How To Get a Career in IT (without a computing degree)
Are you looking at starting a career in Information Technology (IT)?
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Posts about career, jobs, interviews and success at work.
A Directory of Top Jobsites
I’ve pulled together a list of the best jobsites to give you a place to start.
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Knowing What You’re Worth
How Can You Find Your Worth to an Employer? This question can be a difficult one to answer, especially for younger generations trying to break into the workforce.
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6 Steps To Become Amazingly Inspirational
How often have you met someone truly inspirational who spurred you to do something great? Imagine being amazingly inspirational to others – how would that make you feel?
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How to Convince Your Manager to Send you to a Conference
some employers know the importance of sending their employees to conferences to keep them on their “A” game, other employers aren’t as gracious.
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Is the Work-Life Balance a Myth?
A post on the Harvard Business Review says that the work-life balance is a myth…! What do you think?
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10 Reasons Why Team Meetings Are Important
What is the point of a team meeting? Are they a talking-shop, or a vital organizational function? Here are some reasons why I think team meetings are essential.
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Three Signs It’s Time To Get a Better Job
You know the feeling when you wake up annoyed before the work day begins…
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Stand Up and Be Counted (in Meetings)
The ‘Meeting Culture’ is under challenge – many organizations are changing the way they run meetings and it’s going to be stand-up job.
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5 Powerful Ways To Make a Great Impression at an Interview
Want to make a great impression at your next interview? You only have 15 seconds to do it…
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Copying Ideas is the Shortcut to Success
Want to know the most effective way of discovering your ‘next big thing’? Try copying an idea from somewhere else…‘New Ideas’ are rarely new. Innovation is mostly about using other people’s ideas and executing them better. The greatest inventions in history haven’t been conjured up entirely from scratch. Instead, they’re improvements on other ideas and
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How New Managers Can Get To Know Their Employees
In days of old, managers were the king-pins of their domains and were to be obeyed without question. Not so today. Managers must understand their employees to build an efficient and effective working environment.If you’ve read Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, then you’ll know how Ebenezer Scrooge ruled with an iron-fist and commanded his staff
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Ask Yourself the RIGHT Question
If disaster or disappointment strikes, it’s normal to ask ourselves why. Why did I fail? Why didn’t I get the job? But these questions aren’t the RIGHT questions to ask.
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Are You An Order Taker or Solution Maker?
Do you accept requests from people and the dollar signs flash over your eyes, or do you view them as a way to add value to your colleagues/customers?
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How To Answer Performance Review Questions – Like a Pro
It’s your Performance Appraisal iand you want the best result. Here is a robust way of how to answer performance review questions.
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6 People to Avoid Becoming a Facebook ‘Friend’
There are six people you should avoid becoming ‘friends’ with on Facebook. Want to know who they are?
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The Five Biggest Mistakes of Influencing People
Being influential is something we can all develop. In my years in both the corporate and SMEs, I’ve met people who are great and influencing others, and people who are lousy at it. Here are five observations I’ve notice in the latter!
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The Beginning of the End for Internal Email?
French giant Atos has just announced a ban on internal emails. Others are bound to follow suit. So is this the end of internal emails?
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Managing Your Manager: Influencing Decisions
This is the first post in a new series ‘Managing Your Manager’. In this post, we’ll be looking how to influence your manager in making decisions.
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As a High-Performer, You’ve Gotta Cope With Defeat
It’s foolish to think that the great people of our day, and yesterday, did not experience defeat.
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How To Ask For A Performance Review
Are you ready for a performance review? Discover how to ask for one right here.
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