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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Be cautious of firms requesting upfront payments for job applications or selling additional services such as resume writing or career coaching. While some firms offer legitimate resume and career coaching services, these could be diversion tactics aimed at less experienced or desperate candidates.

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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

The evaluation report is a compilation of feedback from managers, peers, and juniors. Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII.

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Review of From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

The Practical Leader

He began his career as a highly acclaimed classical French hornist, then earned a PhD in public policy, which led to becoming an analyst for the Rand Corporation, moving on to full professorship at Syracuse University (where he published 60 peer-reviewed articles and several books), and president of a Washington, DC-based think tank for 10 years.

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Unusual Hiring Practices

Strategy Driven

Rather than have an open and honest dialogue about the organization, the candidate and the fit or unfit, interviewers to flaunt about how great the organization is in, rejoicing in the schadenfreude experienced by the candidates who so desperately want to make it through and be accepted by the all-powerful interviewer.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We also received powerful feedback that customers did not like working with us because of leader and staff attitudes. I co-conducted a professional peer review of a nearly identical campus on the west coast (size, structure, unions, facilities, budget, number of staff). FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

But when we approach our interactions thoughtfully, a company’s culture can be a powerful antibody against destructive office politics. ” “Can you tell me about four people whose careers you have fundamentally improved?” We add additional criteria, screening for the ability to calibrate to a team environment.

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Stop Treating B2B Customers Like Digital Novices

Harvard Business Review

Consumer-facing (B2C) companies like these and many others have long realized the power of online digital networks to address the questions or issues of their customers. 97% of professional buyers believe that user-generated content, such as peer reviews and group discussion, is more credible than content provided by the company itself.

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