5 Ways To Move Ahead In Your Job


Do you think you’re ready for a promotion but your boss does not? Instead of hoping that your current or future job will define your career, stop and take a look at yourself. Here are five ways to invest in your own career and help you to advance. These activities will also help you to gains skills and knowledge to do your current job better.

Are You Managing Your Career?


Do you spend all of your energy helping your customers or your supervisor or your company to succeed and not time thinking about your own success? You probably don’t think about “managing your career” until you have to.

Help With Tough Job Search Situations


Job searching is never easy. Here is information to help with some of the more difficult unemployment situations.

5 Tips To Prepare For A Layoff


Layoffs are horrible. It’s awful when you are told one day that it’s your last on the job. It’s hard when you find out your department entire company is closing within a few weeks. And it sucks to be one of the remaining staff who has to deal with increased workloads while mourning the loss of your coworkers. Unfortunately, I’ve been in each of these situations. I can tell you as a person who lived through the financial stress of losing my job, and as a person who found new employment and career success after a layoff -- it ain’t easy.

‘Avenger’ Example Of 2nd Chance


Examples of perseverance, courage, resilience and strength are all around us. One famous example of a "comeback kid" is Robert Downey, Jr.