Posts Tagged ‘Holiday parties’

Avoid Career-Damaging Mistakes At Your Office Holiday Party

Posted by • December 14th, 2010 • 3 Comments

Rick Schwartz will never forget the manager he never had. He was working as an inside sales rep at a Fortune 10 company, and the newly hired district manager was invited to the office holiday party to get to know the team a few weeks before she started her job. “She had a bit too much to drink and about 90 minutes into the festivities, she decided to get up on the bar and dance for the crowd while removing her shirt,” Schwartz says. “We neither saw nor heard of her again.”

Unfortunately, embarrassing moments at office holiday parties are not uncommon. Four in 10 Americans report that they’ve either done something embarrassing at an office party or know someone who has, according to a new survey from Adecco Staffing. The most common behaviors to regret later involve…

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How To Get The Most Out Of Holiday Social Conversations: A Guide For Employees

Posted by • December 3rd, 2010 • 1 Comment

It’s that busy time of the year when we meet friends, acquaintances or new faces at parties, gatherings and events and will be asked “what do you do?”

To help get you ready for this year’s round of holiday celebrations, here’s some advice to help those of you who are employed best answer this question before you find yourself looking like a deer in the headlights.

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Seven Holiday Tips For Job Seekers

Posted by • December 2nd, 2009 • 4 Comments

It’s no fun being on a job search at this time of year. For one thing, your ability to enjoy the holiday season might be dampened – or even drowned entirely – by the overwhelming reality that you’re not working although you’d like to be. Your holiday spending may be curtailed a little or a lot, adding to the discouragement load (“If I were working, I could buy my wife/kids/boyfriend a really great gift.”) It’s easy to feel stressed about what the New Year holds in store, job-search-wise; and on top of all that, you’ve heard the rumor that employers shut down their hiring engines during December. So what’s an end-of-the-year job-seeker to do?

Here are seven tips to make your December job-search time profitable and to pump up your emotional-energy fuel tank this month. Take a look!

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