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

Prosperity Concierge — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:03:36 +0000

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

Prosperity Concierge — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:08:13 +0000

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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Create your Personal Skills Inventory

Prosperity Concierge — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:17:59 +0000

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

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:24:32 +0000

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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Tips for College-Bound Students – How to Get Into a Good College

Prosperity Concierge — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:47:02 +0000

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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Depression and Your Career – Jobs That Can Make You Depressed

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:47:36 +0000

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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Coaches for Leaders – Career Management

Prosperity Concierge — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:31:39 +0000

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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Career Resources

Prosperity Concierge — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:33:06 +0000

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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Career Development

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:27:15 +0000

Your career development can be affected by what you decide to focus on when you are at work.

The author of The Four-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss, says in Money magazine:

“Don’t get too good at the little things. If you excel at the menial tasks, those are the responsibilities people will associate you with and give

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How to Choose a Career

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:25:08 +0000

Consider a career in a high-demand industry such as health care or engineering.

The high-level workers are doing well since there is strong demand. These include star performers in industries such as software, finance and sports.

Low-paid workers are seeing increased demand because they have jobs that are not easily outsourced off-shore and they are benefiting from

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