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Interview Ecology and Your Job Search
Today’s institutions spend a lot of time assessing environments and making sure they understand them, so that people will feel comfortable and welcome. We also spend a lot of time struggling with ways to promote sustainability and integrate new technology into our approaches. So let’s crash these concepts together to examine the ecology of the job search, and apply the resulting framework to different aspects of the job search.
SuperVision: How to Answer Questions About Your Supervisory Style
Supervision is hard. Developing a coherent supervisory style is even harder. And explaining your supervisory style in an interview? Really, really hard. John Mayo and I will be discussing how to approach questions about supervision and your supervisory style in a job interview on The Grill.
Reader Survey: Help Improve the Site, and Get a Chance to Win!
As we come up on the 2 year anniversary of...
What Comes Easy, What Comes Hard: This Week’s Questions on The Grill
In any job, some things come easy, and some come...
Becoming a Socially Intelligent Job Seeker
The nature of business is changing, as we grow more connected through social media and social networking, and much attention is being paid to how the evolution of communication is changing the everyday realities of work, the power of our relationships, and how we value our time.
Getting Grilled in Your Job Interview: Preparing for the "Question Behind the Question"
When preparing for an interview, it’s important to approach every question critically, and read between the lines. On “The Grill,” Higher Ed Career Coach Sean Cook and co-host John Mayo, Jr., Area Coordinator for Traditional Housing at Western New England College, will discuss the “questions behind the questions,” and help job-seekers plan their approach to common questions.