Learning A Second Language Can Boost Your Career
Learning A Second Language Can Boost Your Career Parlez-vous français? Habla español? In the face of the culturally diverse world, language trends are too important to ignore. Eight U.S. states are either de facto (Latin reference!) bilingual or trilingual. The 2000 U.S. census ranked Spanish as the second most spoken language, followed by Chinese. […]
Job Search: What Stage of Change Are You In?
I am a certified solution-focused career specialist and have received motivational interviewing (MI) training in the last eight months. MI is used in the mental health, addictions, and social services fields. It is a facilitative way of people avoiding resistance, resolving ambivalence and inducing (positive) change. It gives back the power to individuals to make […]
Development is a Partnership
Remember that thing called “development”? It seems companies have lost sight of it and employees have become brats about the situation. It is pretty much essential for today’s businesses to be able to quickly identify their top and even average performers. It is even more essential that once these individuals have been identified that a […]
5 Little-Known Tools to Enhance Your Project Management Skills
Time management is difficult. Project management is a beast. 5 Little-Known Tools to Enhance Your Project Management Skills Don’t believe me? Nearly 55% of projects fail to finish on time, which, incidentally, accounts for the double-digit growth in demand for credentialed project managers. Unfortunately, leaders in every industry are being called upon to manage projects […]
Listen Up! How to be a Good Listener in the Workplace
Listening is an underrated HR skill. We spend lots of time learning the latest employment laws, improving our recruiting skills, drafting policies and providing employment data to management. Sometimes it is easy to forget that a big part of working in HR is being a good listener. So, in today’s post, we will at this […]
What Industry is Booming? RETAIL!
There are plenty of articles circulating on the internet that keep promoting what the top career choices are for our youth. I, quite frankly, am not buying into it. I’m not saying that having a bachelors in Accounting or Computer Science won’t eventually land you a job. But there is a sector of the market […]
