Career in Fitness – Fitness Instructor

If you are looking for a career as a fitness instructor it is first suggested to gain a thorough knowlege and requirements of the profession, you can get some very good tips here from Sheldon Wesley – a fitness instructor in the Bay Area, California, who might inspire you to take on a career as a [...]

How to Generate Income and stay Positive when you have no Job – Part 1

“’With no job and 5 kids, ‘better to end our lives’, man wrote”.. with such horrendous stories coming up recently, it is time we thought more on this topic – How to generate income post layoff / or during job search process and also focus on how to remain positive during these tough times.
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THE LEADERSHIP CODE – A Book Review

“While we can stipulate that leadership matters and that we know it when we encounter it, it is much more difficult to find the elusive answer to the simple question, ‘What makes an effective leader?’”, the authors explain.
After examining hundreds of frameworks, studies, and philosophies developed by multiple generations of leadership experts, and asking that [...]

What a week – Close to 50,000 Jobs will be wiped out soon

This week’s reports say it all – in the newspapers and the online business editions; it has been a terrible week in terms of job loss in the US. According to the leading newspapers and reports the job market scenario is looking bleaker than ever. In one week itself close to 50,000 positions have been [...]

Trust your Remote Employees – Now you can virtually monitor them

Employers can now trust remote employees more than ever before and employees have more reason to concentrate on work and avoid distractions such as spending time on personal emails or checking in on their online social network now and then. These distractions and the lack of trust is often of concern to employers when they [...]

What would you do to land an Interview?

Every new idea looks crazy at first.
~~ Robert Olson
Today I was reading in the newspaper an article from Mike Cassidy titled “Will Work for Interview“, how one man turns to a marketing gimmick to lure prospective employers.
It is a story about a San Francisco man who wanted a new ‘angle’ to his job search [...]

To Beat Recession we should use less of the ‘R’ word

Maybe to beat recession we must use less of the “r” word in the media these days. The newspapers are depressing, the news online on tech and business is overflowing with the news on layoffs and recession. I know that they are reporting what is actually happening around and running away from the truth does [...]

Would you leave your Job in a Recession if you are a new mom?

If you ask anyone on leaving your job now, the answer would be a vehement “No”; of course, you do not leave your job in recession and a very bad job market as we are seeing this year. But the dilemma on joining back work or not remains the same for a young mother.
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Pay Raise in 2009 – Are you Expecting one?

Recently there has been some “outrage” in the press (Fox News, Rocky Mountain News to name a few), on the automatic pay raise for the members of congress. An article in The Hill rightfully says: A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year and congressional demands of CEOs [...]

5 Essential Tips on Thriving after a Layoff

Economic downturn and recession presents hardships to many around the world; with no jobs to pay for their mortgages or support their current lifestyles frustration and loss of working towards a goal can bring down self-esteem. And what is troubling is that for some months it would be harder to find a job because there [...]

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