Executive Employment Searching

Where are you on the life satisfaction scale? Are you feeling that you have finally arrived at the destiny you have been working so hard for all of your life? Do you feel like you are energetically pursuing your calling and God's plan for your life? Or are you more in the camp that things are going okay on a day to day basis? Neither passion or peace have come knocking in a while. Now that you think about it, more accurately you are just getting by! To get a true feel for where you are in your ...
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/p> It could just be me, but my experiences with document collaboration remind me of a football game. It sounds crazy, I know, but working with a group and sending emails off to other members of the group caries with it that familiar uneasy sensation of Thanksgiving Day football games, where I often play quarterback and just as often wonder whether members of my family will catch the pass, and if they do, what they will do with the ball. Using groupware in document collaboration is similar to ...
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RSS for the Rest of Us I don't know about you, but I'm seeing a whole bunch of articles and websites telling me that I need to get into this RSS thing. Is it really time? RSS (it stands for "Really Simple Syndication") is the latest wave of internet technology designed to take advantage of the "Content is King" mentality. Imagine getting direct access to the content you want, without having to give out your personal information. Wouldn't that be nice? Here's how it works: You find a website ...
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by: Geoff Ficke  If you are of a certain age you will vividly remember the following names: Helena Rubenstein, Faberge, Germain Monteil, Trigere, Revlon, Elizabeth Arden, Max Factor, Schwinn, W. T. Grant, Montgomery Ward and Chuck Taylor. Each name represented a hugely successful consumer product brand. Each of these brands was grown from the entrepreneurial seed of a visionary. Unfortunately, each was subsequently abused, in several cases terminally, by non-visionary corporate bean counters. ...
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It's time to put your trusty CRM software to work; to let it earn its keep. You're about to blast an email out to several thousand potential customers. First you run a search of people and companies you want to target. You soon realize something's wrong when your list is far smaller than anticipated. A quick check reveals many profiles have not been filled in or are missing email addresses. Further inspection shows numerous records are incorrect; others are riddled with typos. And that's just ...
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/p> Groupware Groupware is a software or hardware that manages documents on which organizations and groups collaborate. Groupware, of some form or another, has become a much sought after technology among businesses. Each groupware package includes tools which are meant to meet the needs of a business. Don't be alarmed that when your business begins its search for a groupware package that 5,590,000 indexed pages will greet you on Google, 3,820,000 on Yahoo, and 950,316 on MSN. The fact is the ...
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Is your lack of experience stopping you from getting the job you really want and know you deserve and would be good at?  This happens to many people, and can be a huge roadblock, especially in our current job market.  It does put you at a disadvantage, but there are things you can do. If this is the case for you, the first thing you have to know is:  Go directly to the hiring manager.  You'll never get past a gatekeeper or screener, whose job it is to only give resumes with ...
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Here's a common scenario (and complaint) for job seekers:  "I spend all day long applying to jobs online through Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, or niche job boards'and I never get a response.  Have I lost the understanding of how this job search works?" If this is happening to you, you've got to understand that the job search has totally changed from what it was 15 years ago, or even 5 years ago.  Today's job search is different.  It's flooded with job seekers in this ...
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You've probably heard about the various ways to improve your resume so that it can be moved to the top of the talent pool instead of the top of a trash pile. One way that has been suggested in more recent times is the use of keywords, especially with advancements in technology that can capture and categorize resumes based on the keywords used. This is a practice not only common with entry-level and managerial resumes, it also works extraordinarily well with executive resumes. You just have to ...
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As an executive, you've probably been on plenty of interviews in your lifetime - from that entry-level position to the management positions you've held. But nothing quite compares to the executive-level interview; if you've been on even one you know this is a true statement. So how do you properly prepare for executive-level interviews? There are a number of steps involved to get you on the right track and keep you there. Let's take a look at what they are ... Make Sure You're Impeccably ...
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