The job interviewer wants to know one thing: can this person help my company. Can they do the job?
Your job is to stand out amongst all the other applicants. In a world of de-valued resumes, it is becoming harder and harder to stand out.
Here are three basic ideas on how you can [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Your Personal Pitch: Get Noticed and Remembered
Posted in January 31st, 2007
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Do You Need a Personal Elevator Pitch as a Jobseeker?
Posted in January 30th, 2007
The answer is yes. But first a story:
A panda walks into a bar, orders and eats a meal, pulls out a six-shooter, fires it into the air, and starts to walk out. The puzzled waiter looks at him and asks, ‘Why?’ The panda throws a poorly punctuated dictionary on the table and [...]
Recognize and Remove the Customer Irritants and Get Ahead. Or, Why Small Companies Always Serve Customers Better Than Big Ones.
Posted in January 29th, 2007
by wwds in Daily Wisdom
My belief is the small, niche businesses almost always serve their businesses better than larger competitors. We are finding this to be true at JobDig, our main competitors are either the near-monopolistic daily newspaper help wanted section or the larger job boards.
If you are a twentysomething starting out in your career, here is one [...]
The Power of Oprah
Posted in January 29th, 2007
by wwds in Daily Wisdom
So, last Friday, Oprah issues her first book club recommendation of 2007. Sydney Poitier’s book, published in 2000, was the book she recommended, The Measure of a Man.
In one day, it moved from 288,000 on the Amazon list to number ONE.
Number One.
West Publishing’s New Course For Lawyers.
Posted in January 29th, 2007
West Publishing is a unit of Thomson, and is the law profession’s training, resource, library service. Their second most recommended course now…the course they are recommending to corporate law firms is the following:
“Backdating Stock Options:Â Minimizing the Regulatory, Criminal and Civil Risks”
As one pundit commented…that should be a short course…er, um, er, Don’t Do It.
I [...]
How to Handle Nay-Sayers on the Job
Posted in January 25th, 2007
Have you ever worked with someone who can find the most negative way of looking at any idea? It can be very frustrating, especially if the negative person is your boss…and you are trying your best to improve the business and your own role in it.
Here are some things you can do if you [...]
Jobs in the Caribbean: Grand Cayman
Posted in January 24th, 2007
by wwds in Work-related
In September, 2004, Grand Cayman was devasted by Hurricane Ivan. Since then, the entire island has gone through tough times but also a building boom. In today’s local newspaper, the editorial is issuing a call for more workers.
 They simply can’t get enough workers to do the work: across all segments, construction, service, etc.
The living standards [...]
I’m on Vacation This Week, but
Posted in January 23rd, 2007
Paul Epps, a programmer of some repute, always has an interesting viewpoint on a variety of topics. Since he uses a help wanted ad to issue his latest post, I thought it made sense to re-print it here.
Standard Methods = Standard Results
20 Jan 2007 / The Programmer
This is an excerpt from a job posting for [...]
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Posted in January 20th, 2007
by wwds in Work-related
This “law” holds that an action taken often has unforeseen results. Results that none of the law’s backers ever envisioned. The most common example, at least quoted first by Wikipedia, is the Treaty of Versailles, the harsh language of which, begat World War II.
We all know other actions, most smaller, that caused a [...]
S.I. Hayakawa: Language in Thought and Action
Posted in January 19th, 2007
Great books are those which open great new questions. Great books are misread if their effect is to stop investigation.
In other words, the wiser people become, whether in science, religion, politics or art, the less dogmatic they become. Apparently, the better we know the territory of human experience, the more aware [...]
