The All-In-One Guide To Employment References

As a job seeker, you should not underestimate the importance of your employment references.  Learn more about them in the following post.

Choosing your employment references is probably close to the bottom on your list of job search worries. You just pick a few previous bosses and call it a day, right? Wrong! In preparation for (and during) the job search, we’re often too busy focusing on perfecting our resume and intensely scanning job boards. It&#

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The All-In-One Guide To Employment References

Managers Say Employees More Competitive than the Last Decade

Do your co-workers often seem competitive on the job?  Managers are noticing this behavior according to a recent study.

As athletes from around the world prepare to compete in London, workplaces in the U.S. appear to be hosting competitions of their own, a new OfficeTeam survey suggests. Nearly half (49 percent) of senior managers interviewed said they believe employees are more competitive with each other today than they were 10 years ago. These results mirror those from a similar survey of senior executives conducted in 2008.

Managers were asked, “In your opinion, are employees more or less competitive with their coworkers than they were 10 years ago?” Their responses: Continue Reading

What are the hardest challenges facing college graduates

Competition (too few jobs and too many graduates)

Here is the scenario… You have graduated college with a good looking degree; you feel on top of the world and ready to pick and choose your dream job. The reality however is that your one of a many in the same boat. While you feel as though you would be best suited for a particular role there can be hundreds of other people who feel the same way as you. I often tell the story about my days as a recruitment consultant where I used to recruit for graduate positions. I would post a graduate position on the job boards and by lunch time I would have 200 applicants in my inbox. So what can you do to differentiate yourself from the rest of the crowd? You need to ensure that your resume is in the top 5-10% of all resumes. A single mistake in your resume can be the difference between your resume ending up in the interview stack or in the deleted folder. Continue Reading

What Makes a Winner

This week’s issue of BusinessWeek is devoted to competition. How to compete, what is competition, what it takes to win, the importance of winning.

What it boils down to is the fact that in order to be a winner, it’s important to have a winning attitude. The key to success is not seeing a defeat but growth from having made the effort and seen new ground, new alternatives, another way to go after the reward, or just seeing the prize for what it is.

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