If you don’t win the promotion or new job you interviewed for, find out how to strengthen your position for the next opening. After every interview, immediately critique your own performance by asking yourself these questions.
Las Vegas—The most negative opinions you hear at work may be coming from—surprise!—you. Listen closely to what you tell yourself and others, and then slash the negative attitudes that hold you back.
Las Vegas—If you aren’t assertive at work, you’re stuck in a dead end, warns Mildred Saunders.
Sherry Turner, Chicago, wanted to apply for a newly created position in her organization that combined three jobs and offered more management duties than her existing admin job did.
People will help you realize your dreams—whether that’s a plum assignment, a new job or a total career change—but you have to identify those potential partners.
Las Vegas—If you asked Linda Eller-bee what she would be doing in five years, she would have gotten the answer wrong throughout her life, she says.
Las Vegas—Issuing snap judgments of those who annoy or irritate you adds to the stress you experience, argues Richard Carlson, author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff at Work (Hyperion).
January 1, 2005
Categorized in: Salary
In her first year with her current employer, Lancaster, Mass., admin Jocelyn Rodgers received a 36 percent hourly pay increase. The next year, her pay rose another 20 percent.
If you would rather nap in the midafternoon than do anything else, don’t rely on a jolt of caffeine or sugar to keep you going.
Are you one of those people who tend to put others’ needs ahead of your own? If so, that often means you’ll take on more and more work, committing to responsibilities with no time to complete them, until your life spins out of balance. Instead, try these 3 steps …
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