photo credit: phill.d When searching for the best ways to advance in your current job, you’re likely to come across plenty of books and articles that advocate scheming and shortcuts to make it to the top more quickly. Although these texts may appeal to your eagerness to graduate from the cubicle, they usually aren’t the… Continue Reading
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The Day the LOLcats Died
There is current legislation in the Senate that will try and restrict sites like Cube Rules from providing content. You can take action to call your Senator to stop these bills.
How to land a job when you are overqualified
photo credit: o5com With the current climate of unemployment (8.6% inNovember 2011, although it’s expected to rise closer to 9% once holiday retail workers are no longer needed), many workers are taking jobs for which they are overqualified. Whether it’s the young college graduate with a master’s degree taking a part-time retail job to an… Continue Reading
How to Start Your 2012 Performance Review Off Right
photo credit: CodeFin Performance reviews are those things that happen at the end of the year, right? So, not much to worry about until much later. Time to sit back and relax a bit, easing into the new year. Cubicle Warriors, though, know that starting the year off right means the probability of ending the… Continue Reading
4 Job Search Lessons Learned from Our Favorite Video Games
Last year, Jane McGonigal, a game designer and researcher gave a TED Talk about the gaming industry’s contributions to the world. McGonigal speculated that committed gamers are equipped with an “epic win” passion that gives them a sense of purpose and focus. McGonigal’s theory can be extended to job seekers. After all, if job seekers… Continue Reading
How to update your resume for 2012
photo credit: sir_watkyn It’s 2012 — and time to update your resume with your 2011 business results. Most people won’t, you know. Then, when it comes time to pull out that resume, blow away the dust, and update it, those same people won’t remember what they did in 2011 to put on their resume. Or,… Continue Reading
How Cubicle Warriors Can Champion a Healthy Corporate Culture
photo credit: Steve-h A healthy corporate culture must ultimately be owned and championed by the CEO and his or her management team. At the same time, a corporate culture livesand breathes by the actions front-line employees take every day. In our 20 years work to define and heal ailing corporate cultures, we’ve learned small changes… Continue Reading
Dice.com – 5 tips for video interviews
photo credit: sevgi.k Video interviews will become more prevalent as we move forward. But video interviews are not like face-to-face interviews and as part of my work on Dice.com, I give you five tips to succeed at video interviews. Check it out by clicking here.
3 career lessons from 2011
photo credit: TC Morgan Photography Pundits will have their best and worst of 2011 articles out there. The best and worst needs noting, of course, but, to me, neither of them are actionable. Instead, I like to look at the experiences we’ve had over the year and then determine what lessons we can learn from… Continue Reading
How your goals impact your performance review
photo credit: duncan Business goals are the holy grail of performance reviews. Or, at least they should be. After all, the business goals we work to achieve should be the most important work we can do to help the business achieve its goals for the year. Goals, though, are a slippery slope when it comes to… Continue Reading