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Strategies to Advance Your Career
The best way to advance your career is to get proactive. You cannot sit around and expect advances to drop into your lap. Take charge of your professional future by using the following strategies. Set an appointment with the boss - while you may think that your work speaks for itself, you are probably just one of many employees to your boss. To make yourself stand out from the crowd, set up an appointment to meet with your boss. Tell your boss directly that you are very interested in your work future.
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Advance Your Career by Managing Your Supervisor
Most employees go out of their way to avoid their supervisors, even if their supervisors are nice and easy to work for. Supervisors who are difficult and hard to work for are often avoided like the plague. The main reason that supervisors, even nice ones, tend to be avoided is they are subconsciously viewed as scary people like police officers or judges. We try to stay out of their away and avoid contact with them - and most of us don’t go to them unless we are required to do so. The problem with this attitude is it can cripple our career advancement.
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Advance Your Career with Confidence
Career advancement for women is very important, but it seems few women actually know how to go after it. Many women end up working the same job for many years, with hardly any pay raises or increase in benefits. Women have so many different things in their lives that sometimes career advancement takes a back seat behind other life goals such as family and children. Here are some simple strategies that you can employ to ensure that you remain completive in the work place.
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Advancing Your Career through Continued Education
Career advancement doesn’t have to be as daunting as it sounds. If you’re lucky, you may be promoted through the ranks based on your job performance alone. To really make the jump from a low level position to one high up on the corporate ladder, often it takes initiative and determination to see yourself grow personally and professionally. One way to do this is through the use of continued education. Whether you decide to return to college for your degree or simply take a free course online, there are several reasons why continued education can go a long way toward advancement in your career.
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Get What You Want in Your Current Job or Say Goodbye
You were hired to make a significant contribution to your company’s bottom line; you do a great job and definitely deserve to be compensated well for your work. Perhaps you’ve asked for a monetary raise or additional compensation multiple times and have been denied. Or maybe there is an internal issue that has been addressed, but hasn’t been rectified and continually affects you in the workplace. Regardless of the situation, or the economic challenges of today, there is no reason why a company should not work with their dedicated employees in order to find a common and reasonable ground that satisfies both parties.
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Frustrated with co-worker HR? Am I crazy?
I posted this on the intro page but also thought here would help.
Hi all,
Sorry to come on here and immediatley drop my problems before helping but I just need to get this off my chest and see if I am being crazy.
I am a group lead in a regional sales group. A recent new hire (we will call her Steph)is a lead in a different region. We are seperate but equal (supposedly)
The issue I have is with how Steph dresses. The accepted attire is office casual, and she… -
Fitting in at work
When starting a new job or even a new college course i think it’s normal and natural to feel a little nervous, thoughts come into mind like am I going to make a good impression and will my work be good enough and worries about fitting in can be daunting.
I cant say I have ever had a job before that has sounded as exciting as the one I’m about to start next week; i had always worked retail, cleaning and data entry roles, but despite that the one that really stood out as a job I enjoyed…
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not sure were i stand with job offer
After attending an interview nearly 2 weeks ago now I was offered the job and promised I would be notified in the next few days via the agency about start dates; they then told they had a few internal matters to get sorted before I could start which was not a problem.
This job was arranged thru an agency and i contacted them late last week to find out whats going on, I was informed by the agency that I was not to worry the job was 110% mine and i had received excellent feedback which put my…
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IF you could go back to your teens/20s, what would you do differently?
I didnt know where to put this really. it could have gone in the lifestyle/hobbies section. but if you could go back and do things with your life differently durring your early 20s, what would those things be?
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Transferable skills
I often read about transferable skills and making the most of them on my CV and today in an interview I was put in a position were I had to think fast what i can bring to a technical job from a non technical education background.
I also think this is a good point even if you haven’t worked for a time especially for mums returning to work like skills in time management and even conflict resolution think 2 two years olds in an argument; then there is volunteering which is not to be underestimated eithr.
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