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– Why 46% of people quit their jobs? – Bad boss or dull employee? – How to have a good boss Have you ever had a good boss? When I ask this to a group, I’m lucky to get 10% of hands raised. When I ask, have you ever had abad boss, the response is +80%. … Continue reading
– 5 Signs of Your Obtuseness (and 3 solutions) – Thick planks facilitate comprehension! – Plow horse or race horse? I confess. I was a 2 x 4 employee, ie, the employee that you had to whack upside the head with a 2×4 in order to make them understand. True story: After an unsuccessful … Continue reading
– 6 Ways the Job Market Really Works – 50 words / 20 seconds – 4 hours x 5 days x 4 weeks = job offer It’s only Wednesday and I’ve already had 5 strangers call me for career advice because they were fired, retrenched, downsized, let go or made redundant. Unemployed, by any word. … Continue reading
You snagged your sheepskin; dibbed your diploma, posed for pictures, justified the financial investment of your parents and now you want a job too? Ok. Life rewards actions, so take these actions and be among the top 4% of job seekers. Discover what you want to do. No consultant, prospective employer, recruiting firm or … Continue reading
It was 444 BC when Empodocles noticed that people seemed to act in 4 distinctly different ways. Ever since, we’ve been trying to figure out – and predict– how people behave. For 26 years I’ve used psychometrics to predict performance. So whether you’re a candidate taking one or an HR professional administering one, here’s everything you … Continue reading
3 Features / 2 Columns / 1 Function = Your Payoff Idiot-proof your résumé because it will surely be read by idiots. I should know; I’m one. By ‘idiot’ I don’t mean intellectually deficient (ok, maybe sometimes). I mean people who lack the age, experience, maturity, motivation, desire, or curiosity to comprehend your … Continue reading
Don Peppers is: a “Top 50 Business Brains” by The Times of London “Top 100 Business Intellectuals” by Accenture 50 “most influential thinkers in marketing and business today”; UK’s Chartered Institute for Marketing Hall of Fame, Direct Marketing Association (US; 2013) Here’s 8 things I learned in 20 minutes when interviewing him for the business … Continue reading
11 Things To Know About Doing Business Abroad .. Dr. Duff Watkins on the business podcast of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia Doing business abroad should be easy. After all, they speak English, right? Let’s take Australia as an example. After living and working in Australia for 35 years (from the … Continue reading
We already know the 7 habits of bad management (Learn From The Worst: 7 habits of highly unsuccessful leaders) but what are the behaviours patterns, tendencies and dispositions (ie, habits) of good management? Good habits are just the flip side of bad habits. So just acquire these 7 personal attributes of good management: 1. Get real, … Continue reading
1. Recruiters are always looking for candidates. False. Recruiters are always looking for clients not candidates. You’re more likely to get hit by a piece of Halley’s Comet than to get a job by sending your unsolicited résumé to a recruiter. Avoid cosmic long shots, take earthly action. 2. “Head hunters” will help. A recruiter’s … Continue reading
Albert Einstein’s advice to job seekers: “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Ok, he wasn’t really addressing job-seekers. But he could’ve been. All you job seekers out there need to grasp this one essential fact: 80% of the time it’syou who eliminates you from the running. A job search is largely self-sorting. Truly, … Continue reading
Headhunter Confessions: how the job market really works [www.execsearch.com.au] 