Ok, you got the interview, now make sure you do well. There’s tons of information in www.bizpain.com about what to do to prepare for an interview, along with sources on the web, newspapers and books, so we’ll focus here on what Not To Do.
The Ten Commandments of What Thou Shall Not Do in the Interview:
1. [...]
Oh, God, I almost vomited when she said this in our staff meeting.
Here’s the setting. We haven’t paid our electric bill, so the office is temperature is about 60 degrees. Now, that may be good if you’re a meat packer, but we write ads and things, so our fingers don’t think it’s so good – [...]
Not everyone is cut out to be on your team. Sometimes you have cut the dead wood and put together a totally different group. I’m reminded of this daily when I look at some of the door-stops working around me.
Sure, you know all about team management, but do you know how to build a winning [...]
Where’s the best place to live in North America? If you’re looking for an urban environment, David Savageau’s Places Rated Web site names these as the top ten metro locations:
1. New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ
2. San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA
3. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
4. Madison, WI
5. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
6. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
7. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
8. Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL
9. Austin-Round Rock, [...]
So, for the first time in decades, the Worried Worker is having more fun with someone other than Vice President Biden.
This week, it’s Senator Reid who is reported to have said something like “Obama is a light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.” Now, the president has apparently accepted [...]
Your shit is as good as any, isn’t it?
Your incomes taxes are due in a couple of months. You can get your receipts together now and get the basic process started, or wait until the last minute.
You may not have a lot to work with this year, but it’s good time to prepare for [...]
My boss recently brought in an executive coach to help him be perceived better by his management team, of which I am a part of. Now, I know this is good for the team, but I still believe this is all about him so I want to play along, but not look stupid if he [...]
I read today that American workers’ satisfaction with their jobs is at an all time low. I was surprised to see the article in the paper because no one every contacted me for my vote. So, I wanted to share it with everyone anyhow.
I hate my job. Or, let me say it another way: I [...]
Self-help gurus and life coaches all stress the importance of having goals if you want to succeed in life. But the big question is: What’s a worthwhile goal?
A goal should reflect your values, of course—what you really want, not what you should want, or what other people want you to achieve. Career and financial [...]
Let’s start with the year of the tiger.
I know, it may be safer to get enthusiastic about the next twelve months, but that’s the kind of thinking that gets most workers into trouble – short term thinking, short term gains, short term cycles – maybe it’s time to look to the future?
We all know the [...]
