Manage Your Career With WorkSimple
“Just about everything career-related is becoming integrated with social networking sites, in one way or another, and as employers are increasingly turning to social recruiting to attract and find job applicants, there are tools you can use to combine social media, job hunting and growing your career,” writes About.com’s Alison Doyle.…
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4 Ways to Prevent Career Fatigue
It happens to the best of us. After tirelessly working for long stretches of time, we sometimes find ourselves burnt out, disengaged, and ready to call it quits. Yes, we’ve all been there, but how many of us do something about it? At the end…
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The Science Behind Our Visual Culture
Picture this: you’re a manager looking for the next great candidate to join your already successful team. You receive tons of resumes and cover letters, all filled with relevant experience and skills. However, none of them are anything to write home about. That is, none…
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Why Social Media is Your Job Search’s BFF
Jocelyn Aucoin is the Community Manager at WorkSimple. You can connect with her on Twitter @jocelynaucoin. A long time ago, the Internet didn’t exist. It’s true. You’re really learning things today. But hang with me — can you remember the day when email didn’t…
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How WorkSimple Can Help You Rock Your Career
At WorkSimple, we’re all about helping you manage your career; whether you’re a budding professional with years of experience or a newbie ready to get your foot in the door, we believe that it’s always a good time to get a real grip on your…
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What You Didn’t Know You Needed In Your Work Portfolio
To make it in today’s competitive job market, you need more than just a shiny resume or somebody who knows somebody—both of which only get you so far. You need a clear track record of what you’ve accomplished and how you can use those accomplishments…
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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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How to Manage Your Work Portfolio
Picture this: you’re in the dreaded performance review. Your manager measures your recent work history over some standard company metrics, as well as through your own acknowledgements. Afterwards, they give you a pretty generic spiel about how your work is okay, but things can be…
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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…
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Why Gen Y May Have The Competitive Career Advantage
We’ve all heard the generalizations of Generation Y before: they feel entitled to a satisfying career, they’re too dependent on technology, they have the attention span of a fish, etc. But what if these “problems” were actually a good thing? Every generation has their individual…
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