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Developing Your Skills as a Manager

If there's one thing that just about everyone who works in a company needs to know, it's how to be a good manager. Now, before you start to protest and explain that you're in an individual contributor role and there's no way that you need to know how to be a good manager, I can promise you that you'd be one hundred percent wrong. The same skills that you acquire as a good manager as skills that you can use in every aspect of your life. Whether it's interacting with your partner or your friends or even with someone in customer service who's giving you a hard time, you can use management skills to handle just about any situation. Developing skills is important, but if you're not passionate about the job you're using them in, maybe it's time to look for a new one. One way to jump start your job search is by getting your resume posted on all the job sites. A service like ResumeDirector can do this for you. Using their service, your resume ...

Tory Johnson: 10 Tips to Get Your Kid a Summer Job

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Advice and Resources: Teach Your Kids to Get Out There to Nab Some Summertime Work By TORY JOHNSON Workplace Contributor May 31, 2010 To line up summer employment, it's all about old fashioned pavement pounding right now. Share these tactics with your teens to help them hear, "You're hired." Tory Johnson offers teens tips to get good summer jobs.Talk to friends and neighbors. Encourage your kids to start close to home by promoting their own skills and interests and telling friends and neighbors that they're willing to offer a helping hand. It could be baby-sitting, tutoring, music lessons, house painting, yard work -- whatever they feel comfortable and confident doing. If one person doesn't have steady work, teens can juggle multiple clients with the same needs. Ask directly for leads. When talking to the people in the neighborhood, kids should also ask directly for introductions and job leads. "If you don't need my time and talent, do you k...

5 Career Development Strategies

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A successful career development strategy should consider a minimum of five strategies, including the definition of a career target, building of a personal network, use of online social netwrok tools, constant improvement of personal skills and the development of a personal brand. Presented in this article are five proven strategies for career development which most of the really successful people are applying.  You might find that it is just common sense, by applying these strategies your chanced of developing a successful career can skyrocket.  These are the five strategies: 1.   Define a Career Target  The first step in the career development process is defining a concrete career target.  What do you like to change in your career?  Where do you want to be in two and in five years?  Defining a career target and mean for some people trying to get to the next step on the career ladder, for other people it might signify doing something completel...

The Virtual Professionals

A lot of us may be in the market for an Assistant to help us run our At Home Businesses.  Or you could be in the market for a Work At Home Job.  In either case, a Virtual Assistant or becoming a Virtual Assistant could be the answer for you.  If you think it is, then check out the transcripts from today's show of At Home Biz Radio http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/jeane   Tiffanie Tillman is the Founder and CEO of The Virtual Professionals. *** (22:59:46):Welcome to the At Home Biz Radio Chat Room. At Home Biz Radio says (23:00:12): Good morning and welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us this morning. Just Biz Talk says to (23:03:15): Good morning At Home Biz Radio says (23:05:55): Good morning At Home Biz Radio says (23:10:17): http://www.thevirtualprofessionals.com/ At Home Biz Radio says (23:19:52): Welcome thebirtualpros At Home Biz Radio says (23:26:19): 407- 412 -7866 At Home Biz Radio says (23:26:33): oops Welcome thevirtualpros At Home Biz ...