Guest post by Alyssa Foreman – The job hunt is an especially difficult thing for recent grads and recently laid off workers in this day and age. Locating the right potential job is only the beginning, though. Once you find that job, you have to market yourself effectively in the interview to land the gig.
Interviewers will ask a wide range of questions and they will do a large amount of background research prior to hiring you. Most people think that this stops at the criminal level, and that absent a record, they will qualify for the job.
Many employers go a step farther, though, and look into the financial history of an applicant. While everyone knows that having a bad credit score can hurt your car insurance rates and your ability to get a credit card what many do not realize is that a bad credit score can cost you a job in some instances, and it can require an explanation in others.
It took only a few months, and now the search for culprits behind the current economic mess has arrived on campus. What caused the recession? America’s business schools. As the New York Times points out, some of the most prominent poster children for the crisis and bailout are financial sector ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recruiting and retaining are two challenging tasks in the HR/Mgmt world. Key to it, is realizing what population we are considering to fill those spots in the workplace.
Today, a great percentage of those applicants were born between 1980 and 1999 and grew up during the 1990s and 2000s . They ...
I found this interesting post on Psyblog:
“put some random people in a group, give them a task and soon enough a leader will emerge. What is it about that person that makes others grant them the honor of being in charge?”
Go to the article clicking here.
Every time we have to start a new project or venture we are faced with one of the most difficult decisions to make: How do we start? Where do we start?
Some years ago, a good boss of mine told me: “don’t try to reinvent the wheel, recycle and optimize what ...
