Prepare for a great Skype interview
More organizations are using Skype to conduct interviews. Beth Braccio Hering offers her favorite tips for making a great impression:
Category: Career
3 ways a blog can help you advance
Starting at the bottom may not be fun, but it’s a fact of life. Or is it? Cassie Boorn skipped it with the help of a blog she started in college. Steer yourself into the fast lane with her tips.
Feel like an impostor at work?
Even if you’re doing well in your career, getting good reviews and advancing at a solid clip, you may have times when you feel like you don’t really know what you’re doing and you’re just faking it, writes Jessica Stillman. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
Why you aren’t moving up the ladder
You’ve been a loyal, hardworking employee for years and haven’t seen a promotion. You may have one or more of these common professional problems, writes Alison Green:
Are you ready to get ‘profersonal’?
“Profersonalism is about letting go of the idea that we can put our lives into neat little boxes. It’s about categorizing activities instead of people,” says Jason Seiden, CEO of Ajax Social Media. What does that mean in the context of an administrative professional’s career?
4 ways to speak up and share your ideas, opinions
You’re intelligent. You’re competent. You get the job done. But is anyone noticing your great qualities and skills? The quickest way to make sure they do is to speak up and share your ideas and opinions.
1-Minute Strategies: September ’12
Remove distractions to boost your productivity … Quantify your value … Save your boss time with mobile printing … Connect via LinkedIn groups.
How to become an essential employee
No matter how much of a team player someone is, an employee is dispensable to her employer if she lacks bottom-line focus, writes Anita Bruzzese, author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy. Take a visible role in the overall success of your company with these tips:
What it takes to land your dream job
While having a great résumé is the first step toward finding your dream job, it won’t guarantee it, Karl Malinowski writes on the Simply blog. Here’s what it takes to make the cut:
Make the most of your failures
Failure and weakness are painful, but can be harnessed to your advantage, says Kevin Daum, a successful entrepreneur.