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	Career Advice: How To Succeed In The New World Of Work by Ramon Greenwood - Jan, 2011 You’ve got your head buried in the sand if you are not preparing now to survive and prosper in the new world of work that is evolving day to day. There are three main points: 1. The work environment will be different from anything we have known in the past. 2. As for the job marke...
	Positive Resolutions Lead To Positive Changes by Ramon Greenwood - Dec, 2010 Have you made resolutions to accelerate your career in 2011? Experts say that making resolutions improve by a factor of 10 your odds of achieving positive changes. If you haven’t resolved to make specific changes in your life in the world of work and in your personal life during the new...
	Avoid Overused Words In Resumes by Ramon Greenwood - Dec, 2010 Linkedin has just published a list of the ten most overused words in resumes with the advice to “scrap the words altogether from…resumes and profiles and instead focus on details of the job (being pursued), like how many people they supervised or how much they increased sales.” The word...
	Let Steve Jobs Help You Prepare For 2011 by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 If you haven’t already read THE INNOVATION SECRETS OF STEVE JOBS–INSANELY DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES FOR BREAKTHROUGH SUCCESS I recommend that you get a copy today and commit to studying it as you begin preparing to make 2011 your best career year ever. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is the master of...
	Create a Promising Career from Personal Passion by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 "All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Most of us seek a ...
	Career Advice: How To Get Alerts To New Postings by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 You can receive an email alert every time I provide a new posting. It’s easy. When you are on our blog go to the Feedburner box on the right and enter your e-mail address. Going forward you will receive an email to let you know each time there’s a new posting. If you have a RSS reader, ...
	Career Advice: Nothing Happens Until You Sell Yourself! by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 How To Promote Your Career A well-known adage advises that you have only to invent a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door, bearing recognition and riches. Believe me, that’s poor career advice! If you are content to accept that bit of career counseling, you ar...
	Speak Out About The Dismal Job Market by Ramon Greenwood - Nov, 2010 These are troubling times in the job market. No doubt about that. Nearly 15 million Americans are looking for work. The unemployment rate is holding steady at 9.6%. No one has a firm idea as to when this situation will improve. The reasons cited for this horrendous condition include lac...
	Career Tips: Winners Keep On Keeping On by Ramon Greenwood - Oct, 2010 Winners in the career chase know persistence is a daily necessity if they are to achieve their goals. One of those big winners, Ted Turner, world-class sailor and founder of the CNN television network, explains his success by saying: “The secret of my success is that I never quit. W...
	Is Multitasking Helping Or Hurting Your Performance? by Ramon Greenwood - Sep, 2010 With your workload piling up, multitasking may seem to be the only way to get the job done. But hold up. Research by the University of Michigan reveals that what we think of as multitasking may be nothing more than skipping about between multiple tasks, forcing our brains to refocus wit...
	Career Tips: Eleven Steps To Reduce Killer Stress by Ramon Greenwood - Aug, 2010 Today's workplace is a breeding ground for stress: pressure to get more done with less; layoffs; overtime and inflexible schedules; irritable co-workers and bosses; sedentary lifestyle that leads to bad habits of overeating junk food and spending too much time in a stupor before the TV;...
	We’ve Got A Failure To Communicate by Ramon Greenwood - Aug, 2010 Everyone agrees…at least pays lip service to the idea that effective internal communications are necessary to have a smooth-running organization. How else would management and employees understand and agree on assignments and common goals? How would members of the team be motivated to ac...
	Beware: Physical Actions Do Matter At Interviews by Ramon Greenwood - Aug, 2010 Physical actions by an applicant during the interviewing process do in fact make a great deal of difference on the hiring decision, according to a survey by CareerBuilder. Over two-thirds of interviewers declared that failure to make eye contact could cost a job candidate their chance a...
	How To Ensure Smooth Transition To A New Job by Ramon Greenwood - Jun, 2010 You've landed a new job. If you are interested in building a successful career, don't burn bridges to the past as you move on. Here are 13 steps you can take to help make the transition a positive step toward your career goals. First of all, be doubly sure you are making the move for t...
	Resume Advice: Avoid Gimmickry In A Job Search by Ramon Greenwood - May, 2010 There is a strong temptation in today's highly competitive job market to go for gimmicks to make one's resume stand out from the crowded field. The temptation is particularly strong after a number of rejections. Avoid gimmickry like the plague. There are rare occasions when a reall...
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