From time to time, someone will bring a job candidate by my office to introduce them to me.   I am supposed to do the typical greet and meet deal, which i dutifully do.
i have rarely met a job candidate that handled this situation gracefully. I generally get a “nice to meet you” mumble, mumble, mumble.Â
These chance [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Being Interviewed: Get a Clue!!
Posted in August 30th, 2006
by wwds in Job Seeker Advice
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Money Saving, er, Making Tips
Posted in August 29th, 2006
Most of us want to make more money. duh.
Realize that money saved is like the same (only more) as making more money. I am constantly reminded of this at the local Starbucks. Why do I pay $4 when I know I can get coffee basically for free at my office? I have no good reason. [...]
One Way to Think About Accountability
Posted in August 28th, 2006
My generation is fond of talking about any later generation’s lack of accountability, basically it is our way of saying “how can we make younger workers more accountable for their own work product?” My parents said the same thing to me several years decades ago.
Paul Epps wrote about this and cited Innocents Abroad by Mark [...]
Verrrrry Interesting, Indeed
Posted in August 25th, 2006
Chances are, you are about to join or have joined a company where the stated strategy is basically to, somehow, with meetings (typically), strategy sessions (usually) and goals-missions-targets (daily) is to get you and the other members of your team to perform better and in alignment with what the company needs to get done.
Some people [...]
For People Who Don’t Know Math
Posted in August 24th, 2006
by wwds in Daily Wisdom
A woman just got arrested for embezzling over $2 MILLION from her employer so she could buy up to $6,000 worth of lottery tickets per day.
For every big winner we see on TV, all excited about winning the big jackpot of $50 million, there are literally millions of people who look like this woman. [...]
College Grads and the Summer Off
Posted in August 24th, 2006
by wwds in Job Seeker Advice
Like Spring Break trips, cell phones for kids and $4 lattes, taking the summer off after graduating from college seems like the thing to do. It must have something to do with all the pain and suffering one has to fight through nowadays on college campuses. Now that the summer is about over, young 22 [...]
5 Tips to Making It/Entertainment Business
Posted in August 23rd, 2006
by wwds in Job Seeker Advice
Galen Newton is a young Iowan who is making it in one of the toughest places to make it in the entire USA. He moved to Hollywood, no job, just a dream to make it in the entertainment business.
Kenzie Sroud is writing about him in an issue of Jobdig. I thought his five tips for how [...]
Creativity @ Work
Posted in August 21st, 2006
One great example of being creative at work is the old story about the small retailer who had a problem with kids loitering outside his store, disrupting his customers. When asked how he solved this problem, he said, “Easy, I just hooked up some outdoor speakers and started playing classical music.”
Then I saw this one, [...]
Snakes on the Plane and in the Office
Posted in August 21st, 2006
Have you heard about the movie “Snakes on the Plane?” I am not sure if it is a good movie or not, and I am not sure if i will even go. It sounds like another “Napoleon” movie to me, so I probably will…trying to stay up on popular culture and all that.
What fascinates me more [...]
Keep Learning to Get Ahead at Work
Posted in August 21st, 2006
Do not make the mistake of thinking that now that you have the job, that the learning stops. Far from it, to have a long lasting, meaningful career, you need to keep advancing your knowledge about your field.
School teachers take classes and seminars to maintain currency, tradespeople learn the latest in specialized fields, even attorneys [...]
