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Finding the Best Fit Candidate: Is Motivational Fit Actually Important?
There are two types of leadership beliefs - type X and type Y. A type X leader holds a belief that all individuals are inherently not...
Polly Chan
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Finding the Best Fit Candidate - Should Personality Fit be Evaluated by Science or Intuition
One of the key reasons why we believe recruiting is almost impossible to be 100% automated is the element of candidate’s personality fit...
Polly Chan
Sep 17, 20203 min read
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Finding the Best Fit Candidate: The Deeper Meaning of Technical Fit
What is the first thing people do or ask when needing to do a hire? Bingo! We start with a job description (JD). I’m sure most of us as...
Polly Chan
Sep 9, 20202 min read
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Finding Your Best Fit Job: The Often Underestimated Cultural Fit
One month into your new role, you know your skills, personality, and motivation all fit perfectly, but something’s off - you feel like...
Polly Chan
Aug 19, 20203 min read
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Finding Your Best Fit Job: The True Meaning of a Personality Fit
When thinking about personality fit in a career context, you might just associate it with how well the individual gets along with the...
Polly Chan
Aug 12, 20202 min read
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Finding Your Best Fit Job: Identifying Motivational Fit
Think back on your career journey - what do you think got you to where you are today? In my 20 years of recruiting experience, both...
Polly Chan
Aug 5, 20202 min read
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Finding Your Best Fit: Any Job vs Best Fit Job
Do you know how much of our life is spent in your job? Research shows that the average person will spend around 90,000 hours (~40 years)...
Polly Chan
Jul 29, 20202 min read
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Overcoming a Layoff: Getting Back in the Game
5 days after Jenny’s layoff, we had our followup call. “Thank you for the initial call. I felt better now and would like to kick-start my...
Polly Chan
Jul 21, 20202 min read
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Overcoming a Layoff: Communicating with Your Loved Ones
“I don’t want to go home, what am I going to tell my family?” 1.5 hours into my chat with Jenny, after we talked through the shock, the...
Polly Chan
Jul 15, 20202 min read
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Overcoming a Layoff: Getting Over the Emotional Impact
“Why dread over emotions? What's done is done. I’d rather get productive and start job searching,” says Jenny, my coaching client who...
Polly Chan
Jul 9, 20202 min read
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Overcoming a Layoff: Head Start your Transition
“I got laid off, what should I do?” Jenny, my coaching client called me one day crying. She just got the news from her manager that due...
Polly Chan
Jul 1, 20202 min read
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Effective Business Etiquette & a Professional Image
What is effective business Etiquette? WHY it matters to you? When you think of business etiquette, what comes to your mind in the first 5 se
Polly Chan
Jun 2, 20201 min read
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