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Tools to Help You Grow Your Practice You don’t need compliance approval to LISTEN! Learn how to use Google Reader. Simply enter the code “learn” (without quotes) in the box below. 15 Sales Rules To Live (and Die) By In January 1999, I wrote a memo to a new wholesaling organization that I was starting. It was designed to set the baseline for how we would carry ourselves and face off against customers. These rules became the foundation for developing the team’s MQ-Memorability Quotient®. And, they apply to all sales folks. More than 10 years later they are all still as relevant as the day I wrote them. If you’d like a professionally designed copy, with our compliments, simply fill out the form that follows. Here’s what you’ll be getting via a downloadable pdf:
Are you in career transition? Been laid off? Want a new job? | VocationVacations® Tapping our powers of persuasion Most psychologists will read this “Questionnaire” with Robert Cialdini, PhD. That may or may not be true, but according to Cialdini, that statement is powerfully persuasive because we tend to go along with our peers. Cialdini, who retired last year from a teaching and research position at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., is a renowned expert in the science of swaying. Cialdini distilled his findings into six “weapons of influence,” each grounded in how we perceive ourselves or others: Reciprocity: We inherently want to return favors. In recent years, Cialdini has been leveraging those weapons to address major world problems such as climate change by persuading people to reduce energy use. Cialdini now takes his findings to meetings where he shares them with environmentalists, policymakers and business owners, in hopes of inspiring them to use his weapons of influence to reduce energy usage among industries and consumers. I think it’s a little too early.
60 Resources and Job Search Websites We have been covering resources for job hunters for quite sometime now. Since the launch of our blog in January 2009, we have come a long way, thanks to you. With unemployment rate still high it has become a challenge to find a job, however, with due effort and determination your dream job isn’t that far. We have compiled a list of sixty resources which includes resume articles, job interview articles, job search sites, career and job related blogs, LinkIn Groups and twitter accounts you should follow (10 each) . We are continually trying to provide resources for our readers and job seekers, if you would like us to cover a specific topic please feel free to let us know through your comments. A brief excerpt from the article is included for each link to give you an idea what you will be reading. Articles Related To Resume Articles Related To Job Interviews How To Ace Your job Interview: 88 Surefire Tips and Tricks : So, you’re a recent graduate? Online Job Search Websites Related Posts
Personal and Executive Coaching - The Hoshin Group Job Search Engine | Jobs Direct from Companies | LinkUp.com Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: 8 Leadership Skills for Work and Home We humans need to learn many skills to be able to function most productively in different situations. Learning to be a good and effective leader is one of these skills that can be beneficial both at home while raising children and in the work environment, whether a teacher, a director or a manager. To be a good leader means you can bring your authority out and look at the situation objectively and rationally to see how you want to deal with the issue at hand, and in a way that is proficient to both individuals involved and the system they are a part of. Because if you pay too much attention to one and not the other, then disorder happens. A good leader, whether a parent, director or a manager: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. To be an effective leader in any situation one needs to work on having a sense of integrity, compassion, rationality, honesty and understanding. Roya R.
6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck This article is part of a series called How to Write a Resume. To start this series from the beginning, read the introduction. I’ve used a few bad words in my life. S$it, you probably have too. But when the wrong words appear on your resume, it sucks. These sucky words are not of the four-letter variety. So how do you write a wicked resume without the suck? 1. My lips pucker and make sour sucking noises when I read “Responsible For” on a resume. Employers want the numerical facts. BADResponsible for writing user guides on deadline. GOODWrote six user guides for 15,000 users two weeks before deadline. BADResponsible for production costs. GOODReduced production costs by 15 percent over three months. The resume that avoids vague “responsibilities” and sticks to facts detailing figures, growth, reduced costs, number of people managed, budget size, sales, and revenue earned gets the job interview. 2. BADExperience programming in PHP. 3. Yes, I realize this isn’t a single word but rather a phrase.
Career Advice article: Handling Tricky Interview Questions Interview questions may vary but in essence they are all trying to establish the following: Your skills and experience to do the job Your enthusiasm and interest for the job Whether you will fit in If you have thought through convincing answers to the above, ideally illustrated with real-life examples, then you should be able to answer most of the questions that arise. This section looks at some of the typical questions which arise and how to handle them. Tell me about yourself? This question or something similar usually starts every interview. Focus on the areas of most relevance to the job in question Include some impressive achievements e.g. an award, contracts you won Convey your enthusiasm for the job Avoid personal or irrelevant information e.g. your children, un-related jobs Your answer should be about 3-5 minutes long delivered in a clear, punchy, confident manner e.g. What do you know about our organisation? You should be able to answer the following: What are your weaknesses? Summary
Five things hiring managers won't tell you Hiring managers are skilled at masking what they're thinking during your interview. Find out what hiring managers are thinking, but not saying to your faceThe hiring manager may not have had time to review your résumé in great depth yetJob seekers often forget that they aren't the only ones on display during the interview (CareerBuilder.com) -- Boy, wouldn't the ability to read minds come in handy during the job interview? At the risk of stating the obvious, who wouldn't love to know what hiring managers really think about your qualifications or what they consider the perfect answer to a certain question? Armed with this information, you'd be a step ahead of other job applicants. Unfortunately, none of us have this skill. 1) 'I haven't had time to prepare.' Chances are you aren't the only person with which the potential employer will be meeting. The truth is the hiring manager may not have had time to review your résumé in great depth before sitting down with you. So, what can you expect?
9 Resume Tips That Should Be Screechingly Obvious (But Apparently Aren’t) | Former Slacker These are all basic rules, but they all seem to get broken constantly. All of these should be obvious to anyone who’s conscious (maybe even the lightly sleeping), but they must not be. On to the rules! Proofread your resume. This is the most basic rule I can imagine, and yet it has been violated so many times that it’s threatening to press charges. These nine rules are all fairly simple and straightforward. Update: I’ve put up four more Bonus Resume Tips.
blog.mattgoyer.com » Technical interview at Amazon (SDE) and Mic Executive Summary Interviewing is time consuming, tiring, and a lot of work. But the reward for doing well is a full time job. Treat the whole process as a game and have a good time. And don’t give up. It took me a long time to get an interview with Amazon and I have failed at the Microsoft interview process before so keep at it. What else? Talk to friends.Aggressively pursue interview opportunities. How did I get two full time job offers from two great companies? Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of any past, present, or future employers. Getting the interviews I started the full time job hunt before school started in September. Seeing as my girlfriend, Natalie, had a full time unaccepted offer from Amazon it was not hard for her to get me into the process there. I never blogged about it, but I have hinted about it, but I interviewed with Microsoft in the Spring of 2003 for a program manager position. Preparation Initial interview screens In Seattle
10 things to do after the interview How to keep the momentum going Beth Braccio Hering, Special to CareerBuilder Share This Post The interview may be over, but your chance to make an impression is not. Here are 10 strategies to continue boosting your candidacy. 1. Leave no doubt in the interviewer's mind about where you stand. 2. Nobody wants to be a pest, but could your silence as days pass be misinterpreted as indifference? 3. If you tell the interviewer you'll send a list of references tomorrow morning, make sure you do it. 4. If an interviewer requests that you follow up by phone in a week, respect her wishes. 5. A positive, nonintrusive way to stay on an employer's mind is to send a thank-you note. 6. This piece of communication is another chance for you to shine, so don't waste space with generalities. 7. Another effective way to follow up is to act more like a consultant than an applicant. 8. Be prepared for additional interviews or follow-up phone calls by continuing to research the organization and the field. 9.