How to Use Your Work Portfolio To Shape Your Professional Brand
We’ve mentioned recently that work portfolios are the new resume. Not only do they let you put everything in one place, but they also give your work a little visual flavor. Can a work portfolio shape your professional brand as well? We think so! Ultimately,…
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Could Career Management be the Key to Strong Work Performance?
For many of us, work performance is usually based on how much we enjoy our job, the amount of feedback we receive, our work environment, or if we attain the right results. However, there’s also another factor that needs to be considered when you or…
Back to Top5 Reasons Why All Job Seekers Need to Have a Work Portfolio
Let’s face it: the old way of job searching is a thing of the past. Answering a job ad won’t get us a solid career anymore. We must go to networking events, shape our professional brand, and prove that we’re the sort of candidate to…
Back to TopWhat’s Your Ripple Effect? 3 Ways to Measure Your Impact
Many times over the course of your professional career, you’ll likely be judged on the impact you’ve made to your organization, as well as your outside contributions if you’re looking for new work. So, when you’re sitting across from your boss or a hiring manager,…
Back to TopHow Social Tools Are Changing Performance Management
Cutting edge apps, software, websites and gadgets are sparking big changes in the workplace. Consequently, traditional performance reviews are no longer making the cut, and with good reason. How are social and digital tools changing performance reviews? Check out Morgan’s post on Mashable to find…
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6 Ways to Retain Remote Workers
Working from home is a growing phenomenon in the modern work arena. A virtual workforce offers many benefits for employers — for instance, it reduces major office costs. Employees also enjoy the flexibility of being able to work from home and not having to spend hours…
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Surviving Performance Reviews: Questioning Your Goals
We’ve said it before: not many people are fans of the dreaded performance review. They don’t do much to make better employees. In fact, most performance reviews are severely inaccurate since they measure workers through standard benchmarks, which aren’t catered to the individual. However, when…
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6 Steps to Engaging Young Professionals
It’s a problem many employers face: how do you engage a younger workforce? How do you get a new generation, a generation that considers themselves “digital natives” interested in their jobs? Additionally, how do you get them to produce lasting results without forcing an iron…
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5 Reasons Why Social Performance Is Ideal for the Virtual Workforce
Did you know that more than a third of Americans work from home? It’s fact. According to the American Time Use Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 36 percent of employed people age 25 and over with a bachelor’s degree or higher did some work from home.…
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Product Update: New Social Recognition, and Yes… Even Easier Social Goal Creation
This week, we announced a couple new features to continue to make managing work and performance even easier. A year and a half ago we first introduced Social Recognition, but you asked for some new badges to hand out to co-workers and their goals. Here…
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