photo credit: just.Luc For those unemployed, especially those unemployed a long time, there is a dominate theme that says the job market is the employer’s fault. Not necessarily that it is their fault because they are not hiring — after all, there is little demand that would force hiring — but because their requirements for… Continue Reading
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Interview question: What job gave you the most personal value?
photo credit: vissago This interview question is seductive. We like talking about ourselves. We’d love to talk about that really cool job, how much fun we had doing it, and how great the team was to work with during that time. How that job set us up for our latest promotion. But job interviews aren’t… Continue Reading
Interview question – what project are you most proud of?
photo credit: h.koppdelaney Whether you’ve had a long or short career, you’re proud of at least one project, one deliverable, or one great collaboration with others on the job, right? Hiring managers want to know about that peak moment. They want to know about it because it represents everything that is best about your work… Continue Reading
Experience does not equal a job skill
photo credit: Another Pint Please… Experience, told by those with lots of experience, trumps everything. When angry, experienced people yell at clouds in the job market for not getting work, experience is the mantra. Not job skills. Not fitting in with the team. Not the motivation to do the work. Nope. Experience. Experience trumps everything… Continue Reading
3 reasons job skills require technology tool skills
photo credit: HVargas Job skills involve an entire range of work — teaching skills for many, nursing skills, project management — the list can go on and on. If you work in a cubicle, though, all those skills won’t get used very well unless you master the critical information job skill: your technology tools…. Continue Reading
Your job skills don’t match your job
photo credit: katiew Let me make a brash, unjustified, unprovable statement: your job skills don’t match your job. You are doing your job, of course — job skills or not — but I’ll still contend your job skills don’t match your job. There are some good reasons for this condition — and some that are… Continue Reading
Your dream job — and the curse of competency
photo credit: vk-red Dream jobs are the holy grail of work. Find one and you experience the nirvana of the work world. Pundits, including this one, will tell you to determine what you love to do at work, build your job skills to match up with your dream job, and work to find the people… Continue Reading
What job skills will you practice?
photo credit: nsaplayer I’m reminded by Alexandra Levitt that practice makes perfect. Lots of practice. In Outliers, she reminds me (a book I read!) that to get seriously good at what you do, you need to practice at least ten thousand hours. Ten thousand. In Outliers, there are many examples of this in action, including… Continue Reading
Ignore job security for your own survival
photo credit: Troy Holden Job security is highly overrated. Yet, job security is the number one desire for employees according to a recent study. The reasons job security is overrated are pretty straightforward. Job security forces you to make poor career choices The employer makes decisions based on meeting the business goals. You adapt. The… Continue Reading
How the Employment Security Hierarchy helps protect your income
Job security doesn’t cut it anymore. The days of working at a company for a lifetime are long, long gone. Heck, even working for the same manager for a long time is long, long gone. It’s clear that corporate churn, corporate reorganizations, and downsizing (or, in the company viewpoint, rightsizing…) is here to stay. When… Continue Reading