10 Keys to Stay Motivated And On Top Of Your Game at Work

What do you dream about? Do you have dreams of building a blockbuster business, material wealth, taking great vacations, writing the next bestseller, or contributing to the lives of others? Whatever dreams you have big or small, staying motivated can sometimes be a challenge.
Initially, many people hit the ground running towards their goals with great [...]

40 Job Interview DO’s and DON’Ts – See them

Here are the keys to successful job interviews. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this important phase of job-hunting. However, do not forget the 3Ds, Plan, Prepare and Practice.
40 Interview DO’s and DON’Ts
Here are the keys to successful job interviewing. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this [...]

7 Signs You’re Creating Your Own Workplace Stress

Quick, by a show of hands, how many of you have workplace stress? Almost everybody, great. Now, how much of that stress do you think is self-imposed? What, no hands? Well, I’m not surprised, but you may be in for one.
You see, most people make their own stress. Why do they do it? How should [...]

Need a Job? See 12 Surefire Ways for Recruiters to Find You

You are in a panic. You need a job fast and recruiters won’t return your call. You don’t have anything on the back burner because you thought you could just call the recruiter and get set up. After all everyone knows a recruiter or two. Well, times have changed. Recruiters hold the cards now. So [...]

The Lazy Worker’s Way to Success

Do you know your share of slackers at work? Mostly, they are intelligent people who could easily upstage everyone else’s efforts if they applied themselves a bit more. Yet, while everyone else is in panic mode trying to get ahead, while the slackers know how to fulfill their obligations, get decent feedback and enjoy a [...]

Fitness Test – A tool to be More Successful at Getting a Senior Level Job

It’s time to be better prepared to get the job you want and this involves thinking like your “customer” = your potential employer. By thinking about what each of the people who will interview you will be looking for you can give yourself a competitive edge over other candidates. If you fit all their requirements [...]

The CV Black Hole – What Happens When You Hit Send?

Even though economic conditions may be stabilizing globally and in Britain, economists expect unemployment to continue rising this year, as financial uncertainty persists. “In the real world of Britain’s workplaces people are still losing their jobs and finding it harder and harder to get new ones”, TUC General Brendan Barber said. Not only is unemployment [...]

10 Jobs That Pay £50,000

Since the start of 2008, companies have been embroiled in a so-called ‘war on talent’ as the jobs marketplace enters its most challenging and competitive period for several years. It’s predicted many industry sectors will lose more jobs in 2009 and budgets will be slashed as a result of the testing economic conditions.
Despite this, many [...]

8 Ways Not to Get the Job You Want

I saw this post on MSN this morning and I thought I should share it with you all. It captures the things not to do when you want a job. Please enjoy reading it. Well, not only that, make sure you don’t do the things highlighted there if you want to secure a job.
Everybody knows [...]

Tips for Dealing with Difficult People

Friendly, welcoming, and good communicators are great people to converse with. They are emotionally uplifting. If you have a problem with them, it is easily worked through. Unfortunately, the world isn’t filled with great communicators; it is more dominated by difficult people. Dealing with difficult people is a must to be happy and successful in [...]

16 Tips for Better Time Management

Every day has just 24 hours – and this applies to all people. Some people are constantly pursuit and pushed by time. This article is about how we can learn to manage our valuable time more effectively.
In reality we cannot manage time, we can only manage ourselves and our relationship with time. After all, how [...]

12 Ways to be More Creative At Work

In today’s rapidly changing business environment everyone is looking for ways to become more effective in their thinking. An important way to promote effective thinking at the office, is to foster a creative work environment. Having fun is a big part of developing a creative work environment. In fact, humor makes up an essential part [...]

Three Ways to Cope with a Looming Layoff

I’ve been surprised by the number of people I’ve met who, like I did, quit their jobs after the recession took hold last year. Of course, most people don’t want to quit — or can’t. For many of those job-keepers, the prospect of layoffs is all too real, even as the recession officially winds down. [...]

An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day

Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to accomplish. Then I sat down, turned on my computer, and checked my email. Two hours later, after fighting several fires, solving other people’s problems, and dealing with whatever happened to be [...]

50 Interview Questions and Answers

Review these typical interview questions and think about how you would
answer them. Read the questions listed; you will also find some
strategy suggestions with it.
(Excerpted from the book The Accelerated Job Search by Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D, published by The Management Advantage, Inc.)
1. Tell me about yourself:
The most often asked question in interviews. You need to [...]

How to Behave at Work

WorkEtiquette contains over 60 articles written by their experts who continually update and add new content…
How to Fit into a New Workplace

Swearing in the Workplace

What Title Should I Give if I Only Have a Name?

Videoconferencing Etiquette

Instant Messaging Etiquette In Business

Etiquette When Transferring A Phone Call

Making Presentations to Colleagues: A Case Study
To read more, please go [...]

Get Noticed at Work: See These Tips…

Office life can be downright unfair sometimes. Some workers breezily sail through their careers, collecting accolades and promotions for their efforts, while others seem to have an uncanny knack of missing out. No matter how many hours overtime they put in or extra miles they walk to get a project up by deadline, their work [...]

The Seven Laws of Networking: Those Who Give, Get

Ever been to a reception following a talk or a meeting and felt it was a dreadful display of people begging to each other while pretending to be best friends? To be fair, most of the people present were probably friends. But, during these gatherings people too often forget about the seventh law of networking: [...]

10 Things You Can Do to Get a Promotion

Very few people hire on with any company or organization with the intention of remaining indefinitely at the position for which they were hired. Just because you started as the grunt who had to fix the copy machines doesn’t mean you don’t someday want to be CIO. At most companies, this could entail half a [...]

Job Applications: Selling Your Skills

What can you offer?
Transferable skills
Relating skills to opportunities
Graduate vacancies and skills
Sample job advertisement – The High Roller Group
Sample job advertisement – Innovative Car Hire
PhD vacancy example
Presenting the evidence

What can you offer?
Employers ask for evidence that you have the:

motivation for the role;
ability to adapt to and share the organisation’s vision and ethos;
skills and competence relevant to [...]

Aaargh! iVillage’s Top 10 nightmare bosses

If you’re suffering working for a boss from hell, be comforted by the fact that you are not alone. Check out the boorish bosses below. If you think you can top our list, click here to tell us all about it.
1 The Weakest Link
The worst boss I ever had wasn’t bad – just terribly weak and [...]

Learn to sell yourself

Many people dream about interesting work and challenging career. They try hard to be promoted and do the darnbest to attain this goal. Many employees try to impress their bosses by their hard work, responsibility and efficiency. It leads to overstrain, constant stress and lack of free time.
People are often ready even to sacrifice their [...]

Mistakes on the Way to Success

Many people dream about promotion and meteoric career. Unfortunately our dreams don’t have such a strong power to come true automatically. In order to achieve success we must do something ourselves and not sit on our hands. Even if you possess wonderful professional qualities, work hard and efficiently, you may remain on one and the [...]

How Do You Network When Your Network’s All Laid Off?

It’s a little harder, but it’s also crucial for finding a new job.  Everyone says the key to finding a new job is networking. But how do you do that when so many of your contacts are also out of work?

First, you need to expand your circle of contacts. But even before that, develop a [...]

Are you reaching your full potential?

Its been there for many years. All you have to do is reach out and touch it. A carrot just dangling out of reach. Such a great shame about that chasm yawning below, oh and the rope bridge with the rungs missing, not to forget the forest at the other side. Then there is the [...]

Jobs: Tips from Jobsite

Interviews can reduce even the most confident among us to quivering wrecks, but no more! Jobsite’s interactive tool, BeMyInterviewer, shows you how to take on the most challenging interviewer with confidence – see their feature for more. This month they also show you how to expand your job search away from the 9-5, how to avoid howlers [...]

The Portfolio: Creatively Showcasing Your Skills

(Image: Tidyup.co.uk)
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO?

A collection of samples that can be used to both communicate your interest and give evidence of your talents and experiences.
Visually shows what you have accomplished, learned or produced.
A creative way to showcase a unique special-purpose autobiography.

WHAT SHOULD THE PORTFOLIO LOOK LIKE?

A portfolio should be displayed in an attractive and professional [...]

8 Ways to Thrive at Your New Job

You think landing a great job is important? Even more critical is what you do to make the most of it. Here’s how:

Don’t let the cement dry. When you start out on a job, your feet are in wet cement. If you don’t get out fast, you’ll probably be stuck there a while. So when [...]

How to Get Along With Your Boss: 10 Tips

At one point or another in your career, you will report to a manager, the person you fondly – or not – call boss. The relationships that you create and manage, with both your immediate boss, and other company employees, are critical for your work success and career progress.
And, face it, whether you like it [...]

How to Get the Promotion You Deserve

We all know a thing or two about unrewarded effort. The fastest way to get a promotion you’ve earned or a position you want is to be pro-active about the process. I’ve followed the steps below and it’s netted me four promotions in seven years on the job.
1) Determine Expectations
Identify the goals for the position [...]

Get The Promotion You Deserve – Add Value To Your Organization

Your organization has hired you for the results you can achieve with your talents and abilities. The organization believes that by using those talents and abilities, you will “add value.” You solve problems, you help the organization meet the needs of its clients, you contribute ideas that are valuable, etc. Those types of things add [...]

7 Habits of Highly Innovative People

Have you ever looked at super creative or innovative people, and felt they are special beings blessed with gifts? Have you felt that you are not as fortunate? I used to feel this way. I have since learned that creativity is more about psychology than intellect, and there are no secrets to being creative. Actually, there [...]

9 Jobs That Don’t Require A Degree in the UK

The economy may have imploded somewhat over the course of the past 14 months, but you still have bills to pay, a mortgage/rent to take care of and a healthy drinking habit to support, which means you need money. “I’m not qualified for anything, I don’t have my degree,” you might say to yourself. In the [...]

How to Change People’s Perception of You at Work

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.“
- Warren Buffet
Other people’s perceptions are very important in business. First impressions are made within seconds and office gossip has the potential to damage a reputation almost beyond repair. Do you know how [...]

Your 24 Possible Personal Strengths

Many people feel frustrated because they are not using their personal strengths to make a living or contribute to the world.
If I asked you “what are your personal strengths?” would you be able to answer with conviction? If so, are you already using those strengths in the work that occupies most of your waking hours?
My [...]

Laid Off? 10 Ways to Get Back on Your Feet

Something About It! Sadness, anger and feelings of unworthiness can hit like a Mack truck and leave you paralyzed in the wake of being let go. But being laid off doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Use these tips to help you get a grip, face reality, and move forward.
1. Stop freaking out
It [...]

Salary Negotiation Do’s and Don’ts

Here are the keys to successful salary negotiation. Follow these simple rules and you should achieve success in this important strategic tool of job-hunting. But remember, all negotiation carries risk.

Do make sure you’ve done your research on the salary you should expect for the position you’re seeking. And do use sources such as salary.com and [...]

Negotiating Your Salary During the Interview Process

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As you progress to the final stages of your interview, the time will eventually come to negotiate your salary and benefits package. Preparation for this discussion is just as important as preparing for the other interview stages.

Researching Salaries
You should start by researching what people with similar skills and experience are paid in the [...]

How To Deal With A Difficult Boss

Summary: Bosses and supervisors aren’t from another planet, but sometimes they seem to be. If you deal with the boss from hell you know. Conflict between a difficult boss and an employee can be daunting and intimidating. Here are some tips to help you deal with difficult bosses and supervisors.

Most people at some point in their [...]

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