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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Be cautious of firms requesting upfront payments for job applications or selling additional services such as resume writing or career coaching. While some firms offer legitimate resume and career coaching services, these could be diversion tactics aimed at less experienced or desperate candidates.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

At some point in your career journey, have you started to focus more on status as a leader than the job at hand? All of us have a peer group and within that group a select few are viewed as the role models and the others aspire to reach that level of peak performance. I drive a Fiat 500. Be fair, not frightening.

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10 Creative Ways to Uncover Unconventional Leaders in Your Company

Lead from Within

Use Peer Nomination Systems: Implement a system where employees can nominate their peers for leadership training programs based on their potential and performance. Peer reviews are often insightful and can uncover hidden leadership qualities.

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Employees speak out against Facebook’s ‘Hunger Games’ Employee Review Process

HR Digest

According to a CNBC report published on Tuesday, former Facebook employees say a ruthless ‘stacked ranking’ review process created a cult-like culture where they felt the need to feign happiness in a desperate attempt to form friendships with colleagues to advance their careers.

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360-Degree Feedback Programs To Help Your Company Grow

HR Digest

Instead of the unilateral appraisal systems that allow the supervisor’s perspective to shape an employee’s career, the 360-degree performance appraisal system accounts for other individuals the employee works with , ensuring a well-rounded, data-based evaluation instead.

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Personality Tests are Useless (Most Of Them Anyway)

LDRLB

Eighty-nine of the Fortune 100 companies subject their people to some form of personality testing at some point in their career. In the decades since, very little peer-reviewed research has been conducted to validate the MBTI. But many people who are taking these tests are taking them quite seriously. Somewhere close to 2.5

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“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”

Chartered Management Institute

Lessons from crossing continents AI is the latest issue that Mark has encountered in a career that has crossed continents and covered a range of roles. He worked in Australia as a consultant, with clients such as Morgan Stanley, before moving to the UK in 2010, where he pivoted to a career in academia. We do it as academics.