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The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Every Day

By: Glenn Llopis, Contributor | Forbes.com | April 10th, 2013 | leave a comment

Leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example, leaders can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question. Many people wonder how leaders know how to make the best decisions, often under immense pressure. The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiences and encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures. More so, the decision making process is an acute understanding of being familiar with the cause and effect of behavioral and circumstantial patterns; knowing the intelligence and interconnection points of the variables involved in these patterns allows a leader to confidently make decisions and project the probability of their desired outcomes. The most successful leaders are instinctual decision makers. Having done it so many times throughout their careers, they become immune to the pressure associated with decision making and extremely intuitive about the process of making the most strategic and best decisions.

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Most Asked Job Interview Questions

By: Dasha Boguslavskaya | March 15th, 2013 | leave a comment

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Countdown to a New Year, New You

By: Amanda Augustine | November 28th, 2012 | leave a comment

Topics: Center for Student Professional Development | Job Search

Look the Part

Invest in your image on and offline with a budget-conscious haircut, updated clothes, makeup, and a professional head shot for your online profiles.

Since we’re only on week one of this countdown to the New Year, New You, I want to start with something fun. This week I want you to go shopping for your personal brand.

That’s right, you heard me – shopping.… Continue Reading

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CSPD WEDNESDAY WEBINAR SERIES – TURN YOUR JOB INTERVIEWS INTO JOB OFFERS

By: Holly Pfeifer | October 31st, 2012 | leave a comment

REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED JUST SIGN IN AT THE FRONT TABLE TO GET ALL THE BENEFITS OF THIS HOUR LONG WEBINAR!

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CSPD Wednesday Webinar Series is Back!

By: Holly Pfeifer | October 25th, 2012 | leave a comment

Student Career Speaker Series
Presents

October 31st, 2012

Turn Your Job Interviews Into Job OffersMichael Neece
Webinar Overview

Research suggests it will take as many as 16 interviews to get a job.

Knowing that, you need to do everything you can to improve your odds to be offered a job. Michael Neece will show you things you need to do to make it to the next round of interviews and get the job offer.… Continue Reading

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VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR

By: Holly Pfeifer | October 22nd, 2012 | leave a comment

Topics: Center for Student Professional Development | Job Search

VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR – NOVEMBER 13-14, 2012 * REGISTER NOW * LEARN MORE HERE
Students & Alumni - Meet Great Companies Live Online..Attend the Fair from Anywhere!

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By: By JOSEPH WALKER | www.wsj.com | October 8th, 2012 | leave a comment

As more companies turn to online pre-employment tests, complaints of bias are cropping up.

One came from Vicky Sandy, who in 2007 was turned down for a cashier job at a KrogerCo. KR +0.40% supermarket in West Virginia after taking a 50-question test that asked her to rate the degree to which she was self-confident, always cheerful, and tried to sense what others thought and felt.… Continue Reading

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College Day 2012

By: Holly Pfeifer | September 20th, 2012 | leave a comment

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Join CDW for a virtual discussion providing insight on your first profession.

By: Holly Pfeifer | September 14th, 2012 | leave a comment

Join CDW for a virtual discussion providing insight on your first profession.

How will you benefit in this 45 minute Live, Online Webinar Session:

Recruiting and Sales Leaders will share the 3 Keys to Successthat every student should know before entering the job market:
- How to identify the right company culture that aligns with your passion and career goals
- How to communicate your value to a potential employer
- How to navigate job offers and understand how your first professional position will shape your future succes

Our presenters; Ray Benedetti, Alexis Lyon and Jaclin Principato with CDW will enable you with the tools necessary to launch your first career.… Continue Reading

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13 Common Complaints Employers Have About Recent Grads

By: Holly Pfeifer | September 14th, 2012 | leave a comment

Think it’s the economy that’s keeping you from landing a job? Sure, that could be the problem. But have you considered that maybe it’s you? Employers have a lot of complaints about recent grads these days, from a sense of entitlement to being completely unprepared. Are you guilty of any of these employment no-nos?

Grads are clueless about the job:
Employers complain that often, interviewing recent grads can be frustrating because they lack a basic knowledge of the job.

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Undergraduate Students

Look the Part

REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED JUST SIGN IN AT THE FRONT TABLE TO GET ALL THE BENEFITS OF THIS HOUR LONG WEBINAR!

Grads are clueless about the job: