Could poor communication skills and annoying behaviour be limiting your employment sustainability? Career experts weigh in on some of the most common career-limiting moves (CLMs) that they witness time and again.
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CLMs: The Career-Limiting Moves that many people make
By Colleen ClarkeFive ways working from home could save your life
By Jenna Charlton
Jenna’s dream job is one that would include a flexible schedule. In order to help land this great gig in the sky, she makes the case that working from home, even one day a year, could actually help save your life. Does work/life balance increase your longevity?
Building your personal brand: What you can learn from the world’s biggest rock stars
By Elizabeth Bromstein
If you want a career that spans decades and never gets stale or boring, you only have to look to rock stars like Steven Tyler, Ozzy Osbourne and Slash for inspiration. Find out how to create your own personal brand for success.
Personality clash: Extroverts versus introverts at work
By Jenna Charlton
A workplace usually has a wide range of personalities, so what happens when extremes collide? There are no greater opposites than the introvert and extrovert. Can these two character types successfully coexist?
Giving Feedback to Gen Yers
By Colleen Clarke
It has been said that different generations prefer feedback to be delivered in different ways, though everyone needs and welcomes feedback of some kind or another. Dr Karen Gordon works with Gen Yers and they shared their preferences for receiving feedback with her.
The best and the worst jobs for 2011
By Elizabeth Bromstein
Thinking of a career change? Or just want to know where your job fits in on the scale of best and worst jobs? A new list counts down 200 career options for 2011. Who has the worst job in the world?
Judge rules that when photos are taken, they are meant to be viewed
By Elizabeth Bromstein
Your private life just got a little less private. A judge has made a ruling that could set a rather disturbing precedent regarding the privacy of photos and what can be shared on the Internet.
More candidates having plastic surgery to get the job
By Elizabeth Bromstein
A new trend is seeing more and more candidates going under the knife to improve their chances in the interview room. Is having cosmetic surgery to alter your appearance really the answer to landing the job?
How to hinder your manager
By Colleen Clarke
If you don’t have much experience supervising people, you might be unaware of some of the behaviours that hinder rather than help your boss. Check out the top five counter-productive work habits some employees fall into.
So you’re thinking about going freelance
By Elizabeth Bromstein
Freelance writer Elizabeth Bromstein looks at the growing trend of people working freelance or contract positions and draws on her years of experience being self-employed to offer some advice for those thinking about striking it out on their own.