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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. Be cautious of firms requesting upfront payments for job applications or selling additional services such as resume writing or career coaching. Your next career move is too significant to leave to chance.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? All of us have a peer group and within that group a select few are viewed as the role models and the others aspire to reach that level of peak performance. To break away from the lemmings, give these techniques a try.

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What Is The Future Of Ageing Populations?

The Horizons Tracker

The report revolves around 22 peer-reviewed evidence reviews and expert meetings that aimed to debate everything from health and care to housing. “This will require the UK to move towards a model where training and re-skilling opportunities are available throughout people’s careers.” Connectivity.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

This is because promotions and salary increases at most business schools are primarily based on professors’ number of peer-reviewed, “A” journal publications (or those appearing in journals with the highest impact factor, or frequency of citation-counts). Where has this stuff been hiding?” But we should be.

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How to Manage a Toxic Employee

Harvard Business Review

“You might meet with them and ask how they’re doing — at work, at home, and with their career development,” suggests Porath. Include “supporting material” too: formal complaints, relevant information from performance evaluations, such as 360-degree or peer reviews. Frustrated with coworkers?

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. ” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands.

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Strengths-Based Coaching Can Actually Weaken You

Harvard Business Review

I have seen no scientific studies (independent research published in peer-reviewed academic journals) to support the idea that developmental interventions are more successful if they ignore people’s deficits or provide no negative feedback. key competencies, talents, or career weapons).