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3 Signs You’re at Risk for a Layoff

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  Posted by: Saturday, May 18, 2013 by Steve Harvey, OI Partners - The McGuire Group In our career transition, outplacement business, people often tell us they felt blindsided by a layoff. How can you avoid being surprised by a … [Continue reading]

The Key to Choosing the Right Career

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The following is a great blog from Heidi Grant Halvorson on choosing the right career. This blog gets immediately to the hear of the manner regarding what is it that we want to do, why do we want to do it and am I making the correct decision in … [Continue reading]

Benchmarking – Improve Yourself and Your Business

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I just completed a great two day meeting at the OI Partners quarterly meeting in Charlotte. I was very impressed the with thought leadership and innovation that my fellow partners had in the areas of: Talent management Business … [Continue reading]

Top 10 Ways To Stand Out In Your Job & Job-Search

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Whether you're looking for a new job this year, aiming to get a raise or promotion – or are worried about just hanging on to your present employment – you need to demonstrate that you have some or all of the qualities and characteristics … [Continue reading]

How To Drop Back Into The Work Force

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How can you drop back into the workforce after you have dropped out or been unemployed for a long time? Even though the unemployment rate declined to 7.7% in February, 14.3% of the eligible workforce is either unemployed, not working at the … [Continue reading]

Beware Of These 13 Career Killers

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With hiring on hold for now and employers increasingly wary of whether another economic slowdown is in store, employees should be extra cautious to avoid committing any "career killers," according to The Frontier Group/OI Partners. For the past … [Continue reading]

Recognition and Praise

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I just read a great blog by Robert Eckert - former CEO of Mattel in the Harvard Business Review ( www.hbr.org ) on the two things that all employees want - recognition and praise. We often overlook this as an effective tool for motivation and … [Continue reading]

Job Hunting and The Older Worker

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  It speaks to the obvious that finding a job isn't easy for anyone these days, but older workers may face some special challenges when it comes to finding new employment. While age discrimination is illegal let's face it - it does … [Continue reading]

4 Ways To Tell People You Lost Your Job

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4 Ways to Tell People You Lost Your Job Posted: 08 Apr 2013 01:04 PM PDT by Shawna Simcik, OI Partners - Innovative Career Consulting, Denver Call it what you want—layoff, corporate downsizing, getting dismissed or fired, receiving … [Continue reading]

Steve Jobs – All You Have To Do Is Ask

Steve Jobs - All You Have To Do Is Ask I found this great You Tube video on Steve Jobs talking about networking. He put it in as simple of terms as possible. He found that he "never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked for … [Continue reading]