Those behaviors "are just a distraction, " says Rosemary Haefner, CareerBauilder's vice president of human resources.
Firms are also marketing themselves differently to job candidates, says Rosemary Haefner of CareerBuilder, a popular job-search website.
Most young professionals in a new job take the back seat the first few days, but Haefner suggests jumping right in.
Another item on the list of detrimental mistakes that stuck out for Haefner is talking negatively about current or previous employers.
Self-made European billionaires include a pair Germans, retail magnate Hugo Mann and supermarket-chain founder Eugen Viehof, plus Swiss data-processing executive Walter Haefner.
Haefner has heard stories of candidates knocking over cups of coffee, glasses of water and stacks of paper with wild, windmill-like hand gestures.
Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources at the jobs site CareerBuilder.com, says she suggests that candidates use the job posting to their advantage.
The cause can be overconfidence as well as nervousness, Haefner says.
Experienced workers have intellectual capital and great mentoring capabilities, Haefner says.
Starting out as an amateur horse rider, the late Haefner won the Fegentry Champion Amateur Championship in 1963 and began breeding his own horses at Moyglare.
Haefner recommends asking three or four people to edit it, as sometimes you need an objective eye to notice that some content may be sloppy, inappropriate or irrelevant.
Haefner suggests being honest and timely when calling in sick.
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Haefner says that the decision to do so depends on the size and culture of the company and the terms on which you and your colleague have parted ways.
According to filings, daughter, Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner, 56, and son, Martin Haefner, 59, each own 50% of Careal Holding AG, a Swiss corporation that holds the Computer Associates shares.
To avoid such screw-ups, Haefner suggests researching and practicing.
"While some employers tend to be more lenient with worker punctuality, 30 percent say they have terminated an employee for being late, " said Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder.com.
Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources for CareerBuilder, said at the time of the survey, more than 40% of unemployed job seekers had been out of work for six months or longer.
"If an employee is at the beach but is preoccupied with work and reaching for the phone, it defeats the whole purpose of getting away, " says Rosemary Haefner, of human resources firm CareerBuilder.com, who conducted the poll.
Haefner says it can take awhile to get to know the company itself, but it is important to do research, look back at old projects, and find out what has worked for the company or your team in the past.
Workers can earn their current salary, even a low-level salary, and still consider themselves successful because they put more weight on other things, like personal and professional accomplishments, contributing to something meaningful, experiences that are enriching both professionally and personally, and good work-life balance, Haefner says.
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