Liz Ryan

It's easy to give away so much good advice on a job interview that your hiring manager decides they don't need to hire you. They can simply implement the tremendous ideas you shared with them. How can you avoid giving away too much free advice at a…

If you have been working for 10 or 15 years you have already lived through enormous changes in the working world. We are in a period of tumultuous transition not only in the way business is conducted but in the nature of work itself. Work was a fixed…

Dear Liz, I'm so disappointed because I had a great first interview two weeks ago and I was getting excited about the opportunity. The job is a newly-created role with a bank that is getting into online banking and wants someone to create marketing…

When I started out as an HR person the topic of job security was hardly on anybody's radar screen. Back then, it was still an unusual thing to work for a company for a long time and then suddenly get laid off. Now it is commonplace. Now the first…

You can't walk into a job interview with the mindset "I want to answer the interview questions correctly and impress the interviewer!" Think about your interviewer's day. He or she is overwhelmed the way we all are. Your interviewer might meet six or…

Every manager has pain. Heck, every living person does, too! Everybody has something they'd like to fix or change, except for a few monks living high in the Himalayas or the Andes who are totally content with their lives. Stop and think about your…

Human beings are creatures of habit. If we've seen something once, we can't focus on it intently again. We think we already know all about it, so we don't pay attention. That's why busy humans ignore glorious sunsets and other amazing sights and…

For years we talked about our Skills. We said "I have negotiation skills, administrative skills and strategic skills." We claimed a whole bunch of skills, but what are skills, really? Who can say whether you have those skills? When someone tells me…

You can go on a job interview and bleat out manicured answers like a little sheepie job-seeker, but I hope you don't. You'll have much more impact, learn more and have more fun if you treat the job interview like a sales call for a consulting…

Salespeople have been talking about business pain for years, but traditionally job-seekers haven't been invited to join the conversation. That's a pity for them, because understanding business pain is a huge asset to a job-seeker or anyone who wants…

The world of employment is changing dramatically. It is difficult to find a working person these days who hasn’t been laid off, had a company go out of business while he or she was working there or even watched an entire industry and profession fade…

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