What Should You Do If Your Boss Hates You?
Your boss hates you – what should you do?
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Careers
Posts about career, jobs, interviews and success at work.
How to Describe an Achievement – Pro Style
Whether it’s in a resume or in a job interview, knowing how to describe an achievement is critical. Here are 7 tips for effectively communicating them.
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How To Strike the Balance Between Personal and Positional Power
A leader has five sources of power, and each has its place. Using power wrongly often means that leader’s lose their influence (and then their followers). How should the balance be struck?
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Freelancers, Could You Benefit From The Bartering Economy?
Could the ‘bartering economy’ help your freelance business? Thousands of businesses think so. It could save you shed loads of money and build new business relationships too.
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Use Twitter to Find a Job
Did you know you can use Twitter to find a job now? Thousands of job postings are entering the twittersphere, if you know where to look and who to follow.If you haven’t discovered it yet, there is a great service that specializes on this channel – it’s called JobShouts.com and it’s free to join. Job
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Salary Planning and Other Tools for Managers
Does planning salary increases in your department gives you a headache? This isn’t a straightforward process as salary caps (especially now) are putting pressure on fairness and agreements we might have made with staff.
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How Do You *Effectively* Find a Great Job?
We all want enjoyable, lucrative and progressive work, right? So how should we go about finding that kind of work?
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Just Launched: A New Job Search Service
You can now search from thousands of job vacancies in your country, state, city or even zip code with a new job search site: JobGuerrilla Job Search . You’ll find many thousands of employers currently hiring in the US, Canada, UK and Germany.
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What Carrot Farmers can tell you about Job Scams
If I can help just one person to avoid being ripped off, this post serves its purpose
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Success Is… Mastering ONE Thing
The route to success is often a tough one that involves hard work and sacrifice. I’ve proposed two general paths to wealth (a form of success) – guru, or entrepreneur. Both routes, as does all form of success, are built on mastering something. Mediocrity does not have a home here.What does ‘Mastering’ mean?Simple definition: you
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Why Don’t Graduates Get Jobs?
The Recession has created massive competition for the fewer jobs that become available, and it’s graduates that are paying the price. Lack of experience in industry seems like an obvious reason why graduates are not offered job placements, but surprisingly, this is not the primary reason
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The 12 Dumbest Mistakes Network Managers Make
What are the 12 most stupidest gaffes a network manager can make? More to the point, have you made one, or experienced one yourself? See if you recognize any of these clangers?
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Update on ‘Become a Smart and Effective Freelancer’
Dang It!The Become a Smart and Effective Freelancer course was due for launch on July 1st… But time ran out for me this month! It’s been a hectic mêlée of juggling several projects on the go so I decided to push the launch of this course out so that I can make sure I don’t
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Are You Ready For Your Performance Review?
I recently launched a brand new blog dedicated to your performance review: ‘ACE Your Performance Review‘. Here is are some great articles that will really help you ACE your performance review and become a superstar in your workplace.
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Freelancers: How To Increase Your Rates, Annually
One of the hotly debated topics between freelancer and customer is the issue of rate escalation
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Why You Will Never Be A Millionaire
So you want to be a millionaire? Well let me tell you that you won’t be, unless you are clear on your purpose.
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Freelancers: Does Your Personality Define Your Business?
All organizations have culture. Culture is intangible, and a description of the default behaviors, tendencies and styles of its workforce. Your freelance organization is no different, but what is your ‘culture’?
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Where Have the IT Jobs Gone?
In a recent post on CIO.COM , it’s revealed which cities have IT jobs available for you to fill right now. I am not surprised to see that NYC and Washington D.C. are among these cities. Is Your city in the list?
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How To Leave a Permanent Job to Become a Freelancer
Leaving the safety and stability of a permanent job is a daunting task. Thousands (like You?) don’t chase their dream of being their own boss every day because they just don’t know how to make that leap of faith and hand in that resignation letter that’s gathering dust in their minds!
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If You Lack Discipline, Don’t Beat Yourself Up!
I found a great article when I was perusing one of Eric Brown‘s latest posts – ‘6 Small Things You Can Do When You Lack Discipline’. Recession may be making you doubt yourself, or create a drop in motivation, or perhaps you’re feeling unloved by your boss.
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Sunk Costs Are Irrelevant
Do you manage expense? Whether you’re a manager, professional or freelancer, if you make decisions that involve spending money then you must ignore sunk costs. This is the advice from guru Seth Godin.
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