When you've worked your way through several interviews and the employer wants you desperately and will do whatever it takes to get you, you have the upper hand in salary negotiations. This is the time when you can squeeze extra benefits, shorter performance review...
Communicating
Survival tips: internal interviews for promotion
Internal Interviews for Promotion: What do you say when they know you so well? Internal interviews can be tricky. You're not a shiny unknown employee, you're a person they know with baggage and imperfections. But with that, you also offer a degree of predicability and...
People judge you by the way you communicate
It's wrong to judge people. You know it and I know it. When it comes to searching for a job though, employers and recruiters only have a limited amount of information before them and they need to make a decision to interview on what they see. You could be the most...
Communicating in the Job Search
I'll admit it. I really dislike sports. Nothing makes my eyes glaze over more than people talking about it or someone staring mesmerised at the TV watching it. It doesn't matter what sort it is; if it has a ball, a bat, and no plot, I'm an equally opportunity...
Resistance to Change: The Enemy of a Successful Job Search Part 2
Last week we followed Richard. A Chief Operating Officer made redundant from his company, Richard is highly talented; a great leader who would be an asset to any company. There was just one thing wrong. Richard was resistant to change. Put simply, he never trusted...
Resistance to Change: The Enemy of a Successful Job Search: Part 1
There's nothing like being comfortable. An easy chair, a warm fire, your favourite wine, a great book and the dog snoozing at your feet. Circumstances like job search though, compel you to step outside your comfort zone, and for those who resist change, it can be a...