If you are unemployed and looking for work in this tough, tough economy, you should have plenty of time to catch up on your reading. And you should add “The Unthinkable” to your reading list. This is a thinking person’s guide to survival. The work profiles many real-life disasters, and while your current employment situation may not be as dramatic or extreme, you can benefit from learning about the thoughts and actions of survivors. Read more →
Most interviewers have been coached to focus on behavioral interview questions designed to dig deeper and reveal more about the job candidate.The interviewer is typically looking for specific competencies, and asks (ideally, non-obvious) questions to assess those competencies (or lack thereof). “Tell me about a time when you were under pressure a great deal of pressure at work,” would be an example. You may think the interviewer is looking for insight into how you handle workplace stress, which may be true. But the interviewer may instead be looking for other things such as:
- When under stress how effective are your problem solving skills?
- Are you more frustrated by people, situations or systems?
- Do you do you tend to blame others, or hold yourself primarily accountable?
This is a guest post from Jim Thomas, the “Transition Guru.”
Let us assume you are in transition and would like to achieve all your goals for employment and a very successful career. Better yet, how about having every wish we wanted become reality. Well, what if a Genie appeared and granted every wish we asked? One thing I think we would all agree to— all of our wishes would be positive requests. I do not think that anyone would wish for bad health, to be poor or without wealth and prosperity, or no friends or loved ones in our lives. I could go on but I think you get the point. All of our wishes would be positive. However, if there was a positive Genie ready to grant our wishes, the opposite must exist. Read more →