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Author :: Virginia Bola, PsyD  |
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| Article Title :: Working Harder and Longer |
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Keeping up with inflation was the challenge of the 1970s. As
prices rose, wages increased and the middle class trod water to
keep their heads dry.
When we entered our recent recession, inflation was the least of
our worries - we needed jobs, increased demand for goods to spur
manufacturing, a sense of security, and faith that our hard work
would be eventually rewarded. As corporate downsizing and the
offshore job exodus continued, we learned to work harder and
longer to keep our hard won status.
The economists and political pundits trumpeted the end of the
tight economy and the expansion of manufacturing, housing,
tourism. Sure, the jobs never came back on the scale predicted,
but there (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Matt Bacak |
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| Article Title :: Become a Recognized Authority in Your Field - in 60 Days or
Less! |
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You don't have to be rock-star famous before you are recognized
as an authority in your field. You just have to begin to get the
word out. Your goal is to be the person that people think of
when your field is mentioned. At first, that may happen only
locally, but take heart. Start where you are, with what you
have, and you'll light a spark that could eventually become a
firestorm of publicity.
Maybe you offer a workshop at your office, church, or community
center. Get it in the community calendars, from newspapers to
cable television. Call up your local news stations, and offer
yourself as the subject of an interview. One listing or call at
a time, you'll begin to make a name for yourself. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Matthew Bratschi |
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| Article Title :: Hollander Consultants Promotes Dave Worthen to Executive
Establishment Position |
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New Post Created to Increase Stability at Hollander Consultants
Portland, OR – Hollander Consultants, having completed its
highest ever year in 2004, continues its expansion into 2005.
Fred King, Hollander CEO, determined through a careful
evaluation of the company that, in order to maintain and broaden
this expansion, a new position would have to be created and
filled. This position is the Executive Establishment Officer, a
novel post for most consulting organizations.
In order to fill this position, Dave Worthen, who arrived at
Hollander Consultants last year as Vice President and Chief
Marketing Officer, has been promoted to Executive Establishment
Officer. For the previous four ye (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Scott Brown |
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| Article Title :: Developing a Great Relationship with Your Boss |
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We usually write about how to get interviewed and then get hired
for the best job. But this week’s tip is about what to do after
that happens. Finding a job is largely a sales process – finding
prospects (finding jobs), qualifying those prospects further
(interviewing) and closing the sale (getting hired). Good
salespeople know the sales process does not end when you close
the deal. It continues after that as post-sale customer
management. In the career world, this translates into post-hire
“boss management”.
When salespeople make a sale, they know if they’re going to get
maximum value out of the account in terms of future business
with the customer and getting referred to other (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Althea DeBrule |
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| Article Title :: Workplace Fitness--"Tongue-In-Cheek" |
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According to the Oxford Dictionary of Current
English, to speak with one's tongue in one's cheek is to
speak insincerely or ironically. This phrase dates back to 1748
when it was cool to show disdain or disrespect for someone by
putting your tongue inside your cheek to make it stick out.
While we rarely use this gesture to signal contempt today, we
exercise tongue-in-cheek with our words. Our tongues are still
happily employed in broadcasting insincerity, hypocrisy and any
number of damaging darts to pre-planned or unsuspecting targets.
The Tongue
The tongue is the main vessel used to speak. It accomplishes
this by spewing out sounds and words. Although a small part (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Althea DeBrule |
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| Article Title :: Building Successful Work Relationships--Playing In The Same
Sandbox |
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Remember playing in your childhood sandbox? If you enjoyed being
outside for most of the day, you could play in the sandbox for
hours on end—shaping and pouring the sand or mixing it with a
little water to form a castle or hill. Children enjoy playing
with sand or dirt and learn at an early age how to make the most
of this play time activity.
Playing in a sandbox usually starts out as a solitary exercise;
however, smart parents know that in order to develop their
child’s ability to relate to others, another child or two must
be introduced into that same sandbox. This is when the fun truly
begins.
When children play together in the same sandbox:
They learn to trust each other (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Althea DeBrule |
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| Article Title :: Workplace Melodrama--A Flair For The Dramatic |
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A flair for the dramatic is a theatrical term used to
describe an actress or actor who has a talent for melodrama,
characterized by intensely enacted interpersonal conflict and
exaggerated emotions. The central figure in a melodrama is the
hero, who spins his tale or portrays the justice of his cause in
a positive light. Counterparts include the villain and the fool
who are ridiculed and portrayed negatively. Remember
Aesop’s Fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf? The story
goes like this. A shepherd boy (self-styled hero) who was
responsible for a flock of sheep had a habit of bringing out the
villagers by screaming, Wolf! Wolf! When the villagers
(fools according to (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Althea DeBrule |
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| Article Title :: Time Management--Urgent vs. Important |
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“It’s just been one of those days…I can’t seem to get
anything done! I’ve got way too many things on my “To-Do List”.
Oh the list started out innocently enough as a single
handwritten column on one sheet of lined paper; but now it’s
grown to a three-column table in a spreadsheet software program!
I get no satisfaction from checking off each item as I finish
it. For each task I complete, at least two more are added. I
began my work day at 6:30 AM with grandiose plans of completing
a special project before Noon. Now it’s 16 hours later (10:30
PM) and I still have not finished the project. My anxiety and
frustration are mounting. Tomorrow’s list has already been
written (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Bas de Baar |
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| Article Title :: Tips for getting your movie career launched |
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Hollywood helps those who help themselves! In you want to get
your movie career fast tracked then here are three common sense
tips to help you on your way.
1. Borrow the Boy Scout's Motto: Be Prepared.
Once you start the ball rolling you never know when you're going
to get a casting call. When that call comes there isn't going to
be any time to get all of the basics covered so get them out of
the way right now.
Get your portfolio in order. Have plenty of copies of your
PROFESSIONALLY done publicity photo's on hand.
Have all of your stage and screen credits listed even if it's
only summer stock and school performances.
List any special skills you have, such as dancing (read full article) |
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| Category :: Career Articles |
Author :: Matt Bacak |
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| Article Title :: Tips for the Self-Proclaimed Guru |
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You have an inspiring message, a wonderful solution, or a great
product. You have something people need. Now, you have to let
them know about it. You want to teach people to think of you as
a guru in your subject of expertise. Fortunately, that's not as
hard to accomplish as you might think. The hard part is to
convince yourself.
Who me? A guru? An expert?
Yes, you. Absolutely. A guru is simply an acknowledged leader or
teacher. An expert is just anyone who has mastery of a
particular subject. Neither of these words means that you know
everything there is to know. They DO mean that a particular
subject is your specialty. If you have delved so far into a
subject that you have created new i (read full article) |
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