Written by admin on Jul 4th, 2008 | Filed under:
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This article provides some points for one to evaluate the areas where his or her innate strength, talent and intelligence may reside in. This is an important consideration for making good career decision and direction.
You can use the following to have a general understanding of your inclinations and strengths.
Strong logical thinking skill
Are you good in some of the following areas?
Counting
Calculation
Analyzing
Deduce ...
Written by admin on Jun 4th, 2008 | Filed under:
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Job and/or self-employment decision should be taken seriously and with much careful considerations.
Why is that so? This is because our income-generating activities take up a huge portion of our adulthood life. For life satisfaction, career and employment happiness and satisfaction is a major consideration.
Self-employment is a person's pursuit of earning a living by working for himself. In order to ...
Written by admin on Jun 4th, 2008 | Filed under:
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Retirement is the stage of an adult person's life characterized by the cessation of working for a living.
Different people have different attitudes towards the subject of retirement. To us, planning and preparing for eventual retirement is very important. It is a requirement if we want to live well during the advanced age of one's life journey.
The earlier a ...
Written by admin on May 25th, 2008 | Filed under:
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The internet is fast changing the way that we find information. This also includes the areas of job search and employment seeking.
This article highlights the pros and cons of using the internet to find a job.
The advantages are as the following:
1. The internet is a fast and easy way to find a large variety of job opportunities.
2. The search is ...
Written by admin on May 24th, 2008 | Filed under:
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Before the advent of the internet, self-promotion and job seeking efforts are mainly through the medium of the snail mail.
However, in this digital and internet age, you can expand your job seeking endeavours by very quickly broadcasting yourself to an online audience, without the need to wait for the information to be disseminated via conventional paper methods such as snail ...
Written by admin on May 20th, 2008 | Filed under:
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What is a Corporate Gift? It is a souvenir that you give to a client or customer.
Buying a corporate gift can be a tricky thing. This is because you want to create the correct impression to the client. You don't want to overspend, yet you don't want to appear cheap and stingy.
The followings are some important considerations when choosing corporate ...
Written by admin on May 4th, 2008 | Filed under:
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What is retirement? Retirement is the period of time when a person stops earning money for a living. It refers to the stage in life after one stops working.
Planning for retirement is important. Why is this so?
It is important because of several reasons:
1. The Retirement period has potentially lengthened. Recent surveys done globally have found a major trend. That is ...
Written by admin on Feb 12th, 2008 | Filed under:
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Job Dissatisfaction comes in many forms. Below listed are the 10 common ones. Can you relate to any of them?
Here's the list:
1. Feeling Overworked
2. Feeling Underpaid
3. No longer motivated
4. Travelling time takes too long.
5. No opportunity for promotion and advancement.
6. Dislike the boss.
7. Dislike the colleague/s
8. No sense of job security.
9. Not feeling appreciated.
10. Not really one's interest.
Written by admin on Feb 11th, 2008 | Filed under:
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A Job Interview can make or break one's chances of being employed. Therefore it is imperative that we present our most impressive side to the interviewer/s.
The followings are some crucial points that one need to take note of when going for an interview:
1. The dressing and attire.
Needless to say, you will need to dress professionally and be appropriate for the ...
Written by admin on Jan 19th, 2008 | Filed under:
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How to better understand a particular career field. There are several ways of doing so:
1. Attend trade shows and conferences
2. Visit a workplace within the industry.
3. Attend short courses and seminars
4. Take on an internship
5. Take on a freelance project related to the chosen field.
This is certainly not an exhaustive list. Nevertheless, by applying the above mentioned points, one can ...