How To Deal With Counteroffers

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You’ve written your resignation letter. You’re mentally prepared to take up the challenge of a new job and face the future with a new employer. You’ve signed your resignation letter and are ready to have the much-dreaded conversation with your boss about your plans to leave. You inform your boss and the incredible happens. He tries to keep you with a counteroffer. He emotionally declares how excellent you are to work with, how it would be a big shame to have you leave the team at such a critical time…

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How To Manage Work Stress by Compartmentalising

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The art of compartmentalising can be very useful in deciding where to focus your energy during the course of a stressful day. Let’s assume you just finished a meeting with colleagues in which you couldn’t reach an agreement... Compartmentalising is the skill that allows you to move on to the next meeting without the previous meeting weighing on your mind and affecting your performance. Think about this:

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How To Handle Promotion At Work

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Getting promoted, though a sign that your work is appreciated, can easily become a stressful experience, if not properly managed. You will have new expectations of yourself and so will everyone else.  From a position of being responsible for an outcome, you move to managing those actually doing to the work. It gets even more complicated when you are promoted to a position of managing colleagues that were previously your peers.

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20 Professional Mantras You Can Apply To Improve Your Professional Life

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Professionals need to protect their minds. We need to protect the essence of who we are. We learn everyday and sometimes have to go through temporary trials to win battles down the line. It is ok to lose small battles from time to time so that you can win when it matters. It gives you a sense of progression.

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How To Cope When Your Boss Resigns

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I never thought my boss would leave… Of course, I understand that he’s human and has ambitions of his own but I just never conceived of it and didn’t want to, until it happened. It was downright shocking and I felt at a loss, to put it mildly. Here was the captain of our ship, parking it in like it was just another day. 

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How To Use The STAR Method During A Behavioral Job Interview

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Behavioural interview questions are very common in today’s workforce. These types of questions are great for the interviewer because it gives them a lot of information about the potential candidate. Many interviewers fear behavioural questions because they are open ended with no single best answer. 

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How To Prepare For A Telephone Interview

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How To Prepare For A Telephone Interview

Phone interviews are quite common. They are often employed when potential employees live miles away from their company headquarters or the interviewer. For example, a company might want to stay true to their corporate social responsibility of reducing greenhouse gases by conducting remote interviews instead of asking the applicant to drive or commute to their headquarters. Whatever the reason, applicants who want to bag the position might well remember the following:

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Should I Be Considering A PhD?

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Should I Be Considering A PhD?

Making the decision of whether or not to go for a PhD is never straightforward. This subject always tends to evoke mixed emotions in prospective students due to the increasing number of drop-outs and well-documented challenges associated with pursuing a doctorate degree. It’s important to know exactly what you are getting into before making the decision to go ahead with it. The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to balance the demands of work, life and family with the demands of education.

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Should I Take A Career Break? What Are The Implications?

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Should I Take A Career Break? What Are The Implications?

If running the rat race starts getting harder to do, you might want to consider taking a break. A career break can be taken for a variety of reasons. You may want to write a novel, study a subject/language or even travel the world. Before you clear up your desk, it's very important to understand what a career break is all about and be able to answer these key questions

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