How to Take Charge of Your Career in the New Economy

Creating opportunities requires developing a distinctive brand and cultivating relationships. Know Your Brand Before you can successfully compete in today’s challenging market, you have to have an angle. That angle is your brand. Whether you realize it or not, you are in fact a brand. The challenge is making sure that brand ... Continue Reading

4 Questions to Ask When You Want to Quit Your Job

Instead of taking that broad-brush perspective, set your frustration aside for the moment and look for both the good and the bad. It’s not about trying to whitewash a crappy situation. It’s simply about trying to breathe the light of reality back into the situation. Here are some questions to ... Continue Reading

The Right and Wrong Way to Quit Your Job

More people are settling for less than desirable jobs during this recession to help pay the bills. So chances are that you or someone you know feels fed up at work and has visions of quitting in a blaze of glory. You’d start your final day by kissing your co-worker crush, ... Continue Reading

Bad reasons for quitting your last job

There are many great reasons why a person would quit their jobs. There are equally as many, if not more, reasons why you shouldn’t quit a job. The job market is very tight right now. The economy has made it very difficult for people seeking employment to find anything that ... Continue Reading

Deciding whether to give two weeks notice or not

When you leave a job, there are two things that remain long after you are no longer employed: your personnel file, and your reputation. While tendering a two week notice of resignation may be standard, my recommendation is that whenever possible an employee should give as much notice as necessary to ... Continue Reading

5 Possible reasons for leaving a current job

What are some of the reasons you may leave your current job? They may be personal or professional, and oftentimes, several factors may come into play. 1. Career Growth Career growth is a key motivator to leave one job for another. No matter how well you perform in your current role, the ... Continue Reading

How to look out for a new job while still working your old job

They say it’s easier to find a job while you have a job. There may be some truth to that, as you feel less pressure when you are employed. You still have income, and you are in a sense looking for something better. But, how can you look for a new ... Continue Reading

Signs that you hate your job

If you are pondering the idea of possibly moving on from your job, you have probably already noticed a sign or two that show you that everything isn’t as you would like it to be in your professional life. However, in these turbulent times when jobs are hard to come ... Continue Reading

Bad reasons for quitting your job

You have worked for your present employer for what seems like a decade. You are about tired of the nagging coworkers and demanding boss. Besides the pay is not very good. Would there be any good reason why you should continue to hang around in this terrible place? Recently the ... Continue Reading

Make a Career Change During a Recession

Among the ways of coping with recession is considering a career change. Not too many people like the idea of changing their career during a downturn in the economy. Nonetheless, if you’ve already felt the effects of recession - say you’ve been dismissed, why not establish another career path? It ... Continue Reading

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