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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Dice.com – The Secret to Networking
One of the great privileges I’ve had over the last year or so is to write for Dice.com’s career advice area. In fact, I’m part of the Dice blogger network and my role, along with a few others, is to provide great career advice for potential job seekers. Now, what I write there will be familiar to…
Can You Get Around a Firing When Interviewing for Work?
photo credit: muffytyrone When you used to look around the cubicles at work, did you ever stop and wonder if this co-worker or that co-worker had ever been fired? For many workers, the pink slip has come in an unceremonious way all too often, leading them down a trip to the unemployment line. Whether it…
Office cubicles have a bad rep
photo credit: slworking2 This is a guest post from Sarah Fudin. Sarah works in community relations for 2tor, Inc who partners with the University of Southern California’s Master of Arts in Teaching program, provides aspiring teachers the opportunity to earn an MAT degree online and become a teacher. Outside of work Sarah enjoys running, reading…
The collapse of public education — and the impact on jobs
Via: Online Universities Blog
Book Review — Cracking the New Job Market
Cracking the New Job Market: The 7 Rules for Getting Hired in Any Economy, by R. William Holland, is a needed book in today’s dysfunctional job market. I wouldn’t say it is needed because of the hundreds of job search tips you get from the book; rather, it is because the book comes from a…
How to get a job at a startup
photo credit: modelxing This is a guest post from Evan Thomas. =========================== If your hoodie is your best friend, you survive on ramen and coffee, and The Social Network is top watched on your Netflix account, you’re getting there. But the hallmarks of a would-be Silicon Valley star alone don’t necessarily mean you’ll have a…
Unemployment hurts your confidence – and how to get it back
photo credit: topshampatti Losing your job due to a layoff is tough business. No matter how much you expect a layoff to happen and no matter how well prepared, the layoff is a shock. Then, on top of it, getting your money out of the company turns into a big project right when you have…
The Top 3 Reasons Having a Blog Can Help Your Job Search
This is a guest post from Gerrit Hall, the CEO of RezScore. —————————————— Today, it seems like just about everyone has a blog. Darth Vader has a blog, Spiderman has a blog, even I have a blog! With this blog-craze going around, you might be wondering if a blog is the right thing for you….
The ultimate job offer rule
photo credit: sashafatcat You can taste the job offer right after the job interview — sweet! Your company research, practicing interview questions, and designing interview questions for the hiring manager worked beautifully. And the best part? The perfect job! Just the one you were looking for and one where you think the manager’s working style…
6 Ways to Succeed as a Nurse in a Doctor’s World
photo credit: Brujo+ This is a guest post from Erinn Stam. An unrecognized fact about Cube Rules: there are a tremendous number of readers in the health care industry. Thanks, Erinn! ————————— If you think I’m poking fun at doctors, you’ve got me wrong. However, if you work in the healthcare industry, you probably know…
How Forceful Should New Employees Be Once Inside Their Cubicle?
photo credit: mark sebastian This is a guest post from Dave Thomas. ———————— Starting a new job is rarely an anxiety-free situation for most employees. Will they catch on to the new workload? Will they live up to the expectations that are placed upon them from the moment they are hired? Lastly, will they work…
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How your goals impact your performance review
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 performance reviews. Here’s why:
1. They are a high percentage of your performance review
In large companies, your goal attainment can be 75% — or more — of your performance review. Hit your goals — golden! — and the raises and awards are awesome. Mess them up through missing your targets and frustration will set in.
How you manage, report, and communicate your goal attainment, then, makes a big difference in your paycheck.
2. The number of goals impact your performance review
Have one goal you need to hit on your review — and then miss it. What does that mean for your pay? You got nothing is what it means. The fewer your goals on your performance review, the more you are swinging for the fences.
The more goals you have on your performance review, on the other hand, the more likely you will simply do “average” or “successful” on your performance rating. Why? Because you’ll knock some out of the park and the others you won’t. And, on average, well, you’ll be average.
Now, there are some good reasons to be average and there are good reasons to try and have fewer goals so you can knock some out of the park. How well your company is doing and how likely are there to be layoffs based on performance come to mind. Lots of goals can be a great thing — or really bad for you depending on your situation.
3. How you modify your goals makes a difference
Ever had a great goal in January that is no longer relevant in March — but still shows up on your performance review in December? We all have. Those goals can be the kiss of death in our performance review rating because the manager essentially shrugs his or her shoulders and says, “Well, the best I can do with this is average because that’s all we did with this goal.”
If you don’t modify your goals as you go through the year to reflect what is happening with the business right now, you’ll get the shoulder shrug — and lost dollars on your paycheck — too.
Goals are important to your pay, career achievements, and business results you achieve. That’s why I have a SMART Goals product — they are the foundation for getting your performance review right.