Main Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
Special Feature: As Long As The Work Gets Done: A Revolutionary Way to Make Work Not Suck
Bonus Feature: Use Stories to Prove Your Skills
Book Excerpt: The Art of Workplace Diplomacy Distinguishes Successful Careerists
Extra Feature: 15 Quick Tips for Excelling at Work
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
This issue focuses on thriving in the workplace. We also take a look at framing your skills in story form.
Continuing our series of 15 tips on career topics to mark Quint Careers', 15th anniversary, Dr. Randall Hansen
offers two such sets of tips, one on getting promoted, the other on excelling in the workplace.
Regular contributor Liz Sumner gives us a fascinating look into a new form of work that emphasizes results.
And author Alexandra Levit previews her new book, Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths
You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success, with an excerpt on workplace diplomacy.
President Obama's American Jobs Act proposal reminds us that Job Action Day is coming Nov. 7.
Contact us if you'd like to contribute to the special issue of QuintZine that focuses on proactive responses to the jobs crisis.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Tips for Obtaining a Promotion
15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
As part of the celebration of Quintessential Careers's
15th anniversary, we're presenting lists of 15 tips on
some of the most essential topics in college, job search, and career.
At some point in all our careers, we are more than ready for the next challenge at work. Or, perhaps we've had
our eyes on the prize all along, with a plan to move up the corporate ladder. While the old model of working
at one company our entire careers has been replaced with a newer model of career advancement, it's still
possible to get ahead in your career by obtaining a promotion with your current employer -- and this
article will show you how.
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As Long As The Work Gets Done: A Revolutionary Way to Make Work Not Suck
by Liz Sumner
Imagine a world where everyone does what he or she wants to do. Wouldn't that be a great place to work?
It's not a fantasy world. It's called a Results-Only Work Environment, and it exists now in organizations all over the globe.
I first learned about ROWE in Daniel Pink's, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.
Pink describes compelling evidence that with everything other than routine tasks, extrinsic rewards don't work.
Carrots and sticks actually make people less productive and satisfied.
What does work is intrinsic motivation, specifically autonomy over time, task, and team; mastery -- becoming
better at something that truly matters; and purpose -- doing work in service of the greater good.
Find Your Career Future. Learn More About Yourself
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Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
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A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
How do you convince employers that you possess the skills required to perform a job you want — especially
if you are changing careers and have not yet demonstrated your skills in your targeted career?
By telling stories about how you've effectively use those skills in other contexts.
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The Art of Workplace Diplomacy Distinguishes Successful Careerists
by Alexandra Levit, excerpted from her book Blind Spots: The 10 Business Myths
You Can't Afford to Believe on Your New Path to Success (Oct. 2011)
Editor's note: In this excerpt
from her book, Alexandra Levit tells a cautionary tale in which a worker exacerbated a challenging workplace situation through
poor diplomacy. Levit then offers four keys to successful workplace diplomacy.
Forty-one-year-old Rob Bedell isn't really from anywhere. He was born in New York, raised in Arizona, and educated
at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. And he was once a rising star. "I worked for a weekly newspaper group
for many years, starting as a regular grunt in the classified sales department," he says. "My management saw that I
had promise, and they promoted me to manager."
Except Rob had a problem. He didn't respect his boss. "He got into his position because he inherited it, not because
of his sales or interpersonal skills," Rob remembers. "He ruled with an iron fist, and it wasn't motivating our staff. I decided to
tell him my concerns, and admittedly, I didn't set the conversation up properly. Instead of trying to find out more about why he was
doing things this way, I criticized him and he got defensive."
As part of the celebration of Quintessential Careers's
15th anniversary, we're presenting lists of 15 tips on
some of the most essential topics in college, job search, and career.
Most of us want to be good employees -- and most of us want to excel at our jobs. To be a successful employee
and excel at work, though, is not simply a matter of being good at what you do. Being a successful employee
also involves issues such as professionalism, attitude, and teamwork -- all of which comprise the thrust of this article.
GoROWE is the site for "Results-Only Work Environment," a management strategy in which
employees are evaluated on performance, not presence. In a ROWE, people focus on results
and only results – increasing the organization’s performance while creating the right climate for
people to manage all the demands in their lives . . . including work.
(Our article at tells more.)
The GoROWE site offers results from ROWE initiatives, and ROWE resources, such
as research papers, case studies, and PowerPoint presentations. The site also includes a blog.
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Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
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Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
A study by Right Management affirms what we've been saying for years -- face-to-face networking is the best way to get a job.
"Person-to-person networking continues to be job-seekers' most successful tool," the study says.
"The firm analyzed job data on the nearly 60,000 individuals throughout North America to whom it
provided career-transition services over the past three years. … Traditional networking was the source
of new career opportunities for 41 percent of job candidates last year, while Internet job boards accounted for
25 percent of new positions landed," says a press release
about the study.
Blogger "Anna," who blogs as as Classy Career Girl recently the "4X4 networking challenge" she created
for herself in which "every month I would met with four people I already knew but would like to
get to know even better. I also made a point of meeting with four new people. My goal was to learn from each
person I talked to and ask questions about how I get to the next step in my career.
"At the end of 2011," she says, "I will have added 48 new people to my network and strengthened relationships
with 48 friends, co-workers, and family members."
She also got results -- interviews, referrals, confidence,
and a clear direction. Read the full post.
In giving advice on changing careers, an ExecuNet member says: "First, see what industries are most portable
with your skills. Second, show the interviewers you understand the applications of the knowledge you
bring to the table and that you can help them monetize that knowledge. Finally, make sure you understand
the gaps you don't fill well and speak to those in a positive way."
We are honoring our 15 favorite career gurus with the title of Quintessential Careers Career Mastermind.
In turn, they are honoring our readers in a number of ways throughout the rest of the year ... with articles,
tips, and a special feature in our 15th anniversary issue of QuintZine in November.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Warning Signs You Won't Like Your Next Employer
* New Grads: Roadmap to Work and Play
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Shifts
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Crafting Transferable Skills Stories
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Excelling at Work
* 15 Quick Tips for Obtaining Your Next Promotion
* 15 Quick Tips for Getting Accepted into College
* Another Option After High School: Vocational/Trade Schools
* Fourth Annual Job Action Day
* 15 Quick Tips for Career Branding Success
* Career Branding Checklist
* Special Quint Careers 15th Anniversary Issue
* 15 Career Gurus
* 15 Indispensable Career Books
* 15 tips, samples, tools, and more.
* 15 Quick Tips Strengthening Your Career Network
* 15 Quick Tips for Working with Headhunters
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
