Top 5 Soft Skills for Job Hunters - Flex Jobs

"You’ve revamped your resume. You’ve coordinated a killer interview outfit. You’ve studied up on the company and even scoped out the interviewer’s LinkedIn profile so you can feel your most prepared. In short, you’ve done everything necessary in order to have a successful job interview. But what about your soft skills?
Did you know that when you’re sitting in the interview chair your potential employer is judging you on a whole set of skills that you may not even be aware of? These “soft skills” have nothing to do with that multi-million dollar merger you helped orchestrate—they are all personality-based. Here are five of the most popular soft skills your hiring manager is grading you on—and here’s how to score an A."
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5 Big, Easy Changes for More Job Search Confidence - FlexJobs

5 Big, Easy Changes for More Job Search Confidence - FlexJobs: When you’re job searching, you want to make sure you do everything as close to perfect as possible. But did you know that using certain words can weaken your standing as a job candidate? Below we’ll discuss five big, easy changes for more job search confidence by eliminating the five words you should avoid at all costs.

Straight-Shooting Career Advice for Grads | Fox Business

Straight-Shooting Career Advice for Grads | Fox Business: Here is some advice for the class of 2015 that you may not have heard during graduation ceremonies.

“What you’re hearing at graduation sounds great, and never forget it, but don’t be afraid to listen to what’s really going on in front of you,” says Scott Dobroski, community expert at Glassdoor. “As you progress through your career, make sure you pay attention to what’s around you to guide your decisions so you can live the best life in and out of work.”






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4 Ways to Turn Around a Bad Job Interview | Fox Business

4 Ways to Turn Around a Bad Job Interview | Fox Business: An analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found the unemployment rate for recent grads is just over 5%; compared to 2.7% for college graduates as a whole. Meanwhile, the rate of underemployment stands at 45% for this group.

If you are a recent grad who is now on the job hunt, here are some potential challenges you may face during interviews, and my tips to help you overcome them. (Go to www.foxandfriends.com to watch the full segment.)






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Employers don't respond after job interviews

Employers don't respond after job interviews: You had a great interview for a job you’re coveting. Your answers were spot-on, your test went well…but you haven’t heard back from your future boss-to-be. Sadly, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey in CareerBuilder, a whopping 75 percent of people said they didn’t hear back from a position they had applied for in the past year. There are several reasons why employers don’t respond after job interviews.

Why Employers Don’t Respond to Job Applications - FlexJobs

Why Employers Don’t Respond to Job Applications - FlexJobs: How often have you wondered why employers don’t respond to job applications? You read through the job posting. Twice. Your skills and work experience are a perfect match for the responsibilities of the position you’re applying for. You take the time to carefully craft job applications that rivals any Academy Award–winning speeches. You follow the submission process down to the last detail. You hit send and you wait.

Why Employers Don’t Respond to Your Resume - FlexJobs

Why Employers Don’t Respond to Your Resume - FlexJobs: If you’ve applied to dozens of jobs but haven’t received any interviews, a warning signal should be going off. There are a number of reasons why employers don’t respond to your resume, and most of them can be easily fixed. Increase your chances that employers will respond to your resume positively by fixing these potential gaffes.

Why Employers Don't Respond to Cover Letters - FlexJobs

Why Employers Don't Respond to Cover Letters - FlexJobs: How often have you wondered why employers don’t respond to cover letters? You’ve filled out the application, sent in a stellar resume, and attached a cover letter. Yet, you don’t hear anything back. Employers, over the past half a dozen years, have been inundated with resumes and applications, making it much harder for them to respond to everyone. Surely this is a reason for some companies that never respond.

Being unemployed could warp your personality, study says

Being unemployed could warp your personality, study says | Fox News: New research suggests being unemployed may actually alter a person's "core personality" for the worse, making it harder to secure new employment, per the American Psychological Association.

A study published in the APA's Journal of Applied Psychology looked at nearly 6,769 German adults who took a personality test at two points during a four-year period; 210 of the subjects were unemployed for one to four years during this period, while 251 were briefly unemployed but got another job within a year.

8 Bad Job Search Habits to Break Now - FlexJobs

8 Bad Job Search Habits to Break Now - FlexJobs: Being a good job seeker takes practice and examining the habits you have that may be holding you back from being successful. If you have found yourself wondering where you are going wrong in your job search, consider the following bad job search habits that can harm your job search success.

7 Communication Tips for the Office

7 Communication Tips for the Office | Fox Small Business Center: Merriam-Webster dictionary defines communication as “The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else; a message that is given to someone: a letter, telephone call, etc.” This sounds so simple, yet can be very complex in a business environment.

It might be said that communication is more of an art than a science. The easy part is simply exchanging information, speaking our thoughts to someone else. The art of communication, however, is knowing not only how to verbalize our ideas, but also how to listen, empathize, encourage, or influence. These actions are not automatic but take forethought and training to ensure messages are delivered to elicit a desired response.

Work on these seven techniques to improve your communication and improve your business:

Here’s What You Really Need to Advance Your Career | TIME

Here’s What You Really Need to Advance Your Career | TIME: This post is in partnership with The Muse. The article below was originally published on The Muse.



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If you want to advance your career, having a mentor isn’t enough anymore. Don’t get me wrong—mentors are wonderful. They help you gain critical skills, navigate you through challenges at work, and offer a sounding board when you’re at a crossroads in your career. But if you aspire to climb higher in this modern and competitive climate, you’ll need a sponsor as well.

You Need A Sponsor To Fast-Track Your Career - Business Insider

You Need A Sponsor To Fast-Track Your Career - Business Insider: If you thought finding and cultivating a mentor with clout would be your key to career success, you were dead wrong.

Mentors may offer an open door and helpful guidance, but little more. To win, you need a sponsor, says Sylvia Ann Hewlett, CEO of think tank The Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) and author of just released “Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career.”

5 minutes a week to advance your career

5 minutes a week to advance your career | Computerworld: In reality, simple advice like this is not as universally helpful as we would like to think. Focusing on hot skills may be useful for some, but for many it’s a complete diversion because the paths that people follow through IT careers are remarkably varied. Some pass easily from technical roles to management and back. Some oscillate between employment and contracting. Some even follow the traditional path of staying with one organization and climbing the corporate ladder.
























But there is one thing that everyone can benefit from, regardless of what path you choose to follow, and that you can realistically accomplish given the day-to-day demands of work and life. Just take five minutes each week to reach out to someone from your past. Everyone can find five minutes a week — five minutes that would otherwise go to looking at your smartphone, waiting for people to arrive at a meeting, drinking your morning coffee or eating lunch at your desk.

What a Market Correction Would Really Look Like | Some business and investment information to consider

What a Market Correction Would Really Look Like | Fox Business: In considering this aging bull market, some sobering facts from John P. Hussman, Ph.D., of the Hussman Funds: “Recall that the 2000-2002 [market] collapse wiped out the entire total return of the S&P 500 in excess of Treasury bill returns, all the way back to May 1996."

Hussman adds: “The 2007-2009 collapse wiped out the entire total return of the S&P 500 in excess of Treasury bill returns, all the way back to June 1995. If the S&P 500 was to experience nothing but a run-of-the-mill 34% bear market decline over the coming three years, it will have underperformed Treasury bills for what would at that point be an 18-year period since 1999.”

4 Keys to Shedding the Attitudes Keeping You Stuck

4 Keys to Shedding the Attitudes Keeping You Stuck: It happens to all of us: We become comfortable in how we think, how we lead and how we behave and react to things, and then we end up stuck in our ways.

Even when things are not working as well as they could or should, or if others criticize us and give us direct feedback, it can be a hard to recognize and own our predicament. We often feel that, after all, the way we’ve always done things has worked, hasn’t been that bad, so why change now?

New Study Finds Minimum Wage Increases Hurt Low-Skilled Workers | Cato @ Liberty

New Study Finds Minimum Wage Increases Hurt Low-Skilled Workers | Cato @ Liberty: A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that significant minimum wage increases can hurt the very people they are intended to help. Authors Jeffrey Clemens and Michael Wither find that significant minimum wage increases can negatively affect employment, average income, and the economic mobility of low-skilled workers. The authors find that significant “minimum wage increases reduced the employment, average income, and income growth of low-skilled workers over short and medium-run time horizons.”

The 4 Habits You Need to Be Successful

The 4 Habits You Need to Be Successful | Fox Small Business Center: The most successful people in this world maintain and master good habits. They realize what they do on a daily basis and where they direct their energy deeply matters when it comes to reaching their goals.

The habits you have picked up over the past couple of years is a reflection of where you are right this moment.

The sad news is that most people don’t have very good habits. The great news is if you are unhappy where you are at in your life you can gradually change the trajectory by altering what you do daily. To achieve high levels of success, you must start to develop the habits of the highly successful.