How to Creative In Your Job Search

As the saying goes, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat!” Whilst we’re all familiar with the usual job application processes, sometimes doing something a little different can give you the edge. Whether that’s applying for a specific job in a quirky manner or advertising your services speculatively to the world, there’s no end to the variety of techniques you can use. The only limiting factor is your imagination and how far you’re willing to go.

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Responds to A Job Offer

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The chances are you brain stopped functioning somewhere after the “yes” and it’s doubtful you heard – much less absorbed – most of the conversation. All of us get a little carried away, swept along on a tide of excitement, envisaging our new role….and possibly new life.  This is a natural response – much of it caused by the wave of adrenalin coursing through your body. Suddenly you feel less like a grown adult, capable of intelligent thought and more like an excitable toddler. Before you commit yourself fully, hit pause and give yourself some time to decide. 

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Techniques to become the master of your own time

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1. Carry a schedule and record all your thoughts, conversations and activities for a week. This will help you understand how much you can get done during the course of a day and where your precious moments are going. You'll see how much time is actually spent producing results and how much time is wasted on unproductive thoughts, conversations and actions.
2. Any activity or conversation that's important to your success should have a time assigned to it. To-do lists get longer and longer to the point where they're unworkable. Appointment books work. Schedule appointments with yourself and create time blocks for high-priority thoughts, conversations, and actions. Schedule when they will begin and end. Have the discipline to keep these appointments.

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Fundamentals of Motivation

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Motivation is a psychological factor that is undeniable in any feat or performance. The winners in life would never have been there if they hadn’t taken inspiration from something and been motivated enough to achieve. Life is hard in society and achievements are even harder to succeed with. If you cannot control your actions and direct them in the right channels, you’ll never get things done successfully. There are some experts who can help motivate you better. Here are the 5 fundamentals of motivation that will help you control your future and success better.

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Essential Skills Need For A Successful Sales Professional

There are the five essential skills required for success and the success of the entire sales organization.

1. Coaching 

Coaching is the number one sales management activity that drives sales performance. The goal of coaching is to help each sales rep to improve their performance and reach their true potential. It’s about developing your “A” sales people to become “A+” and developing your “B” sales people to become “A’s”. 

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Common Recruitment Mistakes

As for many employers, recruiting a candidate that meets their expectation is not an easy task. The reason is that the employers often make some simple mistakes in the selection of candidates. If you intend to recruit new employees for your company, take a look at the following common mistakes that employers often make

1. Poor “leading” in the interview:

Being able to conduct an interview successfully is not an easy task at all. The importance is that you have to ask the right questions to decide whether or not the candidate is the one the company is seeking.

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Happy & Healthy Employees

Creating a work-site wellness program is a great step toward encouraging healthy habits with employees. The benefits don’t stop there though: Studies reveal correlations between work site wellness programs and performance!

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Implement and Manage Successful Change Programs

In today’s organizations, the rate of change has never been more rapid or more constant. Whether the change is a small one, like the implementation of a new system, or a much bigger one such as a company takeover or merger, the way that change is managed makes all the difference to its success or failure. Good change management training is essential for supporting leaders and managers to effectively drive change throughout their organizations.
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Setting Smart Goals

Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Many organizations use goal setting as part of their employee development, annual planning and performance review processes; including everything from project completion, to professional development objectives and sales quotas in the list of goals to be accomplished in a given time period. Employees and managers are taught to set S.M.A.R.T. goals to ensure that they provide a solid track to run on and represent a true barometer for success. The parameters for setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals are:

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Positive Thinking In The Workplace

Positive thinking in the workplace is extremely important for career builder newbies in order to turn in work that goes beyond expectations. Positive thinking is a mental attitude. What we think affects how we behave. It is therefore important for us to begin with our thoughts.

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Tips For Workplace Success

How exactly do you do that in the workplace? How do you succeed in the face of uncertainty and move ahead?

Here are five tips to help you gain more confidence, promote yourself effectively, and take your career to the next level:

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Leadership Competencies for Succession Planning

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A friend of mine manages asset risk for one of the world’s largest corporate pension funds.  Under his skilled leadership, the fund grew in value last year.  In addition to understanding the difference between real investments and bubble investments he never loses sight of the fact he’s managing the retirement funds of real people.  He’s also the guy who runs back to the restaurant to grab the jacket you forgot on the back of your chair.

His humility and good will toward others, combined with the fact he can calculate a balance sheet to a gnat’s eyebrow in his head, makes him leadership material in my book.

He was recently promoted to the executive management team after more than a decade of jumping through rigorous succession management hoops.

Let me say up front that the succession management program at his company isn’t perfect.  It’s complex and convoluted.  Succession candidates are subjected to the political whims and reorganizations of the executive team.  Some worthy people get passed over, others benefit from favoritism.

Like anywhere.

Nevertheless, if the primary mission of succession planning is to put ready, qualified people into leadership roles his company is doing something right.  And what they are doing right lies less in the mechanics of their succession planning process and more in the overarching purpose behind the process, which is to identify and develop leadership candidates with the following competencies:

1. Social competence: High potentials are identified based on multiple criteria, including skills, performance and social competence.  For example, people who regularly go to lunch with colleagues from other teams get points for being more ‘connected’ than people who stick to themselves or their own group.
2. Political competence: In addition to ‘passive’ succession planning, i.e., identifying people from above based on performance, high potentials are expected to find ways to get noticed.  For example, a true high potential finds a way to get on a high profile project rather than passively waiting for someone to ‘discover’ them.  They are also expected to manage expectations between their reporting and matrix managers.
3. Functional competence: Succession candidates don’t make it to the top just by socializing and getting on high profile projects, they also have to perform consistently high quality work over a long period of time in multiple roles.
4. Potential competence: When this company does talent mining for a high profile project or role, they aren’t just looking for who could do the job today.  They’re also looking for people who can rise to the occasion and succeed despite lack of experience.
5. Leadership competence: It’s not uncommon to give people new responsibilities without a promotion to see if they sink or swim before making the new role official.  This may sound unfair, but there’s something to be said for making someone demonstrate leadership skills before formalizing their leadership role.
6. Global competence: Succession candidates typically either manage a global team and/or work abroad as one of the rungs on the succession ladder.  Of course, since it’s a global company, the higher you go the more likely you are to lead a global team but your ability to think and manage globally is closely examined.
7. Teamwork competence: Internal mobility is common so to keep the best people managers have to develop and recognize them.  And high potentials know the best way to get recognized is to make their colleagues and managers look good.

The result: People who connect with others.  People who know how to shine.  People who do great work and are able to meet new challenges.  People who have proven they can lead global teams.  And people who understand success isn’t a zero sum game.

In other words, great leaders.