Work Life

MAY 12, 2024

To better understand exactly how this rising generation is using AI, I interviewed leaders who manage Gen Z workers as well as Gen Z workers. Munguia figures that while older generations have years of experience using specific technologies and software at work, Gen Z workers have a clean slate ahead of them.

Influencing 98

Influencing Mentoring Creativity Technology 98

Work Life

JULY 31, 2024

I answered phones, set up client appointments, went on sales calls, and conducted site visits, often cleaning up alongside my crews, which was as much about supporting my team as it was about ensuring the best outcomes for the customer.

Customer Service 94

Customer Service Cleaning Construction Sales 94

Success

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This level of flexibility means that on Friday mornings, I go garage-saling with my mom and kids for retro purses and new toys. I look around at the hot mess of a house and try to realize that I just happen to work here, and I don’t have to clean and work at the same time. Have a toxic boss? Not with freelancing. Morning 9 a.m.:

Creativity 98

Creativity Coaching Cleaning Delegation 98

Success

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The damage was devastating,” says Linda Menshon, the area director of sales and marketing for LaPlaya, who recalls arriving at the property after the storm to see mattresses from the hotel scattered along the road. Maintain transparency At the time of my interview with Menshon in June, minor repairs were still taking place at LaPlaya.

Problem-Solving 105

Problem-Solving Advertising Leadership Communication 105

Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Flynn told me she and her co-founders felt passionate about helping people in the developing world get access to clean drinking water, something most of us take for granted. A successful sales executive, Webber found herself increasingly dissatisfied with her work in the tech industry despite its secure salary and lucrative annual bonus.

Security 135

Security Cleaning Learning Sales 135

Go Burrows

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Just make sure that that area is always cleaned. And I had no the night before that it was cleaned because I had personally cleaned it myself. Didn’t you just clean this or I was the last one here last night. I cleaned it up. And then I had to think to myself, wait a second. So I kind of let it go.

Cleaning 96

Cleaning Coaching Mentoring Food 96

Success

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Even better, a portion of sales goes toward building a girls’ STEAM school in Senegal to empower the next generation. Clean, Korean beauty brand Aloisia Beauty helps turn your bathroom into a home spa. Plus, they will surely dazzle at your next job interview. MOLECULE Sheet Sets. Sheet masks. Aloisia Beauty. Greer Chicago.

Purchasing 105

Purchasing Small Business Food Supplies 105

Success

MARCH 20, 2022

Paying for a cleaning service, grocery delivery service and other services that save you time means you have more time and energy to focus on what matters most to you,” Palmer says. If your résumé needs work or your interview skills are rusty, hire a professional to work with you—don’t practice on prospective employers.”

Food 105

Food Problem-Solving Coaching Consulting 105

Success

JULY 5, 2021

Eighteen minutes and 17 seconds into DJ Khaled’s Zoom interview with SUCCESS , his voice was briefly drowned out by what sounded like the unmistakable roar of a lion. When everybody respects the code and moves with a clean heart, everybody thrives,” he wrote in The Keys. I’d be lying if I told you it didn’t startle me.

Work Ethic 132

Work Ethic Logistics Coaching Advertising 132

Go Burrows

JULY 17, 2022

” And then I, I applied to be a PA, which was a productions… production assistant, and I was, you know, gonna… I was hoping to get that job and then, uh, they saw my resume and pulled it out of the pile of PA applicants so that I could apply to… so I can interview to be Conan’s assistant. Jeremy ( 07:26 ): Hmm.

Interviewing 132

Interviewing Catering Coaching Training 132

Fellow

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to our interview with Steven Rogelberg 2 Record the date, time, and names of the participants Before you actually start writing your meeting minutes, note the date and time of the meeting. 8 Share the meeting minutes promptly After the meeting ends, start by cleaning up your meeting minutes to make them as clear as possible.

Government 98

Government Reporting Cleaning Planning 98

Ruby

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Check out Jehan’s first interview here. Read the Interview Jill McKenna: Hello everyone. I’m thinking of small business owners who are so used to cleaning the bathrooms, doing absolutely everything, and they hit that five, six-year point where they’re established and they forget that they can stop doing that. Missed Part 1?

Delegation 52

Delegation Banking Sales Training 52

Work Life

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When the chairman of Royal Caribbean, whom I asked three times before I got my “yes” for the CEO role at one of our brands, said in an interview, “I wanted to see her fail. It had been going great; onboard revenue was a continuation of and easy transition from my sales and marketing career.

Onboarding 59

Onboarding Teamwork Purchasing Cleaning 59

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 23, 2019

My interviewer left me alone to run the office while she ran errands. I had an interview recently for a receptionist-type position at a chiropractor’s office. The interviewer let me know earlier in the day that it would be a working interview, which I had no experience with, but it sounded kind of fun so I was down for it.

Interviewing 27

Interviewing Sales Office Operations Cleaning 27

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The company refused to hire cleaning staff and required staff to do it but also complained about overtime, it was pretty crazy. This experience with June led me to ask very explicit questions about training and communication during the interview, and I also asked my boss to set up a standing bi-weekly check-in meeting with me.

Sales 37

Sales Technology Cleaning Interviewing 37

Ask a Manager

JULY 26, 2022

John was of course in full sales mode, said he enjoyed working with me before, gave me his new pitch, etc. I certainly wasn’t expecting a person I barely remembered to show up at my new workplace unannounced for a cold sales call. Do other companies actually prefer these in-person, unannounced sales visits?

Training 39

Training Sales Delegation Interviewing 39

Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

You will always be fighting this battle and cleaning up the damage they cause. My company wants to do group interviews. The company I work for wants to start interviewing people in a cattle call format in order to interview people in groups rather than individually. The only way to solve this for yourself is by leaving.

Interviewing 24

Interviewing Problem-Solving Salary Payroll 24

Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2018

But I am about to graduate grad school and started to read your awesome blog and now realize I am so lost on some of the finer details when it comes to necessary grooming for an office job or interview. Or fingernails — aside from being clean, what are the requirements? Specifically, I don’t do any makeup. I mean none.

Real Estate 29

Real Estate Cleaning Sales Interviewing 29

Ask a Manager

JULY 20, 2015

In the process of cleaning up a supervisor’s old computer, our IT department found nude photos of one of his employees. Sales rep intentionally cc’d a client on an email they shouldn’t have been on. This is not unusual with this client – every project we’ve done with them has involved an extra long sales cycle.

Sales 34

Sales Computer Correspondence Cleaning 34

Ask a Manager

JUNE 28, 2020

I could chalk it up to youth or entitlement, but in retrospect, it seems likely he thought I was sales spam, even though I explained who I was. Yeah, he almost definitely thought it was a sales call. It sounds like a sales call! Her office is messy and mine is clean, so my office has a lot more space.

Sales 34

Sales Interviewing Supplies Cleaning 34

Ask a Manager

MAY 17, 2018

Some other person in sales who hands out coffee, sugar, and milk (but needs a receipt for everything). That proposal has gone through the improvements committee (yes, that’s a thing), the sales people, the union, the CEO and back to the improvements committee. how do people take phone interviews during the work day?

Logistics 41

Logistics Sales Cleaning Computer 41

Ask a Manager

APRIL 10, 2015

I’ve done it before with previous job changes but I’m just not comfortable this time around, even though my background will run squeeky clean. Once (if) he accepts, consider asking for an informational interview. b) Ask directly for an informational interview by emailing the hiring team. Would that be too forward?

Consulting 34

Consulting Interviewing Sales Mailing 34

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The VP of Sales locked eyes with the CEO and they began to fully run toward each other, each clearly assuming the other would catch him. The next day we got an email from the CEO with the subject, “Each Year Gets More Epic” and a picture of him and the VP of Sales posing together at the ER with stitches on the side of their heads.

Food 51

Food Sales Catering Real Estate 51

Ask a Manager

JULY 14, 2020

Interviewers who ask about salary history when it’s illegal. I live in a state where it’s been illegal for hiring managers to inquire about your current salary for a while, but I’m sorry to say that hasn’t stopped it from happening in literally every interview I’ve had since that law went into effect in 2017.

Payroll 32

Payroll Banking Salary Interviewing 32

Ruby

JULY 15, 2020

Read the Interview Katie Hurst: Hi. All those things that people touch, the cleaning procedures though always were very meticulous, are even more so. Robin DeTrude: Well, this has caused me to rethink the value of product sales, gift certificate sales. The panel discusses new technologies, strategies, setbacks, and wins.

Retail 52

Retail Promotion Small Business Sales 52

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 4, 2020

Up until six years ago I was waiting tables, cleaning, and doing whatever else paid the bills. If you’re not likely to be truly happy with their work in that role either, it’s better to just make a clean break now. I work in academia and my team frequently collaborates with folks from all over the world.

Cleaning 38

Cleaning Consulting Promotion Sales 38

Ask a Manager

MARCH 22, 2022

Another employee called housekeeping to clean up his literal sh*t. million in sales for the year. He will burp audibly in public, and not say excuse me. He had explosive diarrhea in the employee bathroom and left poo all over the seat. He suffers from depression and gets irrationally angry for small reasons. Give that some thought.

Retail 35

Retail Cleaning Sales Interviewing 35

Ask a Manager

MARCH 21, 2021

For a couple of years now, we’ve had a problem with staff not cleaning up their messes in our staff bathrooms (guys not wiping down the seats, pee on the floor, toilet paper left around, etc). I’ve interviewed at a couple of places, but it doesn’t look like those are going to work out. Keep interviewing, as actively as possible.

Cleaning 27

Cleaning Influencing Interviewing Training 27

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 19, 2021

“I worked with a horrid VP of Sales – arrogant, obnoxious, just a nightmare. I checked with Other Direct Report, who said my appearance was fine — I was neat and professional and clean. The call in rule was changed to just needing to say you were sick, no details necessary. I became department legend.”

Training 64

Training Reporting Cleaning Sales 64

Ruby

JULY 21, 2021

Developing a "business voice" If you engage in public speaking events, interviews, videos, or podcasts, your voice quality is especially important to the success of your marketing, sales, and awareness efforts. Talk a walk, clean your bathroom, or do a crossword puzzle.) I have personal experience here.

Equipment 52

Equipment Communication Coaching Training 52

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Hitting up references with a sales pitch (#4 at the link). A week or so after I e-mailed you, an operations manager from head office came to our branch to do some sales training with us because of the new emphasis on sales over recruiting. It felt like we were preying on people who trusted us to help them find employment.

Sales 20

Sales Supervising Mailing Cleaning 20

Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Was this an interview faux pas. At the end of a series of interviews, to show how excited and interested in the job and company, I said if I was offered the job I’d definitely accept the offer. And my first job not involving sales). I had a phone interview with a company I’d be really excited to work for.

Interviewing 38

Interviewing Salary Problem-Solving Sales 38

Ask a Manager

MAY 4, 2020

It’s one thing to even out blotchiness, remove shine, or clean up fly-aways — but adding obvious makeup without the explicit okay of the people being photoshopped is bizarre and not okay. There’s no guarantee I’ll get an interview anyway, but is this red-flaggy enough for me to withdraw if asked for an interview?

Retail 30

Retail Interviewing Advertising Finance 30

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 8, 2017

I’m employed in a cleaning-based role at a local school. Recently I had an interview for a HR manager position with a small organization of approximately 100 employees. The interviewer is a COO and only has a desk even though he deals with confidential financial information. It’s five answers to five questions.

Payroll 26

Payroll Legal Sales Salary 26

Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Information interview requests from fellow alumni. I work part-time in the field and assist sales reps doing customer visits, trainings, and sales presentations. I’m doing phone or in-person interviews almost every weekday which is good and promising, but nothing has stuck. She is mistaken. Don’t do it!

Networking 23

Networking Travel Arrangements Interviewing Pharmaceutical 23

Ask a Manager

JUNE 13, 2017

It’s a single stall restroom, and since we have relatively clean coworkers and a great custodian, it’s usually quite clean. But this is sort of like the long-running battle to keep office kitchens clean; it’s just really hard to get everyone to agree on one standard and then enforce that standard.

Cleaning 20

Cleaning Pharmaceutical Consulting Interviewing 20

Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Go out to lunch with her or something and say, “Mom, it’s really important to me to make a clean break from Old Company and be able to focus on my new job. In my exit interview, my supervisor (an incredibly kind, high EQ person) asked what was going on. I work in bridal sales, which is a weird world of its own.

Sales 23

Sales Interviewing Mailing Training 23