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The Right & Wrong Way to Dress
It might be unfair, but how you look has a lot to do with the impression you make during an interview. And how you dress has a major impact on how you look. Dressing properly for the interview won’t win the job; but dressing improperly can lose it.
Before you show up [...]
The 7 Words Not to Say in a Job Interview
The late George Carlin did a famous routine about the 7 words you can’t say on TV. I have my own version of the routine: the 7 words you can’t—or at least, you shouldn’t—say during a job interview.
Some Clarification
My version is a lot less risqué, than Mr. Carlin’s. It won’t get [...]
Keeping It Positive & Energized
Searching for a job is no fun. The stress builds with each interview. The seeming endless stream of rejection letters gnaws away at your confidence. The bills pile up. The future is uncertain — especially now when the economy is in recession. Okay, enough! Snap out of it! You need to get [...]
Using Social Networks to Find Career Opportunities
Their potential to reach large groups of people beyond your close friends and colleagues makes online social networks a job search tool of enormous potential. However, just like any other job search tool, you have to know how to use the social network to exploit its full potential. Here are a [...]
Member Reply
Thanks to Daryl for sending in this tip – and job lead – in response to Bob’s request for job-hunting tips earlier this week.
I have been between jobs three times so far in my life and now I am one of the people that hires other people at my job. [...]
A Request for Job Hunting Tips
I recently received this note from a long-time SafetyXChange member:
I have finally secured a position after months of trying. It amazes me the reasons companies give for not hiring personnel or the number of reasons for not making the short lists. Especially when I know I could do the job [...]
Is Workplace Safety an Annoyance?
London-based Opinium Research recently released the results of its survey of 1,836 people on the things that annoy them about work. Turns out that lots of things bug lots of people. But what shocked me was that workplace safety was considered an annoyance. In fact, it made the top 10 list!
Top 10 [...]
The Ides of March
"Beware the ides of March!"
This is the warning issued by the Soothsayer to Julius Caesar in Act I, Scene 2, of the Shakespeare play, Julius Caesar. Caesar just laughs it off. Of course, the Soothsayer’s words prove prophetic. Caesar is stabbed to death on the floor of the Senate on March [...]
The Gap Between Safety Rhetoric & Safety Commitment
Safety is like the weather. Folks love to talk about it but they don’t do much to change it. At least that’s the way with a lot of people in the business world. So when I hear management go out of their way to proclaim safety as the primary goal, I can [...]
Job Interview Faux-Pas to Avoid
Picture this. You’re having a conversation with a potential business colleague when your cell phone rings. With a wistful look, you apologize and pick up the call. A pause and then you ask the gentleman: "This is a personal call that I just have to take. Could I trouble you to step [...]
