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Foiling Job Seeker Ploys

My previous article described unethical ploys employers use on job seekers. 

The focus of my PsychologyToday.com article today is the flipside: unethical ploys that job seekers use to fool employers.

How Job Seekers Can Foil Employer Ploys

I sit on both sides of the table, so I too often see dubious and sometimes outright dishonest tactics from both the employer and the job seeker.

In the spirit of encouraging the best people to get hired by the most worthy employers, here are tactics I’ve often observed and how to preempt or counter them. Today’s Psychology Today article describes employer ploys and how to foil them. 

Tomorrow, I plan to post an article describing job-seeker ploys and how employers can foil them.

Becoming More Productive

The older I get, the more I believe that the current meme, "We're not human doings; we're human beings" is wrong. I believe the productivity is all. I make the case and describe how I try to live that in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

You're Rejected and Don't Know Why

You email a request. Silence.

You ask someone out. The response? An unhelpful, “I don’t think we’re a good fit.”

You’re fired or your job application is rejected. You ask why and all you get is a vague answer like, “We decided to go in a different direction.”

And some people go through life largely rejected and rarely get any useful feedback as to why.

What to do?

You have no choice but to self-assess, and that may be for the best.

My PsychologyToday.com article today asks you some questions to help with that self-assessment.

My Most Cited Tips; On long-windedness, immaturity, and resilience

As mentioned in my previous post, I'm a felonious contributor to readers' information overload. So, if only as penance, yesterday, I described my few favorite career tips. 

Today, my PsychologyToday.com article offers are what I believe are my three most cited tips.

My Favorite Career Tips

I’m guilty of contributing to information overload: 1,471 posts on PsychologyToday.com alone. So, if only as penance, I thought I’d take the time to describe, for each major career-related topic, what I believe is the single most potent but not obvious tip. That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Parents and Substance Abuse

Many teens feel impervious. For example, they may feel they can smoke, vape, and even drive under the influence, and feel like it’s unlikely to hurt them

Risk-taking seems hard-wired, perhaps especially among boys, but to the extent that undue risk-taking can be mitigated, my PsychologyToday.com article today offers some possible approaches.

The Case for Socialism and for Capitalism

Previous presidential elections have been subject to the criticism that both parties are pretty much the same.

That's unlikely to be true in the 2020 election. It appears that it will be an election between a heavily socialist person (I’m predicting Warren) and a heavily capitalist person (likely Trump.)

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I lay out what I believe are best arguments for socialism and for capitalism.

Careers for People Who are Bad at Generating Good Ideas

Rather than have a career that mainly requires coming up with ideas, some people would rather implement others.’ My Psychology Today article today offers careers for such people.

Is Contribution All?

It’s popular to extol the “life” part of “work-life balance” and its various manifestations such as exhortations to meditate. The masses have glommed onto such simplisms as “You’re a human being, not a human doing”

Yet, across the 5,600 career and personal advising clients I’ve had over the past 30 years, many if not most of the people who are highly satisfied with their life have a life that's "out of balance.” They work long hours and value doing that.

I make the case for such a life in my PsychologyToday.com article today.