Making your job work for you
Being at work takes up a large part of your life so there’s no point in staying somewhere and doing something that bores you or makes you miserable.
If you find yourself surfing the net, making personal phone calls and emailing your friends to get you through your working day, it’s probably time you made a move or changed your role, to be fair to both yourself and your employers. Continue reading »
Praise for Appraisals
Appraisals should be an opportunity for feedback, motivation boosts and sometimes even a pay rise - but in reality, they’re often as popular as an appointment with the dentist. Continue reading »
Animal magic: It’s a jungle out there
The laws of the jungle bear a significant similarity to office politics, according to researchers. Learning from chimps and monkeys and using the same techniques they use to survive in the wild can help you get on at work. Continue reading »
From shopper to star
Just a few years ago, 24 year old James Goodfellow was a Biology and Management student at Royal Holloway College, earning a little money on the side as a personal shopper for Sainsburys.
Let your body do the talking
It’s interview day. You’ve pressed your shirt and donned your best suit, practised a brilliant speech on why you want the job, have answers for all the gaps on your CV and arrived five minutes early. But if you spend the entire interview with your hands in your lap, your hard work could have been for nothing. Continue reading »
Digging the digital dirt
Are you Facebooked? Is your face on MySpace for that matter? Are you LinkedIn and Viadeo’d? Do you blog or have you got your own website. Are you singing to the world on YouTube? And how’s your online CV – and do you even know where it is?
These days, most of us have many elements to our online presence. But do they show us in the best light – and could they land us in trouble when we’re looking for that perfect next job? Continue reading »
Quit in style
If you’ve handed in your resignation and you’re on to better things, there may be a temptation to just say, ‘Stuff this, you lot. I’m off!’
Stressful day? Blame it on your colleagues.
If you’ve ever shared a desk with someone who shouts down the phone all day, steals all your pens and never makes the tea, you’ll know that the habits of your co-workers can be extremely annoying.
Dressing for success?
For many of us, suits are still a must in our professional working environments, but here we can see that you don’t need to have a vast wardrobe of clothes to be well dressed for work.
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