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The Job Skills You’ll Need in 2021 and Beyond
The pace of change continues to accelerate in our society, led by technological progress and the accompanying economic...
Talkin’ ‘Bout Those Transferable Skills
You may be dissatisfied with your current career and looking to make a change. It’s a big decision, enough to put a...
Getting Work Done When Your Mojo is Missing
It happens to everyone: there are just some days when it feels like a slog just to get the bare minimum done at work, let alone exceed expectations. And we’re not talking about feeling ill. We’re talking about when you have the blahs, when you’re...
Why Are You Interested in this Job?
This is one of the top standard job interview questions, so expect to hear it at your next interview. Employers ask it because they want to know why you want to work at their particular company, as opposed to simply doing it to make money. This...
When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work
It happens much more than we’d like – we do all the work and someone else, usually a boss or colleague with more seniority or the person who ends up making the presentation – gets all the credit. Here’s what to do when someone takes all the credit...
Think You Don’t Need to Job Hunt Because You LOVE Your Job? You’re Wrong!
You always should be on the lookout for our next job. Yes, even if you absolutely, positively LOVE your current job. Even if there’s no hint whatsoever about a possible coming layoff. Even if your boss loves you and says again and again that she’ll...
Your First Job Will Not Be Your Dream Job
Coming out of college, you may picture in your mind the kind of job you would love doing – your dream job. It is one that pays you lots of money, is challenging, enjoyable, exciting. Unfortunately, the odds of finding such a job right out of the...
College Grads: Tell Your Folks to Back Off
They are called helicopter parents, and for good reason. The term is used to denote parents who hover over their children, inserting themselves incessantly into the lives of their offspring, attempting to micromanage and control their lives. If the...
Working Hard – or Workaholic?
We all believe hard work is necessary for success in life and in our careers. But even hard work can be harmful if we take it too far, because then it slips into something that can take over our life – workaholism. It is similar to an addiction,...
No Job is a Dream Job: All Jobs are WORK
We often think that getting our dream job will make our lives all rainbows and unicorns. But dream jobs are, plain and simple, myths. All jobs involve doing tasks we don’t like – we have to take off the rose-colored glasses and accept that all jobs...
When You’re Really Asked to Do the Job to Get the Job
It’s fairly common these days for companies to ask job candidates to perform some task or do some assignment to showcase their skills. This is a perfectly reasonable request. In fact, it is a good idea for employers to ask for evidence of a...
