Work Tips

The interview portion of any application process will always be nerve-wracking, but you can turn this into an opportunity that will allow you to get to know the corporate environment of the company you are interested in. Aside from making your own observations, you can also get a more concrete idea of how your tenure with them will go by simply asking your interviewer key questions. Sometimes, the questions you ask in an interview can be your express entry into the workforce.

If you are struggling to make friends in your new workplace, or to get into social cliques in any environment you may find yourself in, don’t fret-- you may be shy, or making the first move in any conversation or situation may simply be something that sounds new to you.

Have you ever looked at a comedian or a public speaker and thought “wow, that looks easy!” Speaking with someone or a group might look really easy, but it continues to be a struggle to many individuals who do not consider themselves extroverted enough to deal with the challenges that come with good articulation and presentation.

If you had only 5 minutes to learn something new, to do something healthy for yourself, or to do something differently, how would you use these very few minutes? According to some of Quora’s most participative life coaches, you can begin by learning or practicing some of these easy routines.

It’s easy to tell when you’re barely surviving your 9-5 grind. The symptoms are hard to miss: constant headaches, finding yourself worrying about the future, losing your focus at work, and perhaps the most amusing of them all is that you find yourself dreading clocking in the next day. We’ve all been there, and guess what, there are surprisingly easy ways to deal with stress.

Before you reach for your pitchforks, this report does not intend to discourage avid New Year goal setters (and that could be you) from trying again next year. Instead, allow this report to reveal what it takes to be just as successful as the lucky 8%.

You might be wondering, what makes CEOs a cut above the rest? For starters, they don’t procrastinate and they employ effective techniques that can make them learn and work faster. Here’s how they do it.

Unless you possess photographic memory, the only way you can ever remember things you read for a long time is to employ certain learning and memorization techniques. If you are frustrated at how you can’t seem to remember certain concepts you’ve read or studied, what you may need to do is to change your study habits altogether.

We want our readers to be the best version of themselves. Not only this year but even the year after that! We can and should aim for better things in life. And to do that we have to stop dwelling on the past year