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New Year Work Resolutions To Start The Year Off

Didn’t 2011 seem to just fly by? Already we have entered into a brand new year, a new year where anything is possible and it’s up to you to make 2012 one to remember. One of the best things about the new year is that we get to make all sorts of new year’s resolutions [...]

4Jan2012 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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What Do You Do If You Hate Your Job?

Not all of us have the luxury of doing a job that we love on a day to day basis. For those lucky few, it doesn’t feel like work at all when they are doing something that they love (and how we envy them!), but for the rest of us, getting up everyday and going [...]

3Nov2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Deal With A Bossy Person

I don’t know about the rest of you, but personally, I can’t stand bossy people. They’re in your face all the time – and sometimes they’re rude about it, they think they know better than you, they try to make you do things their way, they try to exert their opinions on you and they [...]

26Oct2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Ace Your First Day At A New Job

Starting anywhere new on your own for the first time can be a daunting thing. Especially if it is a new job where you want to make a good impression on your first day. Beginning a whole new job in a brand new company can be nerve wrecking, especially if this is your first time [...]

15Sep2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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Are You Likeable At Work?

How likeable are you at work? Do you mingle well with all your co-workers? Or do you merely just get to the office, sit behind your desk, get your work done, and head out the door at the end of the day? Being likeable at the office may not seem like a big deal, but [...]

25Aug2011 | elise | 1 comment | Continued
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Scoring A Job Interview

Sending our job applications by the dozen is the easy part of the whole job hunting process, wouldn’t you agree? After all, all we need to do is log on to the job search websites, browse the jobs listed, click send and voila! Resume sent and delivered. But that may not exactly be the most [...]

4Aug2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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Emm-a-man: When It Is Time to Leave Your Job?

For those who love their jobs and wake up in the morning so eager to go to the office– good for you. But for the rest of us who crawl out of bed and dreading the thought of spending eight hours in our tiny cubicle– I feel for you. But this is not something totally [...]

13Jul2011 | hannef | 0 comments | Continued
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Beating The Stress At Work

Who isn’t familiar with office stress? It’s one of those things that seem to come naturally with working life and everyone at some point goes through stress at work, whether it is on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Stress is no fun, that’s for sure. It makes us panicked and flustered, we feel our [...]

23Jun2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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Lighter Women = Heavier Paychecks??

Horror! A study has shown that very thin women make more money than normal-weight ones!

16Jun2011 | maylee | 0 comments | Continued
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Dealing With Sitting Next To Someone Annoying At Work

Working in an office environment, there are gonna be some people that you get along with, and some people that just drive you up the wall. That’s not uncommon because not everyone can be expected to get along fabulously the way they do in the movies. There’ll be some people you like, and some you [...]

15Jun2011 | elise | 1 comment | Continued
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16-year-old schoolgirl starts beauty business for university fees!

You know what they say: “When there’s a will, there’s a way”. Without a doubt, there’s a way…we came across this interesting bit of news and couldn’t resist sharing it. Rocketing tuition fees are usually a significant barrier some of the less fortunate. So what did Safina Adam do? She took matters into her own [...]

6Jun2011 | aphrodite | 0 comments | Continued
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Emm-a-man: ICON: David Gandy

Some of us may despise male models for the fact that they are way too good looking, their chiselled features, rich, sexy and so many other different things that we’re not. We also stereotyped them for having peanut-sized brains, narcissistic and simply rely on their looks more than anything to get what they want. Well I guess [...]

4May2011 | hannef | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Ace A Tough Interview

Have you ever attended one of those interviews where you found yourself struggling and stumbling at a loss for words? When nervousness gets the best of you, that can tend to happen and there is nothing more discouraging than leaving an interview feeling like you could have done so much better. Acing the interview process [...]

28Apr2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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How To Achieve Your Goals!

Everybody has some goals in life. Whether they are big or small, career or personal related, everyone has goals that they want to achieve at some point of other in their lives. Making goals is one thing, but it is another thing all together to really achieve what you set out to do. A lot [...]

14Apr2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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Are You Getting Noticed By Employers?

As a fresh grad jobseeker, it is frustrating when your resume’s and the countless emails that you send out to employers about possible job employment goes unnoticed. Even as a seasoned jobseeker this can be frustrating. But you can’t really blame the employers either, because they probably get bombarded with a few dozen emails in [...]

24Mar2011 | elise | 0 comments | Continued
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