How MBA Students are Using Artificial Intelligence to Land Jobs

(Editor’s Note:  The Mays Business School Career Management Center offers both VMock and 12Twenty resources- services mentioned in the article below- to students in the MBA and MS programs!)
Robots could wipe out many jobs, but MBA students are using …

By Seb Murray
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How to Build Confidence at Work: 6 Practical Tactics (Part 2) | Your Best Professional Self Series

(Shared from the Ivy Exec newsletter)

Confidence is a major contributing factor to accomplishing our goals and how we are perceived in the workplace— but it’s not a naturally occurring trait in all of us. For those who already feel …

By Lin Grensing-Pophal
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Defining Confidence: What Does Professional Confidence Look Like? (Part 1) | Your Best Professional Self Series

It’s a new year and professionals of all stripes are looking to hit the ground running at work and go for it. The challenge: many lack, or feel that they lack, the confidence to really make an impact. But, what …

By Lin Grensing-Pophal
Lin Grensing-Pophal
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5 Mindsets of Highly Effective Sellers

(Article shared from Inc.com)
Great sellers are able to understand why they sell a product and how it will genuinely help their customer, resulting in a natural sales process and experience.

Even the most basic sales training make an average seller out …

By Matt Ehrlichman
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What Not to Say During Salary Negotiations

(Shared from the Daniel Bortz article on Monster. com)

Finally, after making it through a grueling interview process you receive that job offer you’ve been gunning for all along. Still, there’s one more hurdle to cross, and that’s salary negotiation.

By Daniel Bortz
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“Let Your Horses Run”

(Thoughts on leadership penned by Michael A. Rodenberg, Chairman and  CEO of Murikami Manufacturing, USA, Inc. and Director of Murakami Corporation, North and South America; shared from his LinkedIn post)

In 2011, I returned to Kentucky for an opportunity to …

By Michael A. Rodenberg
Michael A. Rodenberg Chairman and CEO
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CFA vs MBA? Here’s Why You Should Do Both

Find out how CFA-holders can benefit from doing an MBA, and why MBA-holders can benefit from taking CFA exams too

CFA vs MBA.

It is one of the most hotly-debated questions in financial training circles: should you get an MBA …

By Seb Murray
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How to Create a Sourcing Function that Makes a Lasting Impact

By: Roy Maurer, 7 March 2019 for SHRM.  (Read the original article here.)

Talent acquisition experts preach that true hiring success comes not from reactive recruiting practices like scanning resumes and applications, but from proactively finding and engaging potential candidates.  

By Roy Maurer
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How to Convince Hiring Managers to Work with HR

by Mark Feffer, 26 March 2019 for SHRM.  Read the original article here.

Early in her career, Julie Blankenship, SHRM-SCP, worked with a line manager who bypassed HR to recruit and hire a skilled tradesperson. Along the way, the manager …

By Mark Feffer
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Inclusion at Work Starts with Creating Pathways to Belonging

(This post was written by Kathy Gurchiek was shared by Society from Human Resources Management, March 21, 2019.)

Our basic need for belonging can lead us to “demonize” people who we see as being different from ourselves and to create divisiveness. …

By Kathy Gurchiek
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