Career Articles
Career Choices
Finding The Passion In Your Career Choice
Some people simply know what their purpose in life is almost from the moment they have a conscience. I’m sure you have encountered someone who works as a teacher, doctor, landscaper, musician, stay-at-home-mom who simply loves what they do with such passion they cannot wait for the next day to start so they can do what they love to do one more time.
Identifying Your Dream Career
Often, all it takes to identify your dream career is a clear picture of your personal preferences and style.
Finding A Job
American Idol’s Top 7 Lessons for Job Seekers
The Fox network’s hit reality show American Idol (AI) is watched by millions of viewers. Whether or not you’re a fan of the show, it has some valuable lessons if you’re in the market for a new job. After all, an audition is very much like a job interview, and the panel of judges are like hiring managers--some are encouraging, sensitive and polite, while others can be negative, insensitive and downright mean.
Laws Of The Job Search
This article was first written in response to MBA students who came with questions about career choices to global consultant when he was a Harvard Business School Professor, and provides some interesting insight into how to decide on the right career.
Your EQ Skills Will Land You The Job Every Time
Resource specialists are well trained to look for the best communicators. Simply put, the better your communication skills, the better your EQ or emotional intelligence!
Changing Jobs When The Boss Is A Jerk
Advice for someone hoping to find a better job but held back by the fact that their current employer is holding on to them by refusing to give a good reference.
Networking - Easier Than You Think
An odd thing about networking is that we do it all the time. We ask “Who is the best pediatrician?” or, “Can you recommend a good PC shop?” But we freeze up when it comes to job search networking. The reasons for this vary.
The Spontaneous Application
Many of the available jobs in the market are not published by the companies. This is the perfect opportunity to make a spontaneous application.
How Do I Find A Job That I Love?
Here are a couple of tips for starting the search for the job you will love.
Job Interviews
Irresistibly Attractive - Ways To Make Your Interviewer Love You
How to make the interview process work for you and your interviewers. The 6 Most Frequently Asked Questions In Any Job Interview
Knowing what you are going to be asked about in your job interview can really help you to prepare impressive and effective answers.
Changing CareersHow To Successfully Navigate A Career Transition
I am often asked by my career coaching clients how to best navigate a successful career transition. In other words, how can you pursue your dream job while remaining practical and fulfilling your everyday needs and responsibilities? My job as a certified career counselor is to assure you that, like many others I've already assisted, I can put your fears aside as you journey down the path to greater career satisfaction.
Career Survival Tips: Taking Care Of Mind, Body And Soul While In Career Transition
Sometimes we're so busy taking care of business that we forget to take care of ourselves. Yet, if you're amidst a major career change, there is nothing more important than listening to your Inner Voice and tending to all the little things your body, mind and soul is asking for and needs. Here are some great ways to nourish your whole self and stay balanced while successfully navigating through your career change.
Your Dream Job Is Waiting For You
Are you ready for the challenge that will truly get you your dream job? Many are, and it's not the most difficult thing to do.
Changing Careers?
After counseling thousands of people in finding new careers and jobs, we have found that there are 5 classic mistakes most career and job changers make.
Changing Careers - An Inevitable Step
When you get your first job changing careers is the last thing on your mind.
Career TestingCareer Test - Can I Trust It?
Have you ever taken a career test? It may seem vicarious to you, and you may believe that you are fully capable of deciding what the best choice is for you career-wise. But if you're like me, and you can't discard taking online personality quizzes or reading horoscopes just to see what they say, it might be interesting. But what can such tests really tell you?
Career Advancement
Jump On The Executive Fast Track
"How can I get on track for an executive position?" Here are our top five tips for executive career advancement. Even if you aren't interested in reaching the corner office, take a look at this list to see what you can use to help you move your career forward.
Career Advice: You Can't Get There If You Don't Know Where You Are Going
Seeking advice can help you to get a clear focus on how you want to progress in your career.
3 Strategies Guaranteed To Kill Your Career
Make sure that you don't commit any of these career "sins" if you want to can enhance or kill you career prospects.
Get Career Success By Building Rapport With Everyone You Meet
Building rapport can happen in moment, but usually doesn't happen overnight. Networking with others can take some time. Soon, though, you'll notice more people gravitating towards you.
Ten Employability Skills For 2010
In a changing work environment you will need to be prepared with new skills and different approaches.
We Are All Self Employed
"Always view yourself as self-employed. The biggest mistake that you can ever make in life is ever to think that you work for anybody else but yourself."
Office Politics
How To Manage Your Boss
With all of the attention today on effective management techniques and the need for people skills, it's surprising that one of the most critical areas to getting ahead in your career doesn't get much attention - the fine art of managing your boss.
Harmony in the Workplace: How to Steer Clear of Office Politics
A workplace situation can quite often put people in contact with others who they might not have naturally befriended in a situation outside of work. The phrase office politics covers a whole range of behaviours that can happen as a result.
Five Tips For Dealing With Criticism Or Rejection At Work
Everyone who has been employed has had to deal with negative feedback or rejection. Because we tend to merge our identities with our career, it can be a personal blow to our self-esteem when we are criticized at work.
Bossology: The Eight Techniques You Need to Manage Your Boss
Research inside companies consistently reveals that most employees quit or move on because of a poor relationship with their immediate supervisor. In other words, people don't quit jobs--they quit bosses.
Your Workspace Style - What It Is And How To Get It
If you are not happy in your working environment, you need to speak out to improve your workspace. Being uncomfortable at work can seriously damage your enjoyment of your job.
Dealing With A Difficult Boss
Learning how to function with a difficult boss is one of the hardest challenges you face in your work life. Have you heard the saying that people don’t leave jobs, they leave their bosses? So true! You can love your job but if you hate your boss, you will hate going to work. And you won’t last long.
Managing Change In The Workplace
Change is exhilarating. Change is terrifying. Change is badly needed around here. Whatever your attitude is to change, it is the most reliable companion you will likely ever have.
Career Burnout
Career Burnout?
Career burnout may be an overused term these days and while some tend to use the term burnout very loosely, experiencing career burnout can wreak serious emotional, physical, and psychological havoc on a person. Identify the signs of career burnout and create an action plan to get back on the right career path.
Going Back To Work After A Break
Going Back To Work
Life and common sense skills are invaluable tools in any job and highly valued by employers, so be confident and 'accentuate the positive', don't make excuses for not working, make them good reasons - which they are.
Working for Yourself
Should You Work For Yourself? (Five Questions to Ask)
While working for someone else, have you ever thought, I wish I could be my own boss? Then I wouldn't have to put up with this!Maybe the question isn't whether you've thought that, but how many times.
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