Have You Been Fired? Laid Off? No? You Will Be!
The world of work has changed. The days of 30 years on the job and a gold watch to retirement is gone. You will have 8 careers in your life. Not jobs, but careers with different skill sets. You need to be prepared.
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Have You Given Up On Yourself?
Just to show you how amazing the human mind is.
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Hello Work World, I'm Un-Retiring
Most of us look forward to the freedom of retirement and yearn to be free of the 9 to 5 shackles we have worn so long. Often, it turns out to be so much less satisfying than we had envisioned and we decide to return to work. Some options are explored including the need for fun and personal growth as well as income.
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Helping Mid-Life Employees Find Meaning
People work to live, but most also live to work. A study on the meaning of work conducted back in 1987 revealed a strong attachment to work as a way of life. The study found that 86 percent of people...
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How Hedgehogs Hire
In Lisa Nirell's previous ezine article, she explored Jim Collins' hedgehog principle, and how powerfully this can be used to attract great employees. (Jim Collins is the best selling author of "Good to Great.")
After many dozens of CEO interviews, Nirell explains why she is convinced that leaders with well-defined hedgehogs deploy the most successful hiring models...and the four golden rules that top performing companies use to turn employees into "platinum assets."
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How to Become a Real Estate Agent
How to become a real estate agent - license requirements, job duties and earning potential.
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How to Become a Successful Freelance Translator
After completing their translation training programmes at higher professional education or university level, many students can't wait to set up as a freelance translator.
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How To Establish Trust, Credibility and Enthusiasm To Your Interviewer
Looking someone straight in the eyes while you speak has a similar effect to that of shining your car headlights on a deer: he is transfixed; you have a captive audience so long as you maintain the beam. Failure to meet another person's gaze when speaking implies disinterest, lack of confidence, insincerity or shiftiness.
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Ten Tips to a Powerful Resume
A new resume can jump-start your career. Your network contacts may ask for a resume and some industries absolutely, positively demand a resume as the price of admission...
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What is a Career Anyway?
A career is the sum total of all of your work-related contributions to society in a lifetime. This includes time and effort spent to provide goods, services, or benefit to others. A career includes...
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Why Choose A Professionally Written Resume?
Should you write your own resume or hire a professional writer? There are good reasons for either approach, depending on various factors. Here's how to decide what method is best for you.
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Why Culinary Education
Your decision to enroll in a culinary school should do you good. Read the article to know why its necessary to get professional culinary education from top cooking schools to excel in culinary arts and your career.
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Why Do Interviews Die: That Sinking Feeling and How to Prevent it!
Have you ever found yourself in an interview that you knew was collapsing around you? Jeff Altman, MSW and CPC, a search professional for more than 30 years, offers several suggestions for how to avoid interview hell. For more tips, go to www.newyorkmetrotechnologyjobs.com
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Your Interview Questions Are a Serious Matter
Of course interviews are mainly about you answering the questions they put to you, but at the end of your allotted interview time, the questions that really matter most are yours. This also means that the interview doesn't just fizzle out but ends positively.
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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...
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Cover Letter Warning: Watch Out For the BIG BAD WORD!
Just as Goldilocks was suspicious of the big bad wolf, be wary of the big bad word! You know the kind. Pursuant. Heretofore. Credence and all their contagious cousins! Unless you keep your guard up, these little pests will infest your cover letters like termites in a wood pile!
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Do You "Work to Live" or "Live to Work"?
If your life is all about work and not about living, read this article today to discover some really easy ways to learn how to enjoy your work but still enjoy your life. Improve your work life balance now and see the benefits straight away.
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Do Your Very Best in All Things -- Because Someone Is Looking....
Truth is
. it does not matter who is looking. If someone is looking it's OK. If NOT, then that should also be OK with you. How can it be both ways? It's who YOU are that makes the big difference in what you say or in what you do.
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Does Retirement Fit Into Your Busy Schedule?
It's a question every employee asks themselves at some point in their career. Considering the steady increase in job stress over the years, this question is being asked sooner rather than later. This article takes a look at different aspects of retirement and some options that can be explored.
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Does Your Resume Have What It Takes To Survive The First Cut?
To be a success, your resume must have sufficient "scan appeal" to pass a first cut that initial stage when a busy employer, faced with a stack of resumes, scans each one for about 30 to 60 seconds and rejects most. What can you do to make sure that your resume survives the first cut?
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Does Your Resume Lack Vision?
Are you submitting your resume to countless job posts but not getting any responses? It may be that your resume lacks vision. In this insightful article, you will learn the importance having a vision plays in your resume, the steps you can take to inject your resume with fresh vision and the results you can expect.
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Interview Questions: How To Stump The Interviewer
Your prepared responses to typically asked questions will impress the interviewer; however, your own questions will impress even more. This article provides a sampling of questions on both sides of the fence.
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Interview Quicksand
How will you respond when you're asked the following two questions? 1.What type of boss do you like to work for? 2.What are the pros and cons about your present employer? -March 2003 You scan the...
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Interview Skills That Attract Offers
You feel you've done your best preparing for your interview. You researched the company and spent time practicing your responses to likely questions asked. You go to the interview and think it went well. But you don't hear back. This article discusses what you need to do during your interview to achieve a positive outcome.
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Make Your Career Offshore Proof
There has been a lot of talk recently about American jobs moving overseas
offshoring is the buzzword for it. During difficult economic times it is often easy to find a scapegoat to blame for a downtu...
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