How to recharge a tired job life
Q. I dread going to work every morning and count the hours until quitting time. I feel removed from clients, irritable with co-workers and think I may expire from terminal boredom. But in these hard ...
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A Recession for Perks? What Companies Offer and What Employees Want
According to BusinessDictionary.com, perks are "privileges granted to employees in addition to their salaries and benefits," and may include such things as "the company car, vacations, reserved parking spaces, spacious offices, private dining and washroom ...
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Should You Accept that Lousy Job Offer?
You’re out of work, you can afford to keep looking and you just got a job offer that can best be described as, eh. What do you do? The answer the follows is long and ...
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Concentrate, Then Stop Thinking to Generate More Creative Insights
When we experience an "aha!" moment, our brains experience very high gamma activity as new neural networks are formed. Psychology Today writer Dan Goleman offers some advice on triggering creative ideas: What's the best way ...
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The Value Of Online References. 10 Easy Ways To Help Your Job Search
As an experiment, I recently asked 20 friends to write me a recommendation on LinkedIn. About 25% of the people I asked actually completed a recommendation. Even then, I didn’t really like everything that everyone ...
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