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Unlocking LinkedIn's Hidden Back Door

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:54:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another way to access LinkedIn's database.

Click on the "advanced search" button on Google.com. Where it says: "Find Web pages that have ..." go to "all of these words" and type in the name of the company you're searching.

Where it says "this exact wording or phrase" type in the geographical area you want to search within LinkedIn. Note that different parts of the country have specific names, such as Washington D.C. Metro Area, Greater New York City Area, or Youngstown, Ohio Area. You can find the proper phrase for your area by using LinkedIn's "people" search function. Type in the city you want and find someone from there. Then use that same description for the "exact wording or phrase" field.

In the field that reads "but don't show pages that have," type the word "directory." This eliminates internal telephone directories that bog down your search.

Skip the other fields until you come to the last box, "search within a site or domain," and enter "LinkedIn.com." Then, click "advanced search" and your results will appear.

Fine-Tuning Your Résumé for Maximum Impact

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:24:55 GMT

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Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Fine-Tuning Your Résumé for Maximum Impact

Make a wish list. Take the time to identify the companies you want to work for before you sit down to write your résumé.

Use keywords.

Tell your story. Once you're ready to send out the résumé, make sure it's doing the job of showcasing your skills and accomplishments.

uggests first spelling out the details of a work-related situation, any obstacle, the action you took to resolve the issue, and the results of your actions. Write out the complete story, he advises, and then whittle it down to a series of concise descriptive bullet points.

Find an insider.

Taking the time to pinpoint key contacts at the company where you are applying will help ensure your résumé gets into the right person's hands. What's more, an introduction to an insider will help avoid needing to use the résumé upfront.

Try a personal touch.

encloses a handwritten note with his résumé

Re-evaluate regularly.

Higher Stakes Phone Interiviews for Jobs

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:21:19 GMT

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Clip Source: online.wsj.com

The New Trouble on the Line

many recruiters are using the phone interview to pose the kinds of in-depth questions previously reserved for finalists.

In a recent first interview for a senior marketing job, Robyn Cobb was grilled by a hiring manager for an hour and a half on topics ranging from her work history and marketing philosophy to her knowledge of the company and its industry.

You should also prepare to answer more complex and detailed questions in phone interviews by creating a list of key statistics and abbreviated answers to commonly asked questions

What do you know about the company? Why do you want the job? What are your greatest strengths? What are your career goals? How do you see yourself fitting in?

"The most confident people don't need to drone on." Another common flub: answering recruiters' questions before they've finished speaking. Not only does that show disrespect, but it "makes it seem like you have stocked, canned answers," he says.

More Ways to Ace a Phone Interview

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:16:08 GMT

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Clip Source: online.wsj.com

More Ways to Ace a Phone Interview

A little effort can go a long way to a successful first discussion.

Hide distractions.

Be personable.

Request feedback. In a phone interview, you can't read a recruiter's body language to know if you're on track. When in doubt, it's OK to ask: "Is there any area you want me to go deeper in?" says Cindy Nicola, vice president of talent acquisition at Electronic Arts Inc., a videogame publisher in Redwood City, Calif.

Explain how you'd relocate.

Be open, honest about pay.

Ask questions.

Say thanks. Before hanging up, ask the interviewer for his or her email address so you can send a thank-you that also reiterates your interest in the job. "Do just as you would after a face-to-face interview," says Paul Newman, assistant vice president, human resources, at OppenheimerFunds, an asset-management firm in New York. "It goes a long a way."

Unconventional Travel Tips

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:14:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go to source for all 15.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

In response, here are 15 tips for traveling to even the roughest of countries — and back:

1. Carry a “decoy wallet,”

I keep $40 in my decoy wallet, along with an old library card and frequent-flier card.

3. Carry a tiny ski lock with a six-foot retractable wire. Use it to lock your backpack to a hotel bed when you’re out, or to the rack of a train car.

4. At night, set a chair against your hotel door so that it will tip over and crash if someone slips in at 4 a.m. And lift the sheet to look for bloodstains on the mattress — meaning bed bugs.

9. When you arrive in a new city, don’t take an airport taxi unless you know it is safe. If you do take a cab, choose a scrawny driver and lock ALL the doors

12. If you are held up by bandits with large guns, shake hands respectfully with each of your persecutors.

Surprisingly often, child soldiers and other bandits will reciprocate your fake friendliness and settle for some cash rather than everything you possess.

Quiz: Does Your Work Matter to You?

Tue, 26 May 2009 12:11:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Click on the article for the multiple choice answers...

"I decided to leave my full-time publishing job last fall, in part to rediscover teaching. As I wrestled with the decision, I obviously had to ask myself many questions, ranging from the practical to the existential. A large subset of the questions had to do with the greater impact of my work and the effect that my awareness of that impact was having on me.

I share those questions with you here, in the form of a quiz. "

Clip Source: blogs.harvardbusiness.org

Quiz: Does Your Work Matter to You?

1. To what extent does my work affect the lives of people outside my company?

2. How often do I get to see the effects of my work on people who are not my colleagues?

3. How much do the people affected by my work need it in their lives?

4. How well do the people affected by my work match up with the kind of people whose lives I'd like to be affecting?

5. How long does the broader impact of my work last after I complete it?

6. When I think about the broader effects of my work, how do I feel about it in the moment?

7. When I imagine myself thinking back on having spent years doing the work I do, how do I expect to feel?

8. When I think about my work, how often do I envision doing something more satisfying to me and useful to others?

9. How often do I get to laugh genuinely and heartily at work?

10. When work makes me tired, as inevitably happens, what kind of tired feeling is it?

Excellent Site on Leadership

Thu, 21 May 2009 02:25:25 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nwlink.com

The Art and Science of Leadership

On Leadership

Leadership Guide Chapters

Related Leadership Pages

Tags: leadership

Leadership Links

Thu, 21 May 2009 02:23:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.emergingleader.com

* Note: Links are in chronological order by date entered... so make sure you scroll down the entire list.

Overview of Leadership in Organizations

Public Speaking Training and Leadership Development: T

Leadership Skills Development

Leadership Articles

Center for Strategic Leadership Studies

International Leadership Association (ILA)

FirstAmongEquals.com offers a Resources section

Strategicconnections.com,

Focustraining.com,

FindArticles.com

The Clemmer Group Archive of Leadership Articles and Quotes -

Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate School Change

The CEO Refresher,

Test your leadership,

Leadership Links for MGT 447 & MGT 537

The Institute for Management Excellence

The Manager As Leader

Leadership Communications for the 21^st Century

The Donaghy Leadership Behavior Report

www.strategy-business.com

Ivy Sea, Inc

Whitestag Leadership Development

Princton University Outdoor Action Guide to Group Dynamics & Leadership

Pinetreeweb.com

Leadership Knowledge Base

institute for Leadership Dynamics (iLD)

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Send a Telegram the Old Fashioned Way... Through the Web!

Thu, 21 May 2009 02:19:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegramstop.com

Telegram Stop | send a classic telegram and say your message the way people used to say it, send an old style telegram, send a traditional telegram, send a wedding telegram, send a birthday telegram, send an anniversary telegram, send an online telegram

What Makes Us Happy?

Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Great article on the Grant Study, one of the most fascinating longitudinal studies. Based on 268 men who entered college in the 1930's.

Clip Source: www.theatlantic.com

What Makes Us Happy?

Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. Here, for the first time, a journalist gains access to the archive of one of the most comprehensive longitudinal studies in history. Its contents, as much literature as science, offer profound insight into the human condition—and into the brilliant, complex mind of the study’s longtime director, George Vaillant.

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The Culture of the Internet (NYT)

Sun, 10 May 2009 07:06:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Need to improve your internet cultural literacy? Read this...

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The Culture of the Internet

"We Didn't Start the Flamewar." (It's at http://bit.ly/16NZLH, and it contains a ton of bad language, plus parodies of offensive, juvenile comments).

Rickrolling (as *everyone* knows, obviously) is an Internet prank where you send a Web link to someone, promising something exciting—but you've actually linked to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's 1987 music video, "Never Gonna Give You Up." That's it. That's the joke. Ha! You fell for it!

www.youshouldhaveseenthis.com

The OK GO music video with the treadmills (#88 on the list), the ingenious fake movie trailer for "Shining," the romantic comedy (#26), Matrix ping-pong (#84), Daft Hands (#90) and so on.

OK, the animal ones get me, too. I can't stop laughing at Zero-G Dog (#93) and Dramatic Chipmunk (#16).

ICanHasCheezeburgers.com

WillItBlend.com

#50

funny Internet art form called "literal lyrics,"

www.KnowYourMeme.com

Internet Meme Timeline

"Star Wars" kid

Exploding Whale

Mentos and Coke

Where the Hell is Matt

Dancing Baby

All You Need to Know to Twitter (NYT)

Sun, 10 May 2009 07:01:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For those of us still stuck in 2007...

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

All You Need to Know to Twitter

Advanced Search

Twitter via S.M.S.

Twitter/Facebook Integration

Favorites

Sharing Photos

Desktop Twitter Apps

Phone Apps

Another Phone Use

TweetCall is a recently introduced voice-recognition system that takes calls to 1-877-TWEETCALL from your phone, converts your spoken words to text, then tweets the result through your account.

Sneaking Office Tweets

Save Time for Tweeting

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Gettin' Down with the Slap Chop

Wed, 06 May 2009 18:10:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hilarious

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

"Rap Chop" featuring Vince (Steve Porter's Slap Chop remix)

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Tags: comedy

Slideshow - How ATM Skimmers work

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:56:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Slide show from Commonwealth Bank on how to determine if your ATM has a card skimmer and pin recorder attached.

Incredible ingenuity at work...

Clip Source: www.slideshare.net

Skimmer Presentation V1 230109 Ppt

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The Social Magic of Mirror Neurons

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:55:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The researchers located mirror neurons in the brains of two monkeys, which fired when the monkeys grabbed a small metal object and when they watched the experimenter do the same. Unexpectedly many of these neurons actually had a preference for where the experimenter was grabbing the object — about a fourth of the cells fired more rapidly when the action took place within arm's reach of the monkey (its "peripersonal" space), while another fourth were more excited when the action was out reach (its "extrapersonal space"). Over a range of distances, the closer the motion was to the monkey, the faster its peripersonal mirror neurons fired; the extrapersonal mirror neurons had the opposite response.

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

Mirror Neurons Fire Better at Close Range

Mirror neurons fire both when you do something, like grab a bottle of wine, and when you watch another person do the same thing. Instead of carrying out a step-by-step reasoning process to figure out why a friend is grabbing a bottle of wine, we instantly understand what's going on inside his head because it's going on in our heads too.

The findings suggest an expanded role for mirror neurons in social interaction. Not only do they facilitate quick comprehension, but they may also help us instantly decide whether to respond and interact.

Over a range of distances, the closer the motion was to the monkey, the faster its peripersonal mirror neurons fired; the extrapersonal mirror neurons had the opposite response.

Our brain divides space into at least two major sectors — one in which we can do things, in which we can act, and one in which we can't,

Our cognition, even fairly complex stuff like empathy, seems grounded in our body."

Tags: empathy