Can Facebook Help Your Job Search?

Can Facebook and other social media sites like Linkedin and Twitter help your job search?  Absolutely!  See the Infographic below on how Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin are helping people’s job search efforts today.  Key statistics from the infographics include 1 in 6 workers use social media to get hired 9 in 10 job seekers has [...]

Resilience Definition – 3 Tips

Resilience is a critical soft skill essential to career success and work happiness.  Professor Rao defines resilience as the “ability to recover fast from adversity.”  I agree.   We may not talk about resilience often in the context of career success as we typically expect work /life to treat us fairly. My recent experience reminded [...]

Happiness at Work – 10 Tips from Professor Rao

A friend shared a great book with me by Professor Rao – Happiness at Work.  I completely agree with the 10 tips Prof. Rao proposes in his book on how to achieve happiness at work.  Let’s face it – there is no perfect job out there.  So the key to happiness at work is NOT [...]

Ignore Your “If Only” Thoughts

Do you ever notice that we all have “if only” excuses that keep us from doing the things we want or pursuing our dreams.   For example, If only I had more time … If only I had more money … If only I had technical skills …. If only I got my MBA … [...]