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The Best Advice I Ever Received by Liz Handlin - Feb, 2009 When I was about 4 years old we moved from Houston, Texas to a little town called Cushing, Oklahoma which is where I spent the next 13 years of my life. When we arrived in Cushing my parents, of course, needed to find childcare and that is how Mae Troxell came into our lives. Mae was born in 1902 on a cotton farm in Nacogdoches, Texas so when we moved to Oklahoma in 1972 she was 70 years old. Mae was a tough old broad who ... |
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How To Market Yourself For A Job by Ramon Greenwood - Feb, 2009 If you are looking for a job, think of yourself as a product to be sold...for example, a box of cereal or a new service from a bank. Think of employers as buyers. You need a marketing plan to make the sale. Such a plan contains three elements: (1) what you have to sell; (2) where to sell it; and (3) how to communicate the selling message to prospective buyers. Your personal marketing plan for career success should includ... |
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Communication Strategies for Uncertain Times by Liz Bywater, PhD - Feb, 2009 Like millions of Americans - perhaps like you - I sat in front of the television on January 22nd, watching the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States. I listened with rapt attention to the speech of the new Commander in Chief, eagerly awaiting words of strength, direction, and hope. While the President's stage was grand and his audience vast, his task was that of every leader facing uncertain times - to co... |
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What Kind of Workplace Future? by Nan S. Russell - Feb, 2009 In 1883, as soon as construction ended on the Brooklyn Bridge, the scams started. George C. Parker is credited with originating the idea of selling the Brooklyn Bridge, convincing people they could earn a fortune charging tolls for bridge access. Some erected traffic barriers even as Parker boasted he "sold the Brooklyn Bridge twice a week for years." Eventually he was sentenced to life in prison. Today we have our own Geor... |
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It’s Not Easy For Students To Find A Good Job by Bob Roth - Jan, 2009 There are far too many college students who believe that it will be easy to find a good job after graduation. They think that they will simply submit ten or twelve resumes, take a few interviews and somebody will offer them a good paying job. These students are wrong. Many students may also have unrealistic ideas about the starting salaries they will receive, their job duties and responsibilities or their status within the ... |
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Is Your First Impression Your Best Impression? by Valerie Sokolosky & Alice Adams - Jan, 2009 One one-thousand…two one-thousand…three one-thousand. Within the three seconds it took you to read the line above, you are evaluated, summed up and judged by someone you don’t know…even if it’s only at a glance. Like everything else in the 21st century, there is no longer “benefit of the doubt.” Life comes at us fast – and we’re appraised in a matter of seconds, visually and otherwise, from head to toe. In less time tha... |
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Every Firm Needs a Six-Month Check-up by Alice Adams - Jan, 2009 Whether your firm is a multi-generational, family-owned funeral home or is corporately-owned, it needs – just like you and everyone you know – requires a regular, six-month check-up with a physician. Why do people go to a doctor when they’re not sick? To make sure all systems are on go – running efficiently…and that no bugs have crept in. The same is true with your firm. Whether your bottom-line numbers are barely at quota... |
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How Do You Handle Complaints? I Thought So... by Alice Adams - Jan, 2009 I don’t care how long you’ve been in the business or what a nice person you are. It doesn’t matter. Human nature causes all of us to have a problem when someone complains about us – what we didn’t do correctly…or what we did do that they didn’t like. So how do we handle these nasty intruders into our otherwise perfect, professional worlds? Cock-eyed optimists and some self-help gurus would say, “Look at every complaint a... |
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The Best Way to Communicate in the Workplace by Lindsey Pollak - Jan, 2009 Today's wireless world offers an endless array communication choices, giving businesses and individuals a myriad of efficient options to keep in touch with the rest of the world. But in many cases, the proliferation of choices has also blurred the rules of professional protocol. The way you choose to communicate at work has now become as important as what you say when you communicate. Check out this scenario: Kylie ... |
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12 Tips to Get Your Resume Noticed by Tory Johnson - Jan, 2009 Gone are the days of simply mailing your resume, receiving a call, shaking hands at the interview and agreeing on a start date for that new job. The Internet has taken over the recruiting landscape and everyone is required to submit a resume online. While that brings greater efficiency to the process for employers, it can be awfully maddening for job seekers. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you know how to navigate the s... |
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