Reputation Killers: A Personal PR Disaster

November 27, 2009 View Comments

Your reputation is one thing you can’t buy, beg, borrow or steal. Your reputation is yours alone, built by your actions–how well you perform, how you treat those around you up-and-down the ladder, your intelligence and your ethics. Today, more than at any other time, your actions and deeds can be widely communicated through co-worker [...]

Don’t leave them wilting in your wake

November 20, 2009 View Comments

You’re big boys and girls. I really, really shouldn’t have to tell you this but before you go to put on that aftershave or perfume prior to your job interview, please don’t! Or at the very least if you’re going to give yourself a bath in the stuff, wash it off your hands. Seriously there’s [...]

They’re just not THAT into you

November 13, 2009 View Comments

Imagine you were thinking about a kitchen renovation. To establish interest, you complete the online form to ask for a brochure that will encapsulate the company’s services and offerings, and perhaps showcase the company’s best projects so you can ascertain what sort of a job they’ll do for you. Imagine your horror the next day [...]

“Epic Fail” Interview Answers

November 5, 2009 View Comments

You don’t have to have a degree in it, you don’t have to be a card carrying member of Mensa, nor do you need psychic abilities. When it all comes down to it, being successful at interviews is largely about using commonsense balanced with truth. Let’s look at some examples: Interviewer: So Fred as a [...]