Why Everyone Wins When You Refer Candidates to Us

By The Intersect Group

It’s a fact: great people know other great people. That’s why we love it when our current consultants, and even clients, refer candidates to us. Referrals are an absolutely terrific way to find great employees. Our current consultants know the types of candidates we seek. They also know other people who have the skills we’re …

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How to Navigate Working for a Bad Boss

By The Intersect Group

Ah, the bad boss. He or she shows up in the workplace often. If you’ve never had one, count yourself lucky. How prevalent are bad bosses? McKinsey & Company recently wrote one of its Insight reports on how an employee’s relationship with a boss or manager has an absolutely huge impact on their enjoyment and …

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The Dangers of Dating Colleagues

By The Intersect Group

In the last post in our “What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know About Getting Ahead” series, we talked about how important it is to be friendly at work, but not too friendly. And speaking of being “too friendly,” our topic here will discuss the dangers of dating colleagues. And while we’re not going to …

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Why You Should Be Friendly at Work, But Not Too Friendly

By The Intersect Group

Where do adults tend to make friends? While our parents and grandparents made friends by belonging to the same fraternal lodge, bowling league, coffee klatch, PTA, church, book club, etc., now we mostly find our friends….at work. Many of us are simply too busy today at both work and home to even have time for …

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Keeping Your Emotions in Check

By The Intersect Group

Well, here we are: this is the last post in our “New Manager Advice Series.” And, even though the topic for this post is the last one we’ll write about for the series, it is by no means the least of them: keeping your emotions in check at work is paramount if you want to …

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Asking for Feedback from Your Own Manager

By The Intersect Group

As a manager, you’re going to provide a lot of feedback to your team members. It’s part of the process of ensuring they do the best they can for your department and employer as well as helping them develop their own skills and grow in their own career.   Manager, ask for feedback thyself! Everyone …

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Providing Constructive Criticism

By The Intersect Group

No one’s perfect. We all make mistakes, or we feel really awkward when we need to learn something new. And who is the one usually telling you that you made a mistake or “here’s how to do it better”? Your manager. Many managers provide criticism and course corrections the wrong way in that they aren’t …

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Miserable at Your New Job?

By The Intersect Group

Introducing Our Newest On-the-Job Advice Series You go to school, graduate from college. You’re taught how to think critically, how to code, how to write an inbound marketing plan, how to balance a ledger, and so on. You have great skills and you’re eager to showcase them on the job. And so you start your …

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