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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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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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Two Tips on How to Make an Impression in Your New Job

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In this article I’m going to give you two tips to help you make a good impression in your new job. During my first couple of days in my current position, seizing the  following two events helped me get the confidence and momentum to start with a bang. convey_source = “English”; Technorati Tags: career advice, [...]

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The Risk of Having a Team of Robots: Delegating vs Monopolizing Work

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Do you want a team that is able to think or a horde of cyborgs who follow blindly your commands? That is the question that I asked myself today, already knowing the answer  (a waste of mental energy). There’s people who feel comfortable delegating work unto others and there are those who don’t. Usually those [...]

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Understanding Your Job – Chapter Two

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We all occupy roles in our lives. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters. We grow up performing these roles. You are born a son, you build relationships with peers, maybe you’ll have children to then become a grandfather or grandmother. And so, these roles get hard-wired into our minds. We learn how to [...]

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Understanding your job. Chapter One

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I wanted to write a series of posts that you could apply to your job. Something you can relate to wether you are a salesman, doctor, telemarketer or a store manager. Do any of those professions have anything in common with each other? Yes, no. Doesn’t matter. My goal is to give you some tools [...]

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Tips for adjusting to your new job

So you got a new job… cool… but now you are more lost than a sneaker in a fridge, right? You know no one, everything is confusing, you feel like everyone is your boss and the pieces don’t fit. The list can go on forever. Don’t worry. Perfectly normal. Every time we move to a new [...]

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At work don’t give orders. Empower!

I learnt something today. Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of my program in which we agreed to make some minor changes in my unit. Today I broke the news to my team and they weren’t welcome very cheerfully, especially by veteran staff. Why? Obviously (now that I have time to think), people doesn’t [...]

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Challenging the candidate with unconventional questions in a job interview

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I’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately. Evidently, the market being flooded with applicants is one of the side effects of the crisis. My organization, instead of laying people off has been steadily hiring and this is due to the high turnover rate of the industry. As any other organization, we have a [...]

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How to know if you are being lied in a job interview. And how to counter it

We get to interview all kind of people. Sometimes we have to interview too many in a too short period of time. Sometimes we only have one chance to talk to that person before making conclusions. That’s why it’s important to make the most out of that time. The person in front of you has [...]

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