Posts Tagged ‘soft skills’
Steps to take when your boss gets fired.
Similar to last week’s show, there’s a growing vibe that someone’s about to be fired. Who’s getting fired? In this scenario, it’s your boss. No big deal for you, right? Uhhh … no. If you play this wrong it could mean you’re also making the brown box walk of shame. And even if you play…
Read More5 Ways a Career Changer Can Demonstrate Leadership Skills on Their Resume
5 Ways a Career Changer Can Demonstrate Leadership Skills on Their Resume Money Magazine wrote an article about “The 8 Best Skills for Career Changers“, and the author lists LEADERSHIP as the second best skill for a career changer to have and to showcase on their resume as a transferable skill. Leadership is one of…
Read More6 Essentials to Creating an Interview-Producing CIO Executive Resume
Most high-performing CIOs have not kept up their resumes because, well, they are too busy being high-performing. As a result, their current resumes still reflect their years as tactical practitioners rather than their track records as leading IT executives. As a CIO, or a rising information technology (IT) executive, properly crafting an interview-generating executive resume…
Read More7 Straightforward Reasons You Weren’t Hired
7 Straightforward Reasons You Weren’t Hired Am I overqualified? Is it my age? I get these kind of questions all the time so to help job seekers, here are 7 straightforward reasons you weren’t hired.
Read MoreGluten-Free Resumes: Is Your Pursuit of the New Eroding your Resume Common Sense?
Gluten-Free Resumes: Is Your Pursuit of the New Eroding your Resume Common Sense? Gluten-free resumes the new fad for designing your resume… sounds ridiculous, right? Well, because it is. However, even the most accomplished executives can let the next new thing get in the way of basic common sense when crafting a resume. I had…
Read More7 Steps to Take Now When Your Boss Might Be Fired
Your boss might be fired. That’s the rumor in the grapevine. Or there’s the confidential information credible source shared with you. Your department is now holding its breath. Your boss might wind up terminated. What’s at stake? How that actually plays out is irrelevant, right now. What counts is that in the period of uncertainty,…
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