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Candidates

Nov 16, 20174 min read

Conversation with a Reference

Congratulations, you’ve made it to the third-tier interviews, and the hiring manager wants to check your professional references. Have you ever wondered how the conversation goes when your potential employer calls your former supervisor to discuss…you? A reference follow-up call can happen anywhere – in an elevator in Seattle, or on vacation in […]

Five Ways to Ace Your Live Video Interview

Candidates

Oct 26, 20174 min read

Five Ways to Ace Your Live Video Interview

How amazing is visual communication? Skype, Facetime, WhatsApp, Google Hangouts – these are all awesome until we are accidentally photo bombed by a half-naked little brother during an important sales call. Or, we create a perceptual problem defending our work-at-home hours to our boss while our husband loads the jet skis in the background. […]

The New Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “What Were You Making at Your Last Job?”

Candidates

Oct 17, 20174 min read

The New Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “What Were You Making at Your Last Job?”

Marital status, kids, nationality, medical status, age, faith – most hiring managers know that asking job candidates questions about any of these topics violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The Act, which helps to protect workers against discrimination and barriers to job opportunities, can be complicated, which is why HR and anyone […]

Candidates

Oct 10, 20173 min read

Best Paying Industries for Recent Grads

When you’re fresh out of college and entering the job market, the last thing you want is a job that would force you to live on your meager student budget for any more time. You want a high paying career that rewards your hard work, lets you show off the skills you spent years acquiring, […]

Attract Top Talent by Integrating Sustainability into your HR Practices

Employers

Sep 29, 20174 min read

Attract Top Talent by Integrating Sustainability into your HR Practices

If your company is in the process of transforming itself into a sustainability-oriented enterprise, you are not alone. According to a 2016 GreenBiz report, 51 percent of U.S. companies have disclosed greenhouse gas reduction targets (The State of Green Business, 2016). But part of sustainability management includes a human resource component, not just...

Not Getting Hired? Time to Check Your Writing!

Candidates

Sep 19, 20175 min read

Not Getting Hired? Time to Check Your Writing!

At the risk of being in the hot seat as readers try to discover errors in this blog, it is important to remind job seekers, particularly recent graduates, that writing proficiency is ‘top of the list’ for most recruiters. Well, that’s good, you say because I am writing all the time. Yes, written communication […]

Candidates

Aug 29, 20175 min read

What New Team Leaders Should Know First

Monday is going well, until your boss announces she wants you to head up a new project team. Memories of college team assignments flood your brain: you did all of the work, one did all of the complaining, and the others got a free ‘A’. Why me, you ask? Companies appoint teams because diverse skills and […]

Employers

Aug 17, 20173 min read

When Fire Struck, It was all about EQ

IQ and EQ – intelligence and emotional intelligence – much has been written about these cognitive skills, but when disaster hits, leaders will know just how much of it both they and their employees have. However, it is the power of emotional intelligence including self-control, adaptability, confidence, initiative, and optimism that will determine the...

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