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• Closing With Integrity: 3 Tools of Influence for Recruiters

  30-03-2018 21:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Your candidate is getting an offer from your best employer. You've done a great job conducting this recruiting effort — but you could still lose if your candidate does not accept the offer.The old closing methods of intellectually weighing pros and cons have limited effectiveness. The decision to accept an offer is emotional and stressful for candidates, financially significant for you, and important to the employer-client who expects you to ...
  
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• 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Ignore Your LinkedIn Background Image

  30-03-2018 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director of the career center for which I work recently sat in on one of my LinkedIn workshops in which I talked about how to use your whole LinkedIn profile to brand yourself. I thought I did well, and afterward I asked the director for her thoughts.She was happy with my performance, but she said I forgot one thing. I never mentioned how
  
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• The Recruiting Reel: Why You Need to Default to 'No' in Your Recruiting Process

  30-03-2018 18:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Everyone in the recruiting world has heard the saying, "When in doubt, send them out."The idea here is simple: If you are not fully convinced that a candidate matches the role and the culture of the company, they probably don't.Unfortunately, many recruiting professionals don't follow this maxim, choosing instead to entertain candidates about whom they have doubts. This is a surefire way to make bad hires, and maybe ...
  
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• Improve Your Job Prospects During Spring Break

  30-03-2018 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Spring break is around the corner — or already here! — for many college students. You can either use this time to lounge around doing nothing, or to improve your job prospects. I recommend you do the latter. Show hiring managers and employers the value you can provide — as well as your manners — by improving your online presence.Regularly in the news, we read about someone who was fired or had a job ...
  
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• Who Owns the Crisis?

  30-03-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  "They spit at us," General Robert Van Antwerp says, reflecting back on his and his team's experience reaching out to devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.Those saliva projectiles were clearly directed at the wrong person. Why would New Orleans' finest spit at an army general? Why would they spit at the person who was there to rebuild their city, the chief engineer at the Army Corps of Engineers?It was "okay," General Van Antwerp reassures me, explaining that ...
  
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• 4 Steps to Successful Career-Mapping

  30-03-2018 17:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Article by Elise MitchellIf there's one truth in life, it's that you can't map out everything. No matter how carefully you plan, you'll find yourself on some detours. This is especially true when it comes to your professional journey. With so much unexpected — and, many times, unwanted — change, it can be tempting to toss out the road map and simply go wherever the wind blows you.I'd like to encourage you to ...
  
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• 5 Easy Ways to Blow Off Daily Steam in a High-Stress Job

  30-03-2018 16:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Who hasn't, in a moment of stress, had an impulse to hit a printer a là the infamous scene in the 1999 flick Office Space? On-the-job stress has been known to make people do much worse things, after all — things that are more dangerous and unaccompanied by a Geto Boys soundtrack.The reality is work stress is more the norm than not. A
  
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• A Recovering Addict's Guide to a Toxic Work Environment

  30-03-2018 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  "The keg is becoming the new water cooler," declares a 2013 article in The Wall Street Journal. The article goes on to describe a growing trend of alcohol in the workplace as more employers offer free booze to attract and retain employees.While this may be a positive incentive for some workers, it is nothing short of an ...
  
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