Job Hunting Tips: Containing Anxiety The anxiety of layoff and looking for work is described. Techniques are provided to allow anxiety to become a positive force rather than having all negative effects.
Losing Your Job Without Losing Yourself A certain sense of self evaporates when you lose your job because so much of your identity is intertwined with your profession or craft. Strategies to maintain a sense of self-worth despite temporary employment is outlined.
Surviving Unemployment Through Emotional Damage Control The dangerous mood swings of unemployment caused by the stress of being jobless coupled with the ordeal of job search are identified. Techniques for emotional survival are suggested.
Job Hunting Tips: Organizing Your Attack Resources for job searchers are identified along with the pros and cons of using different techniques. The importance of having multiple options as a defense against the stress of unemployment is emphasized.
Self-Preservation Techniques For The Unemployed Three specific techniques are provided to help those who have suffered a job layoff to survive with intact self-esteem, a belief in their own self-worth and a positive outlook for the future.
Job Hunting Tips: Staying Active Seven tips for staying active in the job search and the importance of proactively controlling one's life, even at times of unemployment, are provided.
Old Hiring Foxes vs. The Hedgehogs You are about to compete for the best people again. The recovery is happening. Labor statistics indicate over 280,000 new jobs were created in the U.S. last May. Is your company's hiring process a competitive weapon-or a ball and chain? If you're not sure, columnist and nationally-recognized speaker, Lisa Nirell, offers five places to look.
How Hedgehogs Hire In Lisa Nirell's previous ezine article, she explored Jim Collins' "hedgehog" principle, and how powerfully this can be used to attract great employees. (Jim Collins is the best selling author of "Good to Great.")
Staying In The Game The message came from Human Resources. There's nothing to worry about with the newly announced organizational changes and pending merger, it reassured. The changes will be good for the company and good for the people who work here it coached.
Have Some PASTA with Your Interview How does one prepare (P) for an interview? You would be surprised how many people do absolutely nothing or very little in this realm. However, this is the one thing that you have completely in your control.
Formal Business Attire is Making a Comeback Customer perception must be the underwriting factor in making any business decision, even the menial ones. Your company will always benefit by forever putting its best foot forward.
The Top 10 Ways to Achieve Balance in Your Life Many people say that they are "burned out". What this really means is that they are out of balance with what is important to them. Life is just pulling them around like a puppet on a string. Here are 10 ways to gain control of your life and replentish your energy and zest for life.
Vocational Experts 7 Proposals to Solve the Unemployment Problem The subject is constantly in the news and may decide the
next national elections - the infamous jobless recovery.
More than 8 million Americans are out of work with another 4
million underemployed or no longer looking for work. Good
manufacturing, technical and services jobs are being shipped
to India, Asia, and other developing countries. The mood of
the middle and working class becomes more pessimistic, the
outlook for their immediate future more grim.
