Mentoring is one of those ideas that seem intuitively sensible and worthy of widespread implementation. But how effective is mentoring? Does it lead to any positive outcomes?
Mentoring at work: does it work?
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Your goal? What do you want? appiness! I beg your pardon!
When you set a career goal you are highlighting that there is something about your current circumstances that you want to change, and that you will be happier when you achieve your goal of changing your circumstances. Such thinking means accepting two premises: firstly, my current circumstances are not making me happy (if they were why change?), and secondly, that when I achieve my goal I will be happier.
I like strangling animals, golf and ….
A total of 159 different hobbies were listed across the resumes. The top ten most frequently listed were: 1st reading, 2nd travelling, 3rd Golf, 4th Tennis, 5th Swimming, 6th listening to, music,7th family ,8th rugby, 9th snowsking, = 10th fishing and going to the gym. Some of the least frequent included collecting cigarette cards, washing the car, tap dancing and keeping reptiles.
Instant interview stoppers
In Amazing Resumes published in the USA (and in Brilliant CV for the UK and Resumes that get shortlisted for Australasia) I use the idea of the first date as a way of thinking about what you are trying to do in a job application (i.e. emphasise the positive, eliminate the negative, and maximise the ...
Jim on Kickstart Careers Channel 10 on Job Search Strategies
Here is a segment I did on Channel 10 for Kickstart careers. It is on job search strategies.
Amazing Resumes/ Brilliant CV scholarly and positive review in Business Communication Quarterly
Bright and Earl’s Brilliant CV [also Amazing Resumes ED.] is not another Resumes 101 or Resumes for Dummies. Grounded in research on resumes by organizational psychologists, human resource managers, and recruitment consultants, and relying on interviews of hundreds of recruiters across different industries, Bright and Earl provide invaluable insights for teachers and students of business communication.
Resume essentials
My new US title, Amazing Resumes is coming out in 2nd Edition (published by JIST). Here is a segment on resume writing from Channel 10.