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How to Use EI When Interviewing
As a recruiter or hiring manager, interviewing job candidates is a critical part of your job. If you’re a hiring manager interviewing potential employees for work in your department, your department’s success – as well as your own – relies on you choosing the right...
Why Preparation is 80 Percent of Career Success
You’ve no doubt heard the saying that 80 percent of your accomplishments comes from 20 percent of your efforts. This is known as the Pareto Principle (which actually states that 80 percent of effects come from 20 percent of causes). (You also may have noticed that 20...
How to Keep Learning When You Have No Time for an Education
Your life is….busy! Really busy: you work 40-plus hours a week, you have a spouse who also works full-time, you have two school-aged children (or maybe their teens and so you want to keep a close eye on them). You want to eat right and exercise. You’d like some...
Thinking of Becoming a Recruiter? Tips to Help You Thrive (and Survive)
If you’ve ever thought of becoming a recruiter – particularly in the staffing industry – you’ve picked a great time in the history of the industry to do so: Staffing Industry Analysts projects that the staffing market will grow by three percent in 2018, with revenue...
Why Bragging Can Be a Very Good Thing for Your Career
Many of us – especially the many of us that are women – are told that bragging is rude and self-centered. It’s. Not. Something. Polite. People. Do. But if you want to get ahead in your career, your business, even your personal life, “strategic” braggadocio can be a...
You Don’t Need a College Degree to Have a Great Career
Do you think that those with “careers” (those types of professional occupations with high salaries and the prestige that can go with them) are just for those with a college degree? This is so untrue, it’s laughable! Take a look below for the reasons why you don’t need...
Why EVERY Employee Needs Recognition
Do your employees feel recognized? As in seen by you? Thanked for their work on your behalf? Praised every now and then when warranted? Probably not: a recent survey found that 74 percent of workers in North America plan to switch jobs this year and 44 percent of them...
Be a More “Visible” Recruiter, Attract More Candidates
Many job seekers don’t know how to find – let alone contact – recruiters, especially if they’re interested in looking for a new position while still working for their current employer. (Hello, lovely passive candidate!). In today’s hard-to-find-great-candidates...
How to Change Careers (Successfully)
Whether it’s due to dissatisfaction with your current career or possibly getting laid off from a job in a dying business sector, chances are great that you’re going to want to change careers (or may at least seriously contemplate doing so) at least one in your...