The Best Career Planning Tool
Career tests, advice books, and counseling can all help you choose a suitable career path. However, these don’t offer the best career planning opportunities. Experience is the best teacher in every area, including career development. Experience challenges your assumptions and forces self-awareness like nothing else. Through experience, you learn: Your true values and interests Career [...]
Work Makes Me Nervous: New Book Tackles Job Anxiety
Work-related anxiety can lead to a host of problems, including decreased productivity, lowered, job satisfaction, job loss, and health problems. Work Makes Me Nervous: Overcome Anxiety and Build the Confidence to Succeed, a new book released today, aims to eliminate anxiety in the workplace. I interviewed authors Jonathan Berent and Amy Lemley about the causes [...]
How to Cope with a Difficult Job
With the unemployment rate still high, many people are feeling extra pressure at work. Employers are demanding more, and offering less to employees. These factors are not only contributing to decreased job satisfaction, but also to an increase in mental and physical health problems. Some tips for dealing with a difficult work situation: Recognize the [...]
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Rewards
Intrinsic and extrinsic rewards should both be considered when choosing a career or deciding to accept a job offer, but special importance should be placed on intrinsic rewards. Intrinsic rewards appeal to one’s values, interests and personality. An intrinsically rewarding job will be satisfying in its own right. Characteristics such as creativity expression, autonomy, and [...]
Merging Generations in the Workplace, the New Gen Y
Written by Wendy N. Powell, author of “Management Experience Acquired” In a perfect world, the workplace is like a family, with seasoned baby boomer and Generation X employees guiding and working alongside less-experienced Generation Y workers. With the Gen Y employees now solidly in the workplace, new challenges in the traditional quasi-work family are common. [...]
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