It can be easy to get discouraged and frustrated when you’re a jobseeker during a pandemic. In fact, it’s even easier to do so when you were looking for a job even before the pandemic hit. To those who lost their jobs during the pandemic, it’s a different story. Having something you worked very hard for all those years being … Read More
Goal Setting (SMART Goals)
“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry You may have heard this wonderful quote before. Brief but incredibly wise, this quote pinpoints the importance of an action plan to help make your dreams a reality. To establish a goal and achieve what you want, you will need a solid, concrete plan. What may … Read More
Career Journeys: Targeting Your Interest, Personality, and Values
According to the State University of New York at Fredonia, a career can be defined as a person’s progress within an occupation or series of occupations. However, a career is more than just a job, or working, or your occupation. It also includes your progress through life, your growth and development in vocational (occupation) and avocational (hobby) areas of life. … Read More
Top Ways to Maximize Your Talents at Work
Are you maximizing your strengths and promoting your talents at work? Your current or potential employer desperately needs to use your talents NOW, especially since they are focused on increasing revenue. Just what ARE your talents and how can you apply them to your career? 1. Discover Your Hidden Talents a. What are your strengths and weaknesses? b. … Read More
The 3 Secrets Of Wow! Customer Service
Your aim in giving your customers exceptional service is to make them say “Wow!” as soon as you disappear. Make the following 3 tips part of your norm. 1. Attend To The Little Things. Paying attention to the little things which don’t significantly affect the main service is a way of saying: “If we look after the little … Read More
Do You Sell Yourself To The Customer?
Let me ask you – do you sell yourself as a person of integrity and honesty to your buyers? Or you focus only on your product? Let me ask you one question- do you think that your bus the product only because of the value of the product? Or because your buyer believes in you and thinks that you will … Read More
Becoming Larger Than Life in Public Speaking
In a lot of ways, when you step out to talk to a group of people, you do become larger than life. That is because you are doing the impossible. You are having a conversation with dozens of people all at once. Now, whether you feel like you are having that conversation or not isn’t important. What you are … Read More
Manifest a Desire
What does it mean to manifest a desire? Manifest means to offer proof, attest to or to display clearly. So when we say: manifest a desire, we say to display your desire as having been fulfilled or to offer proof of something. There is another and better way to manifest a desire and it is to use your mind. … Read More
Be thorough BUT to the point in an interview
If you are answering a question using an example from your previous or current job and there is a lot of jargon or acronyms – try to use the more commonplace terms that more people are familiar with or explain what you mean in the beginning. If you are asked to describe a time when you lead a project – … Read More
SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND SUCCESS
Everything that happens to us happens in purpose. One thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self-improvement and success. So, where do we start? Take these tips, friends… *Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re … Read More