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Jobs & Careers > Professionalism Email etiquette for internal business communication: 1 of 22
With a simple press of the send button, it is fast and easy to distribute email to hundreds of your fellow co-workers. In fact, email has replaced printed interoffice memos as the primary means of internal business communication. You can use email for many communication purposes - to inform, entertain, question or impres... More..
Jobs & Careers > Jobs & Careers (Other) Should profanity ever be used in business communicatons: 1 of 15
Right in the middle of an important work document, your computer crashes and, wouldn't you know it, you had forgotten to save your document. An hour later, you walk into a meeting and find out that your peer stole your prime idea, presenting it to the boss as her own. What do you do when these things happen in your work life... More..
Jobs & Careers > Starting Out Making the most of your unemployment: 4 of 43
You walk into your office one Tuesday morning and see a note from your boss stating, See me ASAP. Your heart begins to pound. Your palms sweat. Your stomach feels nauseous, churning over and over. You've heard the rumors of layoffs in your department and just know that today is the day. Today you are joining the r... More..
Jobs & Careers > Job Interviews Telephone screening interviews: Making a good impression: 3 of 14
In today's increasingly competitive job search environment, the initial telephone screen has become more important to the job seeker as it is the key meeting for him or her to make a good first impression. However, in many cases, job seekers make fundamental mistakes, which harm their chances of obtaining an in-person in... More..
Jobs & Careers > Starting Out Why are jobs so hard to find in today's world: 12 of 36
Why are jobs so hard to find today? It's not surprising that jobs have become more difficult to find in this current recession. Every day we seem to hear of another company laying off thousands of workers or another manufacturing plant closing. More and more people continue to join the ranks of the unemployed or un... More..
Business > Office Proper etiquette for conference calls: 6 of 11
At this very moment, businesses are conducting millions of conference calls throughout the world. In fact, with the increasing cost of travel and the growth of geographically dispersed teams, conference calls have become a daily occurrence for most businesses. The conference call being used for routine, non-face-to-face ... More..
Jobs & Careers > Employment Law Should employee performance reviews be abolished?: 5 of 7
Say the words It's performance review time and I guarantee that you will receive a wide range of reactions, ranging from positive to negative, from elation to disappointment. When I posed this question to a group of project managers at a job forum lately, I mostly received groans and complaints about their companies' perfor... More..