Become Resilient to Cope with Adversity and Improve Relationships

Resiliency helps you to cope with and bounce back from adversity. Building your resilience will help improve your relationships at work and at home.

There are four types of resiliency.

Physical Relience requires a healthy and balanced diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep and self-care.

Cognitive or mental resilience describes attention, judgment and decision-making skills, during both good

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Your Career - Signs it May Have Stalled and How to Get it Back on Track

Signs Your Career Has Stalled

Your career can lose power for many reasons: a lack of opportunities, industry changes and plain old boredom are just a few of them.

Are you wondering whether your career has stalled? Here are some of the top warning signs, according to experts:

1. Your role and responsibilities haven’t changed in a few

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Create an Interview Portfolio Showing Your Knowledge, Skills, Achievements and Abilities

When you are on a job search you want to give an employer reasons to hire you. You want to showcase your education and work experience by providing persuasive evidence of your work, skills and accomplishments.

So create a portfolio, an historical scrapbook that address common interview question categories such as team-building, problem-solving, leadership, management, culture

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How to Work from Home and Avoid a Commute: Plan for Success

Here are some tips on how to work from home.

Set up your workspace

Setting a laptop on your kitchen table can make it difficult to focus and get anything done. Instead, have a designated work area where you “go to work.” Specifying a workspace draws boundaries. Tell family members who are home with you that when

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Working: Having a Job in the Suburbs Can be a Lifestyle Challenge

Having a job in the suburbs can alter your lifestyle. It can change your social life, your travel time to work and your ability to network in your industry, so it’s important to consider the benefits and challenges before you accept.

Working in the suburbs can rule out the use of public transportation to get around,

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A Framework for Your Job Search

These themes can provide you with a good framework for your job search.

Be the Solution to an Employer’s Problem

Package yourself as a solution. Think of yourself as a consultant to the company. Be careful not to give out the “been there, done that” attitude. You need to appear excited about everything. And don’t assume that because

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Create your Personal Skills Inventory

We can create our personal inventory of skills and abilities that we’ve acquired from our experiences.

Why inventory our skills?

Perhaps we’re looking for a job or a new opportunity. We can look for a job that uses skills for which we are a close match.

We can also use our skill inventory to find our interests. Our abilities tend to

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Steps to Protect Your Cash Flow

Here are some steps you can take to protect your cash flow during tough times. It may be a job loss, or large and unexpected medical bills. Whatever the cause, it threatens your income stream or raises your expenses. You’ll need to take drastic measures to restore your cash flow as much as possible.

Eliminate Nonessential Spending

One

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