It's got tons of interesting data, it's quirkily written and it casts novel angles on popular issues. But it still doesn't really capture my imagination. Not in the way Quirkology did. Suspect it's because the focus is too American.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Headhunting
Targeted cold calling: the assumption is that the hiring manager will be more likely to accept an unsolicited call if he has a genuine hiring need.
Pre-job order relationship building: establish a relationship and build some rapport before requesting the target company's business. It may tkae months or even years of relationship building calls to turn the company into a client.
Marketing call: a good marketing call requires a combination of knowing the kind of candidates likely to impress the employer, having a good candidate and effectively presenting the candidate's abilities and qualities.
REMEMBER: a lot of people are content but not necessarily happy where they are.
“I look at every conversation as a potentially good conversation and try to get something out of it. If the guy is not right for the job, maybe he is right for something I am going to get next week.and I want him to understand me a little better, and I want to leave him with a feeling that I was good to him, that he had a positive experience, and that he will be willing to come back and that if I ring him again, he will come back willingly.” Make every conversation worthwhile.
A headhunter calls a prospect for 3 reasons:
v Determine if the candidate is interested and if he is a viable candidate.
v To get names of other prospects.
v To get more info about the candidate for record purpose.
A headhunter’s skill lies in identifying and accentuating the impediment to an employee’s complete satisfaction. There are 5 types of “wounds”: company, boss, job duties/scope, location, salary.
The right fit: SOCIAL SIMILARITY & SOCIAL SKILLS
“You’re selling CREDIBILITY, nothing else.”
Selling the candidate: point out and possibly exaggerate the negative info & challenge the meaning and salience of that negative info about the candidate.
Telling the candidate that all employers make counter-offers is effective only if it precedes the counter-offer.
Headhunters close their candidates by controlling their emotions.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Resume writing
Some tips:
· Organize, organize, organize. No one is going to pay a lot of attention to a resume that rambles on and on.
· Place the most important aspects of the CV, i.e. current employment details and other areas which you are extremely proud of, right at the beginning of the resume.
· Include all contact numbers, in case you change your cellphone no. one day and nobody can ever find you.
· No need to tell me you are healthy. That is taken for granted.
· Attach your prettiest photo and please comb your hair.
· Pay extra attention to the wording of your resume. Show how you have effected change in your organization. I am not in the least interested in long grandmother stories of your job responsibilities, like filing and reporting.
· Organize, organize, organize. No one is going to pay a lot of attention to a resume that rambles on and on.
· Place the most important aspects of the CV, i.e. current employment details and other areas which you are extremely proud of, right at the beginning of the resume.
· Include all contact numbers, in case you change your cellphone no. one day and nobody can ever find you.
· No need to tell me you are healthy. That is taken for granted.
· Attach your prettiest photo and please comb your hair.
· Pay extra attention to the wording of your resume. Show how you have effected change in your organization. I am not in the least interested in long grandmother stories of your job responsibilities, like filing and reporting.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
My goodness
Just found out a friend of the same age is going to become a MURTHER.
Geez, I still feel like a kid. And having kids seem so.. far away and unreal and unimaginable and impossible and...
Well, not enough money to feed myself, not enough time for myself, not enough energy to do things that will improve my life, not had enough of the world yet to give up everything for a kid. Such courage. sigh.
Geez, I still feel like a kid. And having kids seem so.. far away and unreal and unimaginable and impossible and...
Well, not enough money to feed myself, not enough time for myself, not enough energy to do things that will improve my life, not had enough of the world yet to give up everything for a kid. Such courage. sigh.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Sensible stuff
Very sensible and lucidly written. About time the Divided States of Embarrassment get off their asses to implement change.Sunday, September 30, 2007
Starting a new chapter tmr
Teresa is so right. The next few months are definitely going to be unsettling. New job, new responsibilities, new people, new environment. I must cope. And I can do it.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Quirkology Jokes
A teacher decided to take her bad mood out on her students and so said, “Can everyone who thinks they’re stupid, stand up!” After a few seconds, just one child slowly stood up. The teacher turned to the child and said, “Do you think you’re stupid?”
“No…” replied the child, “….but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself.
Texan: Where are you from?
Harvard grad: I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions.
Texan: Okay – where are you from, jackass?
A husband stepped on one of those penny scales that tell you your fortune and weight and dropped in a coin. “Listen to this,” he said to his wife, showing her a small white card. “It says I’m energetic, bright, resourceful and a great person.” “Yeah,” his wife nodded, “and it has your weight wrong too.”
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson went camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night, Holmes woke Watson up and said: “Watson, look up at the stars, and tell me what you see.”
Watson replied: “I see millions and millions of stars.”
Holmes said: “And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson replied: “Well, if there are millions of stars, and even if a few of those are planets, it’s quite likely that there are some planets like earth out there. And if there are a few planets like earth out there, there might also be life.”
And Holmes said: “Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent.”
A guy goes to the hospital for a check-up. After weeks of tests, a doctor comes to see him and says that he has some good and bad news.
“What’s the bad news?” asks the man.
“I am afraid we think you have a very rare and incurable disease,” says the doctor.
“Oh my god, that’s terrible,” says the man. “What’s the good news?”
“Well,” replies the doctor, “we are going to name it after you.”
An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two elderly gentlemen were talking, and one said: “Last night, we went out to a new restaurant, and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.”
The other man said: “What was the name of the restaurant?”
The first man thought and thought and finally said: “What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know…the one that is red and has thorns.”
“Do you mean a rose?”
“Yes,” the man said. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled: “Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?”
What kind of murderer has fibre?
A cereal killer.
Two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says: “Do you know how to drive this?”
Woman to make pharmacist: Do you have that Viagra drug?
Pharmacist: Yes.
Woman: Can you get it over the counter?
Pharmacist: Only if I take two of them.
A man dies and his wife telephones her local newspaper, and says, “I would like to print the following obituary: Bernie is dead.”
The man at the newspapers pauses, and says, “Actually for the same price, you could print six words.”
The woman replies, “Oh okay. Can I go with: Bernie is dead. Toyota for sale.”
A dog goes into a telegraph office, takes a blank form and writes: “Woof woof woof. Woof, woof. Woof. Woof woof, woof.”
The clerk examines the paper and politely tells the dog: “There are only nine words here. You could send another “Woof” for the same price.”
The dog looks confused and replies: “But that would make no sense at all.”
“No…” replied the child, “….but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself.
Texan: Where are you from?
Harvard grad: I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions.
Texan: Okay – where are you from, jackass?
A husband stepped on one of those penny scales that tell you your fortune and weight and dropped in a coin. “Listen to this,” he said to his wife, showing her a small white card. “It says I’m energetic, bright, resourceful and a great person.” “Yeah,” his wife nodded, “and it has your weight wrong too.”
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson went camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night, Holmes woke Watson up and said: “Watson, look up at the stars, and tell me what you see.”
Watson replied: “I see millions and millions of stars.”
Holmes said: “And what do you deduce from that?”
Watson replied: “Well, if there are millions of stars, and even if a few of those are planets, it’s quite likely that there are some planets like earth out there. And if there are a few planets like earth out there, there might also be life.”
And Holmes said: “Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent.”
A guy goes to the hospital for a check-up. After weeks of tests, a doctor comes to see him and says that he has some good and bad news.
“What’s the bad news?” asks the man.
“I am afraid we think you have a very rare and incurable disease,” says the doctor.
“Oh my god, that’s terrible,” says the man. “What’s the good news?”
“Well,” replies the doctor, “we are going to name it after you.”
An elderly couple had dinner at another couple’s house, and after eating, the wives left the table and went into the kitchen.
The two elderly gentlemen were talking, and one said: “Last night, we went out to a new restaurant, and it was really great. I would recommend it very highly.”
The other man said: “What was the name of the restaurant?”
The first man thought and thought and finally said: “What is the name of that flower you give to someone you love? You know…the one that is red and has thorns.”
“Do you mean a rose?”
“Yes,” the man said. He then turned towards the kitchen and yelled: “Rose, what’s the name of that restaurant we went to last night?”
What kind of murderer has fibre?
A cereal killer.
Two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says: “Do you know how to drive this?”
Woman to make pharmacist: Do you have that Viagra drug?
Pharmacist: Yes.
Woman: Can you get it over the counter?
Pharmacist: Only if I take two of them.
A man dies and his wife telephones her local newspaper, and says, “I would like to print the following obituary: Bernie is dead.”
The man at the newspapers pauses, and says, “Actually for the same price, you could print six words.”
The woman replies, “Oh okay. Can I go with: Bernie is dead. Toyota for sale.”
A dog goes into a telegraph office, takes a blank form and writes: “Woof woof woof. Woof, woof. Woof. Woof woof, woof.”
The clerk examines the paper and politely tells the dog: “There are only nine words here. You could send another “Woof” for the same price.”
The dog looks confused and replies: “But that would make no sense at all.”
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
So sad it's funny
Pick-up lines that you should NEVER be caught dead saying:
Is it hot in here or is it just you?
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.
I've lost my phone number. Can I have yours?
Is it hot in here or is it just you?
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.
I've lost my phone number. Can I have yours?
Quirkology
Extremely entertaining and funny. Reminds one to stay crazy cause it's simply so much more fun.
"A lie is far shorter than the truth."
"A lie is more factual and involves less use of the word "I"."
" The most reliable signs of lying are in a person's voice and their unconscious choice of language".. not how the person behaves. Useful knowledge.
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