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What Not to Include

August 28, 2010

Salary Information My advice is to leave out salary information, even when an ad specifically asks for it. You want to focus the reader’s attention on your in-depth experience and on the value you bring to the job, not on the cost. Salary may also keep you from getting the interview. If it’s “too high” [...]

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First Impressions on the Job

June 25, 2010

Within mere seconds, people form opinions about new people they meet. All the more reason to ensure you make the right impression on your boss and colleagues when starting a new job. In the early days in a new work environment, it is important to come across as a team player. It’s a deal maker [...]

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Professional Presence

June 11, 2010

Eagle Ridge GM – Buying a New CarUploaded by Janeuree. – Oriented to the customer’s needs, create the best possible scenario. Maintaining a respectful distance of three to six feet shows an awareness of the person’s anger. She should have clearly explained the situation: “I am so very sorry. I’m afraid I was being overzealous [...]

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Critical Circumstances and Sticky Situations

June 3, 2010

Instructions on how the client could retrieve his car. Then she hung up the telephone, grabbed her purse, and fled through the back exit. Why this sudden metamorphosis from a confident, self-assured woman to a cringing coward? Because nothing saps our self-confidence, impacts our body language or stymies our effectiveness quite like being the brunt [...]

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Professional Presence

January 5, 2010

When it comes to physical contact such as a slap on the back, a reassuring hand on the arm, or a friendly wing around the shoulder, the one with the greater amount of power and presence initiates the touch. They are allowed, for instance, to reach over and give a reassuring pat on the back [...]

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