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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. In 1999, the U.S.

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Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

million in 2013, up from 16 million two years before. And real estate agents, contractors, and others who are dependent on a boom-bust housing sector which has been mostly a bust in recent years. The world surely needs more landscapers and maids than management analysts, and it gets them.

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