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Powerful and Effective Tips for Getting Ahead at Work

OK, you’ve asked for it. Our most powerful and effective tips for getting ahead at work.

This is real senior management stuff, not text book chatter and theory.

These tips are based on real world observations.

We are not going to pull any punches.

What we say here might be upsetting. You probably won’t like what you hear.

1) It’s Time to Kiss the Boss’s Butt
It’s true. It’s who you know, not what you have accomplished. Many people do not want to believe this simple, often stated rule because it means the hardest working; most creative, most dedicated people are not necessarily going to get the next promotion.

This means that unless you are kissing the right butt you will not get ahead no matter how hard you work, no matter what your accomplishments are.

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Focused on Your Qualifications for The Job

Job interviewing can be an unnerving experience, but if you know how to handle some of the stickiest situations encountered in interviewing, you can be that much more confident. Here are 10 of the stickiest.

1. The Bad Interviewer. Not every professional who conducts job interviews with candidates knows how to conduct an interview effectively. In fact some are downright lousy at it. A bad interviewer might be unfocused, disinterested, unprepared. He or she might dominate the interview by doing all the talking or might ask inappropriate and illegal questions.

    The unfocused, unprepared interviewer probably hasn’t read your resume and maybe can’t even find a copy. This hapless soul doesn’t even know what to ask you. Be sure to offer this disorganized interviewer a copy of your resume while asking, “May I take you through some highlights of my career?”

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    Reasons Your Job Search is Failing

    On paper, the prescription for unemployment is rather formulaic: send in résumé, go on interview, be your charming self, get hired.

    The frustrating reality isn’t nearly as simple.  Getting an interview alone is an exercise in persistence and patience.

    Here are 10 reasons for why you’re not landing that interview and what you can do to reverse the trend.

    Your résumé and cover letter are as articulate as Courtney Love’s Web blog. If your application materials contain typos, grammatical errors and irrelevant or inconsistent information, employers will take notice — in a bad way.  Once you’ve looked over your résumé and cover letter to the point of dementia, take this advice from Joyce Gioia of the Herman Group: have three people, for whom English is a first language, review your résumé and cover letter before you send it.

    Your cover letter is generic. Make it personal by tailoring it to the particular job and addressing it to a person, not “To Whom It May Concern.”  And include a sentence or two about how you are the right fit for that particular job.  If no contact is listed, take the initiative to find out who the hiring manager is by searching the company’s Web site or calling the reference desk.

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