Career Advice

Give It Time Before Deciding You Hate Your New Job Once you start work and there are responsibilities you have to deal with, you’re more likely to adapt a prevention focus, which naturally focuses on the negative things. The perfect job doesn’t feel as perfect anymore. This disappointment can make you feel like the new role is a mistake. And sometimes a position isn’t a right fit. So how do you tell the difference between normal disappointment and adjustment and signs that the job truly isn’t working out? Before you decide that you should look for something new, here are three things to consider.

Don't Quit Your Job Before Asking Yourself These Questions Is it time to quit my job? This is a question we’ve all asked ourselves at one point or another. Most people wait until they feel they must leave their job or organization, and that puts them at a disadvantage. They might end up choosing an “exit job” rather than the right next career step. Don’t let this happen to you. Instead, be proactive and take the opportunity, at least once a year, to evaluate your organization and your position in it, along with your personal career assets. The three questions below should help you assess where you stand.

3 Things You Need To Know About A March Job Search If you’re planning to launch or continue a job search in March, here’s what you need to know to land the best possible outcome.

10 Sentences You Should Tell Yourself When Facing Huge Challenges Instead of filling your mind with thoughts that keep your feet glued to the ground, try telling yourself these 10 sentences and start climbing that wall one little step at a time. The grass is greener on the other side.

We Are In One Of The Best Times Of The Year To Find A New Job Now that we are in February, the real work starts. The holidays are a pleasant and distant memory. The cold, hard reality kicks in that we’re all back in the office with a lot of work to catch up on and there are no vacations in sight. It's a sobering, back-to-reality period of time. This can actually be good news for you, if you’d like to land a new job.

7 Easy-to-Miss Milestones That Indicate You're On Track to Becoming Successful Success is hard enough to come by, don't blow by these signs of it Success is hard work; it's too easy when keeping your head down and barreling forward to blow by some of your important achievements. Looking back on a 30-plus year career spanning various ventures, I can now see signals I missed, accomplishments of mine I under-appreciated. I share seven of these realizations now so they don't go unnoticed by you.

27 Quotes That Will Inspire You To Have Love Of Work I truly believe that work shouldn't feel like work. Life is simply far too short to be bored or miserable (or both) for such a large portion of the time you spend awake. You deserve to have a job that fulfills you, that taps into your passions, that brings you joy--for the most part, anyway. And if you're waking up each morning dreading the day, then it's time to find something new. Because putting up with a business or career you don't love doesn't serve you at all. It can negatively impact your physical, mental, and emotional health, and it's not so great for your interpersonal relationships, either. Below are 27 quotes that will hopefully motivate you to overcome ambivalence and fear and to jumpstart the search for work you love.

Signs the Job You're Applying for Will Be a Nightmare There's no guarantee during the interview and application process that you'll land a job that fulfills your every need, from salary requirements to fulfilling day-to-day responsibilities. But there's a wide gap between a job that's not quite perfect and one that's an utter nightmare. No one wants a nightmare job.

5 Tips to a Better Work-Life Balance With what feels like an ongoing struggle with achieving the ideal work-life balance, recent research shows that two-thirds of British employees are not happy with their work-life balance. Sure, it’s not easy to achieve, but the work-life balance isn’t a myth.