Gone are the old days of having a suggestion box at work. Today’s modern company has set up some much more sophisticated ways of obtaining knowledge and creative ideas from their employees. The following list contains some useful tools that employers have...
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Women Becoming More Successful Than Men
Women are passing men in their abilities to get a degree, handle families and garner success at work. As men are falling behind, women are making huge strides. CNN reported that, “For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and...
Boomerang Generation: College Graduates Giving up on Employment and Moving Back Home
via online.wsj.com There has been an unusual trend with recent college graduates. After working so hard to become educated for their new careers, recent grads are not jumping into the workplace right away. This has caused an increase in the numbers for unemployment...
Using QR Codes to Get a Job or Promote Your Business
You probably have seen QR codes and don’t even realize it. Perhaps they were on a marketing ad or a flyer someone handed you. You might have seen them on a promotional piece or on a poster at a local store. It may have looked so under-stated that you probably...
You Are Only as Good as Your Last Deal: Top 5 Ways to Avoid Being Expendable at Work
There is an expression that is often used in sales: “You are only as good as your last deal.” What is meant by that is that management has a short-term memory and no matter how good you were in the past, they are focusing on what you can do for them right now. It...
Millennials Actually Utilizing LinkedIn Rather Than Just Having an Inactive Profile
Linkedin has a lot of people with profiles. Quantcast reports “Linkedin has 21.4 million monthly unique U.S. visitors and 47.6 million globally.” However, that doesn’t mean they are all taking advantage of the site. Dynamic Business reported, “According to the 2010...
Millennials Education and Workplace Success – Improving Emotional Intelligence
In 2010, research from Pew Center showed Millennials were not only the happiest of workers but they were also considered the most educated generation in history. JustMeans.com reported, “Approximately 1-in-5 Millennials are college graduates while 26% are in school,...
Millennials Replacing Baby Boomer Workforce: Meeting Their Unique Needs
Big changes are occurring in the current workforce. The dynamic is shifting as companies are experiencing a shift toward millennials replacing baby boomer generations. According to Harvard Business Review /HBR.org, “The makeup of the global workforce is undergoing a...
Have you Googled Yourself Lately? Why LinkedIn and Google are Important for Your Job Search
If you are looking for a job, you probably have looked at getting on LinkedIn and some other social networking sites. If you have created a LinkedIn profile, it should show up on Google’s search engine. In some recent talks I gave to job-seekers, I asked my audience...
Top 15 Jobs in America
In researching information for my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I found it interesting to see the types of jobs that are no longer on the market due to changes in technology. Just as jobs are disappearing, others are being created as well. If you are interested...
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