A Workplace Romance Can Be Detrimental to Your Career Proceed with caution if you're considering getting involved in a workplace romance. As tempting as it may seem to date someone from work, the risks far outweigh the rewards.
About Your Work Columnist Nan Russell shares career insights learned over 20 years in the corporate world, including as a Vice President at QVC
Acceptance is the Answer to All Our Problems Many people today have lost jobs after decades of service; many others suffer within jobs they can see no way out of. How does one survive the humiliation, shame and uncertainty job loss can invoke? How do we find peace of mind within a guilded cage? Acceptance is the path back to peace.
Acing The Interview It's no secret that there is a lot of competition for writing jobs.
Adapting To Change In A Changing World These days you must not only develop your existing skill but you must also develop other skills to have a competitive edge in the labour market.
Advance Your Career It is important to have a goal. Without a goal you will never move forward. However, that goal needs to be the right goal. Your goal should be to have a rewarding career that matches your life's purpose; not a particular job description.
Advantages of Mobile Oil Changes; A Potential Small Business for You? A mobile oil change business is an idea if you are thinking about starting a business. On the Internet there are about 8 choices of both franchises and business opportunities for a such a business. With this many choices there should be something for everyone. If you are mechanically inclined it might make sense for you?
After Your Interview - What Must You Do Next? Other than actually landing the interview itself and living through it, waiting after the interview and wondering whether you will get a phone call or a rejection letter can be one of the most difficult aspects of searching for a job.
Age Discrimination is Alive and Unwelcome Here! Common sense appears to be a rare commodity these days. Why is this so? In an era when the emphasis seems to be on all things young, beautiful and sometimes shallow its about time we took stock of ourselves and did our businesses a favor by employing older workers! Age discrimination is a terrible injustice that has far reaching facts on our economy where ever we are.
Air Liquide: Driving Liquid Air Air Liquide was the first company to market a new invention in 1902: liquefied air. Air Liquide is now the world leader in industrial and medical gases and similar services. With a global presence of 130 subsidiaries in over 70 countries, Air Liquide is in a position to combine resources and expertise of a global enterprise with the localized power of independent consumer-focused teams. A major factor in Air Liquide's ability to provide reliable, quality services is that Air Liquide maintains its own truck and distribution fleet and employs drivers.
Alert! An Over-50 Jobseeker Has Just Entered the Building Interviewing Tips for the Older Job-seeking Population: A red alert is probably melodramatic, but I'm sure jobseekers in this age bracket probably feel there is one. The bulk of the job-seeking population is currently facing job-search woes that the elderly population has been experiencing for years.
Always Have a Current Resume Your resume tells the world who you are, professionally. In today's tight job market, you need to pursue opportunities right away when they come up. And it all starts with a current and professional resume. Both the content and the format are important. No matter how brilliant or experienced you are, an ugly resume will turn people off. So if you don't have one at all or it needs cleaning up, get going!
American Idol Syndrome I like Simon, one of three judges on American Idol. I find his feedback refreshingly honest. And while his words startle me with their ego wounding potential, the traditional feel-good, let-you-down-easy, sugar-coated feedback is not much of a gift.
An Alternative to Hiring Employees Nowadays with all of the downsizing businesses need an altnerative to hiring full-time employees. Virtual Assistants provide this to companies.
