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Summary of Key Points

February 3, 2012

Communication helps organizations and the people in them achieve their goals. The ability to write and speak well becomes increasingly important as you rise in an organization. People put things in writing to create a record, to convey complex data, to make things convenient for the reader, to save money, and to convey their own [...]

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Wasted Time

January 10, 2012

Bad writing takes longer to read. Studies have shown that up to 97% of our reading time is taken not in moving our eyes across the page but in trying to understand what we’re reading. How quickly we can do this is is determined by the difficulty of the subject matter and by the document’s [...]

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Japanese Investors Prefer Written Reports

November 15, 2011

Ken Ninagawa, 50 oversees U.S. investments for a money management unit of Nomura Securities Co. in New  York…[working] with a staff of just five people to invest almost $1 billion in the U.S. stock market…. Because Japanese investors prefer written reports to phone calls, Mr. Ninagawa and his aides go so far as to write [...]

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The Art of Good Listening

September 28, 2011

Listening carefully when you’re nervous isn’t easy. There’s the temptation to be thinking about what may be asked or to be rethinking what you should have said to the question just asked. Some of this will get easier with more experience in interviewing, but here are some tips that can help in the meantime: Keep [...]

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Your Arrival at the Office

September 18, 2011

Announce yourself to the receptionist or secretary. She will likely suggest that you sit down and wait while she announces your arrival. If she doesn’t offer, ask about a coat closet. It is to your advantage to have one less thing to carry. Unless you are told that you have a long wait, use your [...]

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Two-Career Job Hunting

August 30, 2011

Finding two professional or managerial jobs in the same geographic area requires creativity, hard work and patience. Most couples seem to use one of three basic strategies: One spouse accepts a job. (One factor in the decision to accept the job may be whether the area offers opportunities for the other spouse.) Then the other [...]

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How to Find Out Who’s Hiring

August 16, 2011

Your placement office can tell you which organizations regularly come to your campus to interview students. Local bankers can tell you which businesses in town are expanding. Even in a generally depressed area, one or more companies will be doing well. Be sure to consider small local companies as well as huge national and multinational [...]

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Balance your Personal and Your Professional Lives

August 13, 2011

First Boston’s president and CEO, Peter Buchanan, tries to set the example. He tries to pay as much attention to his family as to his work. “It must be a macho thing to work until eleven o’clock every night. I’ve heard that one of our competitors tells you the firm comes first in your life, [...]

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Sample of Shelley’s List for a Forced Choice

July 16, 2011

High Income Medium-sized city Near mountains Cost of living not too high Opportunity for advancement Nonsexist environment “Name” company Company that isn’t making weapons Lots of open land nearby Medium amount of pressure – someplace where I’m challenged, but not panicked Minimal travel as part of job Good ballet company in town Town with parks, [...]

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Four Steps in the Job Search

July 1, 2011

Even people who get the first job easily need to know how to search for a job. Recent statistics show that the average college graduate stays only five years with the company he or she originally joins. A large number of people not only switch employers but also switch fields at least once in their [...]

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