Not everyone has a way with words. Most people have pretty excellent oral communication skills. After all, speaking is the primary way we communicate. As a species we were talking to each other — even if it was no more than grunts and spits — long before we started writing stuff down.
But, for […]
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Anyone who’s been laid off and subsequently unemployed for a serious length of time can tell you how emotionally debilitating it is. The icy hands of depression wrap its skeletal fingers around your ego, squeezing hard until all of what makes you feel human and productive has been drained into a Ziploc bag and then […]
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Watching my sister compete in a triathlon is one of the most exhausting things I’ve ever done. That’s right, watching the triathlon. I assumed triathlon viewing would be akin to attending a performance of some kind. Here’s what the whole deal looked like in my mind: sitting in foldout chairs at the […]
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Just about every career advice book, website, news report, pamphlet and leaflet recommends having a friend or relative run a practice interview with you before attending the “for real” one. To be sure, that is excellent advice.
However, those situations hardly ever simulate a real interview with some of the out-of-left-field questions that usually pop up. […]
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