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.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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Sales Supervising Mailing Cleaning 20

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!

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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

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 22, 2019

They also offered me tips on how to control my emotions when I interviewed with potential companies. No sales, cold-calls or email-hunting is needed for this role – though if it is needed at some point in the future, I now know a little more about what I should do.

Controlling 21

Controlling Problem-Solving Cleaning Sales 21

Ask a Manager

MARCH 18, 2018

My coworker is too aggressive about keeping our lab clean. I can see if you’ve got a huge collection, and you realize that maybe you no longer want a particular title that you picked up for free, you might offer it for sale, but I suspect this isn’t what he’s doing. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

Interviewing 20

Interviewing Salary Delegation Purchasing 20

Ask a Manager

JULY 7, 2019

My job involves booking people for interviews, helping them with their application, and answering any questions they have about the job. I felt guilty and agreed to stay, citing the aspects of the role I did like, but told myself I’d interview elsewhere anyway. I know they are not backfilling positions given the sale.

Cubicle 23

Cubicle Customer Service Interviewing Cleaning 23

Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Previously, I managed a sales team for a small up and coming company. I cleaned up my Google drive, moved all the items on my hard drive to the google drive, let my staff know where things were, turned in all my keys, reset passwords, etc. My new coworker is the person who once quit a job with me after only a few months.

Onboarding 21

Onboarding Supplies Training Finance 21

Insperity

JUNE 2, 2016

Have you ever asked a question in an interview only to get a blank stare as a response? Their words might gradually become quieter as if the interview is draining the life out of your candidates. It means your candidates are taking the interview seriously – they really want the job. Everyone gets nervous on occasion.

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Interviewing Learning Cleaning Sales 187

Work Life

JULY 28, 2024

After the death of his father, Owen Manley, a former sales executive, found himself in an unenviable situation: sitting in his boss’s office, getting put on a performance improvement program , or a PIP. “I Over the next three months, Manley ended up crushing his sales goals and exceeding expectations. Those are no-nos.

Planning 98

Planning Sales Cleaning Legal 98

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.:

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Creativity Coaching Cleaning Delegation 98

Work Life

DECEMBER 17, 2023

” BARNEY FRANK SAYS HE TRIED TO SAVE SIGNATURE BANK BY ANDY SERWER, BARRON’S Shortly after Signature Bank collapsed, Serwer scored an interview with company director Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts congressman. Serwer chalks it up to conducting the interview in person at Frank’s home in Maine.

Banking 119

Banking Food Customer Service Advertising 119

Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In 2021 their local team of over 30 real estate agents sold over 550 homes for over $160,000,000 in sales volume, making them one of the top producing real estate teams in Canada, and the #1 eXp Realty team in Alberta. . The team has sold over $1 billion in 2021 in real estate sales. Sports executive, sales leader, speaker.

Real Estate 124

Real Estate Coaching Mentoring Sales 124

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.

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