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Apply Interview Tactics in Your Everyday Life
In October I focused heavily on interview strategies – but what if you aren’t actively job-seeking? In this article, I’ll demonstrate how the principles I’ve been teaching about interview skills can apply to everyday life. Practice the skill of visualizing the win. As I described, visualization has some hefty data behind it – so use…
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Visualize Your Way to a Successful Job Interview
Visualizing the outcome you want has been scientifically proven to boost the odds of that outcome. This includes when you’re planning for a successful job interview. In a recent study, 55% of doctors completing a new advanced procedure for the first time did so accurately. In contrast, another group of doctors spent time visualizing the…
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My Top 12 Job Interview Tips for Introverts — Maximize Your Strengths!
Introverts can ace job interviews, too! Use these 12 tried-and-true tips to prepare for your next interview and present yourself in the best light.
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3 Job Interview Tactics I Learned from Hostage Negotiators
I’ve been studying the process of landing a job successfully for more than ten years, which means I’ve seen pretty much everything. I’ve learned to pick up tips and tricks everywhere, and today I’m sharing with you 3 job interview tactics I learned from hostage negotiators. Present a Win-Win opportunity. Just as a hostage negotiator…
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Your Simple Job Interview Strategy for the WIN
Many candidates go into a job interview with no strategy at all. Some have no idea how to prepare. Others think, “They’re asking me questions about myself — of course I know the answers. Easy peasy!” Nope! Having a strategy for your interview will not only enable you to show yourself in the best possible…
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Unhitched: Meet Sunny Joy McMillan
I met Sunny Joy McMillan years ago at my life coach training graduation weekend. If you read my post about How I Found My Calling, you might recall a character I called Rainbow Unicorn. That was Sunny! In that moment, we connected about the very theme of this series: purpose and calling. Since then, I…
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Sunshine Folder – your very own pocket of sunshine
I’m back in Arizona where the brightness is filling up my serotonin factory. Ahhhhhhhh. My brain loves all the light. It’s like I’m carrying around a pocket of sunshine! (I’m going to share a way you, too, can keep your pocket full of sunshine. I call it the Sunshine Folder.) Also, my upcoming Interview IQ…
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Back-to-school, back-to-work, final stretch of 2018!
I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. In addition to symbolizing so many good things about our working world — weekends off, child labor laws, minimum wage, safety, discrimination laws, etc. — Labor Day marks many changes. It’s back to school season! Gone are the long hot days of lazing down the river.…
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Philosopher living well with brain cancer: meet Adam Hayden
My interview with Adam Hayden was one of the most inspiring and uplifting conversations of my life. You might not expect such a response when talking with someone who is diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but Adam is generous, vulnerable, crazy smart, funny, and brave. I can’t wait to share him with you.…
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Permission to Live Fully: Meet Elena Sonnino
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, then surfing and paragliding, gave my friend Elena Sonnino permission to live fully. Her legacy? “I want my story to serve others as a permission slip. I want them to wake up, to live their life fully, and be curious every single day.” Below you’ll find an outline of the answers Elena provided prior to…
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