Polly Chan
A Jobseeker’s Guide: Identifying Your Best Fit Job
A star always chooses a stage that showcases his/her best. Introduction: Do you know how much of our life is spent in our job? Research...
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Polly Chan
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Finding the Best Fit Candidate: Is Motivational Fit Actually Important?
There are two types of leadership beliefs - type X and type Y. A type X leader holds a belief that all individuals are inherently not...
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Polly Chan
- Sep 17, 2020
- 3 min
Finding the Best Fit Candidate - Should Personality Fit be Evaluated by Science or Intuition
One of the key reasons why we believe recruiting is almost impossible to be 100% automated is the element of candidate’s personality fit...
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Polly Chan
- Sep 9, 2020
- 2 min
Finding the Best Fit Candidate: The Deeper Meaning of Technical Fit
What is the first thing people do or ask when needing to do a hire? Bingo! We start with a job description (JD). I’m sure most of us as...
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Polly Chan
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Finding the Best Fit Candidate: The Ultimate Hiring Challenge
When asking experienced HRs and Recruiters, “what are your biggest hiring challenges?” Three answers stood out. 1. I can’t find the...
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Polly Chan
- Aug 26, 2020
- 7 min
An HR Guide: Revitalize your Layoff Plan in the New Normal
Background The air is stiff and you can almost hear the tense, deep breathing of folks in the room. All the senior leaders are here,...
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Polly Chan
- Aug 19, 2020
- 3 min
Finding Your Best Fit Job: The Often Underestimated Cultural Fit
One month into your new role, you know your skills, personality, and motivation all fit perfectly, but something’s off - you feel like...
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Polly Chan
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Finding Your Best Fit Job: The True Meaning of a Personality Fit
When thinking about personality fit in a career context, you might just associate it with how well the individual gets along with the...
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Polly Chan
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
Finding Your Best Fit Job: Identifying Motivational Fit
Think back on your career journey - what do you think got you to where you are today? In my 20 years of recruiting experience, both...
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Polly Chan
- Jul 29, 2020
- 2 min
Finding Your Best Fit: Any Job vs Best Fit Job
Do you know how much of our life is spent in your job? Research shows that the average person will spend around 90,000 hours (~40 years)...
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Polly Chan
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
Overcoming a Layoff: Getting Back in the Game
5 days after Jenny’s layoff, we had our followup call. “Thank you for the initial call. I felt better now and would like to kick-start my...
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Polly Chan
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
Overcoming a Layoff: Communicating with Your Loved Ones
“I don’t want to go home, what am I going to tell my family?” 1.5 hours into my chat with Jenny, after we talked through the shock, the...
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Polly Chan
- Jul 9, 2020
- 2 min
Overcoming a Layoff: Getting Over the Emotional Impact
“Why dread over emotions? What's done is done. I’d rather get productive and start job searching,” says Jenny, my coaching client who...
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Polly Chan
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Overcoming a Layoff: Head Start your Transition
“I got laid off, what should I do?” Jenny, my coaching client called me one day crying. She just got the news from her manager that due...
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Polly Chan
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
Effective Business Etiquette & a Professional Image
What is effective business Etiquette? WHY it matters to you? When you think of business etiquette, what comes to your mind in the first 5 se
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Polly Chan
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Passion - Can I see it?
What is the #1 question that a successful founder/hiring manager wants to know from the candidates?
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Polly Chan
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Communicate for Success
When was the last time you grasped all the attention at a work meeting? Or did you experience the opposite at work?
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Polly Chan
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Get Connected in 5 Minutes
How often do you speak to a new colleague, a new client or a new service provider? How much time do you need to build the connection with th
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