Job Survival

This guide should help you perfect your devious "I'm busy" look. Although this look is usually implemented to get out of work, it actually does have some uses in which it is legitimized....

When job seekers are out on their own and sometimes do not think long enough before they jump into an opportunity, that might come few and far between, it can sometimes backfire and in turn hurt...

Keep your family afloat during tough economic times by following these tips.

Whether it is on your health, car, or life, insurance is something that most people have. Independent insurance agents provide necessary information to protect the financial future of customers...

These are the most common sales mistakes that you'll see every day on every sales floor. If you can avoid these, your career will allow you to more than double your current sales. I detail more...

Are you tired of introducing your "Classroom Dos and Don'ts" only to have students not care about them? This article will help you develop a set of norms that students care about...

You will learn how to be a better server from the steps I learned from three and a half years as a waiter in Casual Family dining and how the practices can be implemented to anything from a small...

If you didn't see the 1976 movie - rent it, today. It's called: Network! This TV personality was sick and tired of being lied to by the government. Times were tough: inflation, depression, banks...

Do you think your job and you are safe from layoff? We hear about more layoffs everyday in this recession. Earlier in this series we have talked about "How to Handle a Layoff - Survival...

Knowing a foreign language has many benefits, whether it's for work, travel or fun. Here are a few tips to make learning one easier.

Women and men are different. Regardless of what you've heard, one group is not better than the other! Unfortunately, however, some of our differences have caused men and women to have conflicts...

In a recession economy like the one we are in today, some of us will take just about any job or "career" that we can get. The problem with that is we might land a job that we dread...

If you are like me and work in the real estate industry than you have more likely than not attended anyone of a number of recent market update conferences. The seminar includes industry titans...

In the world of writing, even adults tend to make common mistakes that are learned in elementary levels of writing. It is often misinterpreted how to use basic grammar skills. As a professional...

During these tough times, it's often hard to try and save money with not very much coming in. Here's a few tips on how you can save some green!

Learn how to keep your job in a recession.

There is an ongoing joke in my family when anybody gets burned out on the job and needs a day off. We always say, "I'm going to call in afraid today." Why afraid? Well, you're calling...

Designed to convey an entire document's main points, an executive summary is primarily written for time-constrained executives whose hectic schedules do not afford them with ample time to...

Ways of dealing with stress while at work.

Whether you're madly in love with your job or really hate it, we all have those days where the clock is honest-to-God moving backwards, we have jerk customer after jerk customer (or client, or...

"Sure, boss, I'll stay late". "Sure, I can work this weekend". "Sure, I can take on that new project." "Sure, I can find a birthday present for your...

We can all relate to irritating characters we are unfortunate enough to have to work with. This is just a simple run through on the different varieties of personalities in the workplace. My...

It's an old adage that "if you don't know where are going, any road will get you there". While this sounds like a hokey saying your father would preach to you when you were a teenager,...