Careers
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How to Achieve Career Mobility
Career mobility is the ability to climb the corporate ladder and move across job grades, departments, and positions. It’s essential to your financial wellness to have complete ownership of your skills. Being invested in your professional growth ensures you’re career trajectory isn’t limited. It’s a challenge to separate our work from our self. For many, work is a source of…
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How to Manage Your First Paycheck: CARPE DIEM
It’s a great feeling getting your first paycheck. I still remember the day I got mine. I held it in my hands and said to myself, “Is this what it means to have money?” Although I had already made money mowing grass, raking leaves, and shoveling snow, this was a paycheck. I felt like an adult. The paycheck in my…
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How to Prepare for a Job Interview: Don’t Make These Mistakes
Increase your odds of landing your dream position by being well prepared for a job interview. Whether your goal is career mobility or you’re out of a job, you don’t want to make these interview mistakes. Sure you need to get the interview basics right first like dressing properly and grooming. But you can’t stop at the basics. You’ll increase…
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Best Types of Employee Benefits and How to Use Them
Employee benefits are a big consideration when people apply for a job, and tell you a lot about how much a company is willing to invest in an employee. Besides salary, companies might also offer a range of employee benefits. These should not be thought of as just a perk but as an important part of the well-being of both…
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How to Ask and Get a Pay Raise at Work
You want to make more money. And the easiest way to earn extra money without exchanging more of your time for a paycheck is getting a raise at work. I can bet (and I’m not a betting man) that you’re probably overdue for a raise, but if you don’t know how to properly ask for one, then chances are you’ll…
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Career Tips to Become More Valuable in Your Profession and Employers
A long time ago, I was given career tips that helped me become a more valuable employee and a highly recruitable professional. These career tips translated to confidence in asking for pay raises and applying for internal and external job postings. Follow these tips to help you achieve your income and career mobility goals. 1. Change your mindset The perception…
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What to Do When Your Boss Says No to a Pay Raise
Years ago I wanted a pay raise and it didn’t go the way I thought it would. In my early 20s, I was spotlighted by my company as a model employee. Using the word “spotlight” is probably an understatement. For an entire year, I was paraded in company-wide meetings and senior managers tapped me for ideas. I was the model…
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7 Surprising Reasons Why You Didn’t Get the Job
While in college I worked in the human resources department of an airline handling company operating out of Newark Airport. The company employed hundreds of people and we received a lot of resumes each week. The response to job postings was too much for my manager to handle alone, and it was my responsibility to sort through resumes and create…
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How to Stay Marketable in a Any Job Market
Good news for the economy: The current unemployment rate has dipped to 3.7 percent in 2019. It means a lot of folks have gone back to work and are plugging away in new careers. It could also be an indication that the prospects for your new career path might have become more competitive. This is why you need to stay…
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