22 Executives Share The Best Advice They Ever Got. Job Interviews: 5 Questions Great Candidates Ask. Train Your Brain to Focus - Paul Hammerness, MD, and Margaret Moore. Why Storytelling Is The Ultimate Weapon. In business, storytelling is all the rage. Without a compelling story, we are told, our product, idea, or personal brand, is dead on arrival. In his book, Tell to Win, Peter Guber joins writers like Annette Simmons and Stephen Denning in evangelizing for the power of story in human affairs generally, and business in particular. Guber argues that humans simply aren’t moved to action by “data dumps,” dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with “Once upon a time…” Plausible enough.
I think it’s a real insight. Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story’s persuasive effects. What is going on here? And, in this, there is an important lesson about the molding power of story. This is exactly Guber’s point. Guber tells us that stories can also function as Trojan Horses. Guber’s book is relentlessly optimistic about the power of story to persuade. How to Keep Your Brain from Underestimating Task Time. Do you ever wonder why you never have enough time — no matter how much planning you undertake to stay on top of things? That’s called the Planning Fallacy. We’re going to look at two solutions to this problem. But first, a glossary! Glossary Yarn Bomb: a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk.Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.Putamen: A brain region that does lots, including using dopamine to contribute to learning and estimation.
Hofstadter’s Law (which will take you slightly longer to understand than you think) seems often inescapable. There are no sensory receptors specifically dedicated for perceiving time. Of course, it’s not quite as simple as that — as you can see from the study’s diagram. Edinburgh protesters recently used yarn to protest excessive underestimation of time for the “Tramway to Hell”. 1. 2. The Social Brain. Career Books to Watch Out for in 2012. With 2011 a distant memory, it's time to reassess your career and job prospects. Regardless of your career resolutions for the New Year, you're bound to need help achieving them. Narrowing your fields of interest, learning how to dress, improving your interviewing skills and understanding how to network are common areas for improvement.
Many people overlook easily available resources that provide step-by-step, practical advice that can help you get there faster. Career books nowadays go well beyond the career bible everyone should have on their bookshelves. Crazy Good Interviewing: How Acting A Little Crazy Can Get You The Job, by John B. (Wiley, May 2012) In this job market, it's critical to stand out. If you don't want the job, those are great options, but if you do, author John Molidor suggests you opt for "crazy good" tactics, as opposed to crazy awful ones. Related: The Top 10 Ways to Blow a Job Interview, Questions You Should -- and Shouldn't -- Ask in an Interview. 10 Ways to Build a Kick-Ass Resume.
Despite all the advancements in technology over the last decade or so, the traditional word-based resume is still as popular as ever. However, if you’d like to stand out from the crowd there are a number of new school options for you to consider. And we’re not talking about simply having a LinkedIn profile which could almost be considered ‘old hat’ now. Nope, we’re about to enter a new world of resume building and sharing. The only question is; Are prospective employers ready for what you can now dish up? It’s time to find out! Social Resumes 1. Zerply is one of the more high profile socially-shaped resume and career sites going around. 2. The first of two Facebook-powered apps, ResumUP wants to make your ‘social profile visual’. 3. Yes, BranchOut is technically more a ‘network’ than a plain old resume builder option but it allows you to create a profile which features everything that is wonderful (or not) about you. 4.
Visual Resume Builders 5. 6. 7. 8. Mobile Resumes 9. A Left-field Option. How To Redesign Your Resume For A Recruiter’s 6-Second Attention Span. It’s frightening. You’ll spend most of your waking life at a job, yet, according to a new study by TheLadders, the average recruiter spends just six seconds looking at your resume. By the end of that time, they’ll determine whether you’re “a fit” or a “no fit.” “The only research that had been done in this domain was self-reporting surveys, which simply was not good enough for us to understand what drives recruiters’ decision-making,” Will Evans, Head of User Experience at TheLadders, tells Co.Design.
So Evans led a study that followed 30 recruiters for 10 weeks. Or, more accurately, it followed just their eyes. Using eyetracking gear, Evans’ team measured what recruiters really see. The result is this heat map tracking six seconds of someone’s attention span. “Both resumes and online profiles should have a clear visual hierarchy, following a format that matches recruiters’ mental model,” Evans advises. “Avoid unnecessary embellishment, or as Edward Tufte might call it, ‘chart junk.’ Career Advancement.