How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
5 Reasons Sleep is Key for Career Success
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern. Sleep. All business leaders need it, most crave it, but throngs do not get the kind of restorative and rehabilitative sleep required to optimize mental clarity, focus, ideation, awareness, productivity and overall job performance. [...]
9 Ways Stress Hurts Your Career Outlook
If you feel like you have been stuck on the career ladder and your chances of promotion are low, you might have stress to blame. You feel overworked, underappreciated, and less motivated, and as a result, you appear less suitable for a [...]
Survey: Workers Report Being Bored More Than 10 Hours a Week
If you’ve ever had a case of the blahs at work, you’re not alone. According to a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam, professionals admit they’re bored in the office an average of 10.5 hours per week. That’s more than a full [...]
Career Tracking: What You Can Do To Get To Where You Want To Be
When it comes to your career, you may have a million thoughts and questions flying through your mind. Whether you’re in high school, college, or already out there in the working world, you may find yourself constantly thinking about your career. Because [...]
Moving Up the Ladder One Certification at a Time: 5 Courses That Could Help Your Career
Advancing your career is a long-term process that simply cannot be rushed. But by taking the needed time and investing it into your education, you can quickly advance in the career ladder and net a better-paying job. Depending on your chosen career [...]
Work Your Way Up in Your Career
People all over the world are stuck in jobs they hate. Whether it’s because they hate working in general, or because they’ve chose any job just to have the money to get by. That’s the sad reality of this day and age. [...]
11 Surefire Ways To Become The Manager Everyone Respects
When you start a job, you spend time seeking promotion. You do whatever it takes to get noticed and remembered. Then, that promotion comes, and you are immediately looking for the next step on the ladder. Doing what you can to go [...]
Feeling Stuck At Work? Prepare Yourself To Take A New Step In Your Career!
We all have those moments in life and career when we feel kind of stuck. As though life seems to be moving all around you and you're just standing still. It can be a pretty upsetting and isolating feeling for a lot [...]
What Leaders Can Do To Influence Workplace Respect
This is a guest post by Rosanne Thomas, author of EXCUSE ME: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette, and founder and president of Protocol Advisors, Inc. Leaders have enormous responsibilities. They determine the major goals of the organization and provide [...]
4 Common Causes of Overwork or Occupational Stress [Infographic]
According to Day Job To Dream Job, the 4 common causes of overwork or occupational stress are: Working long and excessive hours. Stress due to frustration at not being able to achieve the company goals. Forced resignation, dismissal and bullying at work. Suffering [...]
Making The Most Of Your Online Learning Experience
The world of online learning has exploded during the past decade or so. Massive amounts of people are deciding to look into self-development and career progression by taking the plunge and getting back into education, and the Internet is the tool that [...]
Finding the Right Career Path that’s a Calling
When it comes to finding that right job, the one that really empowers us and provides for us in the ways we need it to, it is a challenging task that we don’t necessarily figure out immediately after high school. Often we [...]
The 4th Industrial Revolution and Job Automation [Infographic]
The 4th Industrial Revolution is happening now. It is marked by revolutionary innovations in many fields including genetics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology etc. It has led to massive transformations in consumption, production and most importantly, in the global workforce. As governments, [...]
How Much Time Employees Spend on Cell Phones and Personal Tasks [Infographic]
It’s easy for workers to get distracted with all that the summer and today’s 24/7 news cycle offer. It doesn’t help that a new OfficeTeam survey finds a good portion of employees’ time is also being wasted on cell phones and personal activities. Professionals [...]
Not Feeling Challenged at Work? There’s Something you can do About it.
So many people hate their jobs that it’s become a tired and worn-out stereotype. Still, whilst so many other people may hate their jobs too, that doesn’t invalidate your right to be happy in your job role. You might love the industry [...]
Career Satisfaction Comes Easy If You Know How To Find Your Perfect Niche – Here’s How
When you love what you do, satisfaction and joy trickles down to every aspect of your life. But not all of us get to enjoy what we do or what we want. If career satisfaction is evading you, have you stopped to [...]
Overcoming Burnout: 7 Viable Steps to Reclaim Control of Your Life
This is a guest post by Denise R. Green Stress and burnout present themselves in different ways, including weight gain, irritability, poor sleep and anxiety. Eventually, the emotional exhaustion from feelings of having too little control and too many demands can lead [...]
New Work Trends: Benefits of Working from Home [Infographic]
The Millennial workforce is creating a growing trend of working from home. It is a trend that has been growing for years and isn’t showing any signs stopping. A recent study from Polycom shows that almost a full third of employees around the globe [...]
Continuing Education Means Continuing Competence – #CareerSuccess
Many people harbor the misconception that because they have finished school, earning necessary degrees and certifications for entry-level employment, that they will never again need to set foot in a classroom. Yet, millions of workers around the U.S. continue to languish in [...]
Hey, It’s OK To Say No To A Promotion
For most people, getting a promotion at work is everything they have always dreamed of. Even if a job comes with a lot more responsibilities and day-to-day tasks, there is still reason to celebrate a promotion. But maybe you should consider things [...]
Navigate Workplace Hurdles Mindfully to Protect your Career
Navigating the workplace is something that takes a lot of practice. Every work environment can be different, from factory floors to offices. And you'll even find different company cultures from one office to the next. There are many sensitive issues you could [...]
What to Wear for Work: Office Attire and Dress Codes
When it comes to office attire, many employees want to keep things casual: 56% of workers surveyed by OfficeTeam said they prefer more relaxed dress codes. However, four in 10 employees (41%) also admitted they’re at least sometimes unsure about whether a [...]
Why Leadership Ego May Be Killing Your Company and What You Can Do About It
This is a guest post by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes Captured on camera — a passenger being dragged off a plane goes viral instantly, and an international brand-tarnishing moment is made. As a leader such a scenario is a shining [...]
Step Up In Your Career: How To Open More Doors In Your Spare Time
Would you like to advance your career and get a promotion at work? Do you like the idea of working for a different company in a better role? Before you say yes to the above, take a moment and think what's the [...]