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Flow, Your Ego and Your Career
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the significance of being totally involved in your work.
There are some individuals who continually find happiness in their work. They are completely involved and focused in the work they are doing. Such people, according to Harrison are in a state of flow where they forget themselves, the time, and their problems. They are able to complete tasks with very little effort.
People who are able to ente...
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The Use of Testimonials and Endorsements in Your Job Search
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the significance of testimonials in our job search.
Harrison believes that reality is something that is quite subjective and providing testimonials can be of tremendous benefit to convince someone of your way of thinking. In fact, all of us are somewhat confused about the actual state of reality and how to judge various things. We are always looking for the opinions of others, in most cases, to help us make up our...
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Keep it Simple Stupid Confessions of a Bad Interviewer
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how keeping things simple always works best.
You need to keep things as simple as possible. The ability to take complex ideas and explain them to people in a simple and straightforward way is something that is a real skill and something not a lot of people can do. We make our lives and everything we do much more complicated than it really needs to be. This is a massive mistake. When we make things uncomplicated, s...
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Do Not Allow the Past to Limit Your Opportunities Today
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how we allow the past to limit the opportunities we have today.
We make giant generalizations about various people, places and things, and end up living our lives and careers controlled by generalizations about our past. This limits the number of opportunities we have access to and prohibits us from living the lives and having the careers we could potentially have. For most of us, our limited understanding of the ...
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The Importance of Discipline
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses the role of discipline in your life and success.
One of the most popular misconceptions in the world is that the people who end up being the most successful somehow achieve this success through short cuts, not working hard and other miracles of fate. People want to feel that they can get a lucky break, suddenly get extremely rich and never have any worries again for the rest of their lives. This is so rare and occ...
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How to Talk About Other Interviews in Your Interviews
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes discusses how to tackle the question of other interviews in your current interview.
According to Harrison, one of the most important questions that you may face in an interview is regarding interviewing with other companies. While it is not very often that employers ask this question, how you handle this, will to a great extent decide whether or not you receive an offer from the employer posing the specific question.
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Employers Want to Hire You
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes drives home the point that employers really do want to hire you.
Harrison advises all those going in for an interview to remember that they are there because the employer sincerely wants to hire them. Calling for an interview is an immense resource investment for any employer. Advertisements cost money. Interviewing people means spending time not just for the actual interview but also in reviewing hundreds of applications a...
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How to Manage Crisis
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes talks about managing crisis.
Crisis is absolutely one of the most challenging things that we face. Many simply cannot cope and therefore fall apart. The key to managing any crisis is to look towards the future while you’re inside the crisis.
In terms of your life, you are going to be faced with crisis at some point. You may be in crisis right now. If you have recently lost a job, or are about to lose a job...
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Improve When Others Are Not
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes talks about keeping on moving ahead, however tough the situation.
When confronted by seeming difficult situations in life, many of us just give up assuming that nothing can be done to improve circumstances. We accept defeat without meeting head-on the challenges that life throws. Once having thrown in the towel such people prefer to wallow in self pity and feel bad about the way things are.
Harrison cauti...
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Being Able to Start from Scratch is a Gift
By: Harrison Barnes
EmploymentScape Chief Executive Officer, Harrison Barnes talks about how your ability to change completely can help you become really good at something.
People can only reach their full potential when they are willing to forget what they know and start from scratch. The idea of changing completely how we do something and relearning everything is more intimidating and difficult than it sounds. It is almost impossible for many people to do this.
There are areas of y...
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