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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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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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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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
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Here are some tips that college counselors and experienced parents of college-bound students have provided on how to get into a good college:
Get a job, either part-time during school or full-time during the summer, and stick with it. It shows a good work ethic and reliability. Colleges are looking for students who will stick with school and graduate.
Take
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People who tend to the elderly, change diapers and serve up food and drinks have the highest rates of depression among U.S. workers.
Overall, 7 percent of full-time workers battled depression in the past year, according to a recent government report.
Women were more likely than men to have had a major bout of depression, and younger
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Here’s an excerpt from Rich Karlgaard, Forbes publisher. Rich discusses the importance of coaches.
Last week I shared Peter Drucker’s classic monograph, “Managing Oneself.” The idea is that a business leader eventually founders and fails if that leader can’t self-manage. Here is a major reason why: The best and brightest information-age workers are free agents. They
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Services
Networking
Visit BrightFuse.com to network and interact with other professionals.
Visit LinkedIn to add your profile to this networking site.
Maintaining Your Skill Sets
Visit iTunes U to stay current in your field, or add new skills. Not technically a Web site but rather a destination inside Apple’s iTunes Store, it lets you download free materials ranging from finance
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