How to Overcome Being "Overqualified"
Here's how to prepare for and avoid the negative perception of being "overqualified" for a job.
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How To Pick The Best Career For You, Part 1
Want to gain the upper hand in a career marketing campaign? Try using these marketing techniques of Positioning, Exposure and Marketing.
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In Control - Inside Tips on Interview Success
In most interviews, you have more control than you think. Your presentation can heavily influence the outcome of your interview.
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Independent RN Contractors Are Taking The Nursing Profession
Nurses wake up and take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity. Are you tired of having no input in your career, little money in the bank, lack of respect for your profession and little compensa...
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Inside Sales Jobs: A Job Worth Seeking?
Are you interested in inside sales as a career? Inside sales can be a very rewarding job if you so choose. What is the difference between inside and outside sales positions? If you think the difference is staying out of the sun, read on and discover if or why an inside sales job could be for you.
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Dazzle Interviewers With Your Achievements
Attention Job Seekers: Tasks and Responsibilities are Boooring Ho hum. The interviewer sits there drumming her fingers on the desk trying to look interested while you drone on about your duties and r...
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Just a Series of Choices
Bean Day
You've just been RIF'd
you saw it coming but thought it would miss you again this time. Thought your job couldn't possibly be outsourced internationally. An all too familiar scene played out in thousands of homes across the country. If it happens to you like it did Steve, you better be ready for what it will take to get back on track.
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Spiritual Practices Offer Peace and Acceptance
Summary-How do we deal with the financial and emotional stress of having a home, a car, work (or no work), kids and a spouse in this too-busy world? Spiritual practices can help us navigate through lifework transitions with more peace and acceptance.
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Stacking The Deck In Your Favor
When it comes to our gifts and talents, we need to build on our strengths and increase our value by adding skills that play to our strengths rather than compensate for our perceived weaknesses. Every strength is a weakness and every weakness is a strength depending on how we stack the deck.
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Stand Out From the Crowd with Simple Marketing Methods
Although today's job market is very competitive there are some simple marketing techniques you can apply to catch the attention of potential employers. Use these ideas to get hired NOW!
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18 Career Enhancement Caveats
In your career, as well as in your life, to achieve full capacity and happiness, all of you must be going in the same direction. For career and personal success to achieve its fullest potential, the inside and the outside must match: strength, motivation, passion, strategies and goals must be consistent with who you are and be an extension of who you are -- not to define yourself, but to be defined by you.
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20 Powerful Tips For Advancing Your Career
You don't want to stay in your current position forever... you want to move up! Here are 20 ways to boost your chances of getting that nice promotion:
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Confidence Is Critical to YOUR Success....
Your self-confidence is showing. Verbal communication is only ONE way that others form an opinion of who YOU are. Your non-verbal (unspoken) actions also reflect how things are within your physic.
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How to Ask For a Salary Increase and Get Your Raise
Feeling overworked and underpaid? If you're starting to feel
like you deserve a raise, here are eight DO's and DON'Ts to build
your confidence and tact (and what to avoid!) in asking for the
salary you feel you deserve.
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How to Be Prepared for a Layoff
If you are concerned that your company might be planning a layoff, your best course of action is to be prepared. Employees often see warning signs that their jobs may be at risk. Such signs could include poor company performance, earlier rounds of layoffs, conflicts with their manager, increased manager intervention and involvement, and poor performance reviews. Employees see the signs, but aren't as proactive as they should be in looking out for their future. Here are steps you can take to be prepared for a layoff.
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How To Become A Computer Consultant
In this article, we'll look at the business opportunities for computer consultants, the reasons why there will almost always be a strong need for good computer consultants, and what it takes for you to achieve success if you want to become a computer consultant.
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How To Become a Mortgage Broker
The Mortgage Industry accoounted for $18 Billion in loans last year. As a mortgage broker you can expect to take your cut out of that very large pie. And the best part is, you can get into this profession with almost no education or formal training. No other profession is so easy to get into yet offers such a high-end, six-figure earning potential.
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Networking is the Key to Star Performance in Everything You Do.
Many people's idea of networking relates to the 'size of their Christmas Card List, rather than the quality of their relationship with each person on that list. Similarly those people network, but few reap the rewards of zeroing in on their potential. Dream Architect - Margaret Stead gives you some ideas to help fill the gap between where you are now and where you can be.
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Networking Masterclass - Part 1 - Practicing Empathy
Use this simple exercise to develop your networking skills and accelerate your job hunting and grow your personal relationship skills. Dream Architect - Margaret Stead gives Part 1 of her series on Networking - Practicing Empathy.
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Networking Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them
Worried about using networking as part of your career change tools - Margaret Stead Dream Architect will show you how to network without risking rejection and vastly accelerate your job search.
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Nine Career "Zappers"
Professionals are constantly looking to avoid these 'career zappers". Read and see if any of these behaviors are impacting your career in a negative way.
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So You want to be a Bodyguard?
BODYGUARD? Is it a job or a life style? Most people don't even no they exist, the grey characters hoovering around behind the famous actors on TV. But they are there, looking out for bad guys or eager fans trying to tuch their idol. What should you know, before entering the trade? well, have a look...
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So You Want To Be a Nurse When You Grow Up?
You're interested in becoming a nurse. How do you get into the field? First of all, you need to assess your basic interest. Why do you want to get into nursing? Are you getting ready to graduate from...
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So you want to work at home
You've fantasized about working from home, starting your own business, and spending more time with your kids and family.
You are not alone, millions of people just like you want to and do.
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The Background on Background Checks
In one of my past lives I held a Top Secret clearance as a Civil Service employee working for the Air Force. So I am familiar with background checks. But many job seekers are not. Here's a little background on background checks...
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