Sometimes the best person for the job doesn't necessarily get it.
So, being the «right»
person for the job does not guarantee your success.
Not exact matches
He's been the best
person that's ever held that
job and I couldn't imagine that anything that he would have
done — that would have been so out of character
for him — that would have caused that reaction.»
Managing money is another toughie
for lots of
people, and the fact that these days many kids «don't hold part - time
jobs,» doesn't help, Lythcott - Haims feels.
By human nature,
people that work
for and with you want to
do a good
job.
What they really need to
do is hire the best
person for each
job and treat that
person well.
You need all kinds of
people - even
people just looking
for a
job - as long as they're willing to
do their work and
do it as well as they can.
I've had several connections with iiNet
for over 6 years now... I'll be looking elsewhere as great customer service comes from
people who are very happy with their
jobs and don't dread going to work.
Sort by median salary to find the
jobs with the fattest pay cheques; sort by five - year wage growth to see which fields have the fastest - growing salaries — that can indicate a shortage of qualified candidates (and opportunity
for you); or sort by five - year growth in the number of
people in the field — those are the places that have been on hiring sprees (but watch out; that doesn't mean they'll continue the streak).
As
for Starbucks employees, these are
people in low - wage
jobs who don't need the extra hassle — or worse — that might come from being required to engage strangers on touchy topics.
That would create time and space
for people like me, Gordon, Stanford, Moffatt and others to harass the House Finance Committee into
doing its
job and conducting hearings on the central bank's target.
Certain inventions spawn generations of successive employment
for people doing jobs that no one has ever
done before.
Since everyone at the outset is
doing multiple
jobs and since you can't be everywhere at once, you've got to trust your
people to
do the right things in the moment, since there's no rule book, no time
for extensive preparation and instruction, and there's rarely a second chance to make a great first impression with a lot of new and prospective customers.
This need to let go a little and let your
people do their
jobs isn't ever easy
for anal - retentive entrepreneurs — which I guess may be oxymoronic.
My mantra was, my
job is first and foremost
for my patients, to the volunteers and to
people's health, and I will
do my
job.
Managers need to communicate with their
people to find out what makes them feel good (
for some, it's a raise;
for others, it's public recognition) and then to reward them
for a
job well
done.
«
People were working till one or two in the morning — but they were often sitting around waiting
for other departments to
do their
jobs.»
«We're creating good
jobs in major Canadian cities
for young
people and we're excited about
doing that and so far the customer response to our crews has been very positive,» said Renee Smith - Valade, vice-president customer experience.
«We're trying to stop [decisions] at the right level and make sure
people have the autonomy to
do their
jobs correctly, without necessarily having to escalate everything,» explains Malboeuf, adding that staff have been asking
for such freedom
for a few years now.
«Most of our
people are excited about what we
do because they understand that as we grow, our success offers them the opportunity
for a career, not just a
job,» she says.
Rosekind, the scientist who studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program
for NASA, put it in terms business
people can understand: «Which
person do you want on the
job, the one with 34 % better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»
«But it's hard
for some
people to look somebody in the eye and say, «You're not
doing your
job.
For the hundreds of millions of unemployed
people around the world, we don't need
jobs — we need work.
«
People study in school to get the degrees that will help them build a career, but then they don't study
for the
jobs themselves.»
Not everybody wants to be promoted; some
people are perfectly happy
doing the same
job for years on end.
If you tend to micro-manage, then follow these basic steps: select the right
person for the
job; train them to the standards required
for the
job; resource them with all the tools needed to perform the
job; identify the expectations
for the performance; get out of their way to allow them to
do the
job; assess the performance and correct and praise, as appropriate.
Some
people do this as a
job: They can collect donations or charge
for a subscription.
In the best companies,
people don't come
for the
job, they come to be part of the vision and to spend their time in a place that values and appreciates them
doing work that makes a difference.
Partly they criticize you because it's a way of letting off steam, but mostly they
do it because we all think, at least some of the time, that we can
do a better
job than the
person we work
for.
«As business processes have started to rely more on information and IT, the temptation, the desire is to give
people access to everything [because] we don't want to create any friction
for users to
do their
jobs,» said Robert Sadowski, director of marketing and technology solutions at security firm RSA.
For example, one recent study showed that almost 60 percent of
people surveyed said they wanted to change
jobs, but of that number, almost half didn't know what their next chapter should be!
We
do all we can to create roles
for people to develop, but if
for some reason we can not offer a role that is crucial to an employee's goal cycle, we off - board them responsibly and help them find a new
job.
Changing
jobs is a huge pain, and
people don't
do it after six months
for small bumps in salary.
There will be many new
jobs created, but not
for the
people who have lost them — because they
do not have those skills.
The ability
for us to keep track of your relationship with this other OkCupid
person beyond just your website communication will help us
do a better
job matching you up in the future.
Do your due diligence (even if that means paying
for a recruiter to help in the early stages) to make sure you find the perfect
people for the
job.
There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a
job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make
people think you're shockingly overqualified
for and unhireable
for a tutoring
job.
«Don't tell
people you are looking
for a
job or that you may know of someone looking to leave,» Tipograph recommends.
«There are plenty of CEOs who know enough to make good decisions but not enough to
do the
jobs of
people working
for them.»
«In general,
people who are more organized
do a better
job of tracking expenses and keeping records neat
for tax purposes,» she adds.
Higher education needs to
do a better
job of training
people to solve problems and create opportunities
for themselves — and the rest of us — in a changing economy.
«We're going to need to start developing structures
for people who
do end up losing their
jobs.»
If you haven't
done the best
job in the past of diversifying your communications, content, featured experts, or even the
people you have at all levels within your company, don't wait to get dinged
for it by someone who is frustrated by it.
Bestselling author Ken Blanchard mentioned in his book, «Heart of a Leader», that each
person has different motivations
for the work they
do or to stay in a
job they are in.
«It is the perfect
job for very lazy
people who don't mind really long hours and very hard work.»
n general,
people who are more organized
do a better
job of tracking expenses and keeping records neat
for tax purposes,» she adds.
Many times it's simply the
person who's
done a
job for so long that no one can imagine it getting
done without that
person.
So, other things being equal, it is better to spend money on
doing something good
for people (e.g., providing someone with a
job) than it is to spend money on mere machines.
When a lot of
people look at my work,
for some reason they forget that we didn't just train
people for jobs we imagined, we looked around
for where the existing
jobs already were, and trained them accordingly.
Done right, diverse slate hiring policies — which require at least one woman or
person of colour to be among the candidates considered
for a
job — remove the easy excuses that cheat the under - represented out of a shot at key roles.