How to Improve Your Time Management

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To get the most out of your day, to work efficiently, you need to have good time management. It is essential to your ultimate success at your job. It will help you get a lot more done in less time. Here are a few good time management tips. 1. Do things in clusters or batches… Read more »

How to Answer an Interview Question About Failure

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It’s one of the most common job interview questions, and how you answer it could mean the difference between getting the job or not. The question is: “How do you handle failure?” It’s an important question because we all have experienced failure in our lives; it is universal. And how we handle it says a… Read more »

How to be More Productive and Avoid Burnout

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We all want to get more done, and we are constantly striving to work harder and longer to get ahead. But at the same time, we need to be careful we don’t work ourselves to the point of exhaustion and burnout. Here are a few tips for improving performance without overdoing it. 1. Define your… Read more »

How to Begin Your LinkedIn Profile

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When you put together a LinkedIn profile, you obviously want people to read it. But if you want to attract eyeballs, you need to write something that will spark some interest, something that people – especially recruiters – will find compelling. You need to basically think like a newspaper copy editor. These are the people… Read more »

How to Handle Frustration

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Frustration is something we have to deal with on a daily basis, especially at work. We all realize that it is part of life. But, even so, we are not very good at handling it. Sometimes we fly off the handle, do or say something that often makes matters worse. The problem is that frustration… Read more »

How to Improve Your Chances of Success

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We all want to be successful, but many are not sure how to do it. Here are a few tips that, while they may not guarantee success, will certainly go a long way toward increasing your chances of being successful. 1. Develop a daily routine This is extremely important to achieving success. A routine is… Read more »

Office Temperature and Productivity

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Office temperature. It may seem like a trivial thing, but it’s not. If an office is too hot or too cold, it can really affect your comfort, mood and productivity. In fact, in a recent survey, almost half of those responding reported that their office was too hot or too cold. Moreover, a majority of… Read more »

Interviewing 101

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There is a great deal of information out there on how to interview for a job. Some of it is very specific, such as how to employ insights from psychology to make a good impression. But no matter how arcane the advice may be, it all rests on a foundation of some basic things every… Read more »

How to Improve Your Decision Making

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We all have to make decisions at work. People do this in different ways – some do a comparison of pros and cons, others are more apt to go with their gut, while still others like to solicit opinions from various colleagues. We all want to make the best decision possible. And we all like… Read more »

How to Talk about Work History Gaps at a Job Interview

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Gaps in work history are more common these days. People move around more. Companies are quicker to lay people off. The days when a person spent his or her entire career at one company are pretty much gone. And yet, the attitudes of that time are more difficult to eradicate. Gaps in work history still… Read more »