Posts tagged as:

Power Vac

Homework Works

May 25, 2011

You also want to dig for information like this. Who’s going to interview you? Will the interviewer be able to make the ultimate decision about your job? How long has he or she been at the company? Assuming it’s a man, where did he work before? Where did he go to school? Where did he [...]

Read the full article →

Get a Job in 60 Seconds

May 21, 2011

You get what you ask for. They got jobs at my company. “By the way, I also have noticed that I also have noticed that I hire women who wear sheer blouses and nylons. It plays out a favorite fantasy of mine. “You could almost conclude that to get a job here, you need to [...]

Read the full article →

Get a job in 60 seconds

May 10, 2011

The first is you don’t hear a question because your attention wandered back inside instead of staying 100 percent outside, where it belongs. The second is you give an answer that wasn’t asked for or needed, one that throws unnecessary material into the room. The third is you try to ad-lib and answer a question [...]

Read the full article →

On the Spot

May 6, 2011

“Remember you’re not talking uphill to management. It’s like a partnership and you’re both on equal levels.” “Get the chip off your shoulder. We’re currently leaning over backwards to hire women for a job category that used to be men only. One young woman mentioned that she had a summer job in college as a [...]

Read the full article →

Get a Job in 60 Seconds

March 19, 2011

As a result, the delivery of each answer is smooth and inspires confidence. You never become aware of any slips, emotional flare-ups or loss of enthusiasm or significance. And you never will, because it’s all so carefully rehearsed. Each line has been learned as well as any actor’s. You can do the same thing now. [...]

Read the full article →

Questions, Questions

March 15, 2011

Questions in an interview are like questions on an examination. They’re never too hard when you’ve prepared your material in advance. You need to know what your answer will be to any question that could conceivably come up. I touched on this in the last chapter. And it’s worth noting again. Every politician from the [...]

Read the full article →

Get a Job in 60 Seconds

March 1, 2011

You can cover yourself and send two letters: one to the highest authority there and one to the Personnel Department, but the personnel people will catch on when the person you sent the first note to sends them a memo about you. After that, they’ll figure you were going over their heads and they’ll be [...]

Read the full article →

Ease into retirement status

February 12, 2011

People who set a retirement date and expect they will easily be able to turn off a 45-year career like a light switch may have a harder time making the transition. Others adjust better if they gradually get used to the change. You can start by cutting back by a day or two a week [...]

Read the full article →

Retire on time (if you can)

February 8, 2011

Research shows that workers who retire too early to escape an unpleasant work environment or stay too long to augment their income may end up feeling as though they have not met society’s expectations. This, too, can be an emotional obstacle to fully enjoying retirement (fortunately, this feeling of being “out of sync” tends to [...]

Read the full article →