Career Hack: How To Be Grateful At Work
Research shows that practicing gratitude on a regular basis is linked to enhanced self-esteem, feeling more positive about work, improving and strengthening relationships, becoming more effective managers and teammates, and reducing stress. To name a few!
Here are three ways to practice gratitude to improve your career happiness – and perhaps even find deeper meaning in your work.
Career Hack: How To Find Out What It’s Like to Work for a Company
Are you wondering what it would be like to work for a particular company? To find out, you need great intel – and current intel. And that starts by networking with someone on the inside.
Career Hack: What To Do When Waiting For Your Interview To Begin
You’ve arrived at your interview early, or with a few minutes to spare — great! Congratulations on not being late.
However, you may find yourself in that “hurry up and wait” zone of discomfort: forced to bide your time until the interview begins.
Let’s think about how you can make the most of this transition.
Summer’s Here – But Don’t Forget About Your Career!
While your summer forecast may include sandy beaches, pool parties, and catching up on bestsellers, it’s also a great time of year to reflect on your professional development and do some career building.
Here are five cool ways you can tend to your career this summer – and still enjoy your downtime!
Career Hack: How To Get The Feedback You Need
Asking for feedback is hard. For one thing, you may not want to hear what someone else has to say about you and your work. For another, you might think you are doing a great job — so why even bother?
Whether the feedback is positive or negative, you shouldn’t wait until your annual evaluation to find out.
Looking For A New Job? Put Your Personal Brand To Work
Job hunting. It can be one of the single most challenging, and downright infuriating, necessities that comes with having a career. What’s even more frustrating? The number of times we can expect to CHANGE jobs during our lifetimes — whether we want to or not.
Building your personal brand can be the difference between surviving organizational change with your employer and failing to make the cut. Or, if you’re looking outside your current walls, between landing a new role and losing it to your competitor.
Career Hack: How To Master The Art Of The Follow Up When Job Hunting
Looking for a new job? Then you have likely experienced one or two frustrating moments – probably more.
Maybe you are waiting for a company to acknowledge receipt of your resume (is that mystifying portal actually a black hole?). Perhaps you’re holding your breath, hoping for news that you have advanced to the next round of interviews. Job hunting can be especially perplexing as we wait for employers to please, please, PLEASE acknowledge our existence.
As they say, the waiting is the hardest part.
Career Hack: How To Make The Most Of Your Next Networking Event
An annual conference, a monthly professional association meeting, or that brand-new speaker series you decide to check out…if you have a networking event on your calendar, you might be faced with the challenge of how to make it a success, and leave feeling like it was time well spent.
How a Personal Brand Can Transform Your Career in the New Year
Ready for a Brand New You in 2018? There is a lot of buzz around personal branding. What is it? How can it help your career? Why do you need one? As Tom Peters wrote (way back in 1997!) in his groundbreaking article “The Brand Called You”: “It’s time for me — and you — to take a lesson from the big brands, a lesson that’s true for anyone who’s interested in what it takes to stand out and prosper in the new world of work.…We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc… It’s that simple — and that hard. And that inescapable.”
How to Succeed When Returning to Work
The thought of returning to work can be challenging, not to mention the many steps it takes to get there. While returning to work does have its unique challenges, it’s also an exciting time to recognize newly acquired skills and strengths, and possibly even enjoy an entirely different career from the one you left.
If you find fear holding you back, know that employers of all shapes and sizes need your skills and what you have to offer. Putting one foot in front of the other is the way to find that exciting new opportunity.