This isn’t your parents’ job market. Today recruiters can find you on LinkedIn before you’ve even considered getting a new job, and they can read your freshman-year term papers after a single Google search. But once you get to the interview stage, employers still want to know why you applied and why they should hire…
DetailsMost people assume that given a choice between receiving positive or negative feedback, the majority would choose positive. To test that assumption, my colleague Jack Zenger and I created a psychometrically valid assessment that measured preferences for both receiving and/or avoiding positive and negative feedback. The assessment used a series of paired comparison items to…
DetailsAs employers revisit their anti-harassment policies, they also should finetune their complaint procedures. Without a robust complaint procedure that employees trust, an anti-harassment policy is not worth the paper on which it is written. 1. Make Clear Who Can Bring Complaints Complaint procedures should not be limited to employees who have experienced harassment. Employees who…
Details“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, And that had made all the difference.” The letter went on, “My career has not been one of just circumstances, but what has been right. And that has led me to …” Zuckerman, president of PacTeam Group in Paramus, N.J.,…
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