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6 of 10 Top Paying Majors in Engineering
January 22, 2013 by Steven Rothberg
Marilyn Mackes of NACE
Technical majors—particularly those in engineering—dominated the list of top-paying majors in 2012, according to a new report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
NACE’s January 2013 Salary Survey found that six engineering majors were among the 10 highest-paid at the bachelor’s-degree level. Continue Reading
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Corporate Culture 101: Applying Personal Brand with Social Skills
January 11, 2013 by harpermac11@gmail.com
Sign saying People Skills. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
The series started with a look at the importance of creating a strong professional image online and developing self-management skills. However, adapting to corporate culture involves another important element related to self-management and social media: people skills. Social skills might seem irrelevant to a position that doesn’t explicitly require a lot of interaction with others; however, studies have shown that hiring managers are more inclined to weigh social skills and likability with other factors like education and professional accomplishments. Continue Reading
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8 Valuable Tips For Navigating Military Job Fairs
January 07, 2013 by William Frierson
So, you are a military job seeker attending a job fair. How can you make most of this experience? Here are some helpful tips in the following post.After attending numerous military job fairs as part of my work, I have witnessed firsthand countless job seeker mistakes that are easily avoidable. The list below was compiled in order to provide useful advice to assist transitioning military service members with marketing themselves more successfully and to help them overcome some common challenges.
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Strategies to Maximize Your Opportunities in Today’s Job Market
December 21, 2012 by William FriersonAs a job seeker, you want to put yourself in the best position to get a job. The following post has steps to help you on your way to achieving this goal.5 Steps to Reach Your Career and Life Goals
Step 1. Know What You Bring to the Table and What Drives You!
In order to bridge the gap from college to your first career you need to know yourself; what do you bring to the table and what drives you, what you value and what you can do that adds value. All of this should be succinctly crafted into a personal mission statement. I’d like to quote Eric Hellweg who writes for the Harvard Business Review. He asserts that most companies, regardless of their sectors, have a mission statement. And most are awash in jargon and marble-mouthed pronouncements. Worse still, these gobbledy-gook statements are often forgotten by, misremembered, or flatly ignored by frontline employees.
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What Makes You Valuable
by William FriersonA good reputation is a valuable asset to have in your career. Learn how you can develop one in the following post.You are only as valuable as your last sale. You are only as valuable as your Rolodex.
Have you heard these lines before? Do you believe them? Do you live by them?
I hope you’ve heard of them, but I hope you haven’t based your career on them.
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Navigating new challenges in graduate student recruitment
December 14, 2012 by William FriersonGraduate student enrollment has recently become a challenge for institutions of higher education. Find out what they can do to improve enrollment in the following post.Anyone working in graduate recruitment was probably not surprised by the latest annual enrollment report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). For the second consecutive year, CGS reported a decline in new graduate students in 2011 after almost a decade of steady growth. Even with applications up, many graduate programs are finding that prospective students are not enrolling as predictably as in the recent past.
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Applying for $100K Government Jobs? ECQs Are Key
December 11, 2012 by William FriersonIf you’re thinking about applying for a $100,000 government job, understanding executive core qualifications, or ECQs, may benefit your search. Learn more about these qualifications in the following post.In the past 10+ years it did not matter what administration took and held political office because the government at the federal level at least just keeps growing. Government jobs, benefits, income and lifestyle under federal employment keeps getting bigger.
Regardless of where you stand politically, the government needs to transform and cutbacks will take place. Part of the “transformation” is supposed to occur through the hiring of “transformational leaders” in the government’s Senior Executive Service (SES). If the world of work in the federal government changes in 2013 it may not change as much as politicians of any stripe suggest or intend.
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CFOs say Less Than Four in 10 Management Opportunities are Internal Hires
August 01, 2012 by William FriersonIf you are looking for a promotion in management within your company, it may be a bit of a challenge.
To fill management positions, companies are more likely to look for talent outside rather than within their own ranks, a new survey from Robert Half Management Resources suggests. Chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed said that, on average, 38 percent of management roles in their departments were filled by internal candidates.
CFOs were asked, “What percentage of managerial positions within your accounting and finance department are filled by candidates who were promoted from within?” Continue Reading
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49% of Recruiters Say Managers With Innovation Skills In High Demand
July 23, 2012 by Steven Rothberg
Forty-nine percent of the executive recruiters surveyed by ExecuNet revealed that executive and other managers with proven innovation skills were hard to find, compared to other skills, and 31 percent said companies were willing to pay a premium for innovative talent – even in today’s job market.“With product lifecycles declining rapidly, increased global competition and pressure from changing customer needs, executives who have demonstrated they can challenge business assumptions and find the areas of opportunities in current business models are in demand,” says Mark Anderson, President of ExecuNet. “We counsel executives everyday that they have to do more than claim they were ‘innovative’ on their résumés. They need to show a quantifiable history of innovating and its impact on their previous organizations,” adds Anderson.
To negotiate top pay for top innovation skills, executive recruiters revealed that 32 percent of hiring managers “want concrete examples of innovation by the candidate in previous positions.” Continue Reading
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Motivation Managers Can Use to Improve Performance
May 22, 2012 by William Frierson
Most, if not all, managers would agree that motivating people can improve performance. However, they might not understand the motivators that some workers need.Career analyst, Dan Pink, says businesses can’t continue to motivate people in the wrong way. In the following video, he explains the problem between science and business that is affecting how people are motivated. Continue Reading
