Professionals actually have to be professional in their jobs. Now that Managers and executives are having to deliver REAL results for their company, more and more decisions being made are not from experience but from gut reaction or stressed out thinking. I have witnessed first- hand the insanity that comes from a manager who decides [...]
Elizabeth Post has died. She was the etiquette-expert that took the throne when her grandmother-in-law, Emily Post died.
Manners for Post essentially came down to common sense and kindness without pretension or stuffiness.
She revised Emily Post’s Etiquette book five times and published her own where she maintained that etiquette shouldn’t be something that is restrictive or [...]
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to change career paths, getting experience in a field is a classic Catch-22. You can’t get a job without experience, and you can’t get experience without a related job. Here are some ways to solve the dilemma:
Temp.
Temping is short-term and provides a wide array of experience in [...]
A recent article indicated that health costs for the military are going through the roof. I don’t remember thinking of that during the health reform debate, but I guess everyone is going to get hit – excuse the pun.
Apparently, costs have quintupled in a year and the military is going to have to change its [...]
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Success depends on what you know, but also on whom you know—and who knows you. That makes good networking skills essential. Three tips to remember:
Prepare yourself.
Don’t wing it at your next networking event. Right down a few good questions to ask new acquaintances that will get people talking to you (who, what, why). Be [...]
Many people in their seventies thought they’d be retired, enjoying travel, golf, reading and learning things they always wanted to but didn’t have the time for.
That’s not the reality for many. Many are working at least part time to keep the income coming, even a little bit, while they recover their investment losses during the [...]
The New York Times posted some interesting information awhile back about how the unemployment crisis wasn’t hitting every part of the income spectrum equally. It wasn’t that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.
It was actually worse than that. It was that the lower income workers had higher levels of unemployment [...]
