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Q: My biggest frustration as an unemployed executive is potential employers telling me that I am “overqualified.” How do I counter this accusation? The fact is, I am generally guilty as charged. Nor does it work to argue that I’m not really as qualified as I appear to be. Short of shortchanging my credentials and accomplishments on my resume, which is probably unethical, how can … [ Read more ]

Author: John Kador | Source: Is It Ethical to Omit A Degree from Your Resume? | Original Publication: Darwin | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Q&A

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

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

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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)

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

In their book, Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns that Keep You from Getting Ahead, authors James Waldroop and Timothy Butler, Directors of MBA Career Development at The Harvard Business School, identify the 12 habits, or Achilles’ heels, that can hold you back from getting ahead on the career front.

1. Never Feeling Good Enough
   Symptom:

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Author: Shary Hauer | Source: Success Blind Spots: Get Out Of Your Own Way | Original Publication: CEO Refresher | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

Richard Knight is a senior vice president at Keystone Associates, a premier career-transition firm based in Burlington, Massachusetts. After 16 years in corporate human resources, Knight realized he didn’t like where his current road was taking him. The process that he used to switch fields—to outplacement consulting—is the same process that he’s used to help hundreds of other people create new career visions.

1. Find the

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Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Four Steps to Find Your Inner Fly | Original Publication: Fast Company | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

Identifying o­ne’s own dreams is an intuitive process. The brain uses a system of notifications (pleasant and unpleasant emotions) to warn us whether the profile of events currently unfolding is following a desirable pattern (satisfaction) or a dangerous o­ne (dissatisfaction). To some extent, these emotions are signals to act.

According to IESE Professor Luis Huete, author of the book “Construye tu sueño” (“Build … [ Read more ]

Author: Luis María Huete | Source: Put Your Dreams To Work | Original Publication: IESE Insight | Subject: Career (Self) Exploration

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

1. Act your way into a new way of thinking and being. You cannot discover yourself by introspection.
   Start by changing what you do. Try different paths. Take action, and then use the feedback from your actions to figure out what you think, feel, and want. Don’t try to analyze or plan your way into a new career. Conventional strategies advocated by self-assessment manuals and traditional

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Author: Herminia Ibarra | Source: Nine Unconventional Strategies For Reinventing Your Career | Original Publication: HBS Working Knowledge | Subject: On the Job Career Advice

How good a networker are you? Find out with this Reach Networking Quiz.

• Do you take an active role in at least one professional or philanthropic organization?
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  No
• Do you burn bridges when you leave jobs or assignments and never look back?
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  Never
• Do you attend functions where you know you will meet people that you need to know?

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Source: Reach Communications Consulting, Inc. | Subject: Networking

Take this quiz to rate the strength of your current inside network.

1. Do you know people at all levels of the organization? Do they know your name and what you do?
2. Do you know all the people whose work intersects yours in any way?
3. Do you know people who have jobs you might like to have someday?
4. Are you involved in any cross-functional efforts or interdepartmental activities (temporary

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Author: Anne Baber | Source: The Neglected Network | Original Publication: The Center for Association Leadership | Subject: Networking