Communicating Positively
Communication is a two-way process. It involves the exchange of information: talking (giving information) as well as listening (receiving data). Sometimes we listen to what's told but are reluctant to ask questions for fear of appearing unsure or incompetent. To make...
Should You Follow-Up On A Job Interview?
Are you in the process of finding a new job? If you are, you may have job interviews already lined up. You may have already had some job interviews take place. If that is the case, did you follow up with the interviewer or the employer in question? If follow-up...
Managing Loneliness
My experience from 35 years of counselling individuals is that most of the problems from which people suffer stem from how they handle the events of life, rather than the games themselves. Certainly, traumatic and tragic events such as loss of loved ones, financial...
Baby Boomer Retirement Options
As the first wave of Baby Boomers nears retirement age, they're beginning to realize that unlike their predecessors, they have many options. Here's a look at some of the Baby Boomer retirement options this group of mature adults is choosing. They're working long past...
Effective Personal Development – Read These Tips!
It is easy to just kind of get stuck in life. Sometimes it is because someone has reached a comfort level and does not feel like branching out. At other times it is because someone just does not know what to do. This article will help provide you with a variety of...
How To Win The Job Interview
Most applicants fail because they lack confidence in themselves A job interview should never be treated or compared to an interrogation. This wrong notion of what a meeting should be will add to the fear mounting inside. This fear usually hinders you from actually...
Looking For Business IDeas?
Types of Home-Based Businesses Construction: general contracting, painting and decorating Manufacturing & processing: picture framing, furniture upholstery, sewing, crafts Retail: Mail order, crafts, silk flowers, wood products Financial Services: insurance, real...
Overcoming Workplace Stress and Anxiety
We live in a stressful world. No matter how hard we try to circumvent stress and anxiety, our rendezvous with stress and anxiety is as sure as death and taxes. Encountering distress is an undeniable reality. Understanding that stress and anxiety are always present in...
Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges
What does the future world of work and leisure hold for us? One thing is sure - change! We are likely to change jobs and occupations by necessity or by choice several times in our lives. Some of those future occupations don't even exist yet. People will have to let go...
Getting Started For A Job Cold Call
Here's a little Girl Scout on the street carrying boxes of different flavoured cookies, timidly trying to knock on her neighbours' doors worried that somehow she'd be booted out and that doors would just slam shut on her face after offering her cookies for only a few...
Job Applications: Identify Your Transferable Skills
Getting into the labour market after school or college is a daunting prospect, and that's without the minefield of jargon, overnight advances in technology and discriminatory attitudes. OK - Let's bust a bit of that jargon! What exactly are transferable skills? Quite...
Where Do You Go To Find Out More?
Research is More than Just Books When I think of research, I might see myself in the library digging into volumes of books. But research is more than just books. There are many different ways to study, and there are many places I can go to find out what I need to...
The Cross-Skilled Worker
The working world is going through a dramatic shake-up. As companies downsize, many permanent, full-time jobs have disappeared. Employees who still have jobs are finding that their work is changing. Workers losing their jobs are discovering that it's almost impossible...
Career Planning: It’s A Lifelong Project
Career Planning: A process of matching your career needs and priorities with the options available to you in the labour market, and re-evaluating your plans as necessary. It used to be that people thought of a career as cradle-to-grave employment working for one...
Gathering Information From People
The People Who Might Be Able To Help You: - People you work with - People you have worked with - Friends - Family, relatives - Acquaintances - People who are currently working in a job and in an occupational area you are interested in - People who have worked with...
Making Time For Leisure
Some people's lives seem to be all work and no play. They complain about having no time to visit friends or do their favourite things, but they never set time aside to do them. Others seem to be able to do it all! They enjoy their jobs, spend their spare time with...
Values Change
iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/W8PA0vQ7gec?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> What was important to us when we first started to work may be entirely different 10, 20 or 30 years later. For example, young adult workers in their first...
Why You Should Get Your Resume Professionally Done
Resume writing services have done all the hard work for you and should provide a resume that works! Most resumes fail to represent people accurately. Having heard of many tips and many formats, you will want to spend a lot of time on research. Have you heard of resume...