Business Communication Essentials, 8th Ed.
Chapter 14. Applying and Interviewing for Employment
"In her winning speech, [Ramona] Smith used a body-language technique she learned from a previous speaking champion: keeping her palms facing out toward the audience.
"Practicing "active listening" is a good way to improve your listening skills.
"Practicing "active listening" is a good way to improve your listening skills.
MIT career advisor Lily Zhang handpicked these talks for the insights they can give all job hunters.
In this talk at Google, Gina Barnett shares some essentials of using your body as an effective speaking instrument.
Nancy Duarte advises starting with the simplest tool imaginable, the humble sticky note.
"Do you procrastinate?
Watch this tutorial to see how to create effective Prezi presentations.
"In this video, I talk about what helped me speak with an American accent and how I became fluent in English.
Professor Bob Bontempo explains how persuading and negotiating are complementary but distinctly different skill sets.
"When the pressure is on, why do we sometimes fail to live up to our potential?
Everyone can be creative.
"It's not where you worked, It's what you can do.
"Most of the time finding a new job is about who you know and your networking strategies.
"In the very first episode of Read Ink, I explain the difference between proofreading and editing, and how those two processes should be done individually for a stronger overall manuscript.
"Politeness pays off, especially when you’re looking for jobs," writes Brittany Wong (photo, left) in a piece at HuffingtonPost.
"Without realizing it, we're fluent in the language of pictures, says illustrator Christoph Niemann.
According to David Jensen, "As an advanced-degree holder in the sciences, you don’t have to be on the job market to feel beat down.
"We celebrate bold entrepreneurs whose ingenuity led them to success, but what happens to those who fail?
"This manager has worked with remote team for 10 years, and has learned that in order for remote teams to be successful–you need to set them up to do so.
"Advice from 7 TED speakers on creating better connections.
"On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive.
"These stats will help you bring your recruiting strategy into the 21st century.
"Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence.