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Getting fed up of the same routine day in and day out? Tired of seeing yourself in same frustrating work situations day after day, month after month, year after year? Take heart! You are not alone. This is a fairly common situation and you or your family need not be overly concerned about it. Allow the winds of change in your career. You may be surprised to find the cool refreshing breeze of a new career that brings about positive changes in your lifestyle and outlook. Continue reading →

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So many people have heard the importance of networking, but few actually practice it to make an impact on their careers. When you are faced with a job loss or a desired career change, networking is one of the most important strategies to understand and implement.

With the use of your career survival kit, you can start to make targeted visits to locations where professionals meet and network. You can, in some cases, even do it on company time, if you are still employed. If you are not employed, networking can become very difficult. Continue reading →

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If you are one of the millions of people who get an unexpected pink slip, the fact that you are getting laid off can be terrifying. It doesn’t have to be that way, but many people don’t prepare themselves for the eventuality of a career change and prefer instead to coast through life. When market forces or a major illness interrupt their career, they may have no idea how to start a new career. Let’s be clear, you can switch into another career quickly, but not if you don’t plan your strategies way ahead of time. Once the emergency hits, you won’t have the calm head required to look at all your options objectively. So, don’t wait until something happens to force you out of your career, be proactive and start looking at ways to manage a potential career change even if your job seems as secure as the rock of Gibraltar. Continue reading →

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You don’t want to get to the point where you have been given notice and have absolutely no idea where to start looking for a job or even what jobs you qualify for. Always know what your skills are and how those skills apply to the present marketplace. This can take a review of your skills, yearly. This should be easy enough as that is normally done in your yearly review, with your supervisor. Keep a copy of all of your achievements and skills at home at all times.

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Besides a layoff, there are signals within us that tell us we’ve either been at a job too long or the winds of change aren’t in our favour. Learn how to start reading the elements of change to decide when you have to take notice and be proactive. You can look on this as an adventure to rediscovering the passion and ambition in your life. If you know how to successfully switch from one job to another, you can have the freedom to create a life of happiness instead of a life of drudgery. It will help to build your confidence and give you more life satisfaction. Continue reading →

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Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. That’s a given. There is scarcely anything else that drags a person down like debt. It is a slavish position to get ill, yet we find many a young man, hardly out of his “teens,” running in debt (and yes, this has been going on for centuries as long as men and history could remember). Continue reading →

The eye of the employer is often worth more than the hands of a dozen employees. In the nature of things, an agent cannot be so faithful to his employer as to himself. Continue reading →

No man ought ever to indorse a note or become security, for any man, be it his father or brother, to a greater extent than he can afford to lose and care nothing about, without taking good security. Continue reading →