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Behavioral-based Interviews… Your Opportunity to Shine
Behavioral-based interviews can be a dream or a nightmare depending on how prepared a candidate is to answer these often intimidating questions. ClearRock offers tips on making these specifically-designed interviews work successfully for both parties. What are behavioral-based interviews? Behavioral-based interviews are a structured set of open-ended questions based on…
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Laura Poisson – Career Advice Video
Laura Poisson of ClearRock, interviewed by Stephen Burke, HR Consultant, discuss Career and Job Search Advice.
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The Importance of Mentoring
By Ellie Eckhoff | Vice President Part of my role at ClearRock is strategic business development. Over the years I have had mentors that have helped me develop the skills to do my job effectively. As the Mentoring Marketing Chair for The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), I have been…
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Is Your Mindset Stalling Your Career?
By: Susan Peppercorn Senior Consultant, ClearRock / Career Coach / Resume and LinkedIn Consultant / Career Blogger for the Huffington Post Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with…
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Key Strategies For Retaining Newly Hired Professionals
With the unemployment rate at 4.2% in Massachusetts (April, 2016) and fewer professionals available for hire, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to retain employees and insure the success of their newly hired employees. Studies have shown that companies lose an average of 25% of all new hires within…
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Smallest Parts of a Job Search Often Produce the Biggest Results
Most of your helpful job search leads (80% or more) will come from just a few (20% or less) of your contacts, so expanding your base of contacts as much as possible – and then identifying those critical people – should be top job-hunting priorities. The 80-20 rule, known in…
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Social Media Profile Becoming as Important as Your Resume
Your online social media profile may be as important as your resume if you are looking for a new job or to change careers. Employers are more frequently using social media networks to find candidates for employment, rather than going through resumes or searching job websites. People who have neglected…
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Raise or no Raise? Tips for Employees & Employers
While annual performance reviews remain the main method for delivering raises, companies are increasingly adopting proactive performance systems. In these systems, employees develop goals and timelines against which they will be evaluated, and their managers meet with them more often than once a year. Annual performance reviews are not as…
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Summertime Social Media Job-Search Strategy
About half of all job-seekers will either slack off or put their searches on hold during the summer. However, people who continue to be active can have an edge over others, and those who adapt social media to a summertime job search will have an even greater advantage. Now that…
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The 7 New Ways to Mentor
Short-term. Multiple. Reverse. Two-Way. Informal. Virtual. Companywide. Mentoring has been revitalized and now comes in seven different forms to serve various purposes. Following are the seven ways mentoring is being used today: Short-term: Mentoring relationships can be very short-term – an hour or a day – or last weeks or…
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Six Steps for Getting Employers to Take a Second Look at You
Want to ask a prospective employer to take a second look at you – even if you have interviewed with the company before and did not get the job the first time? Numerous job-seekers are successful after the second or third time they apply to or interview with a potential…
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10 Ways to Dazzle in Your new Job
ClearRock offers the following 10 Ways To Dazzle In Your New Job: Know what is expected of you and by when. Understand exactly what your boss requires you to accomplish and the timetable you have in which to deliver. Also establish how your performance will be evaluated. Immediately start…
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The Simplest Type of Career Change to Make
Since all sectors of the economy do not perform the same – with some industries faring better than others – job-seekers need to learn how to transfer their skills and expertise to those that are hiring. It is the simplest type of career change to make. The employment picture can…
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13 Ways to Improve Your Job Search
The difference between landing a job and not hearing back from a potential employer can come down to a matter of details. These factors can include not following up quickly or effectively enough, failing to perfect your telephone interviewing skills, over-reliance on the Internet, having a poor social media presence…
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