Category Archives: Professional Advice
We originally published this post in March this year, but in a much longer form. Since insight on “selling yourself to potential employers” is always relevant, we wanted to highlight a two-part bite-sized series. If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section below.
As a recruiter for Meltwater Group, I spend most of my time screening CVs, deciding which candidates to call and conducting both phone and face-to-face interviews. My time is limited and we receive thousands of applications. So, you might ask, how can you appeal to the likes of me, to ensure your application stands out…
Now that we’re coming to the end of one of the “most volatile weeks in Wall Street history”, I thought it would be an ideal time to review a Havard Business Review Blog post that I found a couple of months ago, aptly titled “The Best Investment You Can Make.” Those with finance and market tuned brains might be thinking bonds or (gasp!) real estate might be safe assumptions here but the author, Umair Haque, suggests something different, something much more radical: invest in the people you love, your dream and living a full life.
Haque quickly points out that his advice…
Sheryl Sandberg is an influential woman. Currently the COO of one of Silicon Valley’s biggest celebrity companies, Facebook, Sandberg is considered one of the most powerful women in the world. While her career and ambition are impressive, it’s her advocacy work for women in leadership roles that is truly inspiring.
A recent New Yorker article on Sandberg, “A Woman’s Place” by Ken Auletta, traces her strong and varied career path to the top. Beginning her career as a research assistant at the World Bank, followed by Harvard Business School, she then had a series of high profile jobs, including a stint at McKinsey…
The Harvard Business Review’s blog, HBR Blog Network, recently featured a post by Steve W. Martin (not to be confused with funny man Steve Martin), who teaches sales strategy at the USC Marshall School of Business. In his post “Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople” Martin lists and describes seven key personality traits that affect selling style of the most successful salespeople:
1) Modesty
2) Conscientiousness
3) Achievement Orientation
4) Curiosity
5) Lack of gregariousness
6) Lack of discouragement
7) Lack of self-consciousness
As I read through the personality traits, their descriptions and how the trait affects selling style, I found that I agreed with most of them while a…
This week we announced the launch of Meltwater Buzz Engage ; a new module in the Meltwater Buzz product suite that makes social conversations actionable and measurable (read more on our Corporate Blog).
How is this news relevant to you? I wanted to broaden and apply the news about our new product module – the concept of social media engagement – to your work.
Most of us engage with social media daily. Social media can sometimes be thought of as a distraction in the workplace, causing low productivity – as is discussed in this blog post: “Low productivity: Social networks or irresponsible employees…
