Toxic Bosses and career opportunities out-there
IS MY former chief bad-mouthing me, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Find out what to do if your exempresa is blocking your
employment opportunities and develops an action plan to change
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The recommendations have so much influence in the lives of people who turn to them to make many everyday decisions. For example, if we buy a car, choose our children’s school or hire a pay TV service, we will resort to the recommendation to make a decision family and friends.
The same happens in the workplace. References are a key to job search point, however, not all candidates are clear about the impact they can have on a selection process.
For any business is of utmost importance that candidates have people willing to speak positively of their work, this strengthens their image with the recruiter and provides confidence.
What will ask the recruiter your references?
Laboraste time in the company
It will seek to corroborate that information from your resume is correct, avoid lying about periods of work and position you occupied.
What is the working relationship they had with you
Was your immediate boss? Were colleagues? The closer the working relationship they had, the more valuable is your reference.
Outstanding qualities
The recruiter may be interested in listening to a third party evaluate your qualities.
Some important achievement
Nothing will strengthen your professional image more than a witness to your work achievements.
How do you connections were with your team
Your social skills at work are highly relevant for any organization.
Why did you leave the company?
Know the terms in which dissolved the employment relationship is relevant for recruiters, who could investigate on their own.
For any of the above questions compromise your selection process, you need to take certain steps before providing your work references. Similarly, if you think your former employer may be talking bad about you and your performance, these tips can help neutralize the situation:
1. Avoid badmouth your company
The first sign that something went wrong with your previous company is that you express it wrong or the people for whom you worked. This is known by recruiters. Be professional and ignores the negative comments, all you will achieve is to give a bad impression and make your interviewer wants to know the other side of the story.
2. Contact your references before you provide them
It will serve to corroborate the phones and data are correct, so that the recruiter more easily get the information you need. It is also a great opportunity to talk with a former employer and iron out differences.
Take control of the situation and dare to ask what is the perception that left your job, comentale you are looking for a new job and will help count on your cooperation.
3. Are you done wrong with your boss? Do not put reference
Your former boss is not the only person who can get a referral from your previous employment. If the relationship with him or her was not on the best terms there are several alternatives. If during the time you worked you had more than one head, look to your superior above for your reference. Colleagues, clients, heads of other areas, suppliers and others who knew your work can be an excellent choice.
4. Talk to the recruiter
Sometimes it can be helpful to be honest with your interviewer and talk about the circumstances that led to the bad relationship with your former boss or exempresa. Remember that the idea is not victimize, but try to explain your position in a professional and objective manner.
Unless you have committed a serious offense in your exempleo, there is no reason for your previous work experiences prevent you from getting a better job.
Much success!
4 of 10 bosses are toxic bosses
Five types of toxic bosses and how to deal with them
With a boss you spend more time with his girlfriend, who with his friends and, if the situation, which gives their children. In the short term, the influence of a head on one is greater than a parent or sibling: fortunately disappears with it. That a chief operating under normal conditions. If it does is create a prison with his indecision, torture with night guasaps or not respecting the time, his influence happens to be huge to be harmful. However, there are ways to cope if not, at least minimize its impact, depending on foot to limp his superior. Here are the most typical aggravating and professional advice to abide.
1. Micromanager
No definitive confirmation enough for him. Ten minutes after leaving his office with clear guidelines on how to proceed, you will have an email in your inbox that you remember them and go over point by point what you have just discuss and ask you how you are running your guidelines, of how you are heading emails to the order in which you are addressing the team. If your phone number has fallen into their hands, a WhatsApp at 11 pm to reconfirm and check (because you will love that word) you if the meeting of the 10 in the morning is completely closed will be as normal in the world . And if for every mail and every one euro whatsup he removed his salary, equal to thought what to do without that peak before delegating. Your opinion, in short, is to him what a rainbow is for a blind man is interesting to be there but it will not affect in the least.
Tip: A consummate micromanager it begins to control him with an enormous amount of patience. It must be earned gradually, over time, in response to all their demands. Accurately respond to each of their fears without beating around the bush: he an “OK” after each question serves. Try to make their own medicine, share with him as often as necessary to see the day your detailed questions (although not have). And maybe so, after much repetition inoperative understand that you are copying the example of your superior and infer that obviously is not effective.
2. The permanent innovative
It has an amazing ability to gestate a day an almost unlimited number of new ideas. The vast majority of them seem cool and try to implement them. And there you, the employee, who is responsible to perform them: when you’re halfway there, and there will be another new idea that will leave the latter postponed and therefore will have been a failure of proposal. Nobody will prevent you bother again and again, every time you see illuminated by a sublime idea. Every time your phone rings and extension comes from your office, you can start to sweat.
Tip: There is only one way to deal with a creative series: keep up. Adopt its modus operandi and have controlled all sources where it inspires even before you’ve done it. Nicole Williams, in charge for the network paths LinkedIn America, once described adamantly talking to Bussines Insider: “This kind of bosses always have a new idea, and expect the same from the rest of the team. If your boss asks you if you’ve seen the last article in the Wall Street Journal, you have to know. ”
3. Anyone who has read all the books on leadership
He knows everything, because he has read. Their titles in the best international study centers are ahead even of him. It has an unlimited list of cliches-of others for every situation. Concrete solutions, yes, you have to leave. Is read from cover to cover books for executives as if Aristotle lead the General Motors of Tom Morris and again and again phrases like “people first project after” repeated, “at its deepest level, collaboration is not only one of many possible ways that lead to excellence, but also an inevitable component of all forms of excellence “or” the truth has become one of the main values of any organization to defend their own health. ” After repeat it for the umpteenth time, will not hesitate to encourage you to include in your report a slight modification of truth to please the customer.
Tip: The problem you face in this type of boss is having carry you out in concrete terms the meaning of each of these sentences. For him talk is enough: you just think the situation from different perspectives and reach a friendly agreement. He appreciated that all that you listen carefully acquired wisdom, and then deduzcas what steps to take to achieve good results.
5. The indecisive
After three hours of meeting, you return to your position convinced he carried to fruition with your boss that project work that had become entrenched. You get to work hoping to let you finish it until the end, but half an hour later you again cites in his office. Everything has changed. An indecisive boss makes you work for three or four. To doubt, to doubt your loyalty and will not be at all strange that due to its inability to make a firm decision with all the consequences you do without valuable part of your personal life. Most likely not have wood leader, not be able to make decisions as a boss should do, but still, it’s your boss.
Tip: An indecisive boss lets you take the figure of substitute. In your hand enough skill to assist in anything that requires both know and come on to change course for the rest of people involved in decisions are also alert remains. Offer him different options to their hesitations, you see you are with him and are concerned about the impasse in which time and again ends.