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Getting Comfortable in your New Job: Three steps to succeeding in a new environment

Getting ready to start a new job?  Congratulations, we are excited about every success story! Your next hurdle will be the first few days, meeting co-workers, learning the company culture and getting used to the way your new company does business. Instead of stressing over proving yourself to your co-workers, it’s important to remember that:You…

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Robots Aren't Taking Our Jobs, They Are Our Jobs

The demand for jobs with skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics has grown steadily over the past four years. While we’re still a far cry from the robot-babysitters of our inevitable future, there have been some amazing leaps in robotics and AI technology recently. Wisegeek.com differentiates these two seemingly similar skill sets by focusing on the ability…

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Back to Basics: Strengths, Motivation, and Fit get the Job

While having the technical skills required is absolutely essential for any IT role, according to Forbes, there are three concepts that matter most in a job interview: strengths, motivation and fit. Three basic questions grasp this “Big Three” concept, and while the interviewer most likely won’t ask them straight out, they will ultimately focus on the answers…

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Active Listening for Interview Success

In a previous blog we focused on employers boosting their employees’ productivity and morale by listening to them. Now we want to discuss how being a good listener as an employee or job seeker can help you succeed within the workplace and in your next interview.First, it’s important to understand how overwhelming plain-old listening can…

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Improve Productivity & Morale: Listen to Your Employees

We typically take in only about half of what we hear and forget roughly half of that the next day according to Business2Community. That means if you aren’t working extra hard to absorb information you could lose 75% of the information overnight. If one of your employees gives you a great idea but you weren’t listening…

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Using LinkedIn: How to get your Next Date, I mean Job…

-guest contributor, Joel Ingersoll I’ve often suggested that LinkedIn could add an additional revenue stream by also functioning as a dating site for professionals. Beyond just including resume and professional groups that people belong to, most of us use our first day of work badge photo as our avatar giving us a well-manicured appearance that typical…

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IT Finds its Feminine Side

It’s no secret that IT is experiencing a shortage of talented professionals for hire.  Partially to blame is the fact that up until lately, the majority of the female half of the population wasn’t even considering an IT profession.  But now, in this traditionally male-driven industry where the vast majority of funded tech start-ups are…