Tell me about yourself.

Their accomplishments

How their experience relates to the job

Why they’re the best candidate.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

Credentials-Training and Education

Reason for applying for the job

Weaknesses

Career Goals

Generation Y outnumbers the Baby Boomers. We have been talking about our aging workforce for two decades. The population growth of Gen Y makes having a vital young labor market more of a reality. Combined with Gen X’s, the younger generations, can help us embrace the rapid-fire changes that our society is going through.

I am also seeing Y generation as being a force behind some very positive changes. Gen Y initiatives seem to have brought about an expansion of the influence of the individual.

The alterations have been seen in the  marketplace with cutting-edge technology, heightened environmental concerns, and social networks.These changes have evolved without calamity- but with a dynamic thrust, and they are altering the way we do business.

My friend’s neighbor was ordered by his employer IBM to telecommute. Most employees would have been ecstatic if their management had mandated that kind of change in their work routine. This man hated it.

He was someone, who craved uninterrupted silence when he was working. He had small children. He wasn’t in charge of supervising them, but he found their comings and goings very distracting. He had two school age boys. When school let out and summer vacations came, his work suffered tremendously. 

He constantly felt guilty because even though he was home, his primary purpose was to work. His children didn’t understand that he wasn’t available to spend time with them. There would not have been this confusion if his office was at his corporation.

He discovered also that he put in more hours being at home. There was no delineation between work and leisure time as there is when you are in an office. He had to force himself to take off weekends because his work was always with him-never safely put away in a desk at his company headquarters.

Even though he had always despised office politics, he missed the camaraderie of work. He liked the discipline of rising very early each day, dressing professionally, and facing the world. Being home, he found that he wore more casual clothes. These sporty outfits seem to undermine the seriousness of his purpose.

Finally, he was a team player. He relished those moments when he and could sit with his colleagues and hammer out the details of a project. He felt his input was valued.

He’s still telecommuting, and he has gradually adjusted to it. Frankly, he wasn’t the ideal candidate for this type of work structure. He was better suited for an office environment. Many crave a telecommuting position.

Behavorial interviewing questions are the hardest ones for the candidate to answer. It helps you understand the candidate’s work relationships, the quality of  output and responses to negative situations on the job.

“Tell me about a time when…? This is often the way an interviewer will phrase a behavorial question, and the answer requires an example from the candidate’s workplace. Here are a list of areas that are usually focused on in this type of interview:

• The standards that the candidate has set for work produced.
• The impact of the candidate’s work on co-workers
• Contributions to past organization
• Reaction to negative customer feedback
• How well did the candidate handle deadlines on short notice?
• Professional ethics: How does candidate deal with illegal situations(sexual harassment/discrimination or shady business practices)?

• What would candidate’s supervisor say about applicant?
• How did the candidates deal with criticism from their boss?
• How did the candidate feel about unscheduled overtime?
• How did the candidate feel about the superior’s management style?

• Was the candidate well liked by co-workers?
• Was the candidate helpful to colleagues?
• What would co-worker’s say about the candidate?
• Did candiate’s work measure up to employer’s standards?

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The five S’s stand for a list of Japanese words: “Seiri”(sorting), “Seiton”(set in order), “Seiso”(shining), “Seiketsu”(standardizing), and “Shitsuke”(sustaining).

The words refer to a methodology that has yielded outstanding results in the corporateworld. These same principles can be used to make your busnesses become more productive and successful.

A Set of priorities-What are the most important things to you in your business?

A Plan-Your first step in making an effective plan is to determine what your chief priority is and brainstorm ways of achieving it.

• Action Steps require that you place dates and times next to your steps. You need to get your plan out of the virtual world into the real one. Phone calls, emails, attending classes or meetings can be a way of doing this.

Be Motivated and Meticulous-Nothing is as winning as enthusiasm that comes from real motivation or a passion for what you’re seeking. Following up in a timely manner and giving your goal your attention is necessary to keep yourself motivated and display your high level of professionalism.

A System-Enables you to be more productive and achieve more success.

Endurance-Working your system will take time and endurance. You need to follow it to its logical conclusion. Giving up is only going to reap failure not success. That doesn’t mean that you don’t adjust your strategy to synchronize it with reality.

Marketing through an email can be a very powerful way of connecting with customers and professional contacts.  However, to make your email  a success;  you need to put time and thought into its content.  

Before Pressing “Send” !

• What is the purpose of this communication?
• Is the content clear from the subject line?
• Is the message well-written? 
• Is it concise while providing enough data?
• Do the links in the message work? 
• Are the attachments included?
• Is the email being sent to the correct recipient?
• Is it clear to the reader how you intend to follow up on it? 
• Has the content been checked for grammar and spelling?

• Reach an affordable settlement.
• Stretch debt over a long period of time.
• Deal directly with the creditor- not the lawyer.
• Set up a workable budget to stay afloat.
• See how you could reduce costs.
• Consider lifestyle changes to save money.
• Determine how long you think it would take for the business to be in the black again.

• When we are seeking new customers, we expand our use of  the Internet. We buy merchandise, new technolog, holiday giftts  f or clients or renew professional memberships in business groups.

• 48% of people use very few passwords for multiple online accounts. 33% use more passwords, but still some of these passwords are repeated. 19% of the population uses a unique password for each account.

Make a list of your online accounts, and the password you use for each.

• Don’t forget to include professional memberships, which you will probably be renewing.  Likewise, include any vendors that you may have used to buy merchandise and networking groups. The more complete your list is, the more you can protect yourself.

Lock out cyberspace criminals!

• Write down the passwords you currently use. Note where your passwords are repeatedly used for multiple accounts. Ideally, you should have a different password for each account. Remember your password guards your employment history, finances, identity and possibly your credit rating.

Creating strong passwords takes time and effort.

• Create a list of new passwords. Passwords should be between eight to fifteen characters. The characters can be letters, numbers or symbols like a question mark. Evaluate the new passwords. The less they have to do with your personal life, such as birthdates, the stronger the passwords.