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How to Gain Respect in Your Office
You are your own worst enemy. You have cultivated this image. Now you need to turn it around.
How to Deal with Bullying in the Workplace
I had a great job in a small company that many people would have liked to work for. I had constant raises, praise from staff and clients, and engaged in professional development in night school to better myself and the company. After a series of incidents with a particular bully,Read More
How to Write a Cover Letter that Gets Read
I’ve seen thousands of cover letters and hundreds of resumes hiring software developers, web designers, copyeditors, salesman, and admins for my company,
Something about that statistic should jump out at you — I’ve read far fewer resumes than cover letters. That’s because your cover letter is a critical component of getting your resume read.
But there’s another statistic that isn’t as obvious: I don’t read most of the cover letters I receive!
Why not? Because most cover letters are so horrible that they get trashed immediately.
Don’t get auto-trashed. Here’s some tips for writing a killer cover letter that will get your resume into the “Good” pile.
PowerPoint Designs that Executives Love (But Shouldn’t)
It would be easy (and fun!) to discuss PowerPoint (PPT) culture in general: how it ruins meetings, wastes time, confuses audiences, and is a general haven for bad design and writing. But instead, we will use this opportunity to discuss something useful. We will review design techniques that generally meetRead More
To Glee or Not to Glee, That is the Question
My name is Mike Vardy, and it took me a long time to get here. Where’s here, you ask? I could say that it’s WorkAwesome, which would be true. But WorkAwesome for me isn’t just the name of this site – it’s the space I refer to as “here.” TheRead More
How to Prepare for a Layoff
The writing is on the wall, and it says “We have to let you go.” This is what you need to do to get ready.