Keep your head down and your nose to the grindstone. That’s what a lot of us were taught to believe about work. But is it really the best strategy? I find that people often take this sort of advice to heart — and then learn too late in their careers that there’s more to
Employers have no reason to require a job-seeker to give up their salary history except for one: they would get that information in order to pay the new employee less than they might if they had no idea what the employee had earned elsewhere. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sorry-employers-youre-getting-my-salary-history-liz-ryan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add
Performance Management: An article of Interest. Your views will be appreciated. Is the Annual Performance Review Dead? Companies are turning away from time-consuming paperwork and forced rankings https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/performance-management-article-interest-your-views-faizal-karani?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish
Too many CEOs and other leaders are asleep when it comes to corporate culture. Because culture seems like a soft and squishy topic, they don’t focus on it. They don’t pay attention to it. They pay attention to ‘hard’ things like dollars in and dollars out, and obviously these things are critical. What too many
Finding opportunities to stretch yourself beyond the day to day at work is the ideal way to give your career a boost. However, looking for new challenges is not just about impressing the boss. Taking on responsibilities which push you outside your comfort zone will also boost your own confidence and sense of self-worth. Taking
We can all agree that finding candidates with the right hard skills is important. In fact, we recently published this list of the most in-demand skills. However, it turns out that there is something equally – or maybe even more important –that employers want in the next hire: the right soft skills. A recent LinkedIn
How do you spruce up your resume when you don’t have access to a computer? How do you prepare for an interview when you’re homeless? How do you compete with seemingly ideal candidates when your experience is far less than perfect? Recently a photo of Shaun Beever went viral on social media. His compelling
In January, we published a list of the 25 most in-demand skills. As you may have noticed, all of the skills on the list are hard skills — specific skills that are required to do a job that are learned, like mobile development, channel marketing, and economics. But numerous employers have told us they’re struggling
Here’s the conundrum: some of the most successful leaders in the world will readily admit that they aren’t any smarter, luckier, more talented, more beautiful, more privileged, or even more confident than their less successful peers. So what is it that leads to their success? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/worlds-most-successful-leaders-share-10-traits-bernard-marr?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like
“I am 45, in a town full of startups and young people. Being around them makes me feel dated. When I apply for jobs, these young people talk to me like I talked to my parents; they treat me with a mix of sympathy and impatience. I am not current in the buzzwords everyone
“ There is a “Natural Law of Balance” … “there is an offsetting positive to every negative occurrence” – Robert Ringer The headline above the quote “Failing Your Way to Success” sounds ridiculous…but is it? The more failures we have, the more successes we have; it is a natural law of balance. So what do
It’s a tricky spot to be in as a leader — you have a young employee who is technically strong, showing tremendous skill and promise and, because of that, you’re eager to champion that employee’s growth and success. There’s just one thing holding you back — that young pup employee is a bit of an
You know, there a quite a few things that you can do when you qualify as a CA(SA)– and I’m not talking about climbing Killi or diving in Lake Malawi! There are a number of routes you can take and each has its rewards and its consequences. The route you take early in your
You can’t blame an employer for making you a low salary offer if you haven’t told them what you expect to earn in your new job. You don’t want to go through the entire interview process without bringing up the topic of salary. You have to bring it up if they don’t. You have to know
Health and wellness can seem like a long and impossible journey. In some ways, that can be true. It does take a lot of work to develop a healthy lifestyle—and it’s a journey that doesn’t stop when you’ve reached your destination. http://www.forbes.com/sites/alankohll/2016/08/11/heres-what-happens-when-you-start-focusing-on-health-at-work/#62b2e5107047
You sit down with your boss to tell her you’ve been offered a job elsewhere and that you’ll be leaving the company in a few weeks. It will probably be an awkward conversation, and it’ll become even more uncomfortable when she asks you to stay. She might offer you better incentives, like more money or
So much to do, so little time. Ever since the start of the 21st century, everyone has been bombarded with insane amounts of information and pressure to get more work done. The desks of almost everyone is cluttered with never ending to-do lists and tasks that never seem to end. This has even given rise
It’s not easy being a creative thinker in the typical corporate or institutional workplace. It can be hellish, in fact! Managers say, “I want out-of-the-box ideas!” but they seldom mean it. When you show up with new ideas and new perspectives, managers can get threatened very easily. Your fellow employees can get threatened, too. http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/07/27/ten-reasons-out-of-the-box-thinkers-are-unhappy-employees/#6a5f1ac717ff
Welcome to Recruiter Q&A, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Have a question you’d like to ask? Leave it in the comments, and you might just see it in the next installment of Recruiter Q&A! Today’s Question: The transition from college to career can be a difficult one. In