Dealing With a Miscarriage at Work, Can You Tell Your Manager?
Many working women, unfortunately, go through a miscarriage incident, can they tell their manager? Here are a few suggestions on dealing with a miscarriage at work.
A miscarriage is a traumatic experience...
Your colleagues are getting sacked, how to avoid the negativity spiral
The economic slowdown is getting evident and, your colleagues are getting sacked, and it is rather natural that you are feeling the same negativity too. In particular, if you see your...
Why you should not shy away from taking regular performance feedback from your manager?
Taking performance feedback from your manager is like a tool for strengthening your weaknesses and overcoming your shortcomings. In simple terms, it is positive criticism and feedback which can help you...
How to Avoid Political Debates at Work
Most HR experts will agree that two topics should be avoided at work - politics and religion. We are seeign charged up sentiments across the world, be it nationlism, security, job...
Managing Friendships at Workplace
Developing friendships with your colleagues and other people at your office is inevitable; however, managing such relationships with utmost care is crucial for your work life. If you have a full-time...
How To Write A Good Cover Letter For Job Applications
Writing an effective cover letter for a job application is a key ingredient for potential success. A well-crafted cover letter makes a lot of difference to the attention that a resume...
Job Interview Tips To Make A Brilliant Impression
Here are some basic interview tips that will help you prepare for an excellent interview.?After impressing your potential employer with your CV and cover letter, now comes the most difficult yet...
How To Fast Track Your Career
It is the goal of every young professional starting his or her career to climb the corporate ladder as quickly as possible.However, only a few of them manage to make advancements...
Be Thyself: The Secret to Being Happy and Engaged at Work
??Know thyself? was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, ?Be thyself? shall be written.? --Oscar Wilde
We?ve all seen survey after survey that...
Three Salary Negotiation Techniques That Work
The recession has forced thousands of professionals to forego salary increases in order to keep their jobs. Now with recovery underway and indications of hiring increases, those same individuals may find...
Got A New Boss Again: What To Do?
It is a well-known fact that established teams experience ?transition pains? under the leadership of newly appointed managers. The stress levels go up, and both the parties use moves and countermoves...
How Becoming a Leader Can Help You Get a Promotion
Many companies today are looking for leaders, not just managers, to take on greater roles within the organization. As a result, competition for higher-level positions can be fierce. Leaders have the...
5 Ways To Impress Your Managers Boss
You may love it or hate it, it's for real that senior management incumbents are hard pressed for time and tend to make a quick first impression. I have noticed many...
5 Habits Of Highly Productive People
From the top rungs of the management to the first line worker, everyone across sectors is looking for ways to be more productive at work. There are no magic pills to...
Early Preparation is the Key to Successful Negotiation
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail is a very old saying and fits in aptly for negotiations. Any successful negotiation is about mutually agreeing to terms which lead to a...
20 Ways to Kill Your Job Application!
Here are 20 Ways to Kill Your Job Application, we spend a great deal of time talking to recruiters, employers and human resource staff every week. I recently sent an email...
How To Crack HR Interview – Using STAR Model
In the HR Interview for a new job, using the STAR model method is one of the most effective ways of getting your message across to potential employers whether in your...
Want to stay on track with your New Year resolutions?
Last week I met up with a former client who I had not seen for some time. He was disappointed with himself because, although he had set himself some career goals...
Managing e-mail Overload ? 10 Tips for Success
One of the common challenge employees face is how to manage?e-mails, not be managed by it. Time is a zero sum game. You can spend your precious time on an e-mail...
Redefine Your Limits – Live to your Full Potential
We are limited by the beliefs we set in our mind, history shows that successful people are able to break these shackles and unleash their potential. The difference is the ?...
Tips to Make Your Career Development Plan Work
"Relax? It will all work out, my company loves me" simply isn't true for a career. We have to make things work for ourselves, trying to adopt a positive outlook towards...
How To Set Your Goals This Year
George Harrison said it all when he sang If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Goal setting is about fine-tuning the direction in which you want...
The Principles Of Personal Success
Knowing what the ingredients of a successful life are is important in terms of our social, professional and personal lives. Taking these principles to heart will also ensure that we reach...
How To Switch Jobs In A Market Slowdown
All things considered, this is not the best of times for switching jobs . This world has seen a fair bit of negative fallout of the economic problems in Europe and...
How To Achieve Career Mastery
You have worked hard at mastering yourself ? your habits, your outlook on life, your relationships and your finances. Now is the time to master the course of your career, as...
Getting Back To Work Painlessly After Long Leave
Returning to work after a long leave is not always an uplifting experience. The mind and metabolism are likely to have adapted to a more leisurely pace, and one may have...
Indispensable Email Skills For Job Seekers And Employees
If you are about to apply for a job via email, the quality of your emailed covering letter to the potential employer is extremely important. After all, you are marketing yourself....
How To Manage Stress And Regain Well-being
Without doubt, wellbeing is the ultimate objective of human existence. Paradoxically, we often wind up surrendering well-being in order to earn money, and then spend a major part of the earnings...
How To Tackle Financial Stress
Financial stress can adversely affect a persons? psychological state. This negative psychological state has a tendency to percolate down to the affected person?s workplace and ? in fact ? into all...
How Your Social Media Profiling Influences Employers
A lot of new generation companies are actually looking at the social media profiles of prospective employees and using these as a filter along with resume. Companies are especially interested in...
Career Tips For Aspiring Women Achievers
We are finally seeing the entry of women in board-level positions at leading multinational companies. However, the numbers are not stacking up as anticipated - many businesses continue to have a...
Tips on Writing A Killer Resume
I thought it appropriate to pen down some good r?sum? writing tips that show you how to write a r?sum? that gets results. The idea is to make your r?sum? more...
Tips On How to Handle Workplace Conflicts In Style
There is nobody who has not had problems at work, and these problems invariably involve one?s supervisor, co-workers or even boss. Workplace conflicts are common ? but the skills to handle...
How To Get Yourself Noticed At Work
Has your talent; potential and resourcefulness on the?job?gone unnoticed while those of others have been rewarded? Have others of equal experience risen on the corporate ladder much faster than you? You...
Tips To Build Your Resume
Do you feel that your present job is going nowhere? Do you yearn to spread your wings and soar higher in your career? The way to do it is to build...
How to Get Promoted Without Asking
It is time to rise in the ranks in your company, and you are convinced that you deserve a promotion. You could always ask for one, but how would such a...
Asked to Relocate? What To Ask Your Employer
Have you been asked by your employer to relocate? If so, you are in a situation which an increasing number of employees are finding themselves in today. There can be any...
