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1). Nursing facts that everyone should know
Most people say it is a career about caring. Others say it is a job about professional administration of medications and cure to patients. Some say it is the duty to work out predicaments by using critical thinking skills.
In whatever way you want to call it, nursing is, indeed, a conglomeration of all these beliefs and the faculty of many other skills.
Article tags: nursing, nurses, nursing career, nusring job, nusing jobs, nursing degree, career, careers, jobs
2). How To Write The Best Teacher Resume You Can
It should come as no surprise that there is a currently a shortage of teachers in the United States. This unfortunate trend has been seen for well over a decade. To compound the issue, recent labor studies have predicted that teaching positions will likely continue to grow faster than the national average for the next several years due to recent government regulations to reduce class size and increase educational accountability.
Article tags: teacher, teachers, teaching, educator, educators, education, school, college, university, job, jobs, career, careers, employment, recruitment
3). Characteristics Of A Successful Entrepreneur
Studies have shown that successful entrepreneurs possess these characteristics:
1. Self-confidence
This is that magical power of having confidence in oneself and in one's powers and abilities.
2. Achievement Oriented
Results are gained by focused and sustained effort. They concentrate on achieving a specific goal, not just accomplishing a string of unrelated tasks.
Article tags: entrepreneur, franchise, jobs, careers, mentoring, coaching, marketing, small business, at home business
4). Unemployment Blues: Are We Pre-Programmed To Be Productive?
Toiling away at our daily grind, we dream of running away to Hawaii or the South Pacific where we can lie on the beach and do absolutely nothing.
Some of us are lucky enough to take a vacation there and temporarily cut ourselves off from the world of responsibilities and demands and worries. We breathe easier, sleep deeper, eat more heartily. It is truly paradise.
Article tags: unemployment, job search, careers, support, psychological reframing
5). Top 10 Things People Do Wrong at Interviews, And How To Avoid Them
A face-to-face interview is the most stressful part of the job search for many individuals, but it is also a critical component of the recruiting process. Up until this point, you have been able to hide behind your resume and cover letter. As the selection process starts to draw to a close, though, it’s time to impress the hiring team. A large part of a successful interview is avoiding potential pitfalls that can undermine your ability to impress the hiring team.
Article tags: job, jobs, career, careers, employment, recruitment, resume, resumes, interview, interviews
6). Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity
In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled.
Article tags: unemployment, job search, support, psychological reframing, careers
7). How to Handle Difficult Interview Questions
You are in the middle of an important interview and are confident that you are doing an excellent job of presenting your skills and qualifications for the position. The interviewer asks the next question – and it’s a difficult one. You didn’t see this question coming and have no idea to answer it. Words catch in your mouth. You start to sweat as your illustrious visions of landing your dream job are rapidly spiraling away at a breakneck speed.
Article tags: job, jobs, career, careers, employment, recruitment, resume, resumes, interview, interviews, trucker, truckers, trucking, truck driving, driving
8). How Temp Agencies Has Evolved
The temporary employment industry has gone through a number of transitions over the years. While temp agencies were originally used for hiring people to fill in for workers who were on vacation, it has now evolved into an industry which uses highly skilled workers. However, the temporary employment industry is considered to be a fringe market because it only employs workers for a short period of time.
Article tags: staffing, temp agencies, employment, temporary agency, resumes, cover letter, interview, job advice, careers, contractors
9). How to Overcome Being "Overqualified"
Have you ever gone through the interview process, felt confident that you'd performed extremely well, and then heard these dreadful words: "I'm sorry, but we feel you're overqualified for this position."
"Arrggh!!"
When I was told that after an interview, several thoughts went through my frustration-fogged mind... What kind of crazy excuse is that.
Article tags: job interviews, interview questions, interview strategies, overqualified, how to get hired, jobs, careers
10). Inside a Job Interview: Answers to the 15 Most Frequently Asked Questions – Part 1
Copyright 2006 Ed Bagley
Some surveys have shown that there are more than 90 questions that could be asked during a job interview. Of these, 15 in particular are asked most frequently during an extended interview (more than 20 minutes) for a regular work-a-day job.
Always remember that in a job interview, it is not just what you say, but how you say it that really counts.
Article tags: interviews, jobs, careers, resumes, hiring, business, cover letters, references
11). Ten Ways to Get Ready for Your Next Interview
Like preparing a great meal, interviewing requires preparation. Get good ingredients and give yourself time. Prepare the food on the plate to make the meal attractive. All of these go into a great meal. Taking the time to prepare for an interview will give you a huge leg up on your completion.
1. Schedule interviews at times that work for your metabolism.
Article tags: jobs, careers, interviews
12). Employment Under The Microscope
A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight.
Article tags: careers, unemployment, job search, coping, self-confidence, self-esteem
13). How to Ensure Your Resume is Read by Recruiters
Even the most qualified candidates with the strongest qualifications sometimes get bypassed by recruiters when they are looking to fill an open position. Why is this? Don’t recruiters want to interview and hire and the best of the best?
The answer to this question is, of course, yes! Recruiters are reviewing the resumes of submitted candidates to determine which individuals appear, on paper, to be a potential match for the position.
Article tags: job, jobs, career, careers, employment, recruitment, resume, resumes, interview, interviews
14). How to Shift Gears, Change Careers, and Become a Yoga Teacher (Part 1)
Do you enjoy practicing Yoga? Does teaching Yoga seem like your ultimate dream job? Does the thought of becoming a Yoga teacher feel like a “calling from within?” How would you pay your bills teaching Yoga? If your life mission is becoming a Yoga teacher; let’s look at a few practical solutions to your obstacles.
Article tags: health, healthy, fit, fitness, career, careers, yoga, yogi, teach, teacher, change, goal
15). Do You Want Effective Study Skills? Try M.U.R.D.E.R.
Chester Bennington is wailing, “The sun goes down, I feel the light betray me” on your radio; the cold beads of sweat that form on your forehead agree with Bennington– for the nth time you have a long exam tomorrow morning and you are nowhere near prepared. You call on every divinity, pray to every God, to be miraculously given effective study skills; however, you will settle for time to stop so you can cram longer.
Article tags: education, college, careers