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• Ability to listen
• Ability to give proper recognition
• Ability to share—whether it’s information or credit for a success
• Ability to stay calm when others panic
• Ability to make midcourse corrections
• Ability to accept responsibility
• Ability to admit a mistake
• Ability to defer to others, even (especially) those of lesser rank
• Ability to let someone else be right some of the time
• Ability to say thank you
• Ability to resist playing favorites

This quick list of attributes, while attractive … [ Read more ]

Author: Marshall Goldsmith | Source: Nice Guys Can Finish First | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: Miscellaneous

Regardless of the time you take between jobs, it’s important to build an interim structure to your day in order to replace the old patterns of work. The brain functions best when there’s structure. Make a schedule that you honor every day. Get up at a regular hour, get dressed, exercise, get adequate sleep, and keep a journal. The journal is particularly important as a … [ Read more ]

Author: Ruth Luban | Source: All The Right Moves: Don’t Lose Hope | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subjects: Coping Emotionally with Unemployment and the Job Search, Miscellaneous

Froma speech to the 1996 Dean’s Associates Conference by Gordon Myers, Chief Operating Officer, ISSC (Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation, asubsidiary of IBM)

1. Competence and Knowledge
• You must be knowledgeable in your chosen field.
• You must have a familiarity with business finances. The odds are high that, regardless of the field, within the first year of work you will be asked to estimate future costs, look at

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Author: Gordon Myers | Source: Interview with Gordon Myers, Chief Operating Officer for ISSC | Original Publication: Texas — The Business School Magazine | Subject: Miscellaneous

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

• LEADERSHIP
• Earn respect of colleagues
• Passion = Winner, Aggressive
• Future potential to grow and make change, not just manage
• Problem solver and implementer
• DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS
• Persuasive abilities
• Strategic thinker
• Goal orientation and execution
• Ability to achieve
• Engaging business discussion
• INTEGRITY
• Professional Ethics
• Self-confidence to take a dissenting position if it is a better way
• FLEXIBILITY
• Accept changing roles
• Adapt to dynamic environment
• TEAM PLAYER

Know yourself: Strengths and weaknesses and how they apply to the above. Know specific examples in … [ Read more ]

Subject: Miscellaneous

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

True or false?

• You add more value to your organization than most of your coworkers.
• Colleagues often seek your counsel.
• Your department is well-regarded.
• Your boss is well-regarded.
• You do important work.
• You’re upgrading your skills.
• You’ve cultivated important allies in and outside your organization.
• If you were the boss, you would hire yourself.

The more true answers you gave, the more likely it is you’ll move up.

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Author: Marty Nemko | Source: Will You Get Ahead? | Original Publication: Monster.com | Subject: Miscellaneous

Subject: Miscellaneous

This article takes a look at the role of luck in our lives. Specifically, read about the four kinds of luck and the five luck skills.

Author: Ellen J. Wallach | Source: Make Your Own Luck | 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

Luck is defined here as an unexpected reconfiguration of events – or things happening in ways that are surprising. There seem to be four kinds of luck. You cannot control any of them, but you can influence two of them.

1. First is luck by accident. This kind of luck is unplanned and you have little or no influence or control. Natural disasters fit this

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Author: Ellen J. Wallach | Source: Make Your Own Luck | Subjects: Make Your Own Luck, Miscellaneous

Subject: Miscellaneous

Why are some people luckier than others? What do lucky people do that others don’t? They set goals, work hard and master the skills for making their own luck. Here are the five luck skills.

1. Challenging Assumptions is questioning what most people see as the truth or status quo. It’s examining your belief systems, asking why things are always done a certain way, seeking

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Author: Ellen J. Wallach | Source: Make Your Own Luck | Subjects: Make Your Own Luck, 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