10. March 2010

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Career Karma – 3 Top Tips To Ensure Success In Any New Job From Day One!

Creating Career Karma right from the word ‘Go’ and throughout the first weeks and months in a new job is absolutely crucial for long-term success.  The eyes of the world are upon you, just waiting to see whether you trip yourself up or stand out as one of the organization’s future stars and, whether you [...]

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9. March 2010

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Starting A New Job? Then Choose Your Friends Carefully!

Starting a new job is an unsettling time when everything and everyone is strange and new.  For most of us, the temptation is to make friends with just anyone in our attempt to ‘fit in’ and not feel like the new boy or girl.  Align yourself with the wrong people, however, and you could just [...]

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8. March 2010

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New Job, Fresh Start!

When we’ve been in the workplace for a number of years, there is a tendency to do what we’ve always done, especially if what we have always done has meant that we have progressed at a reasonable or acceptable pace.  The same often holds true when we start a new job in a succession of [...]

6. March 2010

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February Unemployment Rate Holds Steady – Or Does It?

Although not designed to happen this way, the release of the February employment statistics has coincided neatly with the end of my little mini-series explaining what the key figures mean.  So, how did the job market fare during last month? Today’s news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the nation’s unemployment rate remained [...]

5. March 2010

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Job Loss Statistics And Why The Numbers Look So Small

Having looked, over the course of my last few posts, at the two key unemployment statistics and the adjustments made for seasonality, the final area of the government’s employment data that I want to address is job losses. Now, the first thing to mention about job loss figures is that they come from a completely different [...]

4. March 2010

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Seasonal Adjustments In Unemployment Data

I have been talking over the past couple of days about the bewildering array of employment statistics which are produced by the government every month and how to make sense of what they actually mean.  As I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s post, alongside the U3 and U6 unemployment figures (which paint an entirely [...]

3. March 2010

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U6 – The ‘Other’ Unemployment Figure

Yesterday’s post looked at the ‘official’ unemployment rate (the U3 figure) and how it is calculated, but is this really a true reflection of the state of the country’s employment situation?  Let’s take a look at the ‘other’ figure, the U6 figure which you will sometimes see quoted, and you can decide for yourself which [...]

2. March 2010

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Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics – What Does The ‘Official’ Unemployment Rate Really Mean?

Take a look on Wikipedia and the definition of the title phrase goes like this: ‘A phrase describing the persuasive power of numbers, particularly the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments, and the tendency of people to disparage statistics that do not support their positions’ The saying itself is attributed to former British Prime Minister, Benjamin [...]

1. March 2010

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The Amiable Style

In my last few posts I have been talking about people styles and today it is the turn of the Amiable style.  As the name suggests, these are the real ‘friendlies’ in the bunch; they are warm and sensitive, easy-going and dependable.  Unlike the Drivers and the Expressives, they tend not to be very ambitious [...]

27. February 2010

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The Driver Style

After looking yesterday at the second of the four people styles, the Expressive style, we then compared the behavior of an Expressive interviewer and an Analytical job candidate to show the potential for an almighty personality clash in the interview room.  We then went on to describe how, by adapting his behavior so that it [...]

26. February 2010

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The Expressive Style

As I described a couple of days ago, this series of posts is looking at the characteristics of the four main people styles and at how, by being able to identify the style of an interviewer and mirror it, we can create a much closer rapport and make him feel that we are the best [...]

25. February 2010

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The Analytical People Style

Following on from yesterday’s post, today I am going to look at the first of the people styles that were mentioned, namely the Analytical style.  Before I do that though, let’s just look, in diagram form, at how the themes of assertiveness and responsiveness relate to the four different people styles.   Expressive   More assertive More responsive     Amiable   Less assertive More responsive   Driver   More [...]

24. February 2010

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Using Work Styles To Mirror Interviewers

Each of us has our own individual interpersonal style – we all behave and inter-relate with our fellow human beings in different ways depending upon our personal preferences.  When analyzed and broken down, these styles don’t just help us to better understand ourselves and, as I explain in my book Career Karma, help us to [...]

23. February 2010

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3 Ways To Start Homing In On That Perfect Career

In this, my final excerpt from Passion By Design in this series, the focus is on researching potential careers.  After having completed the exercises in the book and got a much clearer idea of who you are and what you love and loathe in life, the extract to follow concentrates on helping those who haven’t [...]

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