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How to Make Your Home Office Feel Like the Corner Office

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As summer comes to an end, even adults can find themselves feeling a frisson of back-to-school energy, suddenly wanting to buy a few new office supplies and get through the stack of papers on their desks. In 2020, however, those desires run up against the harsh reality that many office workers are still reporting to their jobs from a desk jammed into a dark corner of the house.

Home Office Decoration

If your remote work experience is still feeling subpar, it’s time to harness the energy that comes with that crisp fall weather and commit to making the best of the situation.

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101 Ways to be Better, Effective and Successful at Work

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You may wonder what you should do now that you have landed the job of your dreams. It could be your first job…or perhaps you got a new one. it is possible to excel in your work; there are people who have  come before you and have done it.

100 Ways to Become More Productive

Or forget being new at your current job, you may have been a slacker for a while, there’s no turning back, you can come back, and come back with a bang.  There are comeback stories in every field, be it sports, music, acting.

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The 5 Best And Essential Apps For Remote Workers

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Working remotely often means you have to be on your game when it comes to accountability. It is hard to manage your time and other essential tasks when you are working alone. You don’t have a team there with you to help organize the workflow and make sure that things are getting done on time and accurately.

The 5 Best And Essential Apps For Remote Workers

That’s why apps and software are so important. It is like having the team that works for you to help you stay organized, efficient and accountable.

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7 Ways of Increasing Your Earnings Potential

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The single most effective step to better your personal finances is to increase your earning potential. Be it getting increment at current job, or getting a higher paying new job or doing something extra for your business to generate more profit.

Increasing Your Earnings Potential

No one likes feeling undervalued at work. If you don’t think that you are earning as much as you deserve, here are 7 things you can do to improve your earnings potential and make employers take notice.

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21 Tips To Be Productive And Happy At Work

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Let me start with a disclaimer, I am not pretending that I am a guru of some sort who knows how to handle work pressure in any situation. I am writing this as I think this may help you if you are in a similar situation as I once was. It was becoming difficult for me to increase productivity, I wasn’t able to concentrate and wasn’t producing results I wanted to produce. Then I made these small adjustments.

20 Tips To Be Productive And Happy At Work

It’s not that I practice all of the days in and day out, but I follow most of them every day. In a way, this is similar to the other projects I mentioned before, how to be a better person in 15 ways and how to feel good and increase productivity.

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5 Ways to Protect Your Employees

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Although this is a personal finance blog, I write about small businesses a lot. Here we will focus on the employees of your business. To run a successful business, you need to have a fleet of happy employees. You need to keep them energized and protect them from any kind of harm or hazard.

5 Ways to Protect Your Employees

Protecting your employees is key since they are your most valuable resource. There are many areas that you need to put practices in place so that you can keep your employees protected, but in this article, we are going to focus on only five ways to protect your employees.

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When Your Career Doesn’t Progress Well

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Researchers have proven that career progress perception plays an important role in influencing an individual’s mood and productivity in the workplace. Whether you’re trying to be more productive in your current schedule or to have aspirations of launching a whole new start-up or a new career altogether, the drive to reach your goals is always aided by the feeling of making progress.

When Your Career Doesn't Progress Well

The way a person perceives their current position and recent career progress have a direct effect on their self-esteem, confidence, creativity, and morale. However, many times people are too hard on themselves and they allow their past and present to weigh down on their future.

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How Certifications Help in Your Career

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Certification courses are of great help for students that wish to acquire specific skill sets within a short span of time. I am not talking about the courses that are usually pursued by students to save time and money from getting a college degree. I always feel a college degree is extremely important for getting highly paid positions later on.

How Certifications Help in Your Career

This is a situation where you’re in a job and you want to grow up the ladder. Sometimes only showing great skills at work doesn’t mean you’re capable of handling more responsibilities and adapt to the changes the new position requires.

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Tips to Revamp Your Resume

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The other day we had layoffs at our workplace. A few people I know were asked to leave.  I assisted one of my colleagues to revise his resume. And soon I was getting 2/3 resumes a day to look at. I was happy to assist them. What I found though was that their resumes were out of date. Some even worked for about 20 years in our company. they never had to do their resumes.

Tips to Revamp Your Resume

In a global economy, no one is safe, no job is secured. automation, robotics, shifting priorities, competition, regulation. You name a reason, for which our job security is at the bottom. The only thing we can ensure though is that we get a replacement job somewhere. Your resume is the first impression that you can create a potential new workplace.

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