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Career Moves: How to Win the Office Politics Game (Part Two)

{ Posted on Oct 31 2011 by April Dykman }
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Categories : All, Career, Get Rich Slowly, Uncategorized
This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Last week we talked about the whys of office politics. Why do they exist? Why do we have to play the game? Today we’ll get to the good stuff: How to run a ...Read More »

Career Moves: How to Win the Office Politics Game (Part One)

{ Posted on Oct 24 2011 by April Dykman }
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This post is from staff writer April Dykman. “Office politics” is one of those phrases that used to make me groan. I worked in an office from the time I was a freshman in college until I quit my job last ...Read More »

Do you really know the company you’re applying to?

{ Posted on Oct 20 2011 by Sian Meades }
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Categories : All, Career, covering letter, FruGal, job application, Job Hunting, successful covering letter, Uncategorized
We make assumptions about people all the time. We make assumptions about companies even quicker. That’s why they have a brand (one that they’ll defend with an army of small kittens if they have to). So when it comes to ...Read More »

The Ever Growing Demand on Health Care Career

{ Posted on Oct 20 2011 by Anton Voronov }
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Categories : All, allied health career, Business Finance Marketing, Career, Economy, Finance, General, Helpful Information, job, Uncategorized
While you consider health care, more often than not, the first individuals you think of are medical doctors and nurses. That is as a result of those are the individuals you interface with ninety% of the time should you’re being ...Read More »

How to quit your job with class

{ Posted on Oct 17 2011 by Sian Meades }
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Categories : All, Career, FruGal, handing in resignation, notice period, quit job, quitting job, resignation, Uncategorized, Work tips
No matter what your reasons for quitting your job, there’s a lot to be said about doing it with a little class. Even if you’re angry with your boss, you’re being screwed over by your company, or it was only ...Read More »

How to Know When to Quit

{ Posted on Oct 13 2011 by April Dykman }
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Categories : All, Career, Get Rich Slowly, Psychology, Self-Improvement, Uncategorized
This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Before I became a full-time freelancer, I worked for a couple of different companies. Both times I started a new job, it started out exciting and fun. Great benefits! Cool perks! Interesting ...Read More »

Can you ignore the required experience in a job ad?

{ Posted on Oct 13 2011 by Sian Meades }
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Categories : All, Career, Career building, FruGal, Job Hunting, Uncategorized
I will always, always apply for gigs that I’m almost-but-not-quite qualified for and in this post I want to encourage you to do the same. Here are some reasons why you can bag that job the ad implies you’re not ...Read More »

The top office pet peeves

{ Posted on Oct 12 2011 by Harri Pierce }
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Categories : All, Career, co-workers, colleagues, FruGal, office tension, Uncategorized, Work tips
Poor old Keith Zakheim. It was 7.15am on a Tuesday morning. Bleary-eyed, reeling from a painful Redskins loss and in desperate need of caffeine, the president of the multi-million dollar PR firm Beckerman PR prised open the office fridge to ...Read More »

Your potential new boss is Google stalking you

{ Posted on Oct 11 2011 by Sian Meades }
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Categories : All, Career, Career building, FruGal, Job Hunting, Uncategorized
I’ve been thinking a lot about personal online brands recently. It has a huge bearing on my job, and it’s something that I have to be aware of all the time. But what if you’re not applying for a job ...Read More »

How to Ask for a Raise in a Bad Job Market

{ Posted on Oct 04 2011 by J.D. Roth }
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This is a guest post by Alexandra Levit, a formerly nationally syndicated columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Money Magazine’s Online Career Expert of the Year. Levit works with organizations as diverse as the Obama administration and Microsoft, and ...Read More »
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