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  • Flex Your Schedule
    How to Negotiate a Flex Schedule
    There’s been increased buzz lately about flexible schedules on the heels of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banning work from home arrangements at the tech giant, and other companies including Best Buy following suit.

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  • Keys to a Successful Job Interview
    How to interview via phone, face-to-face, and Skype
    In a struggling economy, dozens if not hundreds of people are applying for the same career opportunity. When you finally get that call or email to schedule an interview, the news can bring with it two conflicting feelings: Relief and Nervousness. That’s understandable. Today you may be expected to interview in a variety of situations including over-the-phone, in-person or via Skype.

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  • Job Search Stalled? Try Something New
    Five ways to revitalize your job search
    Still searching for a job the same old way? Spending all day at the computer responding to job postings is not the best use of your time. Whether you’ve been out of work for a week or six months, perusing job boards should be only one part of a multi-pronged job-search strategy. The key to keeping the process fresh is to constantly infuse your plan with some new ideas.

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  • Mind the Gap: Managing Different Ages at Work
    Four strategies for managing a multigenerational workforce
    It's increasingly common to find yourself interviewing for a job with a potential boss who may be a decade or more younger than you. On the flipside, if you're in your twenties and thirties, you may find yourself managing employees who are your parents' age — or even your grandparents' age.

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  • Networking is Not a Spectator Sport
    To be successful you have to get in the game
    You already know you need to network. It's often touted as the best way to find a new job. But for every career professional singing the praises of networking, there are a dozen people dreading the idea of reaching out to strangers.

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  • Cutting-Edge Strategies for Career Advancement
    Eight ways women can get ahead in the workplace
    Eight ways women can get ahead in the workplace including creating visibility, developing strong communication skills, staying current, how to promote your personal brand and more.

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Assess Yourself

- Decision Making Made Easier
Every day we're faced with decisions. What to wear? What to have for lunch? And occasionally we're presented with a biggie like should we go back to school and, if we're lucky, which job we should accept?
 
- Setting SMART Goals
What is your vision of success? The image is different for each of us. For one person it's having the corner office, for another it's having a flexible schedule with plenty of time off to be with their kids.

- How To Find A Job You'll Enjoy
- What's Your Type?
- Make Sure Your Goals Include R & R
- Are You the Weakest Link?
- Goal Tending - Tips for setting goals
- Reflections - Where are you?
- Quick Checklist
- The Entrepreneur's Personality - Quiz
- Take an Assessment

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Managing Your Life

- 11 Smart Career Tips for 2011
Andy Warhol said, "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art." As a passionate executive recruiter, I couldn't agree more, particularly when it comes to professionals being good in managing their careers. Here, for 2011, are 11 smart, specific career tips:
 
- What skills do employers want?
   Communication.

When you're looking for work in a tough job market, it's essential to focus on your transferable skills. In some circles these are also known as soft skills. They include abilities like managing, negotiating and problem solving. And things like the knack of meeting deadlines and getting along with your co-workers. But, the one skill set sought after in every industry is communication.

- How to Keep Your Job — Seven Ways to Avoid
     Being Let Go

- Spring Fashion 2011
- 8 Steps to get you through the day
- What Julie & Julia can teach you about
    setting goals

- Personalized Branding For The Job Interview
- How Do You Accept an Award?
- How to Avoid a Typical Conversation
- Salary Talk During the Job Interview
- Five basics for successful networking
- How's Your Network Working?
- S.M.A.R.T Goals for a Job Search
- Non-verbal Communication During Your Job
    Interview

- Do You Have Presence?
- 5 Aptitudes for Female Business Success
- Do You Need an Intervention?
- The Introverted Leader

     Read More Career Management Articles

 

Changing Course

- The Job Interview Is NOT Just About
    the Job Duties

Are you stuck in the notion that the job interview is just about the job duties - it's NOT! Here is what the interviewer is really looking for. "Can he/she do the job?"
 
- Fired? The Interview Solution
There are many questions that plague job seekers. "What salary are you looking for?" is a big one. "Why should we hire you?" is another. And "Why did you leave your last job?" can...

- Ace the Job Interview
- The Five Essentials for an Entrepreneur to
    Start a Business

- Ace the Job Interview: How to communicate
    more effectively during a job interview

- A YOU Plan for the New Economy
- Negative Culture Saps Productivity
- How to Maintain Your Motivation
- What Can You Offer Your Next Employer?
- Optimizing Your Resume For An Internal
    Promotion

- Are You LinkedIn?
- Your Personalized Branding for the Job
    Interview

- Breakdown, Breakthrough
- Grow Your Business in a Slow Economy

     Read More Career Transition Articles

 

On Your Own

- Rising to the top
Congratulations. After months of blood, sweat and tears, your new company, Jane's Designer Clothing, has launched its new web site. Naturally, you're excited to see what happens when someone tries to search for your company, so you launch your favorite search engine, type "Jane's Designer Clothing" into the query box and hit the Search button.
 
- Getting (Almost) Free Press
Each small business owner is on a similar quest. We're constantly on the hunt for new clients. While we know that the best way to get new clients is through referrals, it's difficult to grow a business...

- 10 for '010
- Working at Home? - Be More Productive
- Your Home Office - Organizing Tips
- Using Soundbites in Business
- How to Measure Brand Performance
- In the News - Ezine Publishing
- Mixing Business With Pleasure - TravelTips
- This Job For Hire - Freelance Sites
- On the Road - Travel Tips
- Letter Perfect

     Read More Small Business Articles

 

College Corner

- College Bound: What to know before
    you apply to college

Studies have shown that when the economy is down people tend to go to school. This includes traditional students, those who enter right after high school, and non-traditional students, those over 25 who are starting later or returning to school.
 
- Previewing A Profession
Have you decided what you want to do after college? Do your studies lead to a specific career? Whether you're a traditional student or going back to school later in life...

- Welcome To The World Of Work — How to
    succeed in your first full-time job

- Pomp and Circumstance and Time to Get Down
    to Work

- College 101: Success Skills for Returning to the
    Classroom

- Six Criteria to Determine If An Internship Is
    Legal

 

For Women Only

- Speaking Out - The power of public
   speaking

Back in 1996 I joined a professional women's networking group in Stavanger, Norway. The group was called WIN, which stood for...
 
- The Nice People's Guide to Business
   Politics

I re-entered the workforce after years of being a stay at home mom. I knew that I was good at what I did, but when I first started back in business it...

- Focus on Marriage for Health, Wealth, and
    Happiness

- Summer's Here - Mom Stories
- Practicing for PMS - Mom Stories, Tales from
    the Trenches

- Couch Potato to Mouse Potato
- A Day In The Life
- Oh My God A Girl!

 

 

 
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