You will not get a second chance to make a good first impression in a job interview so you will want to be conscious of your body language. Here are a few tips to keep in mind: When you walk into a room, look confident and as if you belong there. At the end of the interview, avoid exiting the room […]
Company Perks
Companies are offering more and more “perks” in an effort to retain and attract employees. Beer Friday, a massage two times a week and a games room! According to an article in the Seattle Times, the employees at F5 enjoy a variety of team-building activities and company perks all contributing to a happy workforce. Here are a number of other company perks […]
Networking and Your Twitter Bio
Twitter.com is being described as “micro blogging” – a cross between instant messaging and blogging – because you’re allowed only 140 characters. We all understand the importance of Networking when searching for a job and Twitter is one more tool that is available. Kevin Donlin recently wrote, “How to Get Found By Recruiters” by using Twitter. Getting noticed by […]
The “Talent Shortage”?
“Talent Shortage Emerges as No. 1 Employer Concern” “Our population will begin to shrink and our workforce will dry up.” “Schools in peril across Ontario” “Census Points to shrinking households” “Retirement of baby boomers may reverberate in workplace”, “Enrollment Shrinking, says education minister”, “The Talent Shortage Myth”, The Immigration Squeeze” These are only a few of […]
Are you a Twitter-er?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterific or Facebook. Like most social networking sites, what you type or twitter can […]
Do you want to be an Astronaut?
The Canadian Space Agency is conducting a national astronaut recruitment campaign at the end of May 2008 to select astronauts to join its Canadian Astronaut Corps. It would be difficult for me to think of an occupation that I have not created a resume for, including a banana grower, a Roman Catholic Nun, a nude model and a ceramic potter, just […]
Employees Looking for Work/Life Balance
According to a recent Survey published by Monster, 89% of respondents look for work/life balance programs when evaluating a new job. Only half of the HR professionals agreed on the importance, which is probably why only 29% of employees who participated in the online survey rated their company’s work/life balance programs as good or excellent. The 2008 Executive Job Market Intelligence […]
Networking and Your Career
Are you actively networking? If not, you are in the minority. You are likely missing out on opportunities for advancement in your current career and if you are searching for a job, you are facing a much greater struggle than necessary. Recruiters list networking as one of their most effective means of finding senior managers and more than two-thirds of executives listed networking […]
How are You Managing Your Job Search?
According to a recent article, Job Seekers: Personal Connections Still Matter, most people are likely to rely on personal connections and their own experiences with potential hiring organizations when searching for a job. A survey of those who were unemployed and searching for work, as well as those who were recently employed, (within six months), showed […]
A Global Priority!
If you are not convinced that hiring female executives should be a global priority, you will be when you read National Post’s article, “A champion of women”. The most compelling information in this article is the statistics provided by Catalyst, a non-profit advisory group who looked at the relationship between women’s representation in corporate-officer positions and board-of-director positions in the U.S. […]