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Successful Executives Take Inspired Action and Ship

Seth Godin, brilliant marketer, business strategist, and all around innovative thinker, hit another home run with his blog entitled "Unrealized Projects." He writes about the academy award winning director, writer, producer, and artist, Tim Burton, who created "some of the most breathtaking movies of his generation." No surprise there when you review even a partial list of his hits: "Sweeney Todd," "Bat Man," "Beetlejuice," and "Edward Scissorhands." What did surprise Godin was learning that "almost every year over the last thirty, he worked on one or more exciting projects t

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The Difference Between “Need” and “Want”

Let’s face it: Most people spend way too much money on things they don’t really need. The more money we make, the more we tend to spend. This endless cycle of materialism has led many people to confuse the word “need” with the word “want.” As in, “we need a big-screen TV for our new home ...

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Why Coworkers Don't Make Good Facebook Friends

Work life and Facebook – it seems like a never-ending discussion topic nowadays. There are many things to consider in regards to your personal and career brand. Yet so many people are either unaware of them or do not fully understand the ramifications of the content they might share online. For millions of people, this includes sharing their page and their personal lives with their coworkers. Many people feel that coworkers are just “buddies from work” and all is well as long as the bosses aren’t their Facebook friends.

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Ethical Issues for Certified Public Accountants

In general, CPAs have enjoyed an untarnished image and have been known and respected for their honesty. Although CPAs have long and rightfully had a reputation for integrity and competence, recent scandals have damaged that reputation and diminished confidence in the accounting profession. nnCPAs working as comptrollers or n Chief Financial Officers have received unfavorable recognition due to financial transgressions in recent times. The misfortune of David Duncan, the lead

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Coaching Vs. Managing

Managing and coaching is different Think of the best coach you ever had, either at work or outside of work. What did the coach do that was effective? How did the coach interact with you? What kinds of things did the coach help you to achieve? Now think of the best manager you ever had at work? What did he or she help you to achieve? How did this manager interact with you and treat you?

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***Successful Leaders Top 10 Skills

Struggling to achieve success? Maybe you need to hone some skills. What skills exactly? Well, after some intensive reading and study of successful leaders in business, industry, government, and personal development, I've found that there are 10 core skills that the most successful leaders all share. While these leaders may not be masters of every particular skill, they have, at least, a basic knowledge of each of them.

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Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Life Coach

Hiring a Life coach has been considered a short term process, usually because people are encouraged to consult a coach only when and if they have a really burning issue they have to deal with, whether it is about relationships, career, mental health, financial, weight, spiritual and more. At Coaching Interactive we believe everyone deserves the right to have a Life coach and that this partnership should be for life.

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Why Believing All the Good Men are Taken is Keeping You Single

“I’m so fat,” my friend exclaimed. She’s a whole size 8, which is celebrity speak, that makes her about the size of Beyonce. In her defense, she is shorter and is packing more in her bum tha Beyonce, but, she’s still thin nonetheless. I didn’t comment after she said this because I know all too well what’s going to happen: she’s not going to believe me. She’s got her mind made up and the reality she’s seeing is true because she believes her thoughts, no matter how untrue they are.

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Healing Emotional Abuse - Signs, Symptoms & Help For Relationship Problems

It begins at home, rears its ugly head in school, becomes apparent in early love relationships, dating, marriage and finally your children pick it up from you and unknowingly pass it on to their children. It’s the cycle of abuse. Abusers always have a history of childhood abuse. They don’t mean to pass it on and they would do better if they knew how. Whether you are the abuse victim or perpetrator, you must make a decision to stop the cycle of dysfunction now.

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Get Your Career Back On Track - Top 10 Tips!

My name is Helen Roberts, a Career Development expert with 17 years experience in the industry. I've never seen a market quite like this one. In today's economic climate many people are 'hurting' like never before, financially & emotionally. We have record numbers unemployed across the length and breadth of the UK, US and Ireland. It is my passion to help as many people as I can, help themselves, move forward in their career. Here are some top tips to help you through your career transition.

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The Importance of Self-Awareness

What is self-awareness? This is unknown territory for many. In school we are seldom taught to do deep reflection. As we get older and become adults we get caught in the cycle of productivity and consumption. As a result self reflection becomes something to be avoided so as not to slow one down. Self-awareness means knowing one’s self at a deep level.

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Personal Change: 4 conditions that transform us

Sometimes terminology gets tossed around and we all nod our heads like we understand what’s being said, when we don’t. I thought I would take a few steps back and take a simplistic look at what personal change is, to ensure we’re all nodding our heads in understanding. When I speak about personal change, I’m describing something personally transformative. The personal transformation can be large or small but somehow you change a bit of who you are. Personal transformation can be driven by exte al and internal events.

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4 Top Reasons Your Job Search Struggles

Why is it that nearly every job seeker puts ten times the energy and effort into the job search than what they get back in return? To speak in business terms (and running your job search should be treated like a business), where’s the return-on-investment (ROI)? Hope is not enough. You hope to get an interview after submitting your resume. You hope to get a job offer after the interview. You hope to hear from someone soon.

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Breaking Into The Celebrity Personal Assistant Job Market

As a former celebrity personal assistant to some of the world's most powerful people, I'm often asked by aspiring personal assistants how one can break into the market. Let the truth be told that it is not as hard as you may think. There has been an enormous explosion of wealthy people in America. While it's true that about 1% own approximately 90% of the wealth, the rich are simply richer than ever.

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***Career Management: 8 Tips for Disagreeing with the Boss

Disagreeing with other people, without taking a body count or courting disaster, is something most people try to avoid as much as possible. Nevertheless, we recognize that we can’t always agree with everything that comes our way – even if it comes from the boss. Many of us think that disagreement with the boss is one of those career-limiting moves to be avoided as all costs. Think again.

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***Bad Boss Series: What To Do When The Boss – Takes Credit For Your Work?

Among the many things that bad bosses have been known to do is to take credit for your hard work or ideas. You don’t like it when a peer does it, but with that group, you feel you might have some recourse to stifle what they’re doing. What do you do when a boss does it? The line between a legitimate ethics violation and simply representing innovation in the department can at times be hard to tell. There are some perspectives to have first before taking any action.

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Why companies should not cut their training budgets

We need to look for opportunities in the organization that we are employed with for a chance to get the training that we need to perform our jobs better. There seems to be less opportunity for us to get the training that we need to do our jobs because of major budget cuts that are happening based on the stagnant economy.

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The Personal Assistant Job as a Career

In an ever-changing economic climate, many are reevaluating their chosen careers. More and more are learning that a career personal assistant position to someone wealthy is a gateway to fabulous pay and perks that are unparalleled in any other industry. Few industries worldwide will pay candidates $150,000 to $250,000 a year without a Master’s degree. However, the role of the high-end personal assistant, aka “Lifestyle Manager,” can do just that. In fact, many of the world’s most famous personal assistants do not even have a 4-year degree.

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Personal Assistant Headhunter Lands in New York City

The Celebrity Personal Assistant Network (The Network) places personal assistants and estate managers with high net worth families, executives, and celebrities in Greater New York City: Upper East Side, West Side, Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, Tribeca, Fifth Avenue, and the Wall Street Crowd. There has long been a need for career personal assistants that cater to the jet-set crowd in New York, but few personal assistant agencies can truly call themselves “boutique” like The Network because The Network specializes only in personal assistants and estate managers.

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Michael Jackson - What Can We Learn from His Life & Death?

He passed away June 25, 2009 amidst controversy and speculation; drama that haunted him for most of his life. Michael Jackson, “The King of Pop” was no different than any of us in that his soul came into this lifetime with a purpose and with goals. Michael Jackson’s astrology natal chart, which is a blueprint, of sorts, as to his Life’s Work & purpose indicates why his soul chose the journey it did.

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***Getting Fired: Avoiding It and Protecting Yourself when You are Faced with It

One of our biggest fears associated with our employment is facing the possibility of the ultimate rejection: getting fired. I’m not talking about being laid off. I’m talking about they don’t dig what you do or how you do it and you are given the pink slip. It can be devastating on both a personal and professional level. People I’ve spoken to who have been through this experience often find it difficult to move past it and consequently, let it form their behavior. That behavior isn’t always the kind that helps, especially the ongoing replay of the low points.

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Top 7 Steps to Using the Law of Attraction

The law of attraction is a law of the universe like the Law of Gravity. The law of attraction is simply; we attract into our lives whatever we are putting our attention on. If you put your attention on what you "don't have" or what you wish you "didn't have" then you've probably noticed ...

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Interview Preparation; How To Create Your Unique Brand

Almost every article - or career coach - will tell you that in order to do well in an interview - and to ultimately get the job offer, you must "Be Prepared." But what if you don't know how to prepare? - "What does prepared look like?" - "How do I know what they are going to ask?" - "How can I make them I hire me?" - "What if I'm not REALLY qualified or able to do this job?" These are common conce s and questions - but where do you find the answers? Tough Job Market You are more than aware that you are in a tough job market and that you will have to do something to make your

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Career Management: Top 10 Networking Conversation Starters for Introverts

Among the challenges associated with networking is the simple act of how you start up a conversation with a stranger. Add to that challenge the fact that you might be slightly introverted where pointless conversations are like staring into the black void. Nothing comes to mind. You don’t have a relationship, no common ground, you aren’t yet even sharing a common experience – so how to you do strike up a conversation? Here are 10 conversation starters that have worked for me:

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Treating People as Commodities

The culture treats people as commodities I see it everywhere - people working in jobs which carry little meaning and provide little support for personal development. Worst, the culture treats people as commodities. Performance review systems, manager-employee meetings, and even rewards are set only on recent performance. The recent performance is everything that matters. As a result people feel like they are treading water in their jobs. Lack of support for people development at work Part of it starts at the top of the organization.

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Success Starts in the Mind

Disappointed at not getting the results they desire. Frustrated because they aren’t loving what they do. Unhappy with the direction of their life. These obstacles cause clients to come to us to seek help in getting on the right track. Unfortunately, Kathy fit into all three categories. An insurance actuary by day and life coach by night, she just couldn’t see the runway ahead that led to the building of her practice without giving up the security of her day job. As she explained, with two small children and a family to support, this just wasn’t an option. Kathy was frustrated.

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***What Do You Do When You’re Afraid To Change Careers?

Voluntarily changing careers can be a frightful thing for many people. It can be so frightening that it will delay or completely stop us in our tracks before we even get started. Yet, our heart yearns for something else, something more than what we have right now. Our heart knows that there is a better career and therefore, better life waiting out there for us to pursue. At the same time we are struck with fear.

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Treat Your Staff With Respect

We have all heard of the ancient saying “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” I’m sure that where you work you see and hear managers abusing their staff everyday. Or worse still, you might be one of them. Worse again, you might not even realize you are doing it! There is no denying the fact that as a manager, you need to be “controlling the work and staff” of your business. But there is a difference between controlling and abusing your staff. Obviously we are

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***Career Management: New Boss? New Career Opportunities

The one thing you can count on in business is nothing ever stays the same. That goes for the boss, too. Bosses come and they go even when your job remains in place. In some businesses, they come and go so fast they feel like a hit and run. While it would be nice to have some stability, it’s not something you can count on. Moreover, you can actually use it for boosting your career.

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***The “Bridge Job” Strategy Making Money While You’re in Career Transition

If you’re out of work now, what part-time or flexible work can you do to fill the gap until you land the job you want? If you’re fully-employed but conce ed about losing your job, what sort of opportunities could you pursue to earn additional income, should the need arise? The “Bridge Job Strategy” is a pragmatic approach to carry you through a difficult employment or financial period.

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Career Development: 7 Steps to Power Your Way to a Promotion This Year

Ranstad recently completed a nation-wide survey of employees measuring a number of aspects having to do with salary, benefit, work conditions and expectations they have for this coming year. Ranstad is the second leading global HR and Staffing firm. One outstanding figure was 43% of the people responding indicated they were looking for a promotion this year. That’s going to be a lot of people taking their spouse out to celebrate.

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NEGOTIATING WITH SKILL AND EASE

If you want to be a leader and to succeed in your workplace, knowing how to negotiate effectively is a must. Attaining good negotiation skills will help you in all areas of your life. NEGOTIATING PRINCIPLES Here are four principles I employ for negotiating with skill and ease. Principle #1: Be fully present to the task at hand In a negotiation, the ground is often shifting. The strategies that serve your interest or that make the negotiation a win for you may change midstream. To negotiate successfully, you must function in the present moment.

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Happiness and Work

What is happiness? In many ways happiness is very subjective and judged differently by each person. My observation is that people are most happy when they feel in control of their life. Much of one’s life occurs at work thus happiness at work is an important factor to consider. Many factors can contribute to happiness at work. As a manager it is important to be aware of these factors. Most important is to make sure that each person is aligning challenging work and high skills to perform their duties. Is a person skilled but not using these skills in their work?

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***Beating The Sunday Night Blues

It's only Sunday night but already you're thinking about the dreaded event: returning to work on Monday. If this is the thought that goes through your mind each Sunday night, here are some ideas that can help. I suggest the following six strategies to help overcome those "Sunday night blues" and establish a fresh approach to Monday mornings: 1. Plan out your week on Sunday nights and write down your tasks. This will help break things down into smaller pieces so the work won't seem so overwhelming.

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***Are You Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Thanks to Fisher-Price, as babies we learn a concept that we seem to forget by the time we’re adults: you can’t put a square peg in a round hole. We do it especially with relationships and with jobs. If we don’t know what we’re looking for, we become obscured by what we’re attracted to. And then we don’t realize we’ve reverted to pounding the round orange peg into the hole on that plastic table right in front of us when it's the square blue peg that fits.

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10 Tips for Writing Emails

This article was written because this past week I have seen three examples of emails that were read by people other than the intended recipient. In one case an atto ey published a whole email exchange between the atto ey and an applicant for an associate position in her firm. It should have embarrassed them both and was the subject of a lot of web conversation. In the other two instances I received a group email that was intended for only one person to read. One was harmless but the other made some really derogatory comments about a class that a member of the group was planning to give.

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Six Steps To Becoming A Good Supervisor

Typically, no one is trained to be a supervisor. We all have to learn how to manage people on the fly, after we are promoted into a management position. It is helpful, when learning to be a good supervisor, to keep in mind the things that past supervisors have done that you liked and those that ...

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Stop Fighting! The 12 Best Solutions to Keeping Your Love Alive

The bad news is, every loving relationship begins with baggage from the past. The good news is, no matter how far back that history of damaging baggage goes, it can be reworked and healed. We practice what we’ve learned, even if it means damaging our relationship or marriage. And crazy as it sounds, we pass that same dysfunctional communication onto our children, who then, guess what, pass it onto theirs. Our parents did the best they could with what they knew. So did we. But if it’s not working, why not let the buck stop with you?

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*** Performing an Internal Career Audit

Would you like to get your career on track, with more power and momentum than ever before? Are you prepared to create the focused and productive career that you know you are capable of having — one that will give you great satisfaction and financial reward? When you think back to prior career transitions, did you also believe that you were finally going to “get it right?”

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Personal Assistant Agency Expands to San Francisco Area

The Greater San Francisco area is fast becoming a market for career personal assistants, as Los Angeles has been for decades. One personal assistant agency has recently stepped-up to accommodate the growing needs of the ultra-rich; and that’s The Celebrity Personal Assistant Network (The Network), which places Personal Assistants and Estate Managers in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley: San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Clara, Palo Alto, San Mateo, Napa, and Berkeley. Cities as far south as Santa Cruz and Monterey are not excluded.

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Inside Secrets of a Professional Worrier! Thoughts from a Life Coach

I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened. Mark Twain Worry is like an April Fool’s Joke without the laughs! Leanna Fredrich Anxiety is nothing… but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste. Seth Godin Thinking it Through… Since I have been working lately on coauthoring a book about using the wisdom of your body I have become much more aware of my body sensations. For example when I wake up in the morning, usually the first sensatio I notice is a racy or tight feeling in my stomach.

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Career Growth: 5 Key Points to Make Office Politics Work for You

There was once a time when I thought “Office Politics” was tantamount to a dirty word. It was something low, underhanded and potentially unethical. If this sounds familiar, I’m here to illustrate for you that office politics isn’t this offensive behavior I once thought it was. Hopefully, I can help you jump beyond that to see how it is something for you to master, if you intend to rocket your career to the next level.

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***Finding Your Best Inside: Become the Person You Are Meant to Be

For most of us, life offers abundant opportunities for joy, pain, laughter and tears. The good times you savor. The great times you treasure, and the hard times are part of the character of your heart and soul. Our ability to handle life‘s challenges is a measure of our heart, faith, and character, but where do we learn how to deal with challenges, hard times, and difficulties? In school, it‘s the basics…reading, writing, arithmetic. But what about Life‘s 101 - the keys to living? What about failed relationships, losing your job or a loved one?

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Compiling a Packing List for New Truckers

You must be excited about your first road trip! All new truckers are; after all, this was what they had been dreaming for all along. But before you head out on the road, make sure that you have packed in all that you will need for the trip. This is as important a task as going through the pre-trip inspection and safety checklists because when you are out on the road, you will have to sustain yourself. Keeping handy a packing list for new truckers definitely helps. This packin

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CREATING REFERRALS

We all want an office in which the phone rings continually with offers of referral business. Does having this type of office sound like a dream? It doesn’t need to be such a far-fetched reality, though it requires diligent work with clients. There are a few key steps to creating a great referral business. The first step is to provide a high level of service in the first place. If the service is not exceptional, no referrals will be forth coming. One of the crucial factors in customer satisfaction is communication.

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I’m an MBA Grad: Now Where?

One of the toughest things a graduate has to do is to find suitable work. The big question is….where? In this post, we’ll take a look at where corporate recruiters say the best places are to search for a job if you’re a 2010 MBA graduate.

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Managing Through Change

My client told me her department was being reorganized for the hundredth time. The call center she managed was being converted to an email and chat response center instead of a telephone call center. She was sure customers would be angry when they found that they could not get their technical questions answered by phone any more. In fact she was so upset she admitted to me she was dragging her heels with respect to the change. How do you adapt to change? If an interviewer asks that question, do you say something that indicates you embrace change, welcome it and easily adapt?

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Astrology for Lovers September 2009

During the month of September lovers everywhere will be paying closer attention to each other. We’ll see a bit of scrutinizing as well as changing what no longer works. The Virgo energy is hard at work now to help you disce the useful from the nonuseful in your love life, so let’s carefully step in and look around. ARIES: This month is the time to make sure you and your relationship are on the same path of goals. If you want marriage and he or she does not, why stay if your needs are not being met? Talk honestly and openly about what you both want in the next 12 months.

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February Astrology Column

This month the energies are positive for uniting, rather than dividing people. We’ll take a look at which qualities within each sign cause divisive problems and which qualities are available for bringing about solutions. As an Aquarian, I’d like to offer a very happy birthday to my fellow water bearers.

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Career Management: What do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Oh, I guess you did grow up. But is this the grown up you wanted to be when you were a kid? Are you happy with how your career turned out? Most of us aren’t. In fact, huge numbers of us aren’t happy at all with our careers. Despite our unhappiness with our work situation, the biggest reason we don’t change to something else is our own fear. The fear associated with a reluctance to improve our work has multiple layers to it. I recently polled several groups on Linked In and fear was their number one barrier. Here is what I heard was getting in our way: Fear of change o Discomfortr

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8 Critical Skills for the 2nd Half of Life

Too many people are simply bored with their life. The boredom can create a downward spiral. The spiral can include depression, listlessness, hopelessness and many other negative feelings. Perhaps the biggest issue for a person in this situation is a sense that they don’t know what to do and so they do nothing. I call this the “deer in the headlights” effect. When faced with life (as in your life) too many people stop in their tracks, frozen with fear of making that first step.

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***Thank you letters: A simple formula for uniqueness

Sending a thank you letter is as important as interview preparation. But they’re tough to write, so people either tell themselves that not sending one doesn’t matter, or they procrastinate until it’s too late and almost pointless anyway. Anyone who tells themselves that foregoing a fundamental rule of etiquette doesn’t matter, not only taints themselves in the mind of the interviewer, but misses two additional opportunities to sell.

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Tips for finding a job in 2010

Tips for finding a job in 2010 The job market is shaky. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost approximately 1.4 million jobs. The traditional job search strategy of sending out résumés, attending large job fairs, often ends up going nowhere when there are more than 14 million unemployed individuals and only 2.5 million jobs to fill according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. You may think it’s impossible to find a job in today. Not so! Now is the very best time to move forward with force, while your competition is moving slowly.

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Tips for finding a job in 2010

Tips for finding a job in 2010 The job market is shaky. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost approximately 1.4 million jobs. The traditional job search strategy of sending out résumés, attending large job fairs, often ends up going nowhere when there are more than 14 million unemployed individuals and only 2.5 million jobs to fill according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. You may think it’s impossible to find a job in today. Not so! Now is the very best time to move forward with force, while your competition is moving slowly.

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Tips to Prepare for Banking Jobs Exam

Banking is one of the major areas of work today. Increasing the number of people receiving financial education, more and more people are relying on banks for various financial reasons. Banks help save revenue and earn interest, invest, buy assets, establish a business, etc. As banking is an important aspect of the common people and companies, this sector has always attracted many applicants. If you are an interested in a bank jobs, then go through these job search tips for jo

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Let's Hear it for the Unbalanced Life! Quotes and Coaching Questions...

"I will not should on myself today." Unknown "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." Ben Stein "Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it." Brian Tracy Thinking it Through... We hear a lot about the need for having a balanced life. "If I only had more "life balance" it would be better." Give it up! We will never have a balanced life nor would we probably want one.

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Reinventing Yourself

I just returned from Ireland, and as I recover from jet lag,the greatest impressio I return from that emerald island with is reinvention. As always when we have visited European countries, we spent a good bit of our time tracing history. Ireland has a bittersweet history. There were the struggles against the British, civil wars, famine and exile of population to the United States and British Commonwealth countries. Consequently, four millio Irish live in Ireland today while 40 million of Irish descents are found in the United States!

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13 PROVEN WAYS TO GAIN MORE VISIBILITY WITHIN YOUR COMPANY

There are lots of highly skilled, talented and hard working people sitting in companies and not getting what they deserve – either in terms of job advancement or financial or moral recognition. If you are one of them, here are 13 proven tips to raise your profile: 1. Find out what your boss expects from you and act accordingly. Many times managers do not give explicit information on their expectations. You just see from their reactions that they are unhappy with your work and still you don’t know the reason. Don’t be shy to initiate a conversation and ask what they want from you.

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***20 Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers in a Down Market

Even in a down market, job seekers and employees are not powerless or without recourse. In fact, you have more control over your career circumstances than you might think. I’ve developed 20 specific strategies and tactics that consistently generate powerful results for job seekers, even when it seems that “no one’s hiring.” 1. Network, network, network. Continually increase your level of networking and keep expanding your contact database. Reach out to reestablish and nourish business and personal relationships.

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Beliefs: The Invisible Fence

What allows someone to achieve the results they desire in the workplace – or in life - while others strive, but stop short of their dreams? I believe it revolves around choice. Sometimes we make a conscious choice to let our dreams go, but more often, it’s the choices at the unconscious level that sabotages our efforts at success. When I think of my experiences coaching people over the last twenty-five years, those who experience greater success and happiness have blazed their own trail and made choices aligned with what they want and expect from life.

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ACCEPT NOTHING LESS THAN EXCELLENCE

A Champion accepts nothing less than excellence. When you look at successful individuals and successful companies, good is not good enough. They are clearly striving for excellence. In Jim Collins’ best selling book, Good to Great, one of his premises is that good is really the enemy of great; that if we are willing to settle for good, we will never achieve greatness. I agree that to hit the Champion level as an Agent, you can’t be satisfied with mid-level skills, abilities, and mindset.

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How To Orient Your Life Towards Success

Achieving the success we want is probably one of the most difficult challenges we’ll ever face in our lifetime. For most of us, success is often a moving target. Our current perception of our needs almost always sits center stage, giving direction to our internal focus. I say perception because we do relinquish our definition of “enough” at times and listen to others who tell us success requires more than what we have. Unfortunately, we are influenced by our surroundings. Some give in to exte al stressors and blame them for our inability to achieve our goals.

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*** Top 10 Holiday Tips for Career Success

Every year as the holidays approach, most jobseekers and career changers make the mistake of halting all their efforts. They believe there is no point in pursuing new opportunities during the holidays, and that nobody is making hiring decisions until late January, so "why bother?" Many decide to do absolutely nothing from mid-November to the second or third week in January! Making these kinds of assumptions about the holidays is, again, a huge mistake!

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Nursing Careers 101

Nursing Careers 101 is every successful nurse's daily habit. NC 101 provides you with everything you need to be a successful nurse - from motivational videos, nursing tips & tricks to nursing school advice and nursing career improvement tricks.

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Choosing a Career You Will Love

Everything about choosing and planning a career from career coach and Guide to Lifework author Leonard Lang, Ph.D. Ideas to help you discover and create a career that you'll find meaningful, exciting, motivating, and joyful.

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