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Has Your Boss Become ‘Toxic?’
In a tough economy, managers and executives may become “toxic bosses” due to inadequate management skills and their negative reactions to cutbacks in staff, salaries, raises, benefits, bonuses, budgets, and promotions. Layoffs and staff reductions may cause managers and executives to do more work with fewer employees and to work…
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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 Become a Better Manager
One of the best ways companies can improve their bottom lines is for their executives and managers to manage better. Managers can upgrade their management and leadership skills, team up with mentors, and clarify the objectives and career paths of those they manage. To retain talented employees in this slowly…
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Maintaining Better Workplace Trust is new Challenge
Trust in the workplace has been slowly recovering during the past few years. Employees today are more trustful of senior management and colleagues than they have been since the start of the recession, according to surveys. Improved trust in senior management has resulted from steps leaders have taken to cope…
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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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Job Search can Profit by Volunteering
It’s becoming more of a vicious circle for people who have been unemployed or working outside their areas of expertise for a long while. One of the biggest objections they hear from potential employers is they have not been using their professional knowledge and skills. How can they, many counter,…
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5 Career Strategies to Consider in the New Year
The two occasions that many people use to more closely analyze their careers are around the change to a new calendar year, and at and after the summer slowdown. These two times of the year also coincide with the budgeting, staffing, and hiring plans of numerous organizations as they prepare…
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Seven Principles for Managing Change / More Employers to Address Being Overwhelmed at Work
One of the top human resource challenges of 2015 will be addressing the issue of employees being overwhelmed at work, which often spills over into their personal lives. More employers are seeing higher levels of employee burnout and stress and are addressing it at the organizational level. Developing policies and…
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Strategies for Getting Hired by Small Businesses
Whatever one’s hiring perspective, two things are clear: – Small businesses should be part of every job-seeker’s employment search. Companies with fewer than 50 workers comprise 97% of all businesses, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. – A different job-search strategy must be used in seeking employment with small businesses….
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8 Guidelines for Succeeding in new Job
Most people – especially those who have been unemployed for a while – devote almost all of their time and resources to getting a job, but are not nearly as prepared to succeed once they get it. Many new hires do not have a clear understanding of the most important…
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Job Rejections due to Lack of Cultural ‘Fit’
In cases where the qualifications of two candidates for the same job are roughly equivalent, cultural fit can be a deciding factor. Lack of cultural fit is one of the biggest contributors to the failure of newly hired and promoted managers and executives. Among the reasons new leaders do not…
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Persistence vs. Pest – How to Persevere in job Hunt
Charlie Sheen’s stock broker character made 59 straight days of phone calls and hand-delivered a box of Cuban cigars before he got an interview with Michael Douglas’ corporate raider character in the movie Wall Street. While that is obsessive and most people would consider him a pest, there is one…
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“Moving Up” no Longer Means Being Promoted
With workforces still lean and fewer people getting promoted today, the definition of “moving up” has changed, according to ClearRock Inc. Years ago, many workers followed a personal career guideline of: “Every three years, up or out.” That is, a worker should expect to be promoted every three years or…
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