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Leslie Camacho

Ways To Figure Out Job is Toxic BEFORE You Take It : CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary - 0 views

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    Dear J.T. & Dale: My husband and I both have worked in high tech for more than 20 years. With all the stress from outsourcing and reorgs and overly aggressive management, we feel like Lucy and Ethel in that famous "I Love Lucy" episode where the assembly line keeps gets cranked up faster and faster. We've been investigating alternative careers, but none of the resources we've used addresses how the work environment fits into the picture. We fear making a career change that ends up trapping us in a new toxic environment. - Kathy
Leslie Camacho

The Top Small Workplaces for 2009 - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    For many companies, tough economic times inevitably end up pushing the work environment to the back burner. Benefits are slashed, innovative programs are dropped, employees get shut out of big decisions. Employees are lucky to have a job, many bosses figure. Anything extra is unaffordable.
Leslie Camacho

The National Career Development Association - 0 views

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    "Working collaboratively with other teachers, school counselors can contribute to the development of an optimum learning environment while collecting information to assist with career counseling. Having been a former school counselor competing for classroom time, I found that working together with teachers on previously established assignments can create a new opportunity in the classroom for career counselors who are looking for strategy to help students without impinging on teachers' classroom time. Getting into the classrooms for counseling sessions need not be so challenging when using activities already in place that can serve dual purposes."
Leslie Camacho

Fast Fixes: How I... Formed My Own Networking Group - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "As an entrepreneurial woman with big ideas in the rural, small-town environment of central New Hampshire, Leslie Sturgeon faced plenty of challenges to building her business - especially because when she launched her first company, she was only 22 years old. "
Leslie Camacho

Can Skill-Assessment Tests Identify Your Dream Job? - WSJ.com - 1 views

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    "With the country's unemployment hovering around 10%, many professionals are on the hunt for the perfect job. But what job? What industry? To the rescue are online career-assessment tests that aim to help workers (and daydreamers) identify suitable jobs and work environments. We took four tests to learn what fields are a good fit for a longtime reporter: the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), the Kolbe A Index, the Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential (MAPP) test, and a service called Careerkey. "
Leslie Camacho

Learn From Mistakes - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    I spent most of my early career trying to do things perfectly. And as you can imagine, this didn't work out very well. Screw-ups happen, and how you cope with them is a strong measure of your overall effectiveness in a work environment.
Leslie Camacho

Spin Strategy™ - Tools for Intelligent Job Search: 9 Ways To Bruise A Networking Relationship - 0 views

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    So, as you might expect, there are those who have NOT knocked my socks off. In fact, their actions left me wanting to double knot the shoe laces. Bad people? No, not at all. Maybe lazy. Or perhaps, just perhaps, these folks had never been in a positive networking environment before. One in which people give first - not as a result of being helped in advance.
Leslie Camacho

More Ways to Ace a Phone Interview - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    You might think that being at home for an interview means a more relaxed environment. But experts say the key to success is being as diligent as you would be in person. Advice to help you ace the phone interview.
Leslie Camacho

Preoccupations - Be Nice to Job Candidates. (They're Also Consumers.) - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    IN an environment of rapidly rising unemployment, scores of managers and executives have had doctor-as-patient, "aha" moments, as they find themselves among the millions of American workers looking for new jobs.
Leslie Camacho

When You Dislike Your Assigned Mentor - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Q: My wife joined a mentor program that was suggested to her by a very senior company official. The same official recommended a mentor who is only one level above her while everyone else has a mentor three levels higher. She feels very slighted and is not sure what to say -- or if she should say anything at all. I know in this current uneasy environment workers probably don't want any added responsibilities, which would make it difficult to find quality mentors.
Swati Mehra

How to Open a Kindergarten School Franchise? - 0 views

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    There are many benefits of opening a kindergarten school franchise. Kindergarten (KG) education helps children get a head start on their future academic life as they learn the basic skills an more relaxed and fun environment. As rewarding such a venture may seem to be, from an emotional and monetary perspective, there are certain steps that need to be taken to successfully open your preschool.
Leslie Camacho

Working Through the Holidays, Sort Of - The Juggle - WSJ - 1 views

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    "A new report from office-space company Regus PLC says 64% of U.S. employees will be working the week between Christmas and New Year's, with 56% actually coming into the office. But is anyone really productive? According to the survey of more than 12,000 employees worldwide, just 39% of U.S. respondents say they expect workers to actually do much work."
Leslie Camacho

When a Facebook Rant Gets You Fired - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "Workers fired or disciplined for bad-mouthing employers on social-networking sites are fighting back using a decades-old labor law-a new front in the murky battle over what workers can do and say online."
Leslie Camacho

Does Your Organization have a Role in Employees' Career Management? - 0 views

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    "I'm passionate about "career management," a phrase I use to talk about taking personal responsibility for our individual careers. Long gone are the days when a company had loyalty towards employees, specifically keeping them on-board for decades and providing a healthy pension after retirement. How many companies are offering a lifetime job with nice benefits after retirement? Not many. "
Leslie Camacho

New Survey Says Three-Quarters of Americans Would Become Whistleblowers at Work | Moneyland | TIME.com - 0 views

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    "More than three-quarters of Americans would blow the whistle on wrongdoing at their workplace, according to a newly released survey - but only if they could do so anonymously, without fear of reprisal, and - and this is a big "and" - there was a monetary reward involved."
Leslie Camacho

Figure Whether You Fit In or Out of a Company - WSJ.com - 1 views

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    "It came down to two final job candidates for a new vice-president position. One had better experience but came across as arrogant. The other had a more self-effacing personality, which is why Adam Wallen, CEO of BIO2 Technologies, a medical-device start-up based in Woburn, Mass., chose the less qualified candidate. "
seonikhil

Top Engineering Colleges in India - Updated List of Best 20 - 0 views

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    Want to know about the Top engineering colleges in India? Here we're providing the list of 20 best colleges so that you can choose your suitable one and can continue your higher study in a peoper environment. Engineering is the most auspicious and wonderful world of education wherein the career is turning point of everyone's life.
Leslie Camacho

What to Do When You Become the Boss - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "You finally got that promotion and now you're the new boss. Things might not feel much different in the beginning, but managing former peers requires a major adjustment on both ends. How you handle the change at the outset can affect the long-term harmony and productivity of the group."
Leslie Camacho

Social Media: Simple Steps to Make It Work for Your Job Search | JOB MAVEN - 1 views

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    "Social Media isn't just for staying in touch with former school classmates. There are ways to use social media to stand out from the competition. It does take some strategic thought, but it can really take you to the next level. Here are 3 simple ways to get started using social media to advance your brand."
Leslie Camacho

The National Career Development Association - 1 views

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    "Since the shocks of corporate re-engineering and leveraged buyouts in the late 1980s, the watchword to employees has been take ownership of your own future. Instead of efforts to build bench strength, which had characterized talent development efforts since the 1950s, most organizations shortened talent planning time horizons and reduced learning and development investment, resorting instead to hiring talent on a just-in-time basis. "
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