I talk exclusively to Devora Zack, author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking. In this interview she offers her personal insights into how you can use networking to further your career, how to overcome those nerves and how to approach networking in the right way.
About Devora Zack: biography
Devora Zack is author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking and President of Only Connect Consulting. She delivers dozens of dynamic, high-impact keynotes, presentations, and seminars annually to clients such as Smithsonian, Cornell University, Deloitte, America Online, London Business School, U.S. Department of Education, and Mensa International.
She holds an MBA from Cornell University, a BA from University of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude), certifications in MBTI and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and memberships in Phi Beta Kappa and Mensa. OCC won USDA’s Woman-Owned Business of the Year.
British Airways Business Life, Management Today, Forbes, and Human Capital Resources South Africa, are all featuring articles by Ms. Zack. Networking for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett-Koehler 2010) is receiving international attention, with translations in eight languages.
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At the recent Enhance Media conference, Boots‘ head of online recruitment Liz Dougall told delegates how the health and beauty giant has reformed its online careers site to focus solely on the candidate.
The result? A reduced recruitment spend of 30% and an average time to hire which has fallen by 20% since September 2009.
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Bolivian farm girl
As Valentine’s Day is upon us, this got me thinking about love. I stepped out for lunch earlier and saw people queuing up at the tills in the supermarkets to buy bunches of red roses. It put a smile on my face, but it also transported me back to a time when I went on a worldwide travel adventure and came across a lama farming village in Bolivia.
Travelling allowed me to step into the footsteps of other peoples’ lives and I felt humbled time and time again. When other people apparently seem to have nothing and are brought up in communities where they have just enough to feed themselves and access to basic shelter, it made me stop and think. These people may not have much, but they have abundant love. It made me think about how us, in the West, have lost sight of the meaning of community.
After my travels, and having been privileged to meet some amazing, inspiring people along the way, it made me think if we all spread the love a bit more within our own communities, build relationships with those who live on our doorstep, and those that we choose to ignore, we would be a healthier society. Read the rest of this entry »
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I absolutely love blogging. Here’s why. It gives you a platform where you can start a conversation with others; where you can raise debate; campaign for change; inspires others to get in contact with you; be noticed; get invited to exclusive events so you can cover them editorially; allows you access into new worlds; builds your own network.
I’m known as a blogger with a passion for corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship among my peers and network. I use Career Sparkle as a space to write about issues that can help people to develop their careers, but more than that, I want to find, uncover and share stories that will challenge and inspire other people to at least think, take them out of their comfort zone and even take positive action. Read the rest of this entry »
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Are you stressed at work? Do you have one million and one thoughts running through your head? Adi Gaskell in his posting: ‘How stress affects the workplace‘, highlights research that reveals stress at home is more likely to cause people to go off sick, while stress at work leads to low levels of employee engagement and more likely to lead to resignations.
Adi offers his tips:
1. Know your triggers. If you know what causes your stress you’ll be in a much better position to deal with it. Read the rest of this entry »
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At a recent event (8 February) held at HSBC’s headquarters, Canary Wharf, Simon Martin, head of group corporate sustainability, HSBC, praised the efforts of the bank’s employees who have stepped up to the challenge of helping to address and tackle climate change. Since 2007, HSBC has been offering its employees the chance to take up to two weeks out of their work schedule to volunteer alongside leading scientists. Overwhelmingly, 100,000 employees have taken part in various HSBC-led environmental projects in predominantly the UK, India, China, North America and Brazil.
In 2007, the HSBC Climate Partnership was formed. The four environmental partners include The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research and WWF.
Speaking exclusively to Career Sparkle, Martin says: “When it comes to sustainability issues, we have to be serious about effecting change. We all have a role to play in that.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Look, no personal life!
Social media is a virtual gold rush. And just like in those Wild West days, prospectors are competing to grab a valuable share of the spoils (if anyone can ever work out how to monetise this space).
Until the laws of the land are agreed and passed, seemingly anything goes. We’re making up the rules as we go along. Some ideas gain traction and become custom and practice. Others fail to capture the imagination or patience of the protagonists and pass quickly into history.
In five years’ time we will all undoubtedly look back at the dawn of this new age and realise that, among the experimentation, there were some great ideas and some real stinkers.
One thing that I am sure will gain consensus – is that we should all have been more careful to separate our personal and professional social media activities. Read the rest of this entry »
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The latest ‘State of HR’ report from Speechly Bircham and King’s College London makes for cautionary reading.
The survey, which had 550 respondents, including many Changeboard readers, representing a workforce of more than two million employees found that “there appears to be a degree of heads in the sand among senior HR professionals”.
Richard Martin, report author and head of employment at Speechly Bircham, adds: “Organisations need to shake off their cloaks of complacency and face up to some serious threats that are going to be impacting their businesses over the short and medium term.”
The report highlighted three key areas that represent significant risks for employers:
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The diversity of the workforce for the Olympic Games in 2012 is a “hard area to crack” for the recruitment team who “still have a long way to go,” head of recruitment Paul Modley told delegates at the Enhance Media conference yesterday.
While the LOCOG (London Organising Committee Olympic Games) team is working hard to uphold the recruitment commitments made at the 2005 Olympic bid in Singapore, there’s still more work to do. Success around the recruitment of disabled employees (the workforce now stands at 8% – smashing the target of 3-6%) does not mirror that around ethnic diversity; the target of 18-29% falls short by standing at only 14%.
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New from Changeboard this month is the HR job board’s Jobseeker Confidence Index (JCI).
The January 2011 JCI survey reveals low levels of confidence among HR jobseekers about their chances of securing an interview or job offer.
There are subtle differences in the levels of optimism among employed and unemployed jobseekers, and also in the expectations of middle and senior HR managers.
Changeboard’s Jobseeker Confidence Index will survey active and passive HR jobseekers each month to gauge their personal experience of the HR jobs market. In time this will build into an essential index showing the changing confidence levels of HR jobseekers.
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