 |
Look Before You Leap into Jobs - Articles
Look
before you leap by Irene Krechowiecka
Don't get stuck in a hellish job. Get all the facts
before you commit. When you get a job offer
it can be such a relief to feel someone wants you, that
there's the temptation to take it without thinking too much about what's involved
and how that fits in with your personality, lifestyle and long-term aims. Make
yourself think about these things and decide if this is something that will do
for now or the real thing. If it's a do-for-now, do you really want to spend
a few months, or even years, like that?
Retrieved March 30, 2005
U.S. Job Satisfaction Keeps
Falling
Americans are growing increasingly unhappy with
their jobs, The Conference Board reports today. The
decline in job satisfaction is widespread among workers
of all ages and across all income brackets. Half of all Americans
today say they are satisfied with their jobs, down from
nearly 60 percent in 1995. But among the 50 percent who
say they are content, only 14 percent say they are “very
satisfied.”
Published Feb. 28, 2005
100 Best Companies to Work For
Fortune Magazine recently released
their 100 Best Companies to work for in 2005. The
more information the better, but personally I take their reviews
with a grain of salt because a lot of the companies they review
just so happen to advertise in their magazine. And there's no
telling what kind of kick backs or incentives Fortune is getting
behind the scenes for favorable reviews.
From
the January 24, 2005 Issue.
Work
& Life - Recession over, workers look to move on
By DAVID SCHEPP The (Westchester, N.Y.)
Journal News.
If you’re happy with your job, count yourself among the minority of workers.
Most appear ready to pack it in and move on to other jobs.
At least that’s what a recent survey suggests. A poll taken this year of
participating readers at career Web site Monster.com showed that 86 percent were
not satisfied with their jobs.
Retrieved April 13, 2005
On
The Job
- Take this job and think before you shove it
By ANITA BRUZZESE Gannett News Service. You are seething. That last
promotion at work was supposed to be yours. You've worked hard and earned it.
Instead, it went to someone else. Your immediate reaction: quit. Just quit the
lousy job and go to work picking up dog poop for a living if that's what it takes.
You'd rather do that than work one more minute at the place you've come to hate.
Retrieved April 13, 2005
Tools
& Advice -
Leaving your job? Do it with class
By JOHN ECKBERG The Cincinnati Enquirer. If the
economy is on the way to becoming a job-generating rebound,
many companies are preparing for a stream of departures.
But experts caution there is a wrong way and a right way to
quit. Most companies remember workers not for why they left
-- but how they left. And workers should be mindful of how
they might need past employers later in their career.
Retrieved April 13, 2005
|
|
