27 Posts found for Publisher: CareerJournal.com

Here’s a tip that may help you for the remainder of your career. If you want to succeed, don’t expect your boss to manage you. Instead, you must learn to manage your boss. Success doesn’t always come from doing your job well. More often, it comes from making your manager look good.

“To move up in a company, you have to manage your boss,” says … [ Read more ]

Author: Perri Capell | Source: “Mind Readers Wanted? When A Job Comes Without Directions” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

With all the distractions the end of the year brings, it’s easy to neglect your day-to-day work. But this might be the most important time of year to focus on your job and your career. Many organizations hold year-end performance reviews, and acing them is often your ticket to a pay raise or promotion.

Here’s how to prepare for a performance review so that you … [ Read more ]

Author: Marshall Loeb | Source: “Six Tips for Acing Your Year-End Review” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

When interviewing candidates, Kenneth Widelka, acting general manager of Pearson Reid London House, always asks them to provide examples of how they’ve used certain strengths. He analyzes the stories based on the PAR format, as follows:

1. Problem
   Start by describing the problem or situation that you faced.

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Author: Arlene S. Hirsch | Source: “When an Interviewer Says: ‘Tell Me About a Time When You…'” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subjects: Behavioral Interview, Interviewing

You can adapt the following approach to most questions recruiters can dream up. Moreover, you’ll be armed with responses interviewers won’t have heard before. You’ll be able to answer with enthusiasm and passion that can’t be duplicated in a textbook response.

Success Stories

The first step is to prepare three or more career success stories and two or more that had less than favorable … [ Read more ]

Author: Steven Richards | Source: “Your Guide to Surviving An ‘Extreme Interview” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: Interviewing

But older candidates often aren’t interested in filing discrimination lawsuits. They want a job. So how should they address age questions without making themselves seem unpleasant or spoiling the interview atmosphere? If you tell the truth, the interviewer then knows your age and may not want to hire you because of it. If you say you don’t want to answer the question, you could come … [ Read more ]

Author: Perri Capell | Source: “Age-Old Question: How to Reply To Illegal Queries With Grace?” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: Interviewing

Beyond Google, how else can you investigate a company’s office culture? Here, a trove of tips and tricks from people who know how to size up a prospective employer.

• Background Check: “Ask the interviewer or the company representative about her own background, and compare the responses among individuals. Does the company bring in people from eclectic backgrounds? That says a lot

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Author: Karen Hube | Source: “Easy Ways to Investigate a Company’s Office Culture” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: Evaluating a Job / Employer

• Can you provide your own gratification? Narcissists are good at taking the glory—not giving it—so stop expecting your manager to compliment or reward your efforts. This doesn’t mean you should do any less to look out for the boss, but you should learn to get your strokes from other places.
• Do you avoid flattery? People often deal with

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Author: Bob Rosner | Source: “How to Handle a Self-Absorbed Boss” | Original Publication: CareerJournal.com | Subject: On the Job Career Advice