Handling Life When It Seems All Is Lost

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Hopelessness causes despair, a belief that no better way exists of resolving a problem, situation or circumstance. When things are hopeless, we tend to lose our desire to try and therefore just give up. We doubt that any help is possible. We’re heartsick and overflowing with pain and sorrow [...]

Reap Benefits from Taking Frequent Breaks during a Job Search

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It’s important to take frequent short breaks when searching for a job. Breaks are simply time-outs to reconsider, reflect and make adjustments to your job search. Here are the benefits you receive when you give take frequent breaks during a job search [...]

Overcoming the One Bad Habit that Can Ruin a Job Search

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Many people would not think this bad habit can ruin a job search; but perfectionism can become a vicious trap when taken to the extreme. The obsession with perfection can cause you to fail to achieve your job search goals [...]

Living Your Calling Moment by Moment

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Many Christians have a one-sided view of what God means by a “calling”. They think it is something God has designed specifically for them to do for the rest of their lives, and if only they could find out what it is, they would be anchored securely in the center of God’s will [...]

Develop a Job Search Mindset

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Successful job seekers do things differently than average job hunters. They have developed a job search mindset that causes them to think, act and respond differently throughout the job search process [...]

Failure Can Be Conquered

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You should be able to find several indispensable facts about failure and its relationship to stress in the following paragraphs. Most of this information comes straight from personal experience. Read the article carefully to the end in order to take advantage of that experience and learn to conquer failure [...]

The Key to Career Life After Graduation

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While it’s true that the poor economy has forced many companies to reevaluate college recruitment and hiring efforts, there is still hope for a realistic career life [...]

A Temporary Job May Be A Ticket to Full-Time Work

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A successful job search may well mean taking a temporary assignment or two. Many job seekers have frowned on temporary work because they feel it could distract them from getting a more permanent work arrangement. However, the opposite may well be true in this tight job market [...]

How to Make LinkedIn Work in Your Job Search

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It is vital in any economic situation to have a network to be able to fall back on, or build upon. The most valuable website giving you this on a professional level is LinkedIn. Over 34 million people now have a profile on LinkedIn and also a few connections. The questions that most people ask are, “What does this website have that I can use to my advantage? And, “How can I use it in a way that gives me results without my having to spend too much time on it?” [...]

Overcoming Self-Doubt in a Job Search

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After being laid off it’s easy to succumb to self-doubt about being able to find a new job. You may think you don’t have what it takes to run a successful job search campaign, so you give into feelings of inadequacy and just don’t even try [...]

Tweet Your Next Job

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Reports are coming in from successful job seekers who have received job offers through connections on social networks or related services like TweetMyJobs, which sends out automatic updates of new job openings in a specific field and region to your cell phone or by Twitter [...]