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Are You Making it Fun at Work?
Almost all of us love to play games. Toddlers are intrigued by games of manipulating colorful shapes. Seniors crowd bingo halls. Every generation plays games of skill and games of chance from chess to backgammon to tic-tac-toe. Games can be social events, team events or solitary challenges. We watch games filled with vicarious thrills on reality TV. Games are part of the fabric of our lives and have a place in business also.Most games can be broken down into three parts: a challenge, a strategy, and a reward. Surprisingly most business endeavors consist of the same three parts: challenge, strategy, and reward. Yet when we approach a challenge in a work context,

Management - Customer Service
Customer service is always a hot topic. How many times have you gone to a business where the employees waiting on you appear to not care if you were there or not? How many times have you gotten your clothes back from the laundry with buttons crushed or you picked up a call-in order for dinner only to get home to find out it was wrong? These are all examples of poor customer service. These are lost opportunities. Good customer service programs can generate extra dollars to the bottom line. The recent problems with the airline industry are another example of a chronic bad customer service programs.Cleanliness and Customer / Employee interaction indicates a company's concer

Have you ever been passed over for a job despite the fact you KNEW you could’ve done the job in a stellar fashion? Are you frustrated because you never got a college degree yet do the EXACT same job as someone who does and you get paid thousands of dollars less? Have you been hampered from moving up in the professional world because you lacked the “right” job title despite the fact your employment experience was exactly what the job description listed? If this describes you then perhaps it’s time you wrote a fake resume.

As an executive recruiter (headhunter) for many years I saw first hand how those that played by the "rules" more often then not lost the best jobs to those that lied on their resumes. I'm not talking about a bit of embellishment, but outright lies such as mentioning degrees never earned or positions never held. According to the Society of Human Resource Managers over 53% of all job applicants lie to some extent on their resumes. Over 70% of all college students said they would lie to get a job. The higher the salary, the more often candidates lie. The web site www.fakeresume.com was started as a way of teaching people how and why they are unknowingling losing jobs to those that lie.

Why write a fake resume? There are many legitimate reasons for writing a fake resume. Perhaps your current job title didn't properly convey all the duties or responsibilities that you had. Maybe you were unemployed for a period of time. Everyone knows that doesn't look good on your resume. Did you assist a manager who was incompetent and you made them look good on the job? Better yet, YOU did their job but for whatever reason, perhaps because of nepotism you could never get promoted to their job. Out of frustration you quit but now you CAN’T put that fool’s job title as your own despite the fact that YOU did his/her job! Worse yet due to jealousy or animosity because you quit and now for the first time they HAVE to do their own work they won’t give you a good reference.

The bottom line is if you know you can do the job, then why shouldn't you fluff up your resume a bit? We all know a great deal of people who have held jobs that they were not qualified to have. Yet there they were day in and day out collecting big paychecks while other people corrected their frequent mistakes. Can this be considered lying? Perhaps, but don't you deserve a shot a job you know you can do?

What about your prospective employer’s honesty? How open and honest are they to their employees and future employees? Anyone who’s read the newspaper or watched the evening news has witnessed the lack of integrity that runs rampant in today’s corporate world. In my experience very few employers will fully reveal any unpleasant details affecting the positions they advertise. I had a candidate that lived in New York and I recruited for a startup in California. He and I were both assured that this start up was financially stable and had enough cash flow at the current burn rate to stay in business three years. I personally spoke with the Chief Financial Officer to question him about the long term stability of the client. I wasn’t about to have a person give up their life and move away from family and friends for something that wasn’t reasonably stable. Based on the assurance given me and my candidate by the CFO, he accepted the job, gave up his rent controlled apartment in New York and moved to California. About 12 weeks later he and half of the company were unceremoniously laid off. I couldn’t begin to ex

Ethics in Franchising Considered
Many people want to get out of corporate America and get into their own franchise business as part of their American dream. They would rather control their own destiny than be controlled by corporate America. However, sometimes that American dream can turn into an American nightmare.Of course franchising has a lower failure rate and someone who starts their own business from scratch, but still the franchise buyer must be wary of the Franchisor's methods and motives and consider the ethics of those running the franchising company.Many franchise systems could care less how much money the franchisee makes, they only care how much products they sell to the franchise

es. I'm not talking about a bit of embellishment, but outright lies such as mentioning degrees never earned or positions never held. According to the Society of Human Resource Managers over 53% of all job applicants lie to some extent on their resumes. Over 70% of all college students said they would lie to get a job. The higher the salary, the more often candidates lie. The web site www.fakeresume.com was started as a way of teaching people how and why they are unknowingling losing jobs to those that lie.

The Difference Between Leadership and Management
I travel around the country conducting leadership development programs for corporations. Sometimes, I’m working with people who are in development programs and want to be managers. Other times, I’m working with people who are already in a leadership role.As the author of two books on leadership, the biggest question that comes up most often, and is often the topic of debate, is about the difference between leadership and management. I’m often asked if there is a difference between a manager and a leader, and if that difference really matters. Yes! It matters a great deal. In order to be successful and to have the chance to move into greater roles of responsibility, leadi

be you were unemployed for a period of time. Everyone knows that doesn't look good on your resume. Did you assist a manager who was incompetent and you made them look good on the job? Better yet, YOU did their job but for whatever reason, perhaps because of nepotism you could never get promoted to their job. Out of frustration you quit but now you CAN’T put that fool’s job title as your own despite the fact that YOU did his/her job! Worse yet due to jealousy or animosity because you quit and now for the first time they HAVE to do their own work they won’t give you a good reference.

How Important is Vaule of Brand to the Consumer & Company?
The Brand: A source of value for the consumerAlthough we are primarily dealing with brands and their optimization, it is important to clarify that brands do not necessarily exist in all markets. Even if brands exist in the legal sense they do not always play a role in the buying decision process of consumers. Other factors may be more important.For example, research on ‘brand sensitivity’ shows that in several product categories, buyers do not look at the brand when they are making their choice. Who is concerned about the brand when they are making their choice? Who is concerned about the brand when they are buying a writing pad, a rubber; felt tip pens, ma

great deal of people who have held jobs that they were not qualified to have. Yet there they were day in and day out collecting big paychecks while other people corrected their frequent mistakes. Can this be considered lying? Perhaps, but don't you deserve a shot a job you know you can do?

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w York and I recruited for a startup in California. He and I were both assured that this start up was financially stable and had enough cash flow at the current burn rate to stay in business three years. I personally spoke with the Chief Financial Officer to question him about the long term stability of the client. I wasn’t about to have a person give up their life and move away from family and friends for something that wasn’t reasonably stable. Based on the assurance given me and my candidate by the CFO, he accepted the job, gave up his rent controlled apartment in New York and moved to California. About 12 weeks later he and half of the company were unceremoniously laid off. I couldn’t begin to explain how devastated I was when I learned of this disaster. After all this man gave up his life due in large part because I convinced him to move all the way across the country for the job. He ended up suing the company but I never learned what happened or heard from the man again. After that debacle I never again looked at corporate America in the same manner.

Perhaps your future boss or co-workers are complete bastards. Perhaps they know that the division you’ll be working for will soon be eliminated, or perhaps the entire corporation is in financial trouble and will soon be laying off large numbers of employees. In cases like these, you can bet that the hiring corporation will seldom let issues like fairness and morality get in their way. They need to fill the job and get on with their business. It’s a sad fact that corporations are seldom completely honest when it comes to the information that an applicant needs to make an intelligent decision about the desirability of the position. It seems very hypocritical for a prospective employer to insist on applicants being entirely honest while they regularly conceal relevant job details.

“Hire Right” recently released some interesting statistics that show how rampant resume fraud is in the United States. The company’s numbers show that 80 percent of all resumes are misleading, 20 percent state fraudulent degrees, 30 percent show altered employment dates, 40 percent have inflated salary claims, 30 percent have inaccurate job descriptions, 25 percent list companies that no longer exist, and 27 percent give falsified references.

Some statistics state that if you reviewed 100 resumes, a whopping 75 percent of them would reveal a "fib, fallacy or some outright lie. The question now is, how many jobs did you apply for and lose to someone else that may have been less qualified then you but got the job because they lied?

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The resume: gateway to your future, toll booth on the road to success, and many more interesting metaphors. Whichever way you look at it, your resume is the key to landing a great job. However, even though this is a widely recognized fact, I still see resumes come across my desk with glaring errors and obvious problems. With this in mind, I've compiled a list of the biggest five resume mistakes that I see which are easily preventable.

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