Rich Career, Poor Career A rich career is one that has a rich return on investment. What is career ROI? It is more than a paycheck and healthcare benefits. Your career ROI is the entire package of what you receive in return for the investment of your
energy, time, and talent in a career and an organization...
Bringing Our Family to Work All of us bring our personal and family behaviors to work. How we act and communicate at home is mimicked in the workplace. It causes many of the same conflicts we have at home. The best way to improve both professional and personal behaviors is through good communication.
Job Search 101 Finding work in the heart of summer is difficult, to say the least. Don't get discourage, seek a summer job and wait for the fall. Remember, timing is everything...
Top Ten Reasons to Start A Catering Business You could well be the next Paula Deen, of the Food Network's Paula's Home Cooking. She parlayed her southern delights into a catering business, and ultimately opened her own restaurant. Remember, nothing beats a failure, but a try.
How To Get That Promotion If you're looking for that promotion or pay rise then you'll need
to be noticed by your employer, so here's a few tips to stand out
from the crowd:
Writing Resumes That Attract Your Perfect Job Your resume is often your first impression. Without the right information, it is the only impression. It has to speak for you and about you if you want to attract what you really want. This excerpt from the powerhouse book, "Breakthrough, The Hate My Job, Need A Life, Got Laid Off, Can't Get No Satisfaction Solution", will demonstrate how to create a strong professional brand that will catapult you to success.
Everyday Is Saturday: Help for the Suddenly Unemployed I recently was "unhired" by my former employer. Unhired is a softer term than "fired" but it means the same. With no warning and an immediate departure, I found myself at home enjoying the provisions of a severance package but curious about the next steps. Like most recently unhired people, I went through a range of emotions--shock, anger, grief, rebellion, self-reliant indignation, and so forth. Yet, after a few weeks I found myself wondering what day it was. For me, everyday was Saturday.
Tales from the Corporate Frontlines: Career Opportunities for New Graduates Career Opportunities for New Graduates
Studies show that lack of career opportunity is one of the top reasons why employees leave an organization. Also, continually hiring open positions from outside the organization can be detrimental to morale when a qualified candidate is available internally. This article shows how one company obtained valuable information from the season's group of new graduate applicants and combined it with the results of their own survey to identify retention problems and find new solutions.
The 10 Second Window of Opportunity, Resume Hour Glass Resume writing is a very interesting skill set. Everyone except the rich kid in the block has taken a stab at it at one point in life or the other. It is a mandatory sales job every earthling has to endure in their life. What could be tougher than selling yourself for the next step in the ladder. Do you know that a hiring manager spends just 10 seconds with each resume he comes across. This 10 seconds is what i call the resume hour glass, the life of which is just 10 seconds. this article focuses on how to grab the 10 second window of opportunity.
Finding Your Ideal Career Many people are now considering working for themselves. With the explosion of Internet opportunities you may be tempted to jump ship and set sail on your own. In this article, you will discover the character traits you need and how you can decide what your ideal career is.
Integrity At Work - How Do You Show Up? As the business sections of today's papers and magazines read more and more like the police blotter, 'Integrity' is fast becoming a hot topic of conversation in business boardrooms, around water coolers, and in today's business best-sellers. Integrity is defined as walking the talk when it comes to living one's true values, being authentic. Take this self-assessment and explore how you walk your integrity talk when you show up at work...
Resume Tune Up Employers have fears, uncertainty and DOUBT (the FUD factor) over your ability to actually do what you claim you can do in your resume and cover letter. Address the fears, get the job offer!
Your Interview Secret Weapon Most people find themselves spending time in interviews defending their resume. This a really bad sign and if you find it happening to you then you're probably not going to get the job. But there is a way you can turn the interview around...
Getting A Leg Up If you are looking for a way to get a leg up on your competition during your job search you need to read this article. There are plenty of ways to get a job but very few people actually know how. If you need to know how read on.
The 10 Biggest Career Change Mistakes - And How to Avoid Them Successful career-changers Learn all they can about the process of change…and educate themselves about the most common mistakes career-changers make, too. Here's a list that will help you avoid the biggest pitfalls.
Career Change: A Glittering Invitation To The Emotional Stalkers As much as you are yearning for career-change, and as much as the trends actually favor it, just contemplating a shift is a glittering invitation to four emotional stalkers who love nothing better than to play a nasty game of team-tag at your personal expense. When you unmask these bandits -- even a little -- they begin to lose their emotional charge - leaving you free to more fully explore the opportunities to re-invent yourself.
Choose Wisely During these times of uncertainty in the outside world, look inside your self. Are you feeling uncertain? Are there new energies happening in your life?
Furnishing Evidence in E-Tax Compliance In the area of tax returns and compliance, electronic commerce may create new variations on old issues as well as new categories of issues. These developments r...
Manic Depressive Episodes And Scientology Scientologists believe that chemical imbalances do not exist. In their view manic episodes should be treated with periods of introspection and audits.
Concepts of Socialism A short piece describing the importance of the regulation of economics in regards to humane goals.
How Credit Repair Saved My Life Once upon a time in my life, I was dead. Dead not in the physical sense mind you, but the consumer sense. You see, I had bad credit. Actually, bad credit would ...
What is Involved in Peak Performance Trading? To be successful as a trader or investor there are several elements that are essential to know. Van Tharp teaches traders and investors how to develop peak perf...
Creativity and Innovation Management – Fast Feedback Feedback sets the boundaries of a project and tells individuals how far they are from a successful result, how far they are from failure and which direction the...
What is a Trading Plan – and Why You Need One? Contrary to popular belief, you do not need to know where market tops and bottoms are to make money. In fact, that is where most people will go wrong. The bes...
Are You Listening To Your Cat Talking? Is your cat talking to you? Many cat lovers claim that their feline pets talk to them. They believe their cats can communicate vocally with them and tell them w...
Raise Your Income! How often do you sit around and wonder how to make more money and get more people to buy more from your company? It's one of the most basic problems every compa...
Use Auction Templates For eBay Success! One day I spent approximately 45 minutes writing an auction listing for an item that would make me about $5 in profit! I suddenly realized the stupidity of what...
Going Public by Way of Regulation D (504) Offering Regulation D provides three exemption from the registration requirements allowing some smaller companies to offer and sell securities without having to register...
What IS and WHY Have a Content-rich Website? A content-rich site is one that has lots of informative articles up at it, usually centered around a theme. Most sites can not quite pull off being WikiPedia, s...
Why Cant I Remember Your Name? You're terrible with names. You forget someone's name within ten seconds of their introduction, and it embarrasses you. In fact, it's possible you won't even ...
100% Commission Equals Zero Percent Control 423 Words. Abstract: Straight (100%) commission plans do a great job of shifting performance risk to the salespeople. While the company may think it is elimina...
Should I Franchise or Not? A reader of one of my online sessions asked should he franchise his business or not. He had set up a service business and was getting ready to expand and wanted...
