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Why You Didn't Get the Interview

Why You Didn't Get the Interview

Walk Into a Salary Negotiation with the Right List of Accomplishments 10 Steps to a Healthier Office On plants - an office I worked in had plants up the wazoo and along with them came insects. After a land on you and scare the heck out of you it begins to negate the effects of the plants. On frequent breaks - yes. On naps - I WISH my work allowed them. On pets - one bad thing there - allergies.

Why You Didn't Get the Interview (Part Two) How to Pirate Movies, Music, TV Shows, and Books Without Getting Caught How To Tell A Job From A Career We work, we live: the two snuggle together tighter than the pixels you're viewing as you read this post--and that fact has opened up the Great Work/Life Balance Debate, with calls for integration, fit, and a feeling that the whole thing might be a big myth. Over at HBR, personality profiling expert Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic has another take: that we should have work-life "fusion," allowing for the workaholic hours he says bring success--with an argument that turns on one key claim: you need to have a career, not just a job. Finding the right match "Work is just like a relationship," Chamorro-Premuzic writes. But the relationship comparison is a little, well, romantic: Just as you'll grow fatigued if you spend enough time with anyone, humans only have so much energy to invest in a given day, meaning that no matter how "in love" you are with a job, you will reach a point where you've had enough. Knowing the (psychological) difference

Are You Being Monitored At Work? | Upgrade Your Life A 2011 survey found that over half of US employers are monitoring their employees' computer usage. How can you find out if you are one of them? And if you are, what should you do about it? There are two main ways employers track computer usage — with monitoring software on your desktop, and by watching the traffic on the corporate network. Also, many companies have written guidelines about Internet usage and may indicate if they are monitoring you. HR departments should have these policies available for employee review. Monitoring Software on Your Computer Monitoring software tracks all your activity and sends logs to the boss or IT department. On a Windows machine: First, look in the system tray and start up folder. On a Mac: Open Finder and look under applications , click 'utilities' and launch 'activity monitor'. If you see something in any of these places that you're unfamiliar with, search it online to see if it's a monitoring program. So What If You Want A Little Privacy?

why young employees quit their jobs Tuesday, September 18, 2012 The biggest reason young, talented workers leave for new jobs? They’re not learning enough, writes Diane Stafford of the Kansas City Star: “Hirers often complain that their young workers jump ship quickly. A study published this summer in the Harvard Business Review confirmed that young top performers—the workers that organizations would most like to stick around—are leaving in droves. Researchers found that high achievers, 30 years old on average with great school and work credentials, are leaving their employers after an average of 28 months. Multiple studies find that today’s younger workers have absolutely no intention of sticking around if they don’t feel like they’re learning, growing and being valued in a job. ‘Companies need to recognize that these young workers are very mobile,’ Carver said.

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Work-Life "Balance" Isn't the Point - Christine M. Riordan by Christine M. Riordan | 1:00 PM June 4, 2013 Climbing the organizational ladder often requires employees to work long hours and deal with difficult and complex issues. Some days on the job are likely fun and positive and other days are tension-filled and stressful. A common dilemma for many people is how they manage all of the competing demands in work and life and avoid letting any negative effects of work spill over into their personal lives. Research has in fact shown that employees who believe they do not have time for the personal life feel drained and distracted while they are at work. However, some people appear to manage career success and a positive private life with ease. 1. Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, came under scrutiny when she returned to work soon after the birth of her son. 2. 3. As Anna Quindlen observed, “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

Top 10 Hardware Boosting Hacks I just did the pogoplug hack this weekend. The LH article is outdated, but the info is available online at ArchLinuxARM.org. I'm not sure rooting a pogoplug is worth the bother now. Rasberry Pi is now available, unless $30, two extra USB ports and Gigabit ethernet is critically important, the RasPi blows the pogoplug out of the water (the additional IO is nice, but the real win is a larger developer community). I did get a pogoplug with the intention of rooting it but realised that its was much more useful to me as it stood. I realize this is article is a few days old, but I just wanted to second this. Now I've just got to figure out what I want to put on it... It's a fun project. I tried running Subsonic, which I used to serve up media from my old computer, but the pogoplug doesn't seem to have enough horsepower for on-the-fly LAME transcoding.

10 tips voor meer zelfvertrouwen op het werk Zodra je een job gezocht hebt, verschijnt hier je laatste zoekopdracht. Voor wie de eerste lentezon niet genoeg is om vrolijk door het leven te dartelen, hebben we enkele tips om terug lekker in z’n vel te zitten. 1. Laat je niet afleiden Blijf gefocust op je werk. Zelfvertrouwen begint met goed werk te verrichten, het halen van deadlines en een positieve werkhouding. 2. Een van de beste manieren om zelfvertrouwen te krijgen, is heel goed weten wat je sterke kanten zijn en manieren te vinden om deze te integreren in je dagelijkse werkzaamheden. 3. Als bepaalde zwakke punten je zelfvertrouwen aantasten, bedenk dan een manier om die aan te pakken. 4. Makkelijker gezegd dan gedaan misschien, maar zeg tegen jezelf ‘Ik kan het’ én geloof dat ook daadwerkelijk. 5. Sta stil bij wat je iedere dag opnieuw bereikt. 6. Hier bewaar je je bedankmailtjes, complimenten van collega’s en leidinggevenden, en alle andere berichten met erkenning en waardering. 7. 8. 9. 10. Meer info overGelukkig op het werk

Get Your Security Deposit Back with a Rental Walk-Through Condition Form The dreaded Room Condition Form (RCF).... I worked as an RA for several years at school, and getting those done usually took an entire day of training. We'd go room to room, opening all of the drawers - closet, dresser, desk... flipping the mattress over to check out both sides of it, turning on & off all the lights, pulling the blind down, opening the windows, etc... And then, when the students moved in, we'd give them the form, tell them to take it up to their room, check things over, make sure we didn't miss anything and bring it back BEFORE they started to move stuff back... They always gave us ours to do ourselves and, as I said, wouldn't return our student IDs until we returned the filled-out forms.

Hoe maak je een origineel cv dankzij Pinterest? Zodra je een job gezocht hebt, verschijnt hier je laatste zoekopdracht. Als je dacht dat we het gehad hebben met de sociale netwerksites dan heb je het mis. Pinterest is een nieuwkomer die steeds meer aanhangers krijgt. Met een sociaal media cv op deze site val je serieus op tussen de tientallen anderen die gewoon een klassiek cv opsturen. Pinterest is een sociale netwerksite, maar is tegelijk ook heel anders dan de Facebooks van deze wereld. Moodboards Het gaat hem bij Pinterest dus niet om woorden, maar om beelden. Welke indeling en hoeveel boards je gebruikt, hangt af van je smaak. Visueel cv Dat bedrijven en sollicitanten ook stilaan hun weg zullen vinden naar Pinterest staat vast. >> Social Media CV (voorbeeld) Hoe ga je te werk? Bedenk vooraf hoe je je cv wilt opbouwen. (mr) Meer info overCV , Online solliciteren

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