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Timing your run

Every idea has it's time. To recruiters you are an idea until signed on. Your promotion remains nothing but an idea until you get it. So in a sense your next career move is an idea until expressed and all ideas have their time. Early in my career I was talked out of accepting high office ...

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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 ...

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Is being pro-active good for career success?

The authors make the point that proactive personalities are more closely associated with supervisor ratings of overall job performance than that reported for any of the Big Five personality factors

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