Speedlinking: Assessing Your Work Life, Creating Your Own Luck, and Getting Away for the Holiday
The U.S. lost 467,000 jobs in June, pushing the national unemployment rate of 9.5% to its highest point in 26 years. If you still have a job, then now is the time to assess your work life. Do you know the five signs that you may be on your company’s layoff list? Are you keeping your personal life private or are you disclosing too much? Are you the topic of gossip at the water cooler? Are you sure your work space reflects an appropriate balance of personal and professionalism? Do you look professional? How’s your online brand image?
If you’re tired of thinking about your work life, then focus on you. Pack some business books for the holiday. Not into reading this weekend? Then create your own luck as part of your career management strategy. As you prepare to make your own luck, don’t forget to sleep. Why do we even need to sleep? I hate sleeping, but its sounds important. This holiday weekend catch up on your sleep and read some business books on your break.
- Five Signs You May Be on the Layoff List: is there a hiring freeze at your company? Then alarms should be sounding in your head! Learn the other four signs that signal layoffs at your company.
- Shh! Keep your personal life private: “Stop thinking that you ‘owe’ it to the boss or your employer or your co-workers to let them know about something that’s happening in your personal life.”
- What to do when the grapevine topic is you: two tips on how to manage water cooler gossip, when the topic is you.
- Office decorations: Balance personal and professional: four tips to learn how to decorate your cube or office.
- Appearances Matter: “First impressions are even more important because everyone secretly doubts that you have what it takes to be successful. Without waiting for you to explain why you’re qualified, people will make a snap judgment based on your appearance and demeanor. Do you look and sound like someone who does this job?”
- How To Protect Your Online Reputation: “the Web is a viral breeding ground of rumor and scandal. Here’s how to keep your own place on it untarnished.”
- 4 ways to become a ‘luck magnet’: become a fearless soul, who create opportunities—or maybe they simply notice opportunities others don’t.
- Are Your Needs Really Wants?: now is the time to be frugal, so you can build a savings to help your ride out a potential job loss. Here’s a list that our culture has come to see as “needs” in the past two decades.
- 11 Reasons Why You Absolutely Need More Sleep: sleep transforms your weight and your health, it just might save your life.
- Business Books to Pack For Quick Read on Beach: a smart list of business books perfect for weekend at the beach or quiet vacation at home.
