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“Why Should I Hire You?” A good answer.
Just a good example of answer this question. The beginning intro is a bit annoying, but the interview question itself is pretty instructive.
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The Three Pillars of Leadership
Throughout my career, I have been leading people who are older than me. In some occasions, these people can be more than a decade older. It wasn’t always like that. When I was a younger, I was the kid who everyone makes fun of while I worked my butt off to try to become accepted [...]
Harvard BR Article on MMORPG Developing Real World Leaders
Future Delivery is about productive gaming. The more hours you play a game, the more successful your real life would be. There is a whole industry called “Serious Gaming” (obviously coined by non-gamers, because real hardcore gamers would never let that pass) that is about using gaming in real world functions, such as educational games [...]
Action in the Face of Fear
One will never reach distant shores,
if he chooses to remain upon the dock,
In fear his little ship of dreams
may be dashed against the rocks.
– F. Bolen.
It was my sophomore of high school. I was a shy, short, generic looking white boy. My English teacher that year-a vivacious, red haired Ms. Robertson-had assigned the class a [...]
Money and Motivation
Once upon a time, there was an corn farmer who lived near a baseball field. On the weekends, the neighborhood boys would play baseball on the field. All the homeruns would fly into the farmer’s cornfield, and as the boys retrieved the ball they would damage the farmers crop.
At first the farmer yelled at [...]
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The New Rules of Recruitment: Making Yourself Stick
Our FD Edge mantra is to "do the opposite of what everyone else is doing." The New Rules of Recruitment: Making Yourself Stick will show you how to stand out above your peers.
Making Yourself Stick: http://thefdworld.com/edge/pub/id/11
The way you portray yourself and how you say things is much more important than the content of your words. Give yourself the edge during your recruitment process and learn how to network better and meet people easier. Our techniques will show you how to leave a positive and impressive first impression.
Making Yourself Stick: http://thefdworld.com/edge/pub/id/11
The way you portray yourself and how you say things is much more important than the content of your words. Give yourself the edge during your recruitment process and learn how to network better and meet people easier. Our techniques will show you how to leave a positive and impressive first impression.
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Top Ten Recruitment Mistakes
The Ebook: http://thefdworld.com/edge/pub/id/13
We can teach you everything about how to interview well. Most likely you will take our advice to heart, but you will build upon the mistakes that you currently make without removing them first. The best way to optimize your interviewing abilities is to strip away everything that you are doing wrong first. This Ebook lists the top ten recruiting mistakes that undergraduates and young professionals make. We demonstrate exactly how to avoid the pitfa… Continue
Posted on March 20th, 2008 at 1:49am —
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The Human Side of Mercer
Have you ever wondered what human capital consulting is? Well you're in luck, Kevin Poff from Mercer Human Capital Consulting is our guest and speaks about what a human capital consultant really does. Kevin goes into great detail about what the recruitment process is like, what Mercer is specifically looking for in a new hire, and what drove him to choose a career with Mercer. Listen to Kevin's great tips and strategies about how to best make a decision about what career is the right one for you… Continue
Posted on March 11th, 2008 at 11:14pm —
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Entertain the Interviewer
Interviewers go through about 20 interviews in one day if it’s the 1st round interview at your university career center. They often will hear the same stories time and time again. I’ll give you two examples right now that I bet you’re using:
1) “Last quarter I was working on a group project in my accounting class”
2) “He was pulling his own weight. So what I did was take him aside and speak to him away from all of our teammates so that he wouldn’t be embarrassed”
Honestly, everyone uses these… Continue
Why do most people dislike their jobs?
For some reason, the majority of people who you talk to about their work seem to always be complaining. Why does everyone dislike their job? More importantly, why don’t they do something about it?!? We have found that people get stuck at their jobs for the following reasons:
1. They did not focus on recruitment coming out of undergrad.
Students ultimately go to college so that they can get a good job. They spend a lot of time in class and in extra-curricular activities, but they spend absolute… Continue
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