The power of happiness can never be overstated, but did you know that it’s not just something to enjoy in your personal life? Indeed, positivity is also important in the workplace – for employees as well as for the clients and customers you work with. How can you foster a happy workplace culture and ensure that your employees feel good …
Job Searching? How to Make Yourself Visible Using LinkedIn
When you’re applying for a job at a large organization, the application process can seem quite impersonal. With online applications that just go into the HR system, it often seems like your application has vanished into thin air. Who are you supposed to follow up with? Have they seen your application? Applying for jobs in this manner can seem daunting, …
Your Labor is Worth the Pay! Put an End to Unpaid Internships
Unpaid internships are a reality for many people entering the workforce. In 2014, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found that 61% of graduating seniors had held at least one internship prior to graduation; 46.5% of those internships were unpaid. People take internships to “get their foot in the door” in the company or field they aspire to …
Virtual Meetings, Real Connections: How to Rock Your Video Calls
Just a few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of speaking with Robin Sacks, a confidence coach, about how we can all be more sure of ourselves and in a better position for career success. Today, she returns for another topic that is undeniably prevalent nowadays. We all know that virtual meetings have become ubiquitous in the past 16 months. …
How to Channel Creativity and Joy Into a Boring Job
Sometimes you find yourself in a boring job. The days seem monotonous, and you don’t look forward to going to work each morning. While you’re at the office, you can’t stop staring at the clock, waiting for your shift to be over. You feel like you’re wasting your days away and that you’re not using your brain on the job. …
Should You Actually Help a Friend Land a Job?
We all agree that today’s job market can be tough. Nearly all of us have gone through grueling months of applications, interviews, and networking for the sake of our careers. And we all have friends who have faced the same job hunting struggles. Naturally, we want to help each other out where we can: We give our friend a heads …
You’ve Got Mail! 3 Simple Strategies That Will Improve Your Open Rates
Anyone who runs a business or has a proper side hustle knows how important your email list is. You also know how important it is that those emails reach and are opened by your subscribers… and how hard it can be to achieve those goals. Why aren’t your numbers as good as they need to be? What are you doing …
7 Easy Ways to Deal With the Stress of Working From Home
The recent pandemic has changed our way of living and disturbed our daily routine. As everything is going online – including classes, shopping, and working – this situation has created stress in people in very drastic ways and affected their health. With our busy lives and the pandemic, stress has become ubiquitous. Most men have anxiety, but they do not …
How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Live With Confidence
A lot of our success in life comes down to our own confidence and outlook. In many ways, we make our own luck by believing in ourselves and looking at things as opportunities rather than obstacles. But confidence doesn’t come easily to all of us. How can you get out of your own way and stop holding yourself back with …
7 Tips to Help You Get Noticed and Land That Job!
How do you get noticed by hiring managers? In this virtual world of anonymity, it may seem hard to make your application stand out. However, you can create interest and be noticed. Here are some basic tips to get you started and land that job. 1. LinkedIn & Resumes If you apply via LinkedIn or online, attach a resume. Although …
The Most Important Question: Ask “Why” Before Starting a Business
Do you have an exciting business idea you’d like to build into a thriving company? If you’re moving towards becoming an entrepreneur, know that there are several things you should do before starting a business. But the most important item on that to-do list? Ask “why”! In our new podcast, we spoke with Thom King, a serial entrepreneur and the …
Keep Looking Up: How to Tackle Today’s Tough Job Market
Since the Great Recession hit in 2007, finding a job has been a lot harder than it was in years past. Youth unemployment was at 8.9% in August 2017, which is to say nothing of underemployment experienced by young workers, with 51% of millennials reporting underemployment. Even worse, in New York City, young people are earning 20% less than previous generations. Right now you …
5 Steps to Empowering Highly Sensitive People in the Workplace
One of the greatest things about a community of people – and society overall – is the rich diversity we see in personalities and working styles. Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, whether you’re a creative thinker or someone who is logical and methodological, we all bring unique perspectives and strengths. The same is true of Highly Sensitive People, …
How Professionals Can Stay Focused Even When Work and Life Get Chaotic
We all live in a busy world, from our stressful jobs to our generally hectic schedules. How can professionals – from entrepreneurs and CEOs to interns and entry-level workers – stay focused even when amidst the chaos of work? We spoke with Pragito Dove about how meditation can unlock that focus. From relieving us of stress to inspiring a sense …
What is the Winning Edge to Ensure Career Success?
Regardless of your role, your attitude and willingness to work with others is worth 50% of your position. These two attributes contribute more to the perception of your co-workers, supervisors, and management than any other skill. They give you a winning edge for promotions and leadership opportunities. Attitude is prevalent in your every action. A positive, enthusiastic attitude encourages and …
How to Build Up Confidence to Find Success and Happiness
Most of us grapple with a certain amount of stress, overwhelm, and self-doubt in our careers — even those who have attained high positions and look successful. But to truly feel successful and happy, we need to have the confidence to go after what we want, regardless of the fears holding us back. How can you gain more confidence and …
How to Reenter the Workforce as a New Mom
Reentering the workforce after recently becoming a mom can seem like a monumental task—especially when the job market is competitive. Adjusting to the new challenges of motherhood on its own is a huge change, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed when it’s time to begin a job search in earnest. However, there are some concrete steps you can take to …
Interviewing Secrets: How to Excel During In-Person Interviews
Are you on the hunt for a new job? Learn all the most helpful interviewing secrets in our full three-part webinar series. Following the first installment about phone interviews and a second chapter on virtual interviews, this third and final installment focuses on the biggest step: in-person interviews. HR Executive Sara Hill shares insider tips that will lead to a …
Language Matters: How to Be Inclusive of LGBTQ+ Colleagues
As we all work towards greater diversity and inclusion at work, it’s important to give some particular focus to how we interact with our LGBTQ+ colleagues. What might you be saying or doing that can be divisive or offensive? How can we instead communicate in ways that are more respectful and inclusive? Our Director of Content Rachel shares some advice …
How to Break Free from Corporate Life and Pursue Your Passion
When we were young, most of us were told to dream big, pursue our passions, and that we could become anything we wanted to be. We had dreams of becoming astronauts or marine biologists or movie stars. But somehow, as we move into adulthood, many of us don’t end up in our dream jobs, or even in the right field. …