Surveys conducted throughout the United States have found that the average employee admits to wasting approximately two hours out of every eight-hour work day. This does not include lunch and other scheduled breaks. If you find that you don’t have enough time to get your work done, it may be because you’re wasting more time… Read more »
There are some people who can walk into any room with an air of confidence and instantly become friends with everyone. Those people are called extroverts, and many of us introverts often envy them in the workplace. However, even extroverts suffer from shyness at one point or another. Whether you’ve been on the job… Read more »
If you’ve been temping for a while, you know that contingent work can help you develop skills that will make you more attractive to permanent employers. But what’s the best way to showcase that experience? While the stigma once associated with contract work is a thing of the past, you’re not wrong to worry that… Read more »
Note: You have a maximum of 20 seconds to wow the reader of your letter, so you better maximize its impact by making it dynamic! There is a formula that can be followed as a guide to writing your cover letters. However, it is critical that each cover letter be unique and specific to you… Read more »
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Every career success story is unique. While there isn’t a magic answer for taking your career to the top, following these ten steps will get you headed up the corporate ladder. Reassess your career. Is your career path well aligned with your priorities and interests? Do you possess, or can you acquire, the experience and… Read more »
It’s an inescapable fact that interviews are the “make or break” factor on whether one lands the job. So it is surprising to find that most job seekers approach interviews with a cavalier attitude, without any preparation – they simply wake up the morning of the interview, cross their fingers, and hope for the best…. Read more »
Eight hours a day. Five days a week. Fifty weeks a year. You spend almost as much time with your co-workers as you do with your family.The moral of the story? Good relationships with co-workers are the single most important factor for job satisfaction. Without them, the hope of a great working environment becomes just… Read more »
Ask yourself a question: Are you sabotaging your career? You’re probably thinking, of course not. And that makes perfect sense. Why would any of us knowingly self-sabotage when it comes to something as important as our career? And that’s the point-we don’t always know we’re doing it. If you’re feeling stuck in a rut when… Read more »
Are you bored at work? Stuck in a rut? Unengaged? “The cure for boredom is curiosity. “There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker According to ABC employment expert Tory Johnson, “Worker dissatisfaction ranges from feeling overqualified with no sign of advancement opportunity to feeling underappreciated by bosses who treat underlings as though… Read more »