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The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2

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            Corporate Compensation Guide for the Job Seeker – A popular topic of discussion among job seekers is how to negotiate salary when the day comes that an offer is forthcoming. It is also a popular topic on websites, blog posts, Twitter chats and around Starbucks…just about anywhere that is a forum for such a conversation. Family and friends will help with advice along with the professionals, but the result is… Read More »The Weekender: Another Job Seeker Special Edition – Archives v.2

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – October 28 thru November 3, 2012

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  In case you missed this week’s articles, here is a summary:                   The Weekender: Special Job Seeker Edition – Five previous articles posted on this site specifically target to the job seeker community. There are new posts in this series every Friday.             Unregulated Social Media vs. Regulated Mindset – The blogosphere has been glutted with opinions on company social media policies… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – October 28 thru November 3, 2012

Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

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Everyone is unique. We go about living our lives and most of the time we follow rules which force us to appear like everyone else. We pride ourselves on being individuals and then conform to norms that make us all the same. A job search is no different. In order to be accepted as a serious candidate there must be a certain amount of adoption of the standards set by those who are hiring. A… Read More »Job Seekers: Write a Script to Tell Your Story and Then Be the Star

Why Job Descriptions Fail

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In one of those “Other duties as assigned” responsibilities at the bottom of my job description, I found myself heading up a program to build a course of instruction on job evaluation for plant engineers. My company, a large manufacturing corporation, used a modified point-factor system of job evaluation for manufacturing jobs that was not only complex in nature but sensitive because its adoption came about through a negotiated union buy-in. Having been brought to… Read More »Why Job Descriptions Fail

What Leadership Is Not

What is leadership? The viewpoint used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the famous Jacobellis v. Ohio case in 1964 regarding pornography and obscenity comes to mind: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description…  but I know it when I see it…“ Like other things that we weakly try to define, in many cases we understand a concept by observation… Read More »What Leadership Is Not