Why Productive People Work On Sundays

August 29 , 2013

Sundays aren't just for rest and recuperation. When used wisely, they’re actually the perfect way to start your week with a bang.

Filed Under: Productivity, productivity

How to Talk So Your Boss Will Listen

August 26 , 2013
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Filed Under: Behavior in the Workplace, behavior in the workplace, leadership and management, Leadership and Management, Relationships, relationships

How to Handle Difficult People

August 22 , 2013

The path to success can be derailed by clashes with difficult people, and even if the clash isn't disastrous, it can make your life very unpleasant. Everyone has a store of coping mechanisms that we resort to when we find ourselves in stressful situations. Difficult people force us to fall back on...

Filed Under: Behavior in the Workplace, behavior in the workplace, Relationships, relationships

The Big Difference Between Leaders and Managers

August 19 , 2013

Filed Under: leadership and management, Leadership and Management

5 Ways Women Are Better Bosses Than Men

August 15 , 2013

In the battle of the sexes, recent studies show that women have certain characteristics that make them better leaders--though men still hold the majority of these positions.

Filed Under: leadership and management, Leadership and Management, Professional Women

9 Amazingly Successful Women Who Started Out As Assistants

August 14 , 2013

Everyone has to start somewhere -- and sometimes, that "somewhere" is as an assistant.

Filed Under: Administrative and Support Services, administrative and support services, Professional Women, Your Career, your career

How To Stand Out From The Rest

August 12 , 2013

Lynda Fraser, Vice President, Human Resources Contract Division, Solomon Page Group

Filed Under: Best Advice, best advice, Job Search, job search, Quick Tips, quick tips

The Basics of Power Networking

August 08 , 2013

Changes in life are inevitable. Through networking you never know who you will meet, how you will meet them or where these connections may take you … Tara Thurber, Recruiter, Solomon Page Creative and Marketing

Filed Under: Networking, networking

Do You Need a Résumé in the LinkedIn Era?

August 05 , 2013

Now that LinkedIn has become the standard place to present your professional history and credentials — not to mention the fastest way to check somebody else's — the humble résumé has lost its once-hallowed position as the canonical version of your professional identity. Your LinkedIn profile should...

Filed Under: LinkedIn, Resume Tips, resume tips, Your Career, your career

A Shifting Workplace Experience

August 02 , 2013

Compared with offices of the past, the modern workplace is paradoxically both more informal and more relentless. Doors have been replaced by cubicles, formal desks with tables, and long-planned meetings with ad hoc collaboration. Work and home have blended, to the general benefit of work: more and...

Filed Under: Technology and the Workplace, technology and the workplace, Your Career, your career