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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 ...

Are You Working Your Passion?

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In today's world a lot of us are not doing what WE want to do.  We are doing what others want us to, doing what's comfortable to us for fear of stepping out of our comfort zone.  Invision "What would it feel like if you made the decision to do what it is that YOU want to do?" "What would if feel like if you were actually doing something that YOU are passionate about?"  Those are very good questions.  In the book, "Work It Girl! The Black Woman's Guide to Professional Success" is a book that showcases various women from all walks of life that have stepped out of their comfort zone and are now doing their passion. The co-author, Pamela M. McBride stepped and chose Work It, Girl doing her passion, and that passion is writing.  The book inspires others to do what they are being called to do.  The message of the book is, whether you are in a military career, corporate career, freelance career, or a professional career, you can Work It to ...