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Navigaing the Job search process
Career Change, Getting Ahead, Job Search

What You Need to Know About Navigating the Job Search Process

Job hunting can be daunting, but it doesn’t have to be too difficult while you are navigating it. If you know what to expect and have a plan of action, you’ll be well to find the job of your dreams. With the recent layoffs and state of the economy as well as the recent burnout state and the need for many employees to find the right balance, in some cases through quiet quitting, this may be a good time to start job hunting if needed.

Here are some tips for navigating the job search process:

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Job Search

How Do You Know If A New Job Is Right For You?

You’ve filled out all of the online applications for a new job, sent over a resume and you’re invited for an interview. The interview goes brilliantly, they’re impressed with your experience and you get along well. A couple of weeks later, a letter lands on the doorstep and you open it. It’s a job offer!

Okay, in today’s world, you’d most likely be receiving your offer in your inbox!

But for some reason, you’re not sure how to feel about it. You know that you should be over the moon but there’s something bothering you. This happens to a lot of people and it’s because they don’t really know if the job is right for them. Even if a job seems perfect on the face of it, there are always things that might bother you.

It’s a tough position to be in, especially if your current job isn’t too bad. It’s not the best job in the world but it’s fine for now, do you really want to risk leaving for a job that might be wrong for you? On the other hand, if you don’t take that risk and accept the new job, you might be missing out on a great opportunity to further your career, so what are you supposed to do?

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Getting Ahead

Making a Good Impression on your First Few Days at a New Job

I’m sure many of you know that I’m in my early twenties at least for now before October approaches and I’ve worked a number of new job(s). At that time, I’d most likely edit this post to read “in my mid-twenties”.

Or maybe not.

No, I won’t.

I want to remember that I really wanted to grow old in the past, get a job, etc. But now, I’ve realized that adulting is not an easy feat. And I want to go back to being a ‘mommy’s girl’.

Or better still, I want to remember my younger days.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead

How to Deal with a job you Hate/ Career Change – Q & A

In this week’s video, I’m answering a reader’s question on how to deal with a job you hate while transitioning to another career.

If this topic is of interest to you, I’m sure you’d like the points I’ve raised.

Please don’t forget to let me know your thoughts in the comment section and please remember to subscribe to my YouTube Channel.

Have a splendid week ahead!

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Interviews

Interview Series: Workplace Questions & Answers from a Blog Reader

Today on the blog, we’d have something slightly different from the norm. I’ve always been amazed when I hear some fallacies about being a worker or employee because I have come across some workers who really love their jobs and find ways to stay happy while at it.

Asides from this, I also thought that it will be a great idea to listen to other workers and receive some great tips from them.

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Getting Ahead

9 Tips to help you become Successful in your New Job

I was excited to receive a request for a post on how to deal with starting out a new job and being successful on it. It was particularly of interest to me because I just recently resumed at a new job and I could very well relate.

Also, in the last 2 years, I have had reasons to resume at a new job often, not because I wanted to, but because of circumstances beyond my control.

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