Water Cooler Wisdom

5 Burning Questions About Tech Etiquette

Real Simple Magazine has just featured one user manual that’s worth reading – how to be plugged in without being impolite. Hap tip to Yahoo! Shine for the highlights, which contain advice from some of the business in the tech-etiquette business: 1. You’re Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism, Technology

7 Tips for Better Presentations

If you talk to me about the speaking arm of my career for more than five minutes, you’ll get an earful about my Powerpoint quandary. What’s the most impactful way to deliver a speech? Should I use slides or not? If I don’t, should I use talking points? Read More...

Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Creativity & Innovation, Handy Resources, Personal Marketing, Technology

Recruitment Spotlight: Can Candidates Find Your Jobs?

In the coming months, I’m going to be focusing some of Water Cooler Wisdom’s content around employee recruitment and retention techniques. Let’s start with the obvious: the e-advertisements that you, as a manager or HR rep, might be perennially posting Read More...

Posted Friday, January 25, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Employment Trends, HR Issues, Job Hunting, Technology

Review: Jason Alba's I'm On Linked In - Now What???

I’m very pleased to share this review of my friend and colleague Jason Alba’s new book, I’m on Linked In – Now What??? I have known Jason for over a year, and I can say with all seriousness that he is one of the best networkers I know. He knows everyone, Read More...

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Job Hunting, Networking, Personal Marketing, Technology

Ingenuity Pays Off When Recruiting Millennials

Thanks to Steven Rothberg at CollegeRecruiter.com for sharing news of the innovative, first-ever Deloitte & Touche Film Festival. The festival invited employees in the accounting and consulting firm’s US operations to make short videos that answered Read More...

Posted Monday, October 01, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Current Affairs, Employment Trends, Technology, Work

Promoting Work/Life Balance

Now that I’m a manager, I’ve found that it’s partly up to me to ensure that my reports have good work/life balance. I’ve seen other supervisors ignore this issue, expecting that work should be the only thing that matters to employees, and the department Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Life Balance, Management, Productivity, Technology, Work

Four Tips for Linking Up With LinkedIn

I get a lot of e-mails asking me how people should use LinkedIn for business networking. And the truth is, I’m not entirely sure myself, which is why I’m looking forward to my friend Jason Alba’s book on the topic. This week, though, I came across a great Read More...

Posted Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Business, Job Hunting, Networking, Technology

E-mail: Your Best Friend or Worst Enemy

I adore e-mail and couldn't live without it, but at least once a week I hear a terrible story about a generally good person and employee who turned the weapon of Microsoft Outlook on himself - and fired. Just the other day, an HR manager told me about Read More...

Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments

Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, Office Politics, People Skills, Professionalism, Technology

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