A growing trend inside and outside the professional world is coaching. In this article, Job Search Coach Rita Ashley gives a quick tour of the types of coaches most likely to interest you.
The importance of personal branding in your career is only going to grow. This is a first look at personal branding and what you need to succeed with it.
Twitter is the original micro-blogging service, created with the idea of posting updates via SMS or text messages. Here's how can you use Twitter to find your next job.
In a 2008 commencement speech at the Wharton School, long-time executive Steve Gilbert summed up his years of job success with the following formula.
Work Happy Now! is Karl Staib's blog about "maximizing your work happiness". When Karl wrote about 6 Things You Should Never Say to Your Boss, all I could think was "Karl, you've had some really bad bosses." It doesn't need to be like that. You can always talk to a good boss See for yourself. Quotes from Karl's article are in italics. Tip for job seekers: use the hypothetical situations below in job interviews to test if your new boss is someone with whom you can talk freely. 1) Dirty (swear) words When your boss angers you to your core and makes you feel like screaming, you don’t respond with a rant that would make Paris Hilton blush. Although name-calling is never a good idea in the workplace, it's important and even healthy for people to blow off steam from time to time and even at the boss when deserved. You'll appreciate your boss much more if you know it's ok to react that way instead of keeping your frustration pent up.
