Banishing Job Blues
October 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Getting Ahead
One company poster reads: “It’s a mistake to stop looking for work as soon as you’ve landed a job.” Since the economic slowdown, gloomy news regarding mass layoffs and widespread downsizing has scared many employees. People are just taking any jobs they can get. The number of underemployed also increased. Many are getting desperate and just sign up for jobs that do not pose any challenge or motivation for them—as long as there is a salary to expect at the end of the month and some added benefits such as an occasional cash bonus or payday loans. Most of these employees think that they have dead-end jobs. However, what if it is not the job that poses the problem? What if the biggest block to career advancement is the employees themselves?
Some career experts think that, more often …
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