Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Employee Satisfaction, Workplace Survival | Tags: Career Advice, Employee Satisfaction, Employers, mid-career, Workplace Survival | No Comments »
Much of what the career advices we get out there is to be a better worker, or improve your personal productivity at work or something of this “better” natural. Sometimes, we need to take a step back and ask, “Is this what I want?”, “Am I doing the right thing for myself?” or “Is this the right job for me?”. By answering such principle questions in our heart, it becomes easier for you to make a decision in your career. Now, you always have an option in your hand to leave the organisation. What will be the factors that will make you leave the organsation then? Read the rest of this entry »
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Much of your performance appraisal will come from your immediate superiors. Unless you are graded by your sales performance which is generally easier to benchmark with. Therefore, it is essential survival skill to understand if your boss likes you. Love you would be the best sceneraio that you would like to be in. With your boss liking you (not in terms of man-woman relationship), your career progression will generally be smooth than the others. That’s of course, your personal productivity being improved as well! Read the rest of this entry »
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Backstabbing occurs everywhere in all workplace. You maybe unknowingly back stab by people that you do not know, you know, or even closed colleagues. You do not really know who are your friend and foe. Friends can be foes as well if you are not careful too! Therefore, it is essential to learn key survival skills against these underlying dangers lurking in the workplace. We want to protect ourselves against them. You never know who are the two-headed snake and sly foxes that are scheming to cause disruption to your career. Here, we have five preventive measures against backstabbing before it really happens. Read the rest of this entry »
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It’s definitely not easy to switch do a mid-career switch. There are a lot of things to consider and it’s not easy to make a decision with a few hours of thoughts to it. A mid-career switch means that whatever you have built up in you and the things around you will not be usable anymore in the new environment. You need to start everything over again from scratch. What is resistance in every individual is that we are unable to give up easily of the things that we’ve built already. Let’s take a peek on what are the things that is holding us back… Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Workplace Survival | Tags: Career Advice, recession, recruitment, retrenchment, Workplace Survival | 2 Comments »
Following our checklist to find out if you will be a potential staff to be axed or the likelihood of being axed, we have a set of indicators that will tell you if you will be the next few to clear your desk! Fret not! It’s not the end of the world if there are signs here and there warning you of this impending danger! Most of the time, when you observe such signals occurring to you, it’s mostly too late. You can at least make some preparation with this final amount of time you have in the office to reduce the “damage”… Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Job Search & Application | Tags: Career Advice, employment, interview, recruitment | 1 Comment »
What we weren’t taught in school is the skills to get a job after you leave them. This is the most crucial and life survival skill that you need to get a job but it wasn’t taught! Strange isn’t it!? Therefore, in this post, we will provide a dummies guide for fresh graduates when they are applying for a new job and know what to expect in their application and interview process. This does not apply just only to fresh graduates. Even professionals will find it useful when they need to apply for a new job! Read the rest of this entry »
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Yes, we know the recession is (almost) over. Some analysts said that we are recovering but of course, not all of them are in-sync with the same sentiment. Employment and consumer statistics are still hovering at pre-good time level and we may not see the “light” soon (yet). But beyond the discussion of market and economy and the fat pay cheques the Wall Street CEOs are getting, will there be another recession (most likely yes)? If it does happen again in your life time, will you be able to survive possible retrenchment? Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Success | Tags: health | 1 Comment »
Discipline is one of the important things you need to be success and productive at work. What we need other than discipline, and most often forgotten, is our health. You, yourself is a resource by its own. Your health governs your ability to work and deliver output. Without a healthy body, you will not be able to deliver what you promised or disciplined to do. Therefore, it is important for us to keep ourselves at the tip top level for everyday challenges. We’ve got five tips that you can do to keep yourself at the healthy level. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: admin | Filed under: Career Advice, Personal Productivity | Tags: Personal Productivity, procrastination | No Comments »
Be it if you are an employee or a manager, there are times that you are not doing what you should be. The worst thing that can happen is that you are ALWAYS not doing what you should be doing. This is definitely no good and this is definitely bad news for everyone. You don’t deliver any productive output. You laze around. You get screwed by the boss… In all aspects of our lives, we have nine things that put us to a stop when we want to get something done. What are they? Read the rest of this entry »
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Why are we not doing the things we should at work? What can be stopping us from producing productive output in our daily work? From another angle, what can be the things that are blockades for your co-workers in delivering quality work on time? We’re humans after all… But we seemed to be unproductive everyday and hoping to pass the dreaded day through with little excitement. There must be something that is just not right for us to get things out on time. To get us achieve some down-right productive, right? What can they be? Read the rest of this entry »
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