Turn Your Career Mistakes into Successes

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Mistakes are defining moments that provide some of the most meaningful experiences at work. They cause you to look at things a little differently. Mistakes are often difficult to think about; but many of them have driven you to perform better or have caused you to change direction when you’ve encountered seemingly impossible obstacles [...]

Keep Your Job Search from Being Too Busy

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To steer clear of extreme stress and burnout, you will need to learn to balance your job search with the rest of life. A consistent and focused job search that sets an even pace is more effective in the long run than short bursts of interviewing and job hunting activity. The former leads to successful work and life integration; the latter creates impatience, intolerance and unwanted opportunities to make mistakes and career damaging moves [...]

Use Quick Wins to Advance Your Career

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Whenever your career needs a boost, try getting a few quick wins. Quick wins are small accomplishments you make that move your career forward. Instead of fantasizing about the perfect career, use these steps to get started [...]

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 [...]

How to Weather Stormy Leadership Seas

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Every follower has a particularly challenging area in which it is difficult to submit to authority. Select the areas where you have the most difficulty with this leadership tool…

100 Helpful Tips for Great Managers

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Want a resource for making work a bit easier, more productive, and enjoyable? 100 Helpful Tips for Great Managers by Lisa Haneberg and Bob Rosner offers suggestions and ideas to ease the daily job of leading others…

40 Days of Prayer for Overcoming Uncertainty & Doubt

Are you filled with doubt and uncertain about the future? Do you have a tendency to worry or get stressed over the smallest inconvenience? Scripture tells us that when we worry, we demonstrate a lack of faith and trust in the Lord and His sufficiency [...]

Tending Your Career Roots

Understanding your career roots will make all the difference in the jobs you take and the career direction you pursue. Career roots grow not by internal striving, but by continuous response to certain external stimuli (the job market and business environment).

Write a Professional Cover Letter for a Job Application

A well-written and concise cover letter is an essential part of any job application, because many employers place greater stock in a cover letter than the accompanying resume. That said, keep the following points in mind while writing a cover letter, and your cover letter will stand out from the other hundred applications received by the employer [...]

Play the Career Failure Game and Win-Part 3

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Successfully winning the career failure game will not happen overnight; but you can eliminate those self-imposed failures and mistakes that are keeping you from realizing your full potential. Here is a small but very powerful and compelling three point approach to help you win the career failure game [...]

Play the Career Failure Game and Win-Part 2

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Because no one is perfect, we all have regrets. We’ve made bad choices in our careers, said and done some foolish things, wasted time, and hurt ourselves and others; yet failure can be a valuable learning experience [...]