Career

Half of workers make bad first impressions when starting new jobs
08:08 2018-05-16

Arriving late, wearing inappropriate clothes and bumping a colleague’s vehicle in the car park are among the biggest blunders made by employees on their first day at work, a new poll has found. The survey of almost 3,000 workers revealed almost half have made a bad first impression after having a terrible or humiliating start …

9 Clear Signs You Can’t Trust Your Boss
03:28 2018-05-12

They have a closed-door policy Part of being a manager includes being available to answer questions, help you work through tasks you might be struggling with, and generally be your go-to adviser, so it’s a problem when managers make themselves inaccessible. ‘You might not be able to trust your boss if they don’t seem approachable,’ …

9 Biggest Mistakes Mostly Women Make During Job Interviews
02:14 2018-05-04

Going to job interviews is often really scary, isn’t it? Well, mostly, it is scary because you are not quite sure what’s going to happen there. These 9 tips will help you prepare for everything. 9 Mistakes in interviews We are afraid of making mistakes, and that’s absolutely fine. However, fast growth only comes with …

5 Tips to Ensure Your Remote Employees Are Productive
18:09 2018-05-02

The digital revolution has done a lot for productivity. From project management apps to communication platforms, software has continuously helped teams work smarter and become more organized. It has also given rise to the remote worker, whose office is their home (or virtually anywhere else) and whose hours on the clock can be difficult to pin down. In a …

8 ways being too nice at work can backfire
00:44 2018-04-30

Being nice at work seems like a no brainer, right? Well, if you’re too friendly, you might end up holding yourself back in the workplace. Don’t ever let people take advantage of your kindness in the office. From a young age we’re taught to play nice with others and treat people as we’d like to …