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The Interview: Know Your Audience
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. The Interview: Know Your Audience
2. A Blog: Better Than a Resume?
3. I'll Sleep On It. . .If I Can
4. Kenya Deputizes More Online Security Officers
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1. The Interview: Know Your Audience
"Tell me about yourself," says the interviewer. Coming up with a good answer should be easy enough. After all, who knows you better than you do? But this is the point in the interview when most job candidates kill their chances of landing the position. The problem? Most fail to tailor their message to their audience. The unspoken question underlying the interviewer's statement is "Are you my kind of person?" And a canned speech focused on what you want in a job doesn't give any inkling about whether you can meet his or her organization's needs. But a quick analysis of the interviewer's personality type--based on their body language, appearance, and demeanor--can give you the clues necessary to give, say, an HR representative and the finance manager separate but equally honest representations of what you can bring to the table.
2. A Blog: Better Than a Resume?
One way to make yourself stand out--and put yourself in line for great job opportunities without even applying for them--is to maintain a blog. A blog gives you visibility and allows you to create a personal brand that sets what makes you unique in full relief. A techcareers.com article provides some tips regarding what a good blog should include, such as a section for reader comments and a press section that allows readers to see where the blogger's comments have been quoted by other publications. No matter the format you choose, bloggers advise people thinking of starting a blog to "think hard about whether you can be really objective and truly real, because that's what readers want to see."
3. I'll Sleep On It. . .If I Can
Ever look at ornery or perpetually down-in-the-mouth colleagues and bemoan the fact that they allow their personal problems to seep into their work life? According to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan, problems at work are likely at the root of their other problems, including a lack of restorative sleep. The decade-long survey, which monitored the sleep habits of 2300 people, showed that people upset by workplace conflict were twice as likely to have trouble dozing off at night.
4. Kenya Deputizes More Online Security Officers
Kenya, like a number of other African nations, has not been able to take advantage of the wave of IT outsourcing contracts that has benefited countries such as China and India because of concerns over information security. Part of the problem is a shortage of workers skilled in information security management. And the cost of sending IT managers to Europe or the U.S. for training is too high for small and medium-size businesses and even the government. But new training programs in Kenya that send experts to train local IT managers on site could help government offices and private firms may soon be better able to close the gaps in their computer systems' barriers.
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Interviewers Are People Too
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Interviewers Are People Too
2. Your Laptop: Even if It's a Dell, It Might Be a Gateway
3. Tech Giants Stock the New-Hire Pool via Internships
4. An Animated Discussion About One's Career Path
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1. Interviewers Are People Too
It's natural to be nervous about a job interview. You have to provide the
right answers and ask the right questions. But what if you and the
interviewer just don't hit it off? In a careerbuilder.com article, hiring
experts reveal that the person sitting across the desk is not out to get
you. In fact hiring managers are often just as concerned about getting you
to like them and the company. "I tend to walk into every interview wanting
to hire that person," says Christine Peterson, Senior Vice President of
Marketing for TripAdvisor. Candidates who come across as "nice, smart and
fun...are going to have to work pretty hard to convince me NOT to hire
them," Peterson says.
2. Your Laptop: Even if It's a Dell, It Might Be a Gateway
The glowing screens on laptops, PDAs, and smart phones can draw the
attention of thieves like moths to a flame. But increasingly, it's the data
on the machines--client lists, research documents, prototype plans for new
products or services, and personnel records--that is the lure. Some
cyberthieves have taken to infiltrating wireless devices and copying their
contents copied or remotely installing software that turns the gadgets into
entry points for a company's otherwise secure network. Security experts
advise frequent business travelers to take precautions such as encrypting
their laptops' hard drives or making sure that they don't contain sensitive
information, then having their company's IT department run a scan the moment
they return from a trip.
3. Tech Giants Stock the New-Hire Pool via Internships
Tech companies, in an effort to ensure that they will continually be able to
tap into the pipeline of next-gen IT workers, are expanding their college
internship programs and making the positions increasingly indistinguishable
from regular staffers. "[Our interns] aren't given side projects," says Ann
Forbes-Cannon, the university programs specialist at Google. "They're doing
real work to help give them a sense of what it is like to work here. We make
sure they're working on active Google projects." The positions resemble
full-time jobs in other important ways. Many are salaried, and some
companies even offer health benefits and offset relocation expenses. "The
good news," says a Computer World article, is that "most of them still have
openings for this summer."
4. An Animated Discussion About One's Career Path
What's the best way to communicate? Send your message in the format with
which your intended audience is most familiar. Business publishers are
taking the advice that appears in some of their own tomes and putting out
practical guides for young people entering the business world in the form of
stylized Japanese comics called manga. One such comic, "The Adventures of
Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need," skips the how-to's of
creating a resume or networking, and focuses on dispelling erroneous
assumptions that young people make about the job market. Using Bunko, an
office jockey who won't seem unfamiliar to anyone who's ever read Dilbert,
and Diana, a supernatural career advisor, the author offers six career
lessons that include "Persistence trumps talent" and "It's not about you."
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Seven Things You Must Do In an Interview
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Seven Things You Must Do In an Interview
2. Job Forecast for Graduates: Still Sunny
3. Seven Minutes to Success
4. You Say Engineer, I Say Physicist
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1. Seven Things You Must Do In an Interview
Don't fidget. Don't slouch. Don't talk too much or too loudly. These are
among the myriad bits of advice that an interviewee should heed. But what
about the do's? A Business Week article explores seven things you must do in
an interview. You must show that you can use the information you gathered
before and during the interview to understand what the company's--and the
hiring manager's--concerns are. Employers covet employees who get the big
picture--meaning the products and markets beyond the specifics of the job.
So listen carefully, which is itself another uncommon but learnable skill.
2. Job Forecast for Graduates: Still Sunny
Ever notice that, even in the midst of an industry downturn, companies
rarely suspend their campus recruiting efforts? That's because companies in
cost-cutting mode will willingly trade the salaries experienced employees
for those of recent graduates. A Forbes article says that the newest
entrants to the talent pool should ignore economic indicators such as the
unemployment rate. "It's not unusual for the new college grad marketplace to
not correspond with the economy at large," says Kathy Sims, director of the
career center at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I've been in
this for 30 years, and you rarely see a connection."
3. Seven Minutes to Success
Small gestures can make a big difference in how you're perceived by others
or in your efforts to get ahead. An Advisor Today article presents a list of
100 life-changing "micro-actions"--each of which, it says, are easy to do
and require no more than seven minutes. These include clipping an article
and sending it to a colleague, calling a mentor to ask a single important
question, writing a handwritten note to someone, thanking them for making
your job easier.
4. You Say Engineer, I Say Physicist
Salaries for tech jobs in India have skyrocketed as U.S. and Western
European companies, eager to take advantage of the relatively low wages
there have ratcheted up demand for the country's best and brightest. To keep
wages down, Indian outsourcing firms, who compete on labor costs, have begun
hiring graduates with general science degrees rather than engineering
graduates. Those with science degrees typically demand half the starting
salary that their counterparts in engineering do. "You don't need
engineering graduates for every job," says Azimm Premji, chairman of Wipro
Ltd., an Indian conglomerate that owns one of India's leading outsourcing
firms. "Science graduates are significantly lower cost and we are graduating
a million of them a year."
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10 Rules for Making Big Career Leaps
IN THIS ISSUE:
1. 10 Rules for Making Big Career Leaps
2. No Time to Let Your Guard Down
3. A Game of Skill
4. Unwelcome at Home, IBM Sets Sights Abroad
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1. 10 Rules for Making Big Career Leaps
What's the most surefire way (besides being a scion) to make it to the highest rungs of the corporate ladder? A Business Week article calls it the Big Leap--the point in your career progression where you take a big gamble with the aim of getting well beyond where incremental advances will land you. The article offers 10 rules for making such a leap. They include being ruthless with your resume, excising the stodgy corporate speak that is far too common, then getting out and telling the facts about your career the way a salesperson would. Read on at:
<http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/mar2008/ca20080327_362624.htm?chan=careers_managing+your+career+page_top+stories>
2. No Time to Let Your Guard Down
Everyone's been so friendly. And they've gone from talking about "If you're hired..." to "When you start..." After having run through the interview gauntlet, it appears that all you have to do is sit back, relax, and let them make you an offer. Not so fast, says Dave Sanford, executive vice president of client services at recruitment firm Winter, Wyman & Co. "You can't let your guard down." Until you've cleared the company's property, everything about you will be scrutinized--from the way you address the receptionist to the seemingly harmless small talk you exchange with a would-be colleague on the way out the door. "I consider an interview like a first date," says career coach Marky Stein. In other words, be on your best behavior and don't reveal too much too soon. Read on at:
<http://career-advice.monster.com/interview-preparation/Keep-Your-Guard-Up-at-the-Interview/home.aspx>
3. A Game of Skill
Until now, all hiring managers had to go on to tell them whether a candidate was a good fit for an opening was the glowing self inventory on a resume or a possibly misleading reference from a chummy ex-colleague at a former employer. But new computer simulations are making it possible to see how a prospective employee will do the job before he or she actually takes the reins. A job candidate is placed on a team with current employees, given market analyses of a fictional company, and asked to choose from a menu of strategic initiatives aimed at bolstering the company's bottom line. Such programs are also being used to groom future managers by exposing employees to the tradeoffs higher ups have to make in order to meet growth targets while maintaining market share and profitability. Read on at:
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120693258747476361.html?mod=CarJMain_topright>
4. Unwelcome at Home, IBM Sets Sights Abroad
In mid-February, IBM announced that it will continue to expand its operations in India, adding thousands of employees to the 73 000 already on staff there. Big Blue's expansion plans outside the United States couldn't come at a better time for the computer maker. On 1 April, the company disclosed that it has been temporarily barred from selling its IT equipment and services to U.S. federal agencies. The U.S. government is thought to be the largest IT buyer in the world, with a $70 billion annual budget. The suspension, said a company release, relates to possible irregularities in a bid the company submitted two years ago. Read on at:
<http://www.itworld.com/Career/1861/ibm-hiring-in-india-080213/
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