Are Employees Twittering Away Productivity?

As the enterprise microsharing market grows all in, I hear from skeptical leaders befuddled by this trend, wanting to be reassured their people arent simply wasting time. Here are specific questions I...Full Article

Loudest Voice = Majority Opinion

New research reveals even if only one member of a group repeats their opinion, it is more likely to be seen by others as representative of the whole group.A group of us are sat around shooting the bre...Full Article

Five Things About Finding the Work You Love

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers … If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know w...Full Article

5 Suggestions for Leaving With Style

There’s something to be said for leaving a former employer with style. We’re in the middle of a time when more than a few employers are having to downsize and plenty of people who would otherwise be a...Full Article

Jobless total 'will hit 3m'

The growing army of the jobless is set to number three million by the time of the next election, economists warned Gordon Brown yesterday.They predicted levels of unemployment not seen in two decades ...Full Article

Networking Can Get You A Job Promotion

As an employee, we all want that job promotion, don’t we?So let’s just say, you are ready to get promotion.You do your job exceptionally well.You know the organization extremely well.You have increase...Full Article

7 Reasons to Set Fire to Your Career Plan

Common wisdom has it you should plan out your career in detail otherwise you set yourself up for failure. So why should you do something as crazy as setting fire to your detailed career plan? Here’s w...Full Article

My Defense of Unfulfilling Careers

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.Tyler Durden, Fight ClubI consider myself lucky. I enjoy my jo...Full Article

How Many Bosses Do You Have?

In times past, someone might work for the same company for 40 years, retire, and get that gold watch. Today, people change careers every seven years on average and may take on a position that reports ...Full Article

A Simple Formula for Fulfilling Career

A career is a long time. It is a marathon, not a sprint. To continue a fulfilling career requires reviewing what work you enjoy as your life changes over time. While periodically reviewing your work a...Full Article

The 10 Worst Job Tips Ever

Nearly every day, someone sends me a bit of astounding job-search advice from a blog or a newsletter. Some of this advice seems to come directly from the planet X-19, and some of it seems to have been...Full Article

12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today

 The workplace, more and more, is changing, and with this change comes a whole new set of rules.The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’...Full Article

25 Well-Paying Jobs that Most People Overlook (and Why)

Here are certain jobs that nobody dreams of doing when they grow up. “Somebody’s gotta do it”, but that doesn’t stop people from praying that “someone” won’t be them. What’s surprising, however, is ho...Full Article

Nearly Half of Employers Have Caught a Lie on a Resume

CHICAGO, July 30, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Is your resume more fiction than fact? Experts warn bending the truth can cost you the job. Although only 8 percent of workers admitted to stretching ...Full Article

Don’t Quit Your Day Job

Some of us take on second jobs to make ends meet. Some do it for a chance to do the work they actually enjoy. And some of us create our own second jobs to build a business or create our own projects. ...Full Article

7 Tricks That Will Land You A Job

Layoffs. Downsizing. Transitions. It’s a scary time to be out in the job market. If you’re hunting for a job, you’ve probably been handing out resumes like crazy. The problem is that, when you really ...Full Article

How to Survive an Economic Meltdown

There is no shortage of bad news on the economy. Falling house prices, rising gas prices, rising unemployment and falling growth. Even on the most optimistic assessment the future prognosis is bleak. ...Full Article

Dealing with Downsizing: How to Prepare

It’s awful to hang around an office where everyone knows that job cuts are coming. There’s a sense that everyone’s just waiting for the shoe to drop. No one in the office wants to lose their job and g...Full Article

Career : 5 Ways to Fine Tune Your Professional Life

There are two ways to go about your career. The first way is to simply put your head down and do your thing - show up on time (or maybe a bit early), do your work, take the opportunities that come you...Full Article

Career Change from the Inside Out

Pamela Skilling’s Escape from Corporate America and Daniel H. Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny BunkoI just read something scary on Twitter. Jonathan Fields – entrepreneur extraordinaire (I interviewed ...Full Article