The time near graduation is an exciting one. You've made a major accomplishment completing school and graduating. The doors to a satisfying career are in front of you. You are finally ready for the real world. To make the best of this important time and prepare for a lifetime of...
Why it is important to maintain good relations with former employers and colleagues
The importance of maintaining good relations with former employers and colleagues cannot be stressed enough. The benefits to both personal and professional wellbeing are many. 1. Studies show that networking is the best way to find a job. In fact, most job seekers obtain jobs through networking. Provisions Group says...
Chat GPT On the Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Employment
We asked Chat GPT how artificial intelligence might affect employment. Here is what it said: Artificial intelligence has the potential to automate many tasks currently performed by humans, including those in minimum wage work sectors like retail, food service, and customer service. While this could lead to job displacement in...
4 job seeker problems that can hinder career success and how to handle them
Job seekers face a number of problems that can affect their motivation and job search success. From losing focus to the inability to plan one’s career to not knowing what jobs to apply to, the problems are many. These problems can have a life long impact on one’s career. Therefore...
Fresh Graduates: Here’s How to Choose the Right Career Path So You Can Reach your Full Career Potential
It’s important to choose the right career path if one wants to reach their full career potential. Every profession provides a number of job types you can do and multiple career paths. Options include hands-on practical work, sales, teaching, and research / analytical work. There are also different subdivisions or...
How to enhance productivity in your daily life
A lot of time is wasted on unnecessary or unimportant things. Especially with technology and social media, it’s so easy to become occupied with unnecessary tasks or tasks that are not bringing desired results. That is, tasks not helping you reach your goals, whether they are job hunting / career...
How to Ensure Your Skills Remain Up To Date
As the world moves forward technologically at a faster than ever before pace, professional skill development is becoming ever more important. Life-long professional development is necessity for both career satisfaction and job security. For job security, it is important to keep up with changing trends. This means ensuring skills, qualifications,...
Four Types of Work Environments and the Real Reason You Don’t See Progress in Your Career
Unhappy with your work? You're not alone. In an ideal world, your work place should be a positive environment that nurtures career growth and personal progress. But you might have a work environment, job, colleagues, and / or management that are unfavorable to your advancement. You can have 4 scenarios...
How to Use LinkedIn to Advance Your Career
LinkedIn is the most popular professional networking platform. You can meet all sort of professionals on LinkedIn: recruiters and headhunters, business owners (potential employers), experienced professionals, industry leaders, job seekers, you name it. LinkedIn is a great place to advance your career and increase your chances of getting your dream...
How to Set Goals So You Actually Achieve Them
Dear Reader, We are near the end of the year. This is an exciting time. A change of season and year is always an indication of “out with the old and in with the new.“ Whether it is a new way of life, a new career, or new goals, the...
