Improve your chances on getting hired on the Spot with these
Interview-Appropriate Beauty Tips!

 Warren Myers – CMP Recruitment Consultant likes Maria Del Russo article on Beauty Tips

If you're pounding the pavement in search of a new job, it's only a matter of time before you're called in for an interview. And while you may not even realize it, your beauty look has a lot to do with whether or not you land your dream position. It's all about first impressions!
In an interview, you should convey your competence, neatness, and attention to detail — which all can be communicated through your appearance. More importantly, when you feel confident about your looks, you'll be able to focus on (and triumph at!) presenting your qualifications. Here are some beauty tips that will help you nail the job.

Hair: Keep It Simple
Wash and dry your hair the night before the interview, so you don't run the risk of being late due to styling issues the day of. And this is NOT the moment to rely on dry shampoo.
If your hair is long, consider pulling it back in a ponytail. This way, you won't be tempted to twirl it around your finger out of nerves.
Even if you're not a regular user of hair spray, use a light-spay to keep flyaways at bay.
Don't wear a hat as part of your ensemble. You don't want to run the risk of hat head.
Skip the flashy hair accessories.
Keep your hair out of your face at all costs. Long bangs falling into your eyes are sexy for a date, but they won't project a professional image. If you need to get them out of your face, using a simple barrette or bobby pin is a fine solution.

Makeup: Less Is More
Give yourself extra time. If you take five minutes to get ready in the morning, allow yourself at least 15.
If you don't need much coverage, use a tinted moisturizer or BB cream to even out your skin tone, but be sure to cover any blemishes or redness with concealer.
The night before your interview, exfoliate chapped lips by exfoliating them with a warm, wet washcloth or a DIY sugar scrub follow with a generous coating of lip balm. Before the interview, use a sheer lipstick to give lips a hint of colour. 
Wear lipstick, not lip gloss. Gloss is too shiny and youthful for a professional setting.
Use eye shadows in neutral and natural shades. A little bit of shimmer is fine, but stay away from adding a lot of shine (especially glitter!) to your eyelids.
Mascara and a bit of eyeliner are really all you need. If you're going for liquid liner, be sure that you've mastered this skill and you restrict yourself to a light application.
Well-groomed brows show that you pay attention to details. Tweeze any stray hairs and use brow gel (or hair spray!) to keep your arches in place.
Applying a little bit of blush makes everyone look healthier. Use this rather than bronzer for a natural-looking, healthy glow.
While contouring and highlighting are great for a night out, you should skip this step for an interview.

Fragrance: One Easy-to-Remember Guideline
Don't wear any. You don't want your interviewer put off by a scent he or she doesn't find appealing or worse, is allergic to!

Nails: A Few Tips
Unless you have naturally clean, even, hangnail-free nails, get a manicure.
It doesn't matter whether your nails are long or short, but they should be neatly filed.
A neutral nail is foolproof, so look for barely there beige and pink polishes.
Skip the French manicure; some people think they're classy, but others think they're corny, so just go with a single color.

Finally, just smile!
All of the preening and grooming doesn't mean a thing if your not excited to be there.

Good Luck on that next interview

 
8 ways to get your Rock Stars to work effectively in a Team
 
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One of the goals every single company or business strives towards is to put together an all-star team, gathering all of the best professionals from several disciplines, and having them achieve amazing things. However, while that approach has many merits, it’s not exactly perfect. Super star employees which are the best at what they do often have a hard time collaborating with one another.
Sooner or later, big egos come into play, and it boils down to rather ego things, such as who has a larger commission due, bigger office, or better parking space. Not only does that impede progress when working on team projects, it can often stop them dead in their tracks, having never gotten off the ground. Of course, the solution would then be to assemble a team that works well together, but sometimes that’s not an option.
For instance, most start-up companies don’t have a lot of money they can invest into developing their innovative business ideas, so they rely on gathering the best talent in the industry to make up for their lack of funding.
Fortunately, establishing a few ground rules can go a long way toward creating a successful team.

1. Establish Clear Lines of Communication
A misunderstanding can turn into disaster really easy if you have a team of super star employees, which means you need to make communication your first priority.
Make sure they are allowed to communicate in several different ways, whether it’s through digital channels, such as instant messengers, emails, bulletin boards, or through holding team meetings where each team member has to be present.
Also, should a problem arise, they should know who to contact, so that it gets dealt with as soon as possible.

2. Empathy Is Essential
Making sure that team members understand one another is one of the building blocks that go into making a great team.
In the workplace, empathy can show a deep respect for co-workers and show that you care, as opposed to just going by rules and regulations. An empathic leadership style can make everyone feel like a team and increase productivity, morale and loyalty. Empathy is a powerful tool in the leadership belt of a well-liked and respected executive.

3. Assign a Role to Each Team Member
Defining a strict role for each of the team members is a must. Why? Because, they will know what their responsibilities are, and they will be held accountable for their own actions.
In addition to that, having each member stick to their own role means they won’t get in each other’s way, professionally speaking, which means fewer conflicts and better workplace atmosphere. Even though they are supposed be a team, everybody should have their own assignment.

4. Establish a Creative Working Environment
Providing a creative environment for your super star employees will enable ideas to flow back and forth, but you also need to make sure that everyone’s voice is heard. This means treating each member with respect and discussing their ideas as a group, instead of dismissing them right from the very start.
That way, they will feel respected and know their ideas and contributions are being valued, which will provide them with the necessary confidence to present other ideas they might have.

5. Constant Collaboration and Cooperation in the Workplace
We’ve previously pointed out that each team member needs to have their own clearly-defined role, along with all the perks and responsibilities that go with it. But, those roles need to be put into context, seeing as each should be designed to contribute toward a common goal.
Also, team members should be encouraged to collaborate on a certain problem together, as opposed to approaching it individually. They will come up with a solution faster and more organically, and they will develop professional camaraderie in the process.

6. Provide Them with a Challenge
If you assign your team a challenging task, they will be required to pool their individual talents together and grow as a team in the process in order to overcome the obstacle you have provided them with.
It should be something that none of them can solve on their own, something that will push each and every one of them out their comfort zones, so that they start to rely on each other.
Once they have solved the problem, the sense of accomplishment and the fact that they’ve found success by working as a team will bring them closer together.

7. Make Sure They Feel Useful and Valuable
All of the previous reasons combined should result in team members which feel like they are respected and valued as professionals and human beings, both by their peers, and their employer.
If they feel like their skills and knowledge are essential to the company, they will be more motivated, and will identify the success of the company as their own.

8. Reward Success and Turn Each Mistake into a Learning Experience
If your team of super star employees are successful in completing a challenging project, that is definitely a reason for celebration. They have deserved their praise, so let them have it. Let them know how much you appreciate their efforts. But, make sure that they are aware of their mistakes, so that they can learn from them and never repeat them again, if possible.
Managing a team of strong individualists, and making sure that their collaboration is something more than a simple sum of its parts is definitely a challenge, but it’s not impossible. All you have to do is provide your employees with the right conditions and a healthy environment. All of the other pieces will fall into place accordingly after that.