Just in case you need another reason to use LinkedIn…

The Careersolvers blog tells us about a recent survey of 611 recruiters conducted by Inside Recruiting that shows more than a third (235) prefer LinkedIn as their online tool for background research.
The lesson? If you're not on LinkedIn, you may be missing opportunities to be noticed. If you are on LinkedIn, there is a good chance that someone is noticing.
Keeping your resume up-to-date and making contacts is something you need to be doing anyway so take the extra few minutes to maintain LinkedIn.

The best of both worlds for time management

I am a long-time user and fan of the TimeDesign time management system ever since I attended a class taught by Dave Allen almost 15 years ago. Both the system and Dave blew me away – changed forever how I approached my work. For me the system is a very natural, simple way of dealing with all the “stuff” that gets thrown at you in the course of 24hrs.
There are only 2 things I could wish for to improve it: that the system was less expensive, and it was integrated with Stephen Covey's First Things First system.
Covey’s 7 Habits/First Things approach is important and a perfect complement to Allen and TimeDesign. Covey’s approach is big picture, long-term, "get-the-most-out-of-life” approach while Allen’s is a reality-based approach that says “face the swirling chaos of day-to-day and handle it before it handles you." If there is a product out there that successfully combines the two, I will be it's next customer.

Do Not Criticize, Condemn or Complain

After many years in corporate life I've interviewed dozens of people for all kinds of jobs from individual contributor to Vice President. In that time I've learned that one of the surest ways to blow an interview is to ignore Dale Carnegie’s advice from his book How to Win Friends & Influence People: “Do Not Criticize, Condemn, or Complain.”

Regardless of how big a jerk your boss was, how dumb your co-workers were or how badly your current or former company was run, the only impression you will make is a bad one if you resort to whining, complaining or, even worse, story-telling.

No employer wants to bring a negative attitude into the workplace. Not only that, an interviewer’s reaction to complaining and negativity is nearly always to assume the complainer was at least partly if not entirely at fault in bad relationships.

But worst of all, if the interviewer is your potential new boss, he will be saying to himself: “if he says this about his current boss, what will he say about me?”!!!