advice
Workplace advice for any issue, problem, or concern; from changing careers to co-working advice and decorating needs.
Landing Your First Job
A job hunt—particularly the first one—will take hard work, wading through the strange waters of resume writing and business search websites, plus intuiting just what the potential employer wants while sidestepping interview landmines. Before you even consider submitting the CV to a potential employer, you have had a lot of work to do. You'll want to adapt your summary to this work, reconnect with the references, come up with keywords to help you improve the search, make some business cards, and so much more.
By Kevin Gardner7 years ago in Journal
The Importance of Being Your Best Self at Work
Stimulate your enthusiasm. Creating a comfortable working environment helps employees feel more comfortable. An active work environment also helps promote social interaction and active communication among colleagues. Employers can stimulate enthusiasm by encouraging gratitude, laughing, and using positive information. Use health challenges to improve employees’ health and wellbeing. Rather than just focusing on health issues at the individual level, we begin to create team health issues. For example, the Team Walk Challenge, challenges colleagues to come together and compete as a team, taking more steps per month than other teams. The Daily Walking Club is another great idea that can also be used to promote professional connections.
By Paisley Hansen7 years ago in Journal
One Paycheck Away from Disaster
I've been fired once, and laid off once. I was out of work from January 2011 until November 2012 after being fired from a financial institution shortly after New Year's Day due to several errors I made. I was lucky that the company was found to have not given me sufficient training and was thus awarded unemployment insurance in the amount of $430/week, for a year. In my previous job, I'd been earning $41,000/ year, living in an apartment with a rent of $950/month I had $16,000 in savings. In addition, that year, I got a tax refund of about $3,000. I moved back in with my Mom who charged me $400/month in rent.
By Kubvoruno Dzimiri7 years ago in Journal
Top Six Successful Business Practices
Successful businesses are flexible. They listen to advice about trade, and test them out needed. Don't stay idle. Staying idle will eventually make your business model fail. Many aspects of business change, new advances in business technology, and consumers move on to better services. The most effective way to avoid this is to use smart business techniques that will make your company rise to the top.
By Kevin Gardner7 years ago in Journal
Gig Economy - The Key to Reducing Workplace Violence?
Workplace violence has been a problem in the United States for the longest time. There are several factors that could contribute to the level of violence in the workplace, including the fact that the U.S. is the most overworked developed nation in the world. (G.E. 2018) Here are several reasons to support that assertion:
By Kubvoruno Dzimiri7 years ago in Journal
Lifehacks for Young Entrepreneurs
Being your own boss, starting your own company is the dream of many. The 9 to 5 job is no longer the end goal. More people are thinking about getting into the entrepreneurial world and this includes the young people: the millennials. Imagine the creativity you can wield when you are running your own company. You have the power to design products and services that are linked to your expertise. Being an entrepreneur doesn’t just give you the possibility and opportunity to earn on your own terms. Entrepreneurship can give you the opportunity to get into projects that you truly care about.
By Jim Hughes7 years ago in Journal
Embrace Technology, Unleash Your Independence
Growing up, I loved technology, used it, but never saw myself as a technologically-talented individual. My favorite subjects in school were English, History, Social Studies, and Geography. I’ve always been comfortable with using a computer, but beyond doing research on the internet, producing word processing documents, and playing PC games, my confidence in my ability to play around with a computer was very limited. Everything changed for me in January, 2012.
By Kubvoruno Dzimiri7 years ago in Journal
Responding to Online Customer Complaints
During a recent training session on improving business communications for the sales team of a large furniture retailer, one of the attendees asked about the appropriate way to respond to online complaints, and negative reviews. The Client asked "whether," and "how" to respond, especially when it appeared the review was bogus, and possibly an underhanded attack by a shady competitor.
By Steve Gallegos, Esq.7 years ago in Journal
