Even if we have the experience, qualifications and aptitudes for the job, some errors in the interview may quickly put us out of the race.
In her article in Bnet.com, Adriana Gardella lists 7 common - and fatal - mistakes made at job interviews.
1. Drop your guard in front of “the help.” Employers know that job seekers interact with receptionists and other support staffers — often with their guards down, so they routinely ask these employees for feedback.
In today's knowledge economy, success depends on having clear minds, so closing your eyes for a couple of minutes may be a sound business decision.
The National Sleep Foundation ran the Sleep in America Survey 2008, and found that almost one third of working adults laboring over 30 hours a week tend to sleep frequently or become extremely drowsy while working.
Those aspiring to managerial positions must learn, before anything else, to behave like grown ups.
Reaching the managerial level and being a successful executive is very similar to reaching adulthood. When we are children, we are protected, and our tutors make life easy for us. Such protection grows thinner as we get older, demanding more and more from us just to keep pace. It's call growing up...
"In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence" Laurence J. Peter.
In her blog in Elfinancierocr.com, Margaret Grigsby reviews Peter Principle, using as a paradigmatic example the case of Diego Maradona, and his performance as football player and now as head coach of Argentina's national soccer team.
She says: "It is frequent for employees to be promoted based on their functional or technical skills.
The textile industry presented an economic proposal of salary increases through a productivity bonus.
Such proposal would increase the daily salary to $8.41 (Q70) via a productivity bonus.
Alejandro Ceballos, president of the Textile and Apparel Commission, told newspaper Prensa Libre: "The current minimum salary would be the future wage floor".
8 keys to make a great first impression, and getting a good head start in the sales process.
Every person you know, whether a sales prospect or not, is part of the network you must build to be successful. And if they are a prospect, a powerful first impression starts the sales cycle on the right foot, and helps drive it to a positive conclusion.
Goeffrey James, in a Bnet article, gives us 8 key rules to achieve a great first impression:
Three techniques to overcome the always-risky challenge of a new boss.
In his article in Bnet.com, Scott Eblin offers three good techniques to ease the transition to a new manger, something that most of us will face several times in our careers.
1 - Ask him for instructions
Not the details, but the general vision the new boss has on how to achieve success.
Each age requires some basic skills to be successful. In the Middle Ages, loyalty to a Lord was mandatory. Nowadays its different...
¿Which are the basic competences needed for this century?
A Bnet article describes the five skills business leaders must have, according to Professor Helen Haste, from the Harvard Graduate School of Education: