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Are You Ready for a Career Change?

If you’re tired of your job and you’re thinking it’s time to switch careers, you aren’t alone. 60% of working adults want a new career, but 40% of them don’t actually know which career they would want to switch to. Age doesn’t factor when it comes to a career change, as research shows both young…

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7 Ways to Receive Feedback on Your Job Application

Getting rejected from a job you’d really wanted is never nice. But there is something you can do to make it seem less of a waste; a way to make it into a good thing for your long-term career trajectory. That thing is simple: asking for feedback. It’ll help you learn areas where you (or…

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The Six Most Wanted Workplace Benefits

In a time when we’re struggling to give pay raises or bonuses, more employers are investing in employee benefits to encourage retention and loyalty as well as maintaining a positive and enthusiastic workforce. Employees are looking beyond financial gains for job satisfaction, as a wealth of workplace benefits can support a more balanced work-life blend…

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7 Visualization Techniques to Calm Your Anxious Mind

Everybody in the world is anxious. Professionally and on the street, it feels like you’re surrounded by natural enemies. And the most lethal of all is yourself: you with your insecurities, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and habit of saying the wrong thing. Right? Nope. We live and work in a system where anxiety feels like the…

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Navigating the Gig Economy: Tips for Independent Workers

You’ve heard of the gig economy — a buzzword otherwise known as the sharing economy, on-demand workforce, or independent workers. These days it’s reshaping the way many people work and opening employment doors that weren’t available a decade ago. Workers are shifting from working a classic 9 to 5 job to freelance work, making the…

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5 Things You Need For the Perfectly Productive Home Office

Company culture has evolved from the weeklong 9-5 and more employers are letting their staff work from home. This allows businesses to give their employees a fair work/life balance and in turn promote diversity and productivity within the team – two major things people look for nowadays on the new job hunt. So whether your…

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Why Political Diversity Matters in the Workplace

Although many companies have faced increased pressure to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace, a lack of diverse hiring teams, limited recruiting processes that fail to reach a broad candidate pool, and unconscious similarity biases have contributed to many companies’ continued struggle to improve diversity in their workplace. However, some businesses have come up…

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13 Ways to Help Your Employees Boost Productivity

HR professionals can boil their role down to three main elements: the welfare, productivity, and all-round excellence of their workforce. But with so many people talking about the middle one, productivity, these days, it’s easy to spread misinformation about what the best productivity tips really are. In tandem with out-and-out bad habits such as procrastination…

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Boosting Employee Productivity by Learning to Relax

You expect your team to work hard, work smart, and enjoy their work through the week. But when somebody in your crew doesn’t know how to relax after work, you are unlikely to see the best of them in the office. An employee that continues to think about work even when they’re ‘off the clock’…