Advice for Preparing for a Job Interview
If I could give job interviewers one piece of advice, it would be, don't say I like working with people. It's a response that crops up most frequently among sales candidates, but when pressed, even aspiring accountants and programmers will blurt it out.
The I like working with people response generally indicates one of
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Have you experienced the following?
You're at a non-interactive presentation where the audience is bored stiff
You're at a non-interactive presentation where the audience is mesmerized
You're at an interactive presentation where nobody wants to talk or knows what to say
You're at an interactive presentation where everybody talks and amazing ideas pop up everywhere
Certainly, these various outcomes are largely dependent on the presenter.
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Why?
Children are famous for asking why. Why is grass green? Why is the TV on when we eat dinner? Sometimes these simple questions stop us dead in our tracks.
A colleague of mine had a rare attribute - he loved training new employees from the ground up. Why? Because they asked a lot of questions. Why do you do it this
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This (non qualifying) post for my Cell Phone Users and Abusers contest has to do with conversation etiquette.
The issue - when is a conversation over? Have you ever had a conversation with someone who is impossible to get off the phone? Someone who will continue to find something to say long after the topic has been exhausted? Someone who responds
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Image via WikipediaEver notice how some people have a "signature line", a phrase they repeat often and are associated with? Maybe the most well known signature line belonged to Rodney Dangerfield - "I don't get no respect."
Several people I know have their own pet phrase - here's a sampling.
"Those two are a pair to draw to!"
"Where's your partner in
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In October, Robert Hruzek asks, what have we learned from stress? Usually, Robert's group project theme leaves me scratching my head for hours trying to come up with a meaningful response. This month, however, there's no problem.
What I learned from stress is that for me, stress equals time. I don't like tight deadlines, cramming for a test, rushing to the
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Image via WikipediaThe day before I wrote this the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 777 points, an all-time negative scoring record. The plunge occurred because contrary to expectations, Congress failed to pass the bailout plan Wall Street was counting on to restore calm to the markets.
Even with elections only a month away, I am certain that Ronald Reagan or
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You can't win playing catch up ball. That's exactly what our financial institutions, regulatory agencies, Federal government, and investors have been doing since our banking system began to unravel almost a year ago.
Lenders make ill conceived loans snapped up by borrowers who aren't thinking ahead. Regulators worry about inflation one day and stimulating the economy the next. And then start
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