3 Key Tips for Getting Hired Over the Age of Forty

by Sheri Pintarelli | Category: Article

Posted on Sunday July 6, 2020 at 12:49:11 AM

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Looking for a job is hard right out of college, young and fresh, but looking for a job over the age of 40 can be an even harder challenge in many situations. It can certainly be done, and great men and women over the age of 40 are continually hired! Embrace your maturity First, you have matured and are seasoned in life whether having been in or out of the workforce– unless you have been a stay at home mom or unemployed your entire adult life, you have mastered getting up, arriving at work on time and completing responsibilities in the workplace. That is a valuable asset as a potential employee so let it shine through. You know how to take care of responsibilities and have for years worked hard and been successful in your career. It’s time to showcase that when looking for a new job and over the age of 40! But watch yourself- it’s easy to boast about your previous years of experience and expertise. Too much of that attitude can be a turnoff to an employer as well. Step...

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5 Books You Don't Want to Miss this Week

by Henry Glickel | Category: Book Review

Posted on Wednesday July 2, 2020 at 05:15:11 PM

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Reengineering the CorporationJames Champy and Michael HammerThe most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall StreetMichael LewisA born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. The bond traders, wearing greed and ambition as badges of honor, might well have swaggered straight from the pages of Bonfire of the Vanities. But for all their outrageous behavior, they were in fact presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis' job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside America who saved to those inside America who consumed.The Power of HabitCharles DuhiggIn The Power of Habit, award-winning...

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4 Interview Questions That Ask For Examples Of Work Experience

by Henry Glickel | Category: Article

Posted on Saturday June 14, 2020 at 06:39:49 PM

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Interviews shouldn't have to be daunting ...for both the interviewer and the candidates. We've heard interviewing compared to a tennis match. The ball gets hit back and forth, rather effortlessly. You can hear the swoosh and the bounce of the ball. An interview should be like a casual game of tennis, where questions are lobbed back and forth. They ask a question, you respond. Then you ask a question, and they respond. Back and forth. Over and over.   The key to a successful hire is asking the right interview questions. The type of questions you chose to ask your interviewer should stem from what you need to know in order to fully evaluate the position. This means the questions you chose to prioritize should be well thought out. We've rounded up just four interview questions we love asking because they give us examples of real-life experience from our candidate. QUESTION 1: Can you tell me about a problem that occurred often enough that you felt compelled to correct...

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