Category: Career
What Relationships Can Teach Us About the World of Work
It’s been said that those who fail to learn from the past are destined to repeat it. For some of us that means a paradigm shift for 2011. If you’re seeking ways to work smarter, enhance your work experience, increase your value to your organization, and move forward in yourRead More
The Intrapreneurship Alternative: Innovating from Within
Intrapreneurship can have many meanings — you can’t even successfully run spell check on the word. However, intrapreneurship can lead to amazing results in product and procedural development within a company or corporation. Intrapreneurship is meant to encourage employees in developing their own ideas, innovations, and techniques into solid plansRead More
How to Become an Expert
Do you know the definition of an expert? An expert is defined as: “…a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field.” That means that if you gain more skill and knowledge in your workplace in a particular area, it’s possible that people at work could considerRead More
4 Guidelines for Going Self-Employed
Employment at a large corporation and self-employment both offer different advantages, disadvantages and benefits. Some people are simply too entrepreneurial to be happy working for a large corporation. Others are way too dependent to be responsible for generating their own income. Is self-employment a realistic option for you?
Create a PDF Resume from LinkedIn
LinkedIn has been around for a while, allowing its users to create a page to showcase their work experience, make connections with like-minded people and colleagues, and can be used as a landing page when you are actively looking for new work opportunities. But it’s not a resume — atRead More
Do You Need a Career Change?
As a new year begins many things run through our heads. One such thing might be that you wonder if you are in the right job. You’re not alone. This is something a lot of people think about from time to time — more so at this time of year. Read More
The Art of the Personal Mission Statement
Around this time last year a good friend of mine invited me to participate in a 31-day process of developing a personal mission statement for 2010. It sounded like a daunting task at first, but I ended up doing it when the friend who invited me agreed to be myRead More