Careers & Employment Information

1. Assess - Evaluate your skills, interests and abilities.

Perceptions


How was your latest car wash experience?Did you take your car to a do-it-yourself car wash where you could ensure that every spot that needed to be cleaned was clean?Did you approach the car wash cautiously, checking your windows 2 and 3 times to ensure that they were firmly secure so that no water could come inside? Then carefully ease your car up to the marked line and then wait - feeling powers beyond your control begin to move your car forward and then feel trapped inside when the thunderous rush of water, soap and brushes hit your car from all directions? Or did you cheerfully approach the car wash, deposit your coins and gently guide your car into the tracks calmly and serenely.Did you wonder if you were going to get stuck in the middle and be unable to get out? Did you wonder if the machinery would break down? Did you wonder if your windows Or did you sit back comfortably in your warm cocoon, knowing that you were in good hands and that the machinery was there simply to wash away the dirt and the grime to leave your car clean and ready to go again?I was at my mom's a couple of weeks ago.

Get a Raise: How To Ask Your Boss For More Money


How many people do you know who think they deserve a pay rise, but are too scared to ask? You might even be one of those people! Why is it we are afraid to ask for what we believe we are worth? It's time to stop worrying and start asking, but before you charge into your boss's office give yourself the best chance of success with these helpful tips?then book that meeting with the boss.Do an audit.

Career Tips: How To Start A New Career


These days most people accept that jobs are not for life anymore. People are more mobile and much more likely to change jobs every few years and even careers a number of times throughout their lives.

Building Performance Trust


You can have outstanding ideas, yet never leverage them into winning at working results. That's because the secret behind those ideas lies in performance.

Resumes OR CV : Get That Job


Your resume is your sales document. It tells the world of your achievements, capabilities and roles you have enjoyed.

Discuss Your Accomplishments During the Interview


When preparing for your interview, you need to be ready to discuss your accomplishments. Surprisingly, many people are reluctant to talk about their accomplishments.

50 Things To Do To Your Boss That Are Fun For You, But Not For Them


1. You're eavesdropping and you hear your boss has reservations at his favorite restaurant.

More Companies Using Job Interview Phone Screening


Planning and preparing before you begin to send out resumes could save you some embarrassing moments when you receive that unexpected call.You just never know when that phone is going to ring.

Why It Is Impossible To Raise Your Standard Of Living Working A Job


Everything in nature has been endowed with what it needs to survive. There is no living thing that isn't inherently equipped with the skills and abilities it needs to secure its continued existence.

Job! Money! Career!


Feel somehow your life is stuck in MS-OFFICE - The reality of life for MBAs is Excel or PowerPoint , I heard Google is catching up at campus. Having gone through this myself, (I am still not out of it!), having had the nightmare of freshly minted MBAs reporting to me every year ( 90% of MBAs in their first job believe that their first Boss in Incompetent) and struggling to manage their transition to reality, guess I am now in a position to give some Gyan on assessing your job and career moves.

Dissatisfied With Your Job? Stop Believing The Myths!


If you are dissatisfied with your job, you are in a self-imposed career slump!Why are so many of us in career slumps? Bottom line?we are not doing work that satisfies us! No matter what our employer does for us, if we are not doing work we really want to be doing, in a way that fits our desired life-style, we will never be satisfied.What keeps us in career slumps for so long? The number one thing that keeps us in our slumps is that we believe the "myths" we were told!1.

Telecommuting Cover Letters


Question: How do I market myself online?Answer: With a stellar cover letter and resume.Okay, so let's get into the meat of this.

Telecommuting Resumes


Your resume needs to outline your skills and experience, as most know. What some may not know is that employers want to know what you'll bring to the table.

Telecommuting Interview Tips


Telecommuting Interview Tips- By Nell TaliercioYou've made it! Your cover letter and resume got you to the interview process..

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