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5 Success Tips for Gen Y by Alexandra Levit - Oct, 2010 It's been a while since we've talked generationally, and since these ideas came up in two media interviews this week, I thought I'd share them here: *Focus on acquiring transferable skills. You have all the time in the world to get promoted and have the responsibility of a senior executive. Enjoy not having to take care of anyone but yourself and focus on acquiring skills like project management, budgeting, sales, mark... |
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5 Tips for Giving and Receiving Feedback at Work by Courtney Templin - Oct, 2010 Have you ever come home from work to look in the mirror and find a huge piece of spinach in your teeth leftover from your salad at lunch? We all know how embarrassing this is, and how frustrating it is that none of your co-workers told you. According to CareerBuilder: • 66 % of colleagues at your same level say they would tell you about the spinach • 60 % say they would alert a lower-level worker • Only 49 % would tell a... |
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Career Today—Gone Tomorrow. Now What? | Finding “Right-fit” Job Options by Dawn Lennon - Oct, 2010 Read the paper. Watch the news. Get an endless dose of pundit certainty about the uncertainty in the job market. If you have a job, the news makes you uneasy. If you don’t, it makes you sweat. You can let the job market control you or you can step up! Who’s making the rules? When times are tough, we can allow ourselves to be paralyzed or stoke ourselves to act. We can choose to see the options or imprison ourselves ... |
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How to Command the Room by Brad Karsh - Oct, 2010 In our business, speech is spontaneous. We don’t have the benefit of memorized presentations or teleprompters. Sadly, we’ve all experienced a meltdown or two. I’m sure there are a few of you who wish you would have said something a bit differently in the presentation. Maybe you wish you had the ability to press rewind in the interview, or you even wish you were more persuasive when you were talking with your boss. The... |
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How to Make a Great First Impression by Judith Lindenberger - Oct, 2010 In the Concise Oxford Dictionary, image is described as “the character or reputation of a person or thing as generally perceived.” Within seconds of meeting you, based on a single observed physical trait or behavior, people will assume to know everything about you (Social Psychology by H. Andrew Michener, John D. Delamater and Daniel J. Myers). Furthermore, according to research by Dr. Albert Mehrabian of UCLA, appearance and... |
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Improve Your Health at Work by Alexandra Levit - Oct, 2010 Today’s business environment can be a harsh place, and in addition to being difficult to cope with, it can also negatively impact your health. Check out this eye-opening research courtesy of U.S. News and World Report’s Liz Wolgemuth and learn what you can do to improve your situation. Stop eating at your desk According to the Royal Society of Chemistry, workers who sit at desks covered with crumbs from the last few week... |
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The Job Seeker’s Death Knell—Believing Your Own Excuses by Dawn Lennon - Oct, 2010 Beating the pavement does more than wear out your soles. It can wear out your self-confidence. Rejection is strength sapping. When the reward for trying hard and staying the course keeps netting a big fat zero, we become frustrated beyond belief, plagued by that nagging question, “Why?” Hiring decisions are the great unknown. When we walk out of a job interview, we usually have a sense of “how it went.” If we think i... |
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Tips for Writing A Winning Proposal by Judith Lindenberger - Oct, 2010 So how do you or your organization get up to $600,000 in state funds to underwrite the mission of your choice? Well, you have to ask for it, as any well meaning friend or relative will tell you. But how you ask is critical. Grant proposals have to sing -- and gain the attention of the funding source as surely as a mezzo-soprano reaches the upper balcony. Lots of frugal nonprofits have concluded that money spent on a profes... |
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What do You Mean My Organization Is Stepping Stone? by Judith Lindenberger - Oct, 2010 I remember the moment I swore that I would always value my employees. It was the late 90s, I was the head of sales and my boss was sitting across the table. “Sales people are a dime a dozen,” he said. “I could replace anyone working here tomorrow and not miss a beat.” That told me everything I needed to know about my value to the organization and it didn’t take long before I left and started my own company. My boss’ thinkin... |
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What Your Job Search Says About You. Sometimes It Isn’t Pretty! by Dawn Lennon - Oct, 2010 I hear a lot of excuses, justifications, and whining from people looking for a job. It’s always the same things: -“I hate networking.” -“I followed up on a bunch of leads and nothing!” -“I’ve got my resume out there but don’t hear anything.” -“I don’t know what to put on LinkedIn or how to use it.” Come on now! Face reality. Jobs rarely find you. They don’t call it a “search” or “hunting” for nothing. The pr... |
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