Jobs & Careers Archive
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Overcoming Guilt In Work
For those people who have jobs which pay well but do nothing to feed their spirit, how do you go about counseling them? It is indeed a difficult task for a person to maintain a means of living just for the purposes of sustaining a family. Some people might have a high-paying sales job and yet hate the job with all of her might. This particular situation happens because they simply do not like what they are doing. It is possible that some people might hesitate or pass up an opportunity just becau... -
Stop Undermining Yourself at Work
There comes a time when during an employee's career, he or she will soon experience failure. And when that time comes, almost always, the person comes out of the experience traumatized. Some of those failures keep on compounding and eventually follow oneself to the workplace. So there are some people eventually work with a low self-esteem or a low regard for oneself. This causes the person to essentially undermine themselves and their capabilities. This eventually produces a low self-image regar... -
How To Sell Yourself
In a crowded world, it is quite difficult to sell oneself. It is much of an art as it is an exact science. For the potential group of clients in your network, your task is to be able to market yourself to them while making them ignore the competition. So, it is understood that you should be able to make yourself known first. Visibility is the key to successful marketing. And when it comes to selling yourself, nothing could be farther from the truth. You need to get people to notice you but you d... -
Hard Work Is The Shortcut To Success
Anything worthwhile is worth waiting for. That may elicit a few nods here and there. But tell a man that anything worthwhile takes a lot of hard work and you'll be sure that each and every person who's already climbed past the rungs of the ladder of success will tell you that you will always encounter hardships whenever you decide to accomplish something grandiose. You will sweat, stress out, burnout, fail miserably and for some of us, we might bleed trying to get to the place where we want to g... -
Strategies For Maximizing Your Productivity
The average American's way of getting ahead is by means of simply working harder, faster and longer. Sadly, this type of strategy is hardly attractive for one's personal life. It is understood that you would naturally have to sacrifice a lot of things in order to get ahead in one's profession. The tragedy to that strategy is that one's social and personal life suffers. Surveys have shown that the average full-time employee in the United States has encountered an increase in their workload within... -
Effective Work Habits
How does one get more out of his or her day in the workplace? Does it mean you have to work longer hours and simply neglect your friends and family? The key to being more productive in any job is to be able to work smarter and to incorporate effective workplace habits everyday. One should not subscribe to the idea that longer days will mean much more productive ones. Becoming productive at work entails so much more than leaving the office late and coming to work early. Read on to find out what w... -
Handling Stress at Work
Most people, when asked, have current problems. But for the most part, when you ask an employee the same question, most of them might answer in the positive. The truth is, work-related stress is a phenomenon that will always be there. One of the most effective ways to beat it is to figure out your priorities for the day. One of the most common myths that one will come across with is that you can do everything. The sad truth is you can't. There simply isn't too much time for people to attend to a... -
Ways To Enhance Your Career
The way that most people approach their careers is that as long as it puts money on the table, they are happy and they basically relegate themselves to a life full of complacency and mediocrity. However, that shouldn't be the case. In order to get those promotions and salary raises, one needs to do a lot more than just going through the motions of work. One should eventually try to step up and look to enhance their career. So whether you are planning to live out your working life in the same co... -
Developing Creative Thinking Skills
Creativity is the ability to make out something which may have not existed before. The result may be either an idea, a product or a process. Creative thinking is simply the process which people use when coming up with a new idea. It can also be the merging of ideas which have not been previously thought of before. Creative thinking is seen as a skill or a talent by most. Most people may not know it, but creativity is something that is inherent in every human being. The only difference is that cr... -
How to Use Creativity
“Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”Arthur KoestlerCreativity is a unique gift. Yet it is not an exceptional talent that only some people are born with. Creativity is an inherent skill in humans. Everyone is actually born with it. The only reason why some people are perceived to be creative and some not so is on how this special skill is nurtured and developed all throughout their lives. Creativity is the ability o...