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Boss Labels Employee "Under-Achiever" For This... How to Interview Your Next Boss. How to Negotiate a Job Offer. How to Be More Persuasive in 2014. Elevator Pitch. How to Hire With Your Whole Brain: A Holistic Recruiting Strategy. Over the course of 35 years and 5,000-plus interviews as a recruiter, I've developed an interviewing method that identifies superior candidates about 85 percent of the time.

How to Hire With Your Whole Brain: A Holistic Recruiting Strategy

I call it the two-question performance-based interview (a.k.a. the Whole Brain Interview). It starts by recognizing that the brain consists of four core parts: The left brain, which is more analytical and process focusedThe right brain, which is more creative and intuitiveThe emotional brain--limbic system--which is how we make dumb decisions, like judging someone as friend or foe within seconds of meeting themThe decision maker--prefrontal cortex--which takes inputs from these other three regions and makes some type of well-balanced decision, at least in theory In practice, however, the emotional brain's friend-versus-foe response too often controls our interviewing behavior and hiring decisions.

How to Handle a Non-negotiable Salary Offer. Is it fair for a company to offer a job with a non-negotiable salary?

How to Handle a Non-negotiable Salary Offer

Sometimes life isn’t fair. This is especially true in the job market, where one person might quickly land their dream job and increase their salary by $10,000, while the next person might be unemployed for months, be forced to tap into their savings, before finally taking an unfulfilling job at a low salary. I recently came across the following question: “How fair is it for a company to offer a job with a non-negotiable salary? It is considered an entry-level position although it requires previous relevant experience, which I find odd. Career Advice from Mark Twain. I recently came across the following quote from Mark Twain (1835-1910), explaining how he thought chemists could solve the problem of world peace.

Career Advice from Mark Twain

The Emotional Boundaries You Need at Work - Greg McKeown. By Greg McKeown | 8:00 AM July 24, 2014 To develop meaningful and mature relationships at work or at home we need to develop two filters.

The Emotional Boundaries You Need at Work - Greg McKeown

The first filter protects you from other people. The second filter protects other people from you. Filter 1: protect yourself from others. Frank Covey's course. Negotiations from ACS. Life is full of negotiations.

Negotiations from ACS

Every time you get a new project, you have a chance to negotiate the deadline, deliverables, and priority for this task relative to existing tasks. Negotiating is really a balancing act with multiple interdependent variables – not only what each party wants and is willing to give, but the relative importance of each role individual’s play. By preparing ahead of time, you can put yourself in the best possible position, and make the most of your negotiations. Range. Brilliant Motivation From Ben Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin was a man of action.

Brilliant Motivation From Ben Franklin

Over his lifetime, his curiosity and passion fueled a diverse range of interests. He was a writer (often using a pseudonym), publisher, diplomat, inventor and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His inventions included the lightning rod, bifocals and the Franklin stove. Project Management for Scientists. All science involves some boring, routine labor--repetitive work in the laboratory, grant writing, keeping the books, and so on--but scientific research is fundamentally creative, and often unpredictable.

Project Management for Scientists

As often as not, the course the research takes is unexpected. Project Management Best Practice. Running in Chaos.

Project Management Best Practice

Optimize time managment from Ramit. Earning money on the side is not a question of having time.

Optimize time managment from Ramit

“But you don’t get it! I’m in grad school / a busy job / have a girlfriend / etc. Project Management Wiki. Project management – discipline of planning, organizing, securing, managing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals.

Project Management Wiki

A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables), undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives,[1] typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with ongoing business operations.[2] What type of thing is project management? [edit] Gantt chart. A Gantt chart showing three kinds of schedule dependencies (in red) and percent complete indications.

Although now regarded as a common charting technique, Gantt charts were considered revolutionary when first introduced.[2] This chart is also used in information technology to represent data that have been collected. Historical development[edit] The first known tool of this type was developed in 1896 by Karol Adamiecki, who called it a harmonogram.[3] Adamiecki did not publish his chart until 1931, however, and only in Polish, which limited both its adoption and recognition of his authorship. ACS chem Learning Center. The review process. Publishing Your Research 101 - Ep.6 The Review Process for Authors and Reviewers Episode Summary In the sixth episode of our publishing series, we focus on the review process.

Several of our editors weigh in on the value of peer review, recommendations on how to perform a good review, and the benefits for the author and the journal when authors take the reviewer comments seriously. Our editors examine some specific ways in which these principles apply during the publication and peer review process and highlight some of the common problems that arise from both authors and reviewers. Publications and Journals of ACS. Oral Presentations. Presenting our work to others, especially orally, is a large part of what we do as scientists. Sometimes this occurs through informal conversations, but often it happens at scheduled, formal presentations. While very few people actually enjoy giving oral presentations, a little preparation can make your own presentations much more successful.

Creating Successful Research Proposals. Write Well and Prosper. High Impact Scientific Poster Presentations. ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Eminent Organic Chemists. Good Social Skills. I did not want to hit on this woman. But my friend noticed her checking me out, so he glanced at me and raised his eyebrows. I looked at him, silently saying, “Really? Do I have to?” He just tilted his head and raised his eyebrows even higher. Nothing more needed to be said — every guy knows what that look means. Closing the loop technique. We started this year by demolishing several invisible scripts: Common networking mistakes. Productive networking requires strategy, research and patience. Networking is about building relationships—not simply selling yourself or only asking people to do favors for you. There are five mistakes networkers commonly make during job hunting: Finding a job with networking. Job Search from Google HR.

21 Ways to Build Connection. Natural Networking to connect with anyone. How many of us have heard career experts telling us to “go out there and network”? Yo What does that actually mean? The Principle of Decommoditization. Many of us are starting to realize that doing the same thing as everyone else doesn’t work any more. Dream Job. Turning “Failure Expectation” into domination. How to Negotiate. Fundamentally, there are two ways to have more money. You can either earn more money or cut costs.

Introducing the 3-Week Dream Job Boot Camp. Master the art of interviewing. Tear down of social skills. Best of I will teach you to be rich. Hustling your way to success. IWT video summary. IWT Summary. Best scripts from IWT. Negotiate a raise. Door-in-the-face technique. Script for overdraft fees. Negotiate car insurance down. The Big Wins Manifesto. The Tripod of Stability. 10 Year Savings Strategy. How to start small business from Ramit. Intro into Earn1k. Define your target market. Do It For Them. Ideal Client Profile. Alumni Case Studies.

30 Questions You Should And Shouldn't Ask In A Job Interview - Ivy Exec Blog. The Secret to Success may be to Fail Fast. Writing the Research Plan for Your Academic Job Application. Myths and Tricks from the Hiring Professional. 9 Interview Questions You Should Be Asking. Your nonverbal communication can wreck your interview. Blind To Innovation. The 10 Best Cities For Job Seekers. Leadership styles. Be nice but nor agreeable. Leadership vs. Management. Are Power Seekers Good or Evil? CEO shall not whine. Winning office politics. How to Engage People. Why Coworkers May Dislike You. Negotiate Your Salary and Benefits. Performance review. ACS Salary survey. The Art Of Timing Your Job Application - Ivy Exec Blog. Successful Interview from Ramit. The Power of Seven Simple Questions. Three interview questions.