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Become Resilient to Cope with Adversity and Improve Relationships

Prosperity Concierge — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:13:36 +0000

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

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

Prosperity Concierge — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:55:42 +0000

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

Prosperity Concierge — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:59:50 +0000

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

Prosperity Concierge — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:51:44 +0000

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

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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Job Search: Tips for Writing a Good Resume

Prosperity Concierge — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:04:21 +0000

Here are job search tips to help you create a resume that will help you be noticed and land a job interview.

Reject the Objective

Your resume objective may actually hurt you. Your resume gets tossed when it lists an objective totally unrelated to the position that’s open. Really, just get rid of the objective altogether. It rarely

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Reverse Mortgages to Improve Cash Flow or Provide Spending Money

Prosperity Concierge — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:04:00 +0000

Older homeowners have more options to tap into the equity in their homes: reverse mortgages. The key to using a reverse mortgage is to understand how they can help your cash flow, often providing income to offset expenses in retirement, or enabling additional spending for a vacation getaway or recreation vehicle.

With a reverse mortgage, instead

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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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Job Search: Tips on Writing a Good Cover Letter

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:17:41 +0000

Cover letters should be brief.

With a cover letter, you can get more context than you might get in a résumé.

Cover letters also are ideal for clearing up anything in a résumé that might confuse or concern recruiters.

Make sure every cover letter is error-free or your hard work could backfire. Sloppiness can automatically eliminate an applicant

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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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Using Web Sites to Find Your Salary Range

Prosperity Concierge — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:44:12 +0000

Web sites can help job seekers find their salary range.

In a tough job market the dreaded “what’s your salary range” question becomes even more difficult to navigate. Give a number too low and you could lose out on thousands of dollars. Answer too high and you could price yourself out of the running.

There are a

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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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Job Search Scams to Avoid

Prosperity Concierge — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:50:21 +0000

Your job search may put you in harm’s way. Here are a few scams to avoid as you conduct your job search:

Job Offers that Require an Upfront Fee

If you have to pay a fee upfront do your due diligence. In early 2009 ads appeared in Florida from a company claiming it was hiring 2,500 employees

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Severance – How to Get Laid Off

Prosperity Concierge — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:46:57 +0000

Severance is similar to estate planning – it’s a subject you want to think about tomorrow. However, layoffs and buyouts are a way of employment life and it is best to have a defensive strategy.

To get the best severance package employment experts say that two things need to occur:

the employee needs to know what they

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How to Handle a Job Loss

Prosperity Concierge — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:55:43 +0000

The loss of a job is on the short list of the most stressful events that can occur in one’s life. People have described the loss of a job as “having the wind knocked out of your sails,” “having the rug pulled out from you,” “like being hit by a ton of bricks,” and feeling

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Employment Resources

Prosperity Concierge — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:38:23 +0000

Information The Job Search

Visit business networking site LinkedIn to find jobs that match members’ qualifications with available jobs. Fill out your profile fully. Make sure it’s publicly available. Add keywords that reflect your skills. Borrow phrases from job descriptions to help recruiters find you. And join LinkedIn groups in your industry. You can search your

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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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