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It’s hard to trick the “applicant management” software, but here are a few tips that might get your resume to the top of the pile.

1. Lift key phrases from the job listing on the website and put them in your resume. Also be sure to use them when filling out online questionnaires.
2. Be sure to mention your critical job skills early and often. That way,

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Author: Evelyn Nussenbaum | Source: Short-Circuiting the New Paper Pushers | Original Publication: Business 2.0 | Subject: Miscellaneous

Author: John Wooden | Source: Coach Wooden Website | Original Publication: coachwooden.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Uncategorized

Subject: Miscellaneous

1. Self-starter skills
   Give me 10 thoroughbreds over 15 slow runners every time. Managers want employees that take initiative and want to do a good job. Being proactive is an excellent trait, especially when it is consistent with the company’s mission. I’ll pay more for each individual in the team of 10 than for the team of 15, but I’ll accomplish more.
2. Adaptability
   IT is constantly changing

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Author: Michael Sisco | Source: Ten traits IT managers look for in a job candidate | Original Publication: TechRepublic | Subjects: Key Skills to Possess, Miscellaneous

Subject: Miscellaneous

Some ads are “blind”–the employer’s name isn’t given. To find out what company is behind a blind ad, copy and paste the firm’s description from the ad into a search engine, such as Google, suggests Randy Cyr, a vice president in the Wellesley, Mass., office of Gilbert Tweed Associates Inc., a New York-based recruiter. (At most search engines, you can put quotation marks around a … [ Read more ]

Author: Sarah E. Needleman | Source: Job-Search Secrets For Hunting on the Web | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Quick Tips

[date]

Mr./Ms. [first name] [last name]

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[company name]

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Dear Mr./Ms. [last name],

Thank you for taking the time to meet with me on [date] to discuss the [name of position] opening. I enjoyed talking with you and [taking a tour of the office, seeing the computer room, or … [ Read more ]

Author: Molly Joss | Source: Interview follow-up letter templates | Original Publication: TechRepublic | Subjects: Letters (Cover, Thank-you, Follow-up), Sample Thank You Letter Templates

[date]

Mr./Ms. [first name] [last name]

[title]

[company name]

[street address]

[city], [state] [zip code]

Dear [you can use a first name if the interview was informal],

Thank you for taking the time to talk with me the other day [or use the specific date] while I was visiting [company name]. I enjoyed my time … [ Read more ]

Author: Molly Joss | Source: Interview follow-up letter templates | Original Publication: TechRepublic | Subjects: Letters (Cover, Thank-you, Follow-up), Sample Thank You Letter Templates

[date]

Mr./Ms. [first name] [last name]

[title]

[company name]

[street address]

[city], [state] [zip code]

Dear Mr./Ms. [last name],

Thank you for setting up my interviews [or conducting the interviews] when I visited [company name] on [date]. I enjoyed meeting you and [names of people you also interviewed with]. I appreciate the time that the staff … [ Read more ]

Author: Molly Joss | Source: Interview follow-up letter templates | Original Publication: TechRepublic | Subjects: Letters (Cover, Thank-you, Follow-up), Sample Thank You Letter Templates

The concept of the career anchor was first developed some thirty years ago by Edgar Schein, a Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schein says that people are primarily motivated by one of eight anchors–priorities that define how they see themselves and how they see their work.

The eight anchors:

1. Technical/functional competence. The key for a person with

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Author: Anne Field | Source: Getting a Handle on Employee Motivation | Original Publication: HBS Working Knowledge | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

If you’re thinking about making a job or career change, the first step is to “know thyself.” I can’t help you figure that out in a letter, but I can give you a one-minute formula to help get you started:

• G + P + V = your calling.

The G stands for your gifts; the P is for passion; and the V equals

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Author: Joyce Ravid | Source: All The Right Moves: Rational Expectations | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

• First Paragraph
  It is essential that your first paragraph captures the employer’s attention, provides detailed information about the benefits the employer will receive from you, and, of course, helps you stand out from the competition. It is a good idea to include one or two key selling points or benefits you can offer the employer that other job-seekers cannot. It is also important to

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Source: Get On Track – Your Cover Letter | Original Publication: MBA Authority | Subject: Letters (Cover, Thank-you, Follow-up)

Subject: Letters (Cover, Thank-you, Follow-up)

Velocity–or rate of change–is important in many different kinds of systems. While you need to know where you are, it is often even more essential to know how fast you are going and in which direction you are heading. When applied to human beings, this becomes Lyle’s Law of Becoming: What you are becoming is as important as what you are doing.

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Author: Lyle D. Feisel, Ph.D., P.E. | Source: Lyle’s Law of Becoming | Original Publication: The Bent of Tau Beta Pi | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

Online author Barbara Oaff says that experts define office politics as “the way in which workers recognize, and seek to reconcile, their competing interests.” No matter the size of your company, country, or association, all politics are local. In other words, your team or workgroup’s politics define who gets noticed and rewarded. Therefore, an initial step in mastering office politics is uncovering how things get … [ Read more ]

Author: Anil Saxena | Source: Mastering the Art of Office Politics | Original Publication: Gallup Management Journal | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

Weekly Reviews

At the heart of David Allen’s productivity coaching is the discipline of a weekly review. “That is critical to making personal organization a vital, dynamic reality,” he says. Here, adapted from Allen’s Web site, is a list of steps that you should work your way through every Friday afternoon.

1. Sort your loose papers. Gather all scraps of paper—business cards, receipts, miscellaneous notes—and

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Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: You can do anything – but not everything | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

When you become the boss, your former peers will fall into one of four categories:

1. Leavers are those who, for a variety of reasons, won’t stick around. Let them go. Holding on to people who have already psychologically separated themselves from the organization is, at best, a temporary victory. At worst, you have marginally motivated employees who are probably second-guessing their decisions to stay. You

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Author: Patricia Wallington | Source: Lonely At The Top | Original Publication: CIO | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

Now that you’re in charge, you will need to balance the pull of the past with the requirements of the new job, which call for you to play a bigger role in the operation of the company.

You have friends in the organization, and you will want to keep them. At the same time, you must avoid favoritism. You can do this by … [ Read more ]

Author: Patricia Wallington | Source: Lonely At The Top | Original Publication: CIO | Subjects: Handling Your Promotion: What to Expect When You’re the New Boss, On the Job Career Advice

Mary Dee Hicks, senior vice president of Personnel Decisions International (PDI), a human resources consulting firm in Minneapolis advises all managers to see what their individual management profile is, and then work to improve their own areas of deficiency. How? By gathering good information about where you stand relative to what’s expected of you. Hicks suggests that financial managers who are interested in improving their … [ Read more ]

Author: Shari Caudron | Source: See Jane Lead! | Original Publication: Controller Magazine | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

How can you gain leverage in your job? There is a way, which can be highly liberating. It allows people at every level of an organization to act with integrity and intelligence to pursue what they most want and what they believe is best for the organization. You must build your organizational equity — a kind of equity that you can create yourself, that increases … [ Read more ]

Author: Art Kleiner | Source: Build Your Organizational Equity | Original Publication: strategy+business | Subject: On the Job Career Advice