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Management

Careers: Climbing Up The Ladder Lightning Fast

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Keeping a job for 30,40 years or until retirement was commonplace until a decade ago. But as Generation Y seizes the scene, this way of making career is facing extinction. As opposed to Gen X and Baby Boomers, Gen Y chooses vertiginous -and sometimes unstable employment- change, to slow and steady growth. Nowadays, for those [...]

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When Interviewers Don’t Call Back

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You had an interview 3 weeks ago and no one has gotten back to you yet. You start crawling up walls, you wonder if it’s OK to call or if you just have to wait. You don’t want to be a pain in the butt but you also want resolution. You need to know if [...]

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What to Expect at Your New Job

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Getting comfortable in a new position is no easy feat for anyone. You may not know the people you are now working with, you will not be familiar with the reporting channels and who does what. Even the most trivial daily duties could pose a challenge to your intellect. The byproducts of all these obstacles [...]

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Keeping Up with Expectations at Work

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Some people are specially good at selling themselves during  job interviews and -are also capable of- maintaining the expectations set during it, once they get hired. But there’s a group out there that once they are hands on with the job, they miserably fail to keep up with the expectations they generated during the interview process. Do [...]

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148: Interview with Andrew C. Abraham

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Gradkin, a startup from Singapore, is aiming to fill the gap between behemoths like LinkedIn and Monster, providing a more personal and community based experience by bringing together Gen-Y job seekers and employers. Here’s the interview with Grakin’s founder.

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Work Ethics and Etiquette: Leaving Your Job Through the Front Door

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About an year ago, my friend (and former co-worker) Steve was having issues with a manager. He is -or used to be- prone to bursting into flames when he disliked the way he was talked to or when he felt that something was unfair. One August afternoon, he had enough with this supervisor, confronted him [...]

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What Do You Think? – An Invisible Sentence in Many Managers’ Handbooks

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Managers  (and people in general) have a tendency to directly ask for things or direct people to do something. Some of us practice this on a very consistent basis and by doing so, a great opportunity to trigger ideas, solve problems faster and empower people is wasted. Imagine if Don Quixote had asked his squire, [...]

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The Science Behind “Having a Bad Job Interview” (and How to Solve It)

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My friend and blog zealot which never comments @jrapoport (well, I’m exagerating here. In fact he’s the one that fixes the blog every time I mess the code up), suggested me the article The Science Behind “Having a Bad Day (and How to Solve It) -link here- and prompted me to give it a twist. Last [...]

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How Long Does it Take to Assess a Candidate?

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Making judgments is unavoidable. It’s part of what makes us human. In a way, we organize our world through our judgments. They help us give meaning to things, attribute value to people and objects, and they define and/or condition personal relationships  and situations. Illusionism Objectivity is an illusion, simply because we live in a world of [...]

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Recruiting: Fresh Graduates vs. Seasoned Candidates

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You are out of college. You may have little to no work experience in your field. What would make employers hire you instead of a seasoned applicant? And vice-versa. I remember when I was still at college, trying to find my first job in the field.  I had lots of difficulties getting at least a [...]

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How Important is it to disconnect from work?

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During the past decade, there has been a revolution in the way that “the workplace” is considered. To some, in 2010 the workplace may be many things but a place. Smart-phones and laptops have become, for many, the workplace. This has redefined the way people work. Being at the office is not a necessity anymore, which leads [...]

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Interviews: 10 Common Questions; And What You Should Not Say

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Weeks ago, Primer Magazine published “The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions And The Reasons You Should Not Use Them” (link). New England Job Show‘s  editor, Jackie Simmonds, challenged me to flip the article around and orient it towards Job Seekers instead of Managers and Recruiters. My response to Jackie’s challenge is “Interviews: 10 Common Questions; [...]

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Internships: 7 Reasons Why They Are Important for Your Career

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This post is a product from the collaboration project that Andrew C. Abraham and myself started a few months ago. By Andrew C. Abraham.- It’s intern season. Many of the companies that I’m speaking to now are so busy with interns during this summer. I personally don’t have any internships under my belt, but back [...]

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Guest Post on Primer Magazine: The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions And The Reasons You Should Not Use Them

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I haven’t been posting on a regular basis lately. Here’s my excuse: too much work. Thankfully, the three-day  inspection from the Department of Health is over so my available time to write has significantly increased  (while my stress levels have tremendously decreased :). Last week, Primer Magazine published my article “The 10 Most Common Job [...]

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The Risk of Using Money as a Motivational Tool

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Managers, educators, parents and politicians are always looking for ways to motivate people.  That’s why when companies want employees to do something unpleasant or difficult they offer bonuses and other financial incentives. The most common practice to motivate people, also the easiest way to do it, is putting money in people’s pockets. It’s the most [...]

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