Ace Your Next Performance Review: 5 Employee Hacks for Success Performance reviews can feel daunting, but with the right preparation, they can be a springboard for your career growth. Here are 5 employee-tested hacks to ensure you shine during your next review and...
Performance reviews are a crucial element of employee development and retention. They offer a valuable opportunity to provide feedback, set goals, and recognize achievements. However, poorly conducted reviews can be demotivating and unproductive. This article outlines...
The power of Digital Paid Media is extraordinary. You can boost brand awareness, amplify your reach, enhance your targeting, maximize your content marketing, and gather incredibly finite market insights.
Applying for a job and not getting a response is frustrating. It’s especially frustrating if it appears that you are a very good fit for the role. Mark Whitman provides some practical advice on how to draw attention to your candidacy and your specific fit for the role.
Mark Whitman discusses what’s happening in the digital first landscape.
Most people don’t fail in a job because they aren’t smart enough or don’t have the right experiences or can’t learn what it is they need to be successful. Most people fail in a job because of a cultural mismatch. Ask interviewers this one question to assess cultural fit when pursuing a new job.
In life, there are good problems and bad problems. In your career journey, a good problem to have is more than one good job offer. However, it can difficult to assess which job offer is the best for you. Mark Whitman demonstrates and explains a simple spreadsheet that will help you compare job offers and determine which is best for you.
Can we start by having you tell us about yourself?” is the most common question in interviews. This video discusses the common mistakes made in answering this question as well as giving you a recipe for success. These tips will help you with just about any job interview.
The first day at your new job is extremely important. This is the day that sets the tone of how your superiors and co-workers view you. It sets in place a trajectory that is either good or bad. This video shares the five things you should do, minimally, on your first day at a new job.
When we were kids in school, there was a straightforward path set before us. We started a class, read the books, went to the lectures, did the homework, took the exam, and got the grade necessary to move on. All along the way, there were expected places where feedback on our performance and potential were given to us.
As an analytics professional, you know there are myriad tools and methods that enable businesses to make informed decisions. But you, the analytics expert, play a crucial role in transforming raw data into information and insights, which in turn are used by your team members to make the decisions that drive the business forward.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
Our staffing and recruiting experts at TeamBuilder Search have conducted thousands of job interviews. In addition, we have conducted thousands of post-interview debriefs with hiring managers. We have learned what successful candidates do in job interview preparation.
“The Advent of social media is having a big impact on the job search today. It is critical that job seekers of all ages learn to use social media tools!” – Katie McGinty
Searching for your next role is an exciting time. Build and leverage your professional network throughout this process. LinkedIn offers great opportunities for career advancement networking. Find your next role with the help of your LinkedIn network.
Cover letters are meant to help you obtain an interview. Your cover letter separates you from other candidates. Demonstrate that you have the skills, experiences, and achievements needed to be successful in a role by providing a strong cover letter. Consider the following six tips:
All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. – Tom Peters in Fast Company
One great tactic for finding and landing the perfect role for you is working with a recruiter.
Sometimes, everything goes your way, your career is on fire, and everything you touch turns to gold. You are unstoppable in your career arc and everyone wants you on their team. However, sometimes, life throws us a curve ball.
If you have made a few career moves in a short period of time, then hiring managers may consider you a job hopper. You may already be aware that this label is usually not seen in a positive light.
According to Forbes, LinkedIn is the most advantageous professional networking platform. Among its 750+ million users are recruiters and staffing professionals looking to fill open roles and jobs. In fact, according to Kinsta, 90% of recruiters use LinkedIn. Regardless of whether you’re actively seeking a new role, keeping your LinkedIn profile up-to-date benefits your career development. Here are the top ten ways to optimize your LinkedIn profile.
A friend recently said this to me. It’s a well-known adage and it holds true—you cannot fill others if your own cup is empty. Current global events—as challenging as they are—provide an opportunity to really focus on personal, professional and career development.
Most people experience at least one unplanned job loss during their career. Being displaced or losing a job can be very challenging on multiple levels. It’s typical to have feelings of disbelief, anger, grief, along with concerns about financial security.
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is typically a company’s principal leader in the digital transformation process. 84% of companies fail at digital transformation, and the average tenure of a CDO is shorter than other C-Suite roles. Of course, there are many reasons for this; it isn’t easy to serve as the primary transformation leader and intermediary between other executives and functions in the creation and rollout of digital initiatives. In order to be successful as a CDO, you must have a champion mindset.
According to The Ladders, recruiters take six seconds to decide if a candidate is a good fit for a role. Get your recruiter’s attention with a stellar resume.
As a User Experience professional there are a lot of great things about your job. The educating, evangelizing, and influencing you get to perform, in a rapidly expanding profession, can be a wonderfully rewarding challenge.
User experience is a great career. Whether we’re talking about UX Strategy (opportunity side) or UX Design (solution side), helping people experience the feelings they want to have is a fulfilling way to spend one’s time. We’ve built many UX teams and we’ve learned a lot along the way.
Al Franken once said, “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your ‘mistakes’ for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” Digital transformation is not for the faint of heart. Mistakes and missteps are easy to come by, but many failures are also easily avoided. Here are ten mistakes to avoid in your digital transformation journey:
You may have heard about the two types of mindsets, Fixed and Growth, in recent years. According to the research conducted by Carol Dweck, author of the book Mindset, the two mindsets can have an impact on career performance.
Imagine that you sell toys. If your goal is to get the attention of children, you will probably focus on the toy’s bright colors, the sounds it makes, and how fun it is to play with.
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