Job in the Electronic Age by Barbara Safani - Oct, 2011 Sure, by now you know that displaying pictures of you partying on Facebook or tweeting about how much you hate your boss are electronic no nos. But there are other, less well known faux pas that people are making every day at work that can get them and their employers in hot water. Here are five of them. 1.Textual Harassment. Thinking about texting a co-worker on your company cell phone to ask if they want to go for a drink... |
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Soft Skills Learned in Career Training Programs by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011 In addition to the practical knowledge that career training graduates develop, these five soft skills also make them attractive to employers. The Council of Economic Advisers is projecting faster-growing demand for workers with a two-year technical-college degree, or specific training, than for those with a full university degree. As Americans rethink the options for career training that will make them job ready for 21st c... |
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Using Video Games in the Workplace to Boost Productivity by Marcia Robinson - Oct, 2011 Have you heard about the latest trend to use video games to enhance employee engagement in the workplace? How about virtual reality competitions and video games with leaderboards and other trappings of gaming in the workplace? A recent Wall Street Journal article, Latest Game Theory; Mixing Work and Play, shed some light on the practice of what one might call "enhanced gamification techniques" in the workplace. The concept... |
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5 Things You Need to Do to Get a Job by Miriam Salpeter - Oct, 2011 Two construction workers sat down to lunch. Worker #1 took out his turkey sandwich and eagerly started eating. Worker #2 tentatively opened his first sandwich. Examining it, he exclaimed, “Yuck, peanut butter,” and tossed it aside. Reaching in for his second sandwich, he opened it, and carefully peeled open the bread to examine the contents. “Yuck, peanut butter again!” he cried, with a dismayed look. Worker #1 asked, “Why don... |
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Leadership Resilience - Learning from Mistakes by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a boutique hotel and restaurant company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation about how he has handled failure and learned from his mistakes. We talked about how he was able to bounce back from failure by viewing business as a learning laboratory. My executive coaching client and I further discussed how resilient leade... |
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Leadership Resilience - Optimism and Resilience by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a boutique hotel and restaurant company. We had a deep and reflective coaching conversation about how his company bounced back from two recessions. We talked about how he was able to work through his personal distress and low mood. My executive coaching client and I further discussed how a leader’s emotions are contagious. I a... |
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Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist by Dr. Maynard Brusman - Oct, 2011 I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a Silicon Valley High Tech company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation, that revolved around how leading people and organizations today is much more complicated today than just a few years ago. Economic uncertainty and globalization, along with innovative technologies provides leaders constant challenges to successf... |
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Do You Take Advantage of Dead Time? by Andy Robinson - Oct, 2011 "Dead Time" -- What is it? • It's waiting in the hallway for an upcoming meeting or • The time spent taking a cab to a client's office • It's waiting "on hold" on a phone call, or • Standing in line a Starbucks, or • Waiting for an appointment to show up, or waiting at a doctor's office Stay conscious of your daily "dead time" -- those time gaps that occur throughout the day -- and use this time to catch up on... |
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