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Best Career Building Tips

Whether you’re just entering the workforce or a decade into your career, familiarizing yourself with the best career-building tips is always beneficial. Finding a career path that you also love can be challenging, and the overall process can be intimidating. As a young adult, I know I’ve spent my fair share of time stressing about the next steps and future.

The best thing you can do for yourself when building a career is to seek advice from experts. People who have ...

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14
FEB
2022

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Career Tips

careeradvice, careercoach, employmentcoach, job search, jobopportunity

Job Search: Using Social Media to Your Advantage

Posted by: Taylor Tarantino

Social media started as a fun way to connect with friends and family to share news, life updates and keep your loved ones close no matter how far away they lived. Now it’s used for a wide variety of things such as shopping, networking, personal branding, and job hunting. One new advantage of social media that seems to be on the rise is the opportunity to find a job. People everywhere are turning to different media platforms such as LinkedIn, ...

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7
FEB
2022

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Career Tips, Job Search, Networking

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20 Common Interview Questions

Posted by: Taylor Tarantino

Interviews can be extremely nerve-wracking. Let’s dissect the situation: a stranger, who has the power to hire you and shape your career as well as the ability to determine your financial stability, asks you what seems like a thousand questions about your goals, work habits, work ethic, and employment history. Not scary at all, right?

A quote by Benjamin Franklin states, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” To avoid feelings of fear and distress before an interview, do ...

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17
JAN
2022

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Confidence, Interview Tips, Job Search

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Why This Pandemic is Teaching Us the Importance of Self-Love

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Feeling Your Emotions Is an Act of Self-Love

This lingering pandemic is teaching us many lessons, the least of which is we can’t hide from ourselves anymore. When isolated during restrictions, we must face our trauma. There is no other way. It is an act of courage to deal with our emotions without fearing or running away from them. For in deferring our complex emotions, we postpone our healing. Can you identify? For example, have you been coping with being isolated ...

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20
DEC
2021

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Confidence, Motivation, Personal Development

careeradvice, careercoach, coping, covid, difficult, emotions, employmentcoach, guidance, isolation, pain, pandemic, self-love, trauma

Do My Fears Limit My Success?

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“If the plan doesn’t work, change your plans. But keep your goal; it should not change.”

What do you think is stopping you from experiencing massive success? The kind of success that happens to just a few people in a lifetime. The type of success that allows you to bless your family and loved ones? To create and perpetuate generational success means putting away all fears which so quickly derails us.

Someone once said that fear is only “False Evidence Appearing Real.” ...

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13
DEC
2021

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Confidence, Motivation, Success

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Born to be a 10: The Journey to Success

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Have you ever wondered what you think about who you are? Many people are taught that their self-worth depends on their accomplishments, and their value in life is due to their contributions to society. When we do well, we are awesome; when that does not happen, we are losers.

Is it any wonder an executive with a college education working in a high-rise building making a six-figure income feels like he is on top of the world? Conversely, a homeless man ...

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6
DEC
2021

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Confidence, Motivation, Success

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Strategies for Employee Career Development

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Are you currently at a loss regarding how to develop the techniques to use for career development? Or are you presently feeling trapped and unappreciated within your organization? Do you no longer derive any feeling of meaning or purpose from what you do for a living?

Within the practice of human resources, we have often observed and counseled, questioned, and helped employees in and similar situations with requisite career advice. Human resource practitioners have developed strategies that can assist employees within ...

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8
NOV
2021

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Career Choices, Employment

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It’s Not About Your Job; It’s About Your Life!

Posted by: admin

When it comes to job search and career development, I think 99% of the population has it wrong and “does it backward.” This realization comes from my more than 25 years of experience as a Career Coach and working with thousands of clients.

Looking back, I believe that this opinion has been developing in my mind for many years. But it was only recently that my thoughts crystallized into a form that I could express in a concise message.

New clients often ...

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1
NOV
2021

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Career Choices, Career Path, Job Search

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How To Ace Telephone Job Interviews

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Telephone interviews are different than live interviews and require different strategies for the job-seeker to be successful. When I ask new coaching clients to assess their interview technique, they never distinguish between phone and live interviews. Many clients don’t even realize that brief phone interactions are mini-interviews. When a long phone call is scheduled, some of my clients refer to it as a “screen.” They say this as if this is something different or even less than an interview.

Make no mistake: ...

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27
SEP
2021

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Career Tips, Employment, Job Search

careeradvice, careercoach, follow-up, interview, job interview, job search, job seeker, jobopportunity, phone interview

Finding Your Passion At Work

Posted by: Victoria Vanzant

It has been said that if you find a hobby that you enjoy and turn it into a career, you will never work a day in your life! Well, while that sounds blissful, that’s not entirely true. BUT, you will have a work life that is more enjoyable than what most people experience in their lifetime. Finding work that you love and are passionate about makes the days that are hard, easier to bear. In addition, you will be more ...

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27
JUL
2020

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Career Choices, Career Path, Passion

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How To Ace Telephone Job Interviews

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