You are not going to get a job that deserves you by sitting in the chair like a Good Little Job-Seeker and answering questions. You have to get your interviewer off the script! A ‘screener’ or HR interviewer who interviews you before you meet your own hiring manager may have a hard time getting off their interview… read more
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The Effective CNO: 5 Skills Great Nurse Leaders Use to Manage Change
Inspiring and engaging staff and operating with transparency are some of the proven ways nurse leaders can keep their teams on their toes. Change used to come in short bursts, but now it’s continuous. As the health care industry pivots to accountable care organizations and prepares for population health, the pace of change is accelerating…. read more
When employers look at you online, what should they see?
On Behalf Of Alan from Interview Success Formula Nearly 80% of employers do an online search for potential candidates. What will they learn about you? You always dress the part in live interviews. Let’s make sure your online presence matches up. And, puts your best foot forward. The place to start is with LinkedIn. This… read more
Ten Things You Must Do Before Accepting A Job Offer
Pilots use a checklist to make sure that everything that’s supposed to happen before a flight does happen. You need a checklist too, to make sure that you’ve covered all the bases before you accept a job offer. Here’s a list of 10 things to do before you say “Yes, I’ll take the job!” 10 Things You… read more
Ten Policies You’ll Find In Every Toxic Workplace
There are lots of clues that a company or institution you’re interviewing with is a bad place to work. You can tell by the way the recruiter communicates with you. You can tell from the feeling you get when you walk into the building for your job interview. You can tell in a second how… read more
The real reason 60% of job seekers can’t stand the application process
Almost nobody enjoys searching for a job. In fact, a recent survey – the product of collaboration between research firm Future Workplaceand HR-technology providerCareerArc – found that a majority of job seekers have had a poor candidate experience. The “Candidate Experience Study” surveyed 1,200 respondents – 826 job seekers and 374 employers. About 60% of… read more
When Does a Job Become a Career?
For those who are employed now, along with those who are searching for a job, employment at its basis represents a need. For many people that need is related to a source of income and for those who are unemployed it becomes a necessity that reduces the amount of perceived selectiveness when weighing possible options…. read more
7 Reasons Why Emotional Intelligence Is One Of The Fastest-Growing Job Skills
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report, emotional intelligence will be one of the top 10 job skills in 2020. The awareness that emotional intelligence is an important job skill, in some cases even surpassing technical ability, has been growing in recent years. In a 2011 Career Builder Survey of more than… read more
Can I Get Fired For Doing My Job Too Well?
Dear Liz, I am going through a difficult period at my job. I was hired a year ago to launch a National Accounts program and that program is going really well. The company overall earned $72 million in revenue in 2015 and our national accounts were responsible for $19 million of that sum so the… read more
7 Traits of OVER ACHIEVING TEAMS!!!
According to Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2016, “A new organizational model is on the rise: a “network of teams” in which companies build and empower teams to work on specific business projects and challenges. These networks are aligned and coordinated with operations and information centers similar to command centers in the military.” The “military”? Are… read more