Career

  • How to Be More Confident at Work
    Business, blogging & Money, Career

    How to Be More Confident at Work

    Although some people appear to be naturally confident, chances are they’ve simply worked on their self-esteem and benefited from using tried and tested techniques to boost their confidence. No-one is born confident, so we all need to learn how to assert ourselves in varying environments. 

    However, ‘confidence’ doesn’t appear anywhere on school schedules or college timetables, so it’s something we tend to learn at different rates and at different ages. Perhaps you’re about to start your first post-graduate role and you’re feeling nervous about the transition? Maybe you’ve been a manager for more than a decade, but you still struggle to push yourself forwards in the workplace?

    No matter what stage you’re at, it’s never too late too to increase your confidence and become a more natural leader at work. To give yourself a head start, take a look at these top tips and begin enjoying a more confident workplace persona today: (more…)

  • Financial Careers You Might Want to Consider
    Business, blogging & Money, Career, COVID-19, Finance

    Financial Careers You Might Want to Consider

    During the lockdown, many of us have had a lot of time to reflect on our careers. Usually, when we’re in the throes of routine with work, we get little time to actually think about what we’re doing. We get up, we get ready, we make the commute, we work, we commute back, then we spend what free time we have trying to fit in exercise, social plans or just a little relaxation. Now some of us have had the opportunity to mull things over, we’ve found that we might not be quite on the path that we want to be. Maybe we don’t actually like the field we’re working in. Maybe we don’t enjoy our role. Maybe we’re not progressing as we’d like. Maybe we’d like to break into a new field or area. Now, there are plenty of career paths out there that you can take and it would be nigh on impossible to tackle them all in one post, but if you’re good with numbers, a financial career might be a good option for you! (more…)

  • Five Surprising Careers You Can Study for With the Internet
    Business, blogging & Money, Career

    Five Surprising Careers You Can Study for With the Internet

    The internet is a fantastic place to learn new skills thanks to the advent of online learning. You can pretty much learn anything from how to play an instrument to designing websites. However, there is also an increasing number of online courses that will award you with some surprising qualifications that you would never expect to earn over the internet. So in this post, we’re going to discuss five of the most surprising career switches you could make by simply studying online. (more…)

  • 'Improve Your Resume to Boost Your Job Prospects
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    Improve Your Resume to Boost Your Job Prospects

    Hoping to land the job of your dreams? Maybe you’re at the start of your career, or perhaps you’re looking to make a career change later on. Either way, you’ll need a CV to start with. What makes a good resume is that it helps you stand out from the recruitment crowd. To that end, you can always have a look at a service like https://www.arcresumes.com/local/illinois/ to help you write an excellent resume and push you in the right direction.
     
    Though that said, you could write or edit a very strategic and successful resume on your own. It’s all about understanding what recruiters are looking for. Here are several elements to resume writing that could improve yours and make it the best it can be.
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  • What Are Your Employee Rights During The Covid-19 Crisis?
    Business, blogging & Money, Career, COVID-19, Finance

    What Are Your Employee Rights During The Covid-19 Crisis?

    You’ve always done right by your employer, and now you want them to return the favour. It’s only natural that everybody pulls together in these unpredictable times. Unfortunately, if the COVID-19 outbreak has shown the best of humanity, it’s highlighted some of the worst sides, too.

    Billionaires asking for handouts from the government doesn’t inspire confidence, not when entrepreneurs tend to put profits above everything else. As a career-driven individual, you want to help without putting your health at risk. After all, millions of died, and millions more are in self-isolation, for a reason.

    The key is to understand your fundamental rights. Here are the core ones for your information. (more…)

  • 5 Reason's To Consider Going Back To University
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    5 Reason’s To Consider Going Back To University

    Going to college or attending university is something we often associate with adolescence. Many people wrongly believe that they only get one chance to go to university, but education is there for us all, whatever our age and wherever we are in our career. So whether you want to learn something new, gain a qualification to prove your knowledge in a subject you already know or simply want to have a chance to enjoy the university experience, then here are 5 reasons why you may want to consider going back to university.  (more…)

  • 3 Ways To Improve Your Career Chances In Your Spare Time
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    3 Ways To Improve Your Career Chances In Your Spare Time

    There is much you can do to improve your career chances while you’re working, of course. You can over-deliver on the projects you have been given, work overtime when your boss asks you to, and excel in every area of your job description. By taking such steps, you will increase your chances of a promotion, and if you ever do decide to move on to a new job, you should get an excellent reference to back up your application.

    However, there is much you can do in your free time to improve your career chances too. Here are just a few of the ways you can do it.  (more…)

  • Can You Really Make a Career from Blogging?
    Blogging, Business, blogging & Money, Career

    Can You Really Make a Career from Blogging?

    As times change, so do common careers. While there were plenty of chimney sweeps in the Victorian era, there are relatively few today. Times change. Demands change. Perhaps the biggest step that’s changed career options in modern times? Technology changing and advancing. Thanks to the rise in tech and many people now having a laptop or computer of their own at home, time spent in offices and other work premises is less necessary and many people are beginning to work from home and to work for themselves. This independence is great! On top of this, platforms such as blogs and social media and their sheer popularity means that whole new job roles have opened up. Right now, you really can make enough money to live on by blogging! Sure, this might have been a purely personal venture a few months back. But you can now get paid ads and sponsored posts which make blogging a truly viable source of income! So, here are a few steps you might want to take if this is a path you want to pursue! (more…)

  • Business, Business, blogging & Money, Career, COVID-19

    How To Be Productive When Working From Home

    Many of us have thought about working from home for a long time before taking the plunge. And having a productive way of doing things, is essential when you work from home. But it is one of the things that many of us self-employed people struggle with. Unfortunately, many of us find it difficult to reduce distractions, and this is a common theme. Not only this but there is nobody to really show us what to do when we become self-employed and work from home. So here are some ideas on how you can work from home, and still be productive at the same time. (more…)