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Year: 2015

Overexplaining a past termination is a good way to not get hired again

Q: “My written termination notice misrepresents the reason that I no longer work for my former employer. It states that I failed to comply with the required start time of 8:00 AM. This is not the whole story, so I want to provide the actual facts in my upcoming job interviews. I don’t want to sell myself short by adhering to the company’s fiction that I was fired for tardiness, but I also don’t want to malign my former manager. How should I explain this situation?” Wronged

Wikipedia, both flavored and plain

Some entries on Wikipedia can be a bit overwhelming with extensive descriptions and obscure facts and figures. For a leaner page of helpful information, give Simple English Wikipedia a whirl. You can also replace the letters “en” in a link to a standard Wikipedia page with the word “simple” to produce a similar result.

The gentle art of persuasion

Persuasion plays a major role in our everyday conversations. We often try to get others to do something they weren’t doing before, says Dr. Mark Goulston, author of Just Lis­­ten: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone.

Fear of public speaking can help you

Public speaking instills fear in even the most confident people, writes Dianna Booher, CEO of Booher Research. The key to con­­quer­­i­ng public speaking is using your fear to motivate you. Here are some of Booher’s suggestions to help you use your fear to give a great performance.

Are you the ‘face’ of your company?

When Karen Kaplan first started at Hill Holliday as a receptionist, she was just looking for a job to save money. But then the president of the company, Jack Connors, told her she was the face and voice of Hill Holliday …

Disclosing misconduct in the workplace

If you do witness misconduct, take a moment to think about how and where to raise concern, writes Jan Sullivan-Chalmers for Florida Today. If management is involved in the misconduct, there are other possible venues to place a complaint.