Career Site

If you want to find a new career and a job that’s right for you, you need to be aware of your strengths and talents. What would you actually be good at doing? Here are some tips for your career change and to help you move forwards:

• Find a good career guide who you can work with to find out more about your strengths and how to harness them. Get them to ask you pertinent questions and listen to the answers, before giving you constructive feedback

• Discover what’s available in terms of options for you given what you are good at. Do some research and be as creative as you can be about your options. Rel

Read full article…

Some employees who have yet to go through the unpleasant experience of involuntary employment termination , falsely assume that every unfair employment discharge amounts to wrongful termination.

Wrongful termination is an unfair employment discharge; but, unfortunately for employees, not every unfair employment discharge amounts to wrongful termination, at least not that of the actionable kind.

That’s because employment is “at-will ” in the U.S., meaning that the U.S. l

Read full article…

By Richard D. Alaniz   Imagine one of your employees bashes your company or their coworkers on Facebook. You might think that you could fire that employee. But you would probably be wrong. Or consider whether you should Google job applicants. It may seem like a no-brainer, but if you don’t do it correctly, you could end up in the middle of a lawsuit.   As more people start to use social media and younger people who grew up with Facebook increasingly enter the workforce, employers can’t ignore social media and hope it will go away. Companies need to understand how their workers are using social media and how they can use applicants’ social media postings in hiring decisions. M Read full article…

There’s nothing quite like a job interview.  From the minute you get the call, you’re excited about the chance to start a new opportunity, but you’re worried you’ll answer a question the wrong way, or you’ll forget to comb your hair that day.

There’s a good chance your hair will be just fine, but you might want to give some advance thought to an interview question many people don’t handle well.  While interview questions can change very quickly, “What are your strengths and weaknesses?” is one that just won’t go away.  Some employers try to disguise the question by asking “What is your best talent, and what do you need to work on?,” but both of these questions are heading in the same direction; they want to know how you see yourself, and how well you can communicate that self-knowledge to others.

For some reason, people think this is some kind of trick question, so they try to come up with an answer they think is unforgettable. They’re usually right—but

Read full article…

Dr. Steven Berglas Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout is the type of book that is so useful, I wish I had read it years before I actually did. Dr. Berglas is a clinical psychologist who currently teaches at UCLA and is an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He is a psychoanalyst who has treated extremely successful people who reached great heights in their careers and then felt miserable. Dr. Berglas wrote this book to describe success-induced burnout and to prescribe strategies that can be used to prevent and recover from it.

In America, people erroneously believe that once they have made it in a profession, their lives will be perfect.

Read full article…