Career Decision
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10 Signs It's Time to Quit "From unbearable co-workers to depressing work environments,
there things that can make even the best job a living hell."
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Co-Workers
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15 Excuses for Calling in Sick "When you need a random day off of work, what do you do?
Do you schedule a vacation day with your boss, or call in with some overblown cover story?
And just how long does it take you to come up with that excuse?"
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Influence
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MSNBC: Beware the overshare in everyday conversations "Like so many of us, Dan
Estabrook never even saw it coming. It was a normal day at work when his office manager
called him into her office for a normal-sounding meeting — until she unloaded a not-so-normal
nugget of information..."
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Co-Workers
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Boss Doesn't Listen, Because He's the Boss "Power Makes One Less Likely to Take
Others Seriously and Less Able to Comprehend How They See, Think and Feel..."
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Co-Workers
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Bosses/Coworkers "Whether your boss is your best friend or the Creature from the Black
Lagoon, you can have a rewarding professional relationship (even if you do have to fetch her
coffee)."
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Job-Seeking at Work
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Caught in the Act! "When the Boss Catches You Job Searching...Now what?"
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Arranging Priorities
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Charting a Path From Bed to Desk "THE path between “asleep at home” to “awake at work”
is rarely pretty. My husband’s involves an alarm that rings at 5 a.m., and clothes donned in the
dark because I am still fast asleep."
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Communication
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Communication Breakdown: Five Mistakes at Work "We all communicate a multitude of
messages in a variety of ways at work. While what you say is important, your non-verbal
actions are, too."
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Marriage Secrets
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Five Secrets of a Happy Marriage: Essential Marriage Tips from Real Therapists "To
feel loved and nurtured, we must believe deep down that our partner is really there for us.
That sounds simple, but it's far more complicated than most couples realize."
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Influence
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Five Tips to Increase Your Likeability "Being likeable isn’t required in order to achieve the
position or job of your dreams, but it helps."
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Co-Workers
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Getting Along With Your Boss and Co-Workers "A good relationship with your boss and
co-workers can make for a healthy career. However, this is not always easy. As a matter of
fact it can be very difficult at times. These resources will show you how to improve
interpersonal office relationships."
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Co-Workers
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Getting To No "Ask Dian Griesel to bake cookies for her 6-year-old daughter's school
fund-raiser and she'll find a way to do it...Saying no has become a crucial life skill for
two-income families with increasing hours at work. But many people are afraid of that two-letter
word..We're afraid of not being liked, not being accepted...We're afraid of hurting a
relationship or losing a deal."
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Influence
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Help People Get What They Want "It sounds simple doesn’t it? If you just focus on helping
people get what they want, you’ll get what you want."
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Arranging Priorities
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How to Advance Your Career And Still Have a Person-al Life "Logging in long hours to
get ahead? By strategically organizing your workday, you may be able to get on the fast track "
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Humor
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How Humor Can Help You at Work "Looking for something to smile about at work? How
about this: Flexing your funny bone can significantly enhance your professional prospects..."
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Influence
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How to manage up "Sure, you’re a smart employee with a great idea, but how do you get it
implemented?"
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Communication
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Importance of Voice: Lessons for Recruiters "Voice is not a person, no matter how senior
or well known they are (or think they are). It is not the CEO waxing eloquent about his/her
vision for the organization. An employer's voice is not who is doing the speaking; it is how the
speaking is done."
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Co-Workers
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Incendiary co-workers can kill workplace productivity
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Influence
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Is Your Weight Hurting Your Career? "The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that
65 percent of U.S. adults -- or about 129.6 million people -- are either overweight or obese."
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Co-Workers
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Learning From Mistakes Of Your Past Bosses "Still compiling New Year's resolutions?
Don't forget this one: "Manage my subordinates better." You probably have made and broken
that pledge before because you were unsure how to begin the process."
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Arranging Priorities
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Life-Work Balance "While some folks obsessively check their BlackBerrys in bed and haul
their laptops to their kids' soccer games, there are lots of other people looking for a better way
to balance the demands of a high-powered career against a fulfilling family life."
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Listening
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Listening Makes for Great Sales and Customer Service "In Business, Too Many People
Respond Before Really Listening to What Others Are Saying."
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Work and Romance
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Love at Work "Dating someone from work is natural for many people. After all, who has time
to meet someone when you're working 60 hours or more per week?"
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Networking
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Networking "Networking can be very helpful to your career."
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Networking
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Networking Your Way to a New Job "The key to successful networking deciding to put the
energy needed to make it work. First, you need to get organized (for example, keeping a
business card file or computer database). Second, you need to..."
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Workplace Blunders
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Notorious Workplace Scandals "Serious workplace blunders, whether illegal, unethical or
simply unsavory, continually make national headlines...Here's a list of notorious job-related
slip-ups, both past and present."
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Office Politics
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Office Politics Explained: Advice for dealing with gossip, favoritism and the office
saboteur
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Office Politics
GlobeLife Work:
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Off to work? Don't forget your temper "Have a 400-page report to read and analyze in the
next 45 minutes? Need to make a decision on a huge contract? Struggling to figure out the
best argument to win a pay raise? Try getting pissed off..."
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Career Counseling
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One-on-One Career Counseling "E-mail a Career Counselor for Free...a free service for
people who have tried very hard to solve their job-hunt problems, but feel they are stuck. "
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Tests
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Online Personality & Traits Tests "The interactive tests available online fall into two
categories: personality tests, and career or vocational tests..."
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Resolving Issues
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Resolving issues "This exercise, set out by relationship psychotherapist Paula Hall, is
designed to help you resolve minor issues before they become major problems. Completing
the exercise together should help you and your partner find a solution for your dilemma."
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Power of Silence
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Rising Above Being Cut Off at the Knees When a colleague attacks you publicly, resist
the instinct to sink to their level by fighting back. You'll be amazed by the power of silence.
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Seating Charts
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Seating-chart politics made easy "Anyone who has managed more than a few people at a
time knows that seating charts can be the bane of a supervisor's existence..."
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Interview
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Sense of Humor Preferred "Not everyone can tell a joke. Over the course of the next few
months, candidates for all sorts of positions will be invited to interview at campuses across the
country to add flesh and bones to their curricula vitae."
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Winning the Promotion
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Six Ways to Win a Promotion "It happened again: While you were plugging away at yet
another project, Mindy from down the hall was promoted...so why aren't you climbing the ranks
like your colleagues?"
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Influence
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Spin Yourself "We spin ourselves all the time-to find a date or a mate, to make a good
impression on our elders, to join a club or society. Spinning merely involves presenting those
aspects of ourselves that are likely to be appealing to others..."
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Job-Seeking at Work
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Stealth Job Hunting: Confidential Job Search Tips "When you don't want your current
employer to find out that you are job hunting, there are steps you can take..."
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Co-Workers
MSN Careers:
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Stop Being So Nice to Your Co-workers "Do nice guys finish last at work, too? A study
published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology says yes. Dr. Nikos
Bozionelos of the University of Sheffield in England researched personality and career
success and found that white-collar workers who were the most agreeable, conscientious and
sensitive to the needs of others were less likely to be promoted..."
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Co-Workers
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Stupid Co-Workers "This website is to vent and laugh about the dumb people we have to
work with everyday at our jobs."
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Revenge
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Sweet Revenge
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Influence
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The Art of Influencing Up "The best ideas don't matter if no one pays attention."
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Job-Seeking at Work
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The Pluses and Pitfalls of Job-Seeking at Work "You're looking for a new career. But
who's looking over your shoulder?"
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Co-Workers
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Tips for Signing Office Cards When Inspiration Is Lacking "Cindy McConkey recently
faced a familiar office dilemma: How to sign a card for a colleague's birthday. By the time it
reached her desk, "all the good stuff was taken..."
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Influence
New York Times:
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To Showcase Your Skills, Seize the Initiative "Much of the time at work, you have nothing
to do or are occupied with tedious busywork. How can you let your boss know that you are
bored and feeling irrelevant?..."
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Work and Romance
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Top 5 Keys to Mixing Work and Romance "The experts can warn you until they're blue in
the face: Beware of office romances."
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Co-Workers
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Two Words To Boost Your Career: "Thank You" "Beginning with the 'thank you' for your
first job interview and ending with the 'thank you' for your retirement party, your career can
benefit enormously from simple notes of gratitude written along the way. Frequent, well-written
thank-you notes can foster professional success in unimaginable ways, and they are
especially important after a job interview..."
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Networking
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Warning: Social Networking Can Be Hazardous to Your Job Search "That cute, affable
guy who brags of his drunken exploits on FaceBook.com may be meeting a lot of other
partiers online, but he's probably not getting added to the "friends" lists of many corporate
recruiters."
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Co-Workers
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What Makes a Manager a Bad Boss? "What makes a bad boss, in your opinion?"
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Interviews
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When interviews get rude "Don't let an offensive or illegal question derail your job
prospects. 'Be courteous' is a fundamental rule of interviewing. But what do you do when the
interviewer's behavior is offensive? You want to ace the interview and leave with your
self-respect intact. Here are some strategies for responding tactfully to a discourteous
interviewer."
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Co-Workers
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Who's Your Work Nemesis? "Is that a box of stolen pencils in his pocket? In lieu of work, the
Workplace Raccoon busies himself by blaming missing gear on the new guy and explaining
that he always owned that picture frame with a snapshot of your kids in it."
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Work and Romance
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Why Can't We be Friends? "So you're working on site, and the first thing you notice..."
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Arranging Priorities
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Work/life balance "Are you finding it difficult to make time for everything in your life? Perhaps
it's time to take stock and rearrange your priorities before your personal relationships suffer."
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Company Loyalty
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Working Wounded: Stockholm Syndrome at Work "Companies Can Often Demand
Loyalty from Workers When None Is Deserved"
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Holidays
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Yet another holiday problem: Brains "check out" at work
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