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The Role of Career Mentorship in Professional Development
In today's competitive job market, career mentorship is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for professional growth. Whether you're just starting out or …
The Power of Continuous Learning: Empowering Your Career Potential
In today's fast-paced work environment, continuous learning has evolved from a nice-to-have to an absolute necessity. No longer confined to classrooms or formal …
Navigating Career Changes: Tips for a Smooth Transition
In today's fast-paced job market, career changes are becoming increasingly common. Whether driven by a desire for growth, better opportunities, or a change in …
Top Certifications to Boost Your Career
In today's competitive job market, career certifications can significantly enhance your employability and open doors to new opportunities. The right …
Upskilling and Reskilling: Preparing for the Jobs of Tomorrow
In today's rapidly evolving job market, upskilling and reskilling cannot be overstated. Technological advancements and market dynamics reshape job roles, making …
The Benefits of an Internship: Kickstarting Your Career
Gaining a foothold in today's competitive job market can be challenging. For many students and young professionals, internships provide a crucial stepping stone …
Building a Personal Brand: Why It Matters for Your Job Search
In today's competitive job market, standing out is more critical than ever. Building a solid personal brand is one of the most effective ways to differentiate …
Future-Proofing Your Career: Key Skills for Frontline and Hourly Workers in 2024
The job horizon is ever-changing, with new challenges and opportunities emerging at every turn. As we set our sights on 2024, what's clear is that the future …
How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome, Part 2
Still terrified and unsure of how to deal with imposter syndrome? Welcome to Part 2. If you haven’t read Part 1, feel free to do so here: Imposter Syndrome and …
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Why It’s Okay to Feel Like You Don’t Belong
“I’m not good enough for this job.” “They made a mistake hiring me.” “I have no idea what I’m doing.” “I’m terrified people will find out I don’t belong here.” …
A Millennial Perspective on What Career Success Means
Career success is a personal definition, but we grade ourselves far too often on superficial things. While a salary, fabulous title, or the corner office are …
5 Important Career Lessons Smart People Tend to Forget
In today’s society, money is definitely a necessity. They say that money doesn’t bring happiness, yet this very statement is questionable. We want to have fun, …
Competence at Work: Blessing or a Curse?
Are you trotting along or just grazing by? The riddle of performance management is trying to distinguish individual performance from team …
Jealous Much? How to Curb Your Career Envy
Professional jealousy has been around since the beginning of human society—the hunters probably envied the gatherers, and the gatherers felt as though the …
5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Change Careers
Your career is a big part of your life, so naturally you want a job that makes you feel fulfilled. However, not everybody is fortunate enough to land in their …
How to Handle a Bad Boss Like a Pro
Your job may be rewarding and fulfilling, your coworkers are great, and the company perks couldn’t be better...but, your boss? That's another …
10 Tips to Help You Move Up to an Executive Position
The importance of being happy in your career and feeling a sense of satisfaction can never be overstated. Everyone deserves to love what they do, find their …
How to Nail Perfect Grammar Even if You Slept Through Grade School
Don’t end a sentence with a preposition… Between the deep dark of the internet and the screenshots your friends take, nothing is ever forgotten. …
36 Top Experts on the Best Career Resolutions for 2017
Every year we make New Year’s resolutions like “eat healthy” and “run five miles a week” and “volunteer,” things that are usually manageable until the middle of …
Letting Go: The Only Way to Feel Successful in Life
Like all millennials, I had a mid-twenties crisis after graduation when my life plan fell apart (not to be dramatic or anything.) I ate a lot of cheesecake and …
6 Career Regrets You'll Have at 40 (But You Should Be Thankful For)
Not all career decisions end up being amusing stories we can tell later even if things turned out OK. We often lack foresight and insight when we’re in our …
Are You Sure You’re Making the Right Decision?
And if so, how do you know? We make an unbelievable amount of decisions every single day. Choosing what to have for lunch, what shoes to wear, whether …
An Open Letter to the Extraordinarily Average Person
Every decision you make has the power to affect your life. Immediately or somewhere down the road, every choice you’ve made has made an impact on your life. …
Four of the Best Reasons to Call in Sick
With the unemployment rate hovering at 5 percent, "calling in sick" or taking unplanned time off has fallen out of fashion to such an extent that employees are …
The 6 Phrases you Should Drop Like a Bad Habit
Think of the last meeting you sat in on. How many times did the presenter say "um..." or "uh..."? If you started counting, then it may have affected your …
How to be Confident and Ask for What you Need to do your Job
Resources are limited in every company and in start-ups there can be a complete void. I wear many hats here at Jobs2Careers, but the one thing I can say about …
The Truth About What it’s Like to be an Assistant
One minute you’re making sure your boss is prepped for her meeting with investors, the next you’re sorting through mail and booking travel. You’re definitely …
7 Signs You’re Better at Your Job Than You Think
Whether you believe in imposter syndrome or not, there is always a time in your career where you look around and think, “I have no clue what I am …
How to be a Leader When You're Not the Boss
It’s important to keep your leadership skills sharp even when you don’t have an official “boss” title (yet). You’re likely to go back and forth between …
The One Career Question You Should Probably Stop Asking Yourself
What if, in our struggles to find our most authentic careers, we’ve been asking ourselves the wrong soul-searching question all this time? Instead of always …
Struggling to Find Your Purpose? You Might Be Trying Too Hard
What if the process of discovering our purpose in life was actually much easier than we’ve ever made it out to be? What if we just need to be able to …
Programmers: 3 Reasons to Learn Golang Programming
First off, the Go programming language probably wins the "Goofiest Programming Mascot" award of the year, by far. What is Golang, though? A lot of programmers …
3 Reasons Why Millennials Should Be Fired
The time has finally come. Businesses are taking a stand. Millennials can take their selfish selves elsewhere. Companies handed over the power and …
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
I have a deep passion for pizza. And I love giraffes. Naturally, I should be an African safari guide with a Little Caesar’s franchise. That sounds as ridiculous …
All Apologies? Here's How to Stop Being Sorry
Take a look at the last 10 emails you sent. See any phrases like “I’m not an expert, but…” or “sorry for the delay,” “IMHO” (in my humble opinion), or “I hope …
Real Life is Scary, But it Doesn't Have to Be
Get ready for some cat poster wisdom. It’s more than “hang in there, baby,” so bear with me. Your cap and gown have been purchased (as if you didn’t …
6 Ways to Spend a Raise on your Future
Congratulations are in order! After working your tail off you earned a well-deserved raise. Once your boss tells you the good news you have visions of …
6 Challenges to Overcome in your Creative Career
When you join a startup you expect to wear many hats, so when asked about your diverse skills during the interview process, you may fabricate a little thinking …
We’re Human Too (and 8 Other Things Your Boss Won’t Tell You)
Whether they’re new or a veteran manager, any boss can lose perspective of what it’s like for their employees. They’re exposed to new information and their …
How to Work Like a Boss (Even When You're Not)
Acting like the boss you want to work for is the best advice for working your way up the ladder (or if you want to stay in the same job and make more money). …
9 Ways to Beat the Winter Work Blues
February is kind of like the Tuesday of the year; useless and no one’s favorite. We made it through another holiday season and the …
Faking it: Nobody Knows What The Hell Is Going On
Have you ever sidled up to a Pac-Man game and seen the demo playing and started moving the joystick, and the little guys continue to eat up the ghosts and you …
The 3 New Year’s Resolutions Job Seekers Can Actually Keep
New Year's resolutions: Easy to make; hard to keep. If ‘finding a new job’, (or simply “find a job”) is on your list, we have a few resolutions to add to your …
Managing Up: When You Have a Bad Boss
If you've been part of the working world for more than a few years, you've probably had one: The demanding, the irrational, the out-of-touch. The #boss that …
9 Ways to Be an Amazing Employee
(Without Being Annoying…) We've all worked with go-getters, job-haters, complainers and fakers. Here are nine ways to be amazing at your job without annoying …
Learning Leadership: Standing Out from the Crowd
“Good #leadership is about the company's success, not your own.” - Anne Mulcahy, former Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation Wondering why you’re not …
How Do You Empower Your Employees?
Micromanagement rarely works. A good manager hires people who are perfectly capable of managing themselves, and lets them do brilliant work. Rather than …
24 Career Lessons from Previous World Cups [in GIFs]
With today’s kickoff of the world’s most popular sporting event, the 2014 FIFA World Cup, we consider some of the careers lessons we’ve learned over the …
Resolution Check-up: Are you staying on track?
It’s easy to feel motivated at the beginning of the year. But even as early as two weeks in, New Year’s resolutions can be long forgotten. We’ve already given …
2014 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Career
We’ve heard them all before – stop smoking, lose weight, save money, try extreme ironing. They’re New Year’s Resolutions and, unless you’re one of the 8% of …