Employment – Page 13 – My Thoughts Exactly

Five Habits of a Truly Horrible Boss

The best thing about working for a boss is the opportunity to learn from both good and negative examples of leadership. There are five common leadership habits, behaviors and approaches that you will see in a lousy boss. Want to be a terrible boss? Here is your blueprint:

Job Search Failure? How to Handle Rejection

The way to handle failure today is critical to future job search success. If you want to achieve, you need to gain confidence and pride—take on challenging goals, develop positive patterns and methods for success. Handle rejection badly, and you will wind up choosing either extremely easy tasks or unreasonably complicated ones guaranteed to fail.Continue reading “Job Search Failure? How to Handle Rejection”

Five Reasons Why Your Resume Sucks!

It’s a tough job market, and it’s anyone’s guess when it will change. Too many applicants and too few of the right job openings, so human resources departments end up ignoring all but the resumes of most qualified candidates. Have you applied for positions, knowing you are fully qualified, but still with no response? WhatContinue reading “Five Reasons Why Your Resume Sucks!”

Fired Over Social Media: Will HR Do It? Can They?

Badmouthing your company on social media is both unethical and not a particularly smart thing to do. Should human resources fire an employee over it? Can they fire them? Terminations because of social media use have been one of the hot topics for human resources in the past few years. It is imperative that employersContinue reading “Fired Over Social Media: Will HR Do It? Can They?”

Two Hiring Secrets You Need to Know NOW!

It is no secret that everyone wants to be hiring the best talent and spend less time and money doing so. Most companies will agree that their recruitment, hiring and onboarding processes are painful, falling far behind where they should be. Has your organization made the decision for superior, smarter hiring in the coming months?Continue reading “Two Hiring Secrets You Need to Know NOW!”