In her article for ForbesWoman, Susannah Breslin shares her story, How I went from Downsized to Self-Employed in Four Months.
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I was downsized in January.
Four months later, I was self-employed and earning almost as much as I had at my full-time salary.
Here’s how I did it.
In his article for U.S. News and World Report, Curt Rosengren shows readers how to Expand Your Career Potential.
Below is an excerpt of Rosengren’s article:
I remember the feeling when I first left home to go to college and realized I didn’t need permission for the way I lived my life. It was exhilarating and liberating. I imagine most people have a similar experience as they transition from dependence to independence.
Part of being an adult is having that independence and control of our own lives. And yet many of us are still limited by an absence of permission. Only this time it’s not our parents who won’t let us do what we want. And it’s not our teachers, or our bosses, or any other authority figure. It’s our own selves.
There are certain things we won’t let ourselves do, or feel, or experience. The reasons why are legion. We don’t give ourselves permission because of what someone else might say or think. We refuse permission because something is too scary, or because “that’s not the way it’s done.” We withhold permission because we think someone else wouldn’t approve. And on and on it goes.
Read more of Rosengren’s article to find helpful advice about when to say no, allowing yourself to experiment, and its okay to be yourself.
Great news for veterans. LiveCareer News reports, Ashford University Helps Veterans Earn Degrees. The University has teamed up with Cox Communications to provide scholarships to veterans seeking higher education.
U.S. News and World Report On Careers article, The 10 Most Common Job Interview Questions, Alison Green helps you to prepare for your next interview. In today’s competitive job market, it’s important to anticipate what an employer will ask you during the interview process.
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Common Interview Questions from Green’s article:
Wall Street Journal Career Stategies article, Most Promotions Take Place in January, Study Finds, Joe Light references a study conducted by LinkedIn Corp showing when “the greatest percentage of in-house promotions” occur. In this study, the professional networking site found that, “16% of promotions since 2000 occurred in January”.
January is not always the hot month for promotions. Depending on the industry, the study finds June, July, and September are also popular months for job advancement.
Read more of Light’s article to learn how you can secure a promotion in the coming year.
About.com Guide, Alison Doyle shows you, Resignation Do’s and Don’ts. How (and How Not) to Resign From a Job.
Tips to look for in Doyle’s article are:
Wall Street Journal blog, Hire Education, Deloitte CEO, Barry Salzberg shares his thoughts on how students should begin career preparation as early as high school.
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Even in a good economy, the transition from college to the workplace can be tricky. Some people sail through academia to work without a hitch. Others have a harder time finding the right fit; they’ll need to adjust their expectations and/or improve their skills before they begin their careers.
So where’s the disconnect? Why isn’t everyone coming out of college career- and future-ready?
For many students, it may be because they had to spend time getting up to speed on college-level work. That leaves them less time to reap the benefits of higher education and grow into the kinds of young professionals employers expect to hire.
As colleges prepare for final exams this month, millions of first-year students will get concrete data on how well they’ve been prepared for higher education. More than two-thirds of high-school students in Deloitte’s 2010 Education Survey told us they felt well-prepared for college, while more than two-thirds of high school teachers fear their students are not prepared to handle college course work.
Which view is correct? The sad truth of the matter is no one really knows.
In her blog CareerDiva.net, Eve Tahmincioglu helps job seekers find out Which college will get you a job at Google?
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The only real good worker news recently has come out of Google. The company announced it was giving its entire global workforce of 23,000 a 10 percent pay raise starting in January.
Even though the search engine giant has had some layoffs during the recession, they are nothing like other large companies, and Google’s been hiring consistently through the bad times.
Clearly, lots of folks want to work for Google and companies like them. But how do you get on the Google job track?
With so many college kids graduating and finding no work, it makes sense for high school students and their parents, who are now scouting colleges, to wonder whether the school they pick will lead to a solid job for a solid employer.
In her article for U.S. News and World Report, Karen Burns shows readers 20 Ways to Stay Motivated During Your Job Search.
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The longer you look for a job, the tougher it becomes. Who could blame you for feeling despondent, discouraged, depressed—even bitter? Some days you may not even feel like getting out of bed.
Unfortunately, not only is depression, well, depressing, it also makes it harder to get out there and look. And the less you get out and look, the less likely a job offer will come your way. Even worse, prospective employers tend to be turned off by negativity. It’s the most dastardly kind of Catch-22.
What all this means is that a major part of anyone’s job hunt is staying motivated. We all have our ways of keeping on keeping on, but here are some time-tested suggestions to prevent your search from getting you down:
In an interview for Susan Adams’ Forbes Magazine article, How to Communicate Better at Work, Karen Friedman has helpful advice on how to simplify and capitalize business communication.
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The title of Karen Friedman’s new book isn’t exactly subtle.Shut Up And Say Something: Business Communication Strategies to Overcome Challenges and Influence Listeners lays out her no-nonsense philosophy about how to best get your point across, drawn from her 35 years of experience as a professional communicator. As a TV news reporter, she worked at local stations in cities from Milwaukee to Huntsville, Ala. For the last 15 years, she’s headed up Karen Friedman Enterprises, a communication coaching firm in Philadelphia.
How does she apply her ideas in the workplace? Her No. 1 rule, gleaned from two decades in the TV news trenches: “It is absolutely critical to be as direct, to the point and concise as possible,” she says, in a lively, forceful voice with a Philadelphia tinge. Vagueness is all too common in the workplace, she observes, and you easily remedy it by following the newscaster’s drill of spelling out who, what, where, when and why.
