As a job applicant, you can expect critical thinking interview questions and you must be prepared with logical answers. Matt Plummer, writing for the Harvard Business Review, cites one survey of nearly 64,000 managers who felt “critical thinking is the number one soft skill” managers…
“I taught myself many useful workforce skills outside of the traditional workplace and educational system. How do I list them on my resume?” You might be asking that question if you taught yourself abilities that could be valuable in a prospective job. Having…
You have had an interview. You have been offered the job verbally, pending discussions with your professional references. The references come back approved. It’s been three weeks, and you still have no news after the reference check. What is going…
If you are a candidate for a leadership or managerial position, you can expect your interviewer to ask probing questions like “How often do you find yourself naturally assuming leadership roles?” You might also be asked to describe a time you…
Lying on a resume, according to a 2020 survey, is astonishingly common. A huge majority (93%) of the 1,000 people surveyed admitted they lied on their resume. The most common lies involved lying about: • job experience: 25% • job…
Job interview catastrophes happen more often than you might think. You aren’t the only person in the world who has ever thought, “I think I messed up my interview” or “Why do I always mess up interviews?” Interviews aren’t the…
Companies invest money and many hours in filling a vacancy. So, it might seem a waste of time for busy hiring teams to ask routine, non-professional questions like, “What is your favorite sport?” Or, they might include the what is your…
You want to advance your career, and that new job advertisement is peppered with terms like “self-starter,” and “ability to work independently.” Your work experience includes anecdotal examples. Those episodes show how you were able to solve problems and where…
When you prepare for a job interview, you likely will read up on the company, your interviewers and any other subject that will help. But you should also be prepared for your prospective employer to ask you to complete work assignments during…
“Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress.Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.”–Unknown Excessive absenteeism affects the workplace. From the employer’s perspective, absenteeism causes losses in profits and productivity, as…