Dear 40+ recruiters, remember the good old days, when there were candidates a plenty and all we had to do was just lift a finger to attract them into our nets
To do that, you need to model your own success. Here are a few helpful tips...
Who hasn’t experienced a period of questioning, soul-searching and doubt? It happens when a tiny insidious idea sneaks in and creates a crack— convictions crumble and a fault opens without your knowledge...
Recent studies published in credible journals have shown that nice people as well as ugly people earned less in the workplace. So if you want to get a bigger pay cheque, it’s clearly better to be good-looking—based on traditional beauty standards (although this remains debatable)—and disagreeable. What can you do, though, if you are naturally nice with average looks?
Imagine being able to reach candidates near your office in real time. Suppose they were walking by, in a hurry to get to the store offering a Groupon discount, and then. . . WHAMMO!
Remember Nadine from last month? Nadine has now shifted into the second gear of her corporate detox program. After learning to differentiate urgent from important, she developed a strategy for finding meaning in her professional and personal life.
If you are a high achiever or workaholic, take a few minutes from your busy schedule to think about whether it’s all worth it. The perpetual search for excellence is a dependence that brings us to take only calculated risks in order to avoid failure.
Inspiring leaders are confident, smile and give off energy that influences their teams, energizes them and motivates them to move mountains. They are decisively optimistic, which helps them better support pressure and get through crises and moments of stress. Winston Churchill was always optimistic, regardless of what happened.How do leaders pull it off and how do we encourage optimism in our organizations? How do we go about finding these people and appointing them to lead projects?
I’ve just spent two weeks in a classroom—but not just any old classroom. Harvard is renowned for the very best. For a second, you can almost believe you’re at Hogwarts. What a stimulating and energizing experience. Beyond the valuable teaching, and quality of the professors, assistants and participants in the program of this prestigious university, I was privileged to see the masks fall one by one.
It’s the end of December 2009, and I’ve been doing the same job for 15 years. I know it by heart, and can do it with my eyes closed or just about.I’m stuck in a darn comfort zone that undermines me instead of comforting me in my cushy files. How many of us have told ourselves that we’ve learned all there is to learn in a certain field, but don’t know what the next step is?
This morning as I opened my e-mail, I had this message from one of my social networks: “Nathalie, 520 of your contacts changed jobs in 2010!” Not only was I receiving direct statistics from my network, but I also had a list of the people concerned. With no direct effort on my part, I have access to a current database corresponding to 20% of my contacts in this particular network. Now that’s interesting—very interesting!