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Guest Blogger Rusty Rueff is Glassdoor.com’s career and workplace expert and member of the Clearview Collection in addition to serving as a member of the company’s Board of Directors He was most recently CEO of SNOCAP, the digital music commerce provider for MySpace, until its sale to imeem in April 2008. Previously, Rusty led global human resource departments at PepsiCo and later Electronic Arts and is co-author of “Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business" (Prentice-Hall. 2006). Through the Glassdoor.com blog, Rusty contributes practical career advice for employees and job seekers and provides unique perspectives from an employer’s point of view.
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AOL’s recent announcement about their voluntary separation packages brings back the question of whether or not the acceptance of a voluntary package is a good thing or not in this economy? First of all, let’s be real about why companies offer voluntary packages. The reason is to soften the blow of what is coming and ... - Read full post
All stories that we hear are basically the same three act structure, so there is no reason that the interview stories that we are used to hearing or telling should not come in the same three acts:
Last week I wrote about the importance of being able to tell a good story about yourself in an interview. Before we even get into the structure of the story creation, “the story of you” should be made up of at least six mini-plots that you need to know about yourself. Storytelling expert, Andy Goodman, ... - Read full post
So, you have gotten the interview that you desired and you know that you are going to be asked once, twice, maybe five or six times, some question that is like, “so, tell me about you”. You then have five to seven minutes to tell your story. When I interview people I usually give them ... - Read full post
We all want to be wanted. And no matter, how we brush it off, it hurts when someone turns us down. We are confident enough in our own abilities and experiences that we expect that we will be desired for the jobs we interview. In any situation, especially a job interview, there is an amount ... - Read full post
A very close friend or mine acknowledges that four of the six jobs in his career came from me referring him to recruiters who had called me on the position and I passed my buddy’s contact information to them. Once a year, around the anniversary date of another friend’s hire date, I get a note ... - Read full post
I so wish that there would have been Garanimals when I was growing up. I would have been so much better dressed and think of all the consternation and worry that would be gone. It’s just a brilliant idea. As they say on their website, “Garanimals was founded on a simple but unique concept: to ... - Read full post
I don’t know how many times in my career I have looked at a resume and thought to myself, “there is no story here”. A resume is a collection of work experiences that defines what you have done and what you potentially can do, but most importantly is a chance to let someone else know ... - Read full post
The word has come down from on high that “the recession has ended.” When this declaration trickles down to the employment market, we will start to see movement from people getting up from their chairs and starting to make moves. From new survey data that reveals 20% of employees expect to seek a new job ... - Read full post
My co-author of our book Talent Force (Prentice-Hall 2006), Hank Stringer (who is also a Clearview contributor), and I wrote about a time in the future when states and local municipalities would adopt, “Free Talent Zones”. These would be places where the government would provide tax breaks to employees for the skills they would bring ... - Read full post
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Voluntary Layoffs: Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? by Rusty Rueff November 20th, 2009
Three Useful Tips To Format Your Resume by Hank Stringer November 20th, 2009
Clearview Counterpoint: Career Experts Divided On Medical Privacy Issue by Clearview Team November 19th, 2009
How To Circumvent The Resume Black Hole by Liz Ryan November 18th, 2009
Don't Let Your Ego Ruin Your Interview by Jeff Hunter November 16th, 2009