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One of the most common questions we have got from people is: How to Deal with Difficult Boss and Co-Workers? What to do when others are not doing their work or unethical or inefficient? How does one focus on work when colleagues are not sincere? Do you quickly get frustrated and discontent? Do you look at each situation as an opportunity to learn something new?

Have you ever considered looking at work problems from a spiritual point of view? hen you look at work from a spiritual perspective, you will see that there are lessons for you to learn. Let’s look at a couple of situations that you or someone you know may have encountered. We will look at each scenario from a typical perspective and from a spiritual perspective. Read more »

You are looking for a job and you are out to land the job of a lifetime. It can happen! Before you consider want ads, job websites, or making inquiries of companies you are interested in, you will need a resume. Your resume writing can either make or break a job opportunity.

The first thing your resume must be is functional. It is to give the employer the most information possible in one page. Resumes that are longer than one page are often put aside. Employers just don’t have the time to read every page. At best many just scan your resume and count on your cover letter and maybe an interview to glean anything else about you before you are considered for hire.

In order for your resume to be functional you group your skills into different sections and your titles at the bottom. This is the format people who are changing careers typically use. They don’t want to draw attention to gaps in employment or their lack of direct experience. Read more »

If you are dissatisfied with your job, you are in a self-imposed career slump! Why are so many of us in career slumps? Because we are not doing work that satisfies us! No matter what our employer does for us, if we are not doing work we really want to be doing, in a way that fits our desired life-style, we will never be satisfied.

What keeps us in career slumps for so long? The number one thing that keeps us in our slumps is that we believe the “myths” we were told!

1. We believe, “I can’t make money doing work I love.” Yet reality gives us a ton of examples of people who are wealthy and happy doing the work they do. Read more »

The cover letter is the first thing which creates an impression of you; and if it is invisible then so are you. Your cover letter might as well be invisible if it doesn’t command the attention of the reader.

If you follow the same tired old cover letter formula that so many people seem to want to hang on to then you’ll get the same result that they get. You go unnoticed and end up like Mr. Cellophane in the musical “Chicago”. The way for your cover letter to be invisible is for it to be so similar to so many others that it simply doesn’t get seen.

As a professional recruitment consultant I have viewed so many cover letter and CV combinations that it takes something different to catch my attention. When I receive maybe two hundred applications, the first few are greeted enthusiastically but this soon wanes when I keep seeing: Read more »

Hello CageBreak Advisor,
I work in the financial services industry, and have been a regular reader of your site. Can you please share your suggestions for successful professional networking and which options work best?
Many Thanks,
Sam from Boston

Hello Sam, thanks for asking. In the past, about 15 year back, in the pre-Internet times, professional networking had high execution barriers, and was possible to do by only a few really well connected people, because it was difficult to reach people – imagine trying to send postal mails or trying to call people without your profile visible to them! It was very effort-intensive. In fact I remember occasions, when some well-connected people used to offer their services for a fee. This was useful in business development in new markets and geographies, and also for career growth.

Today, professional networking is not effort-intensive, and anyone who has a desire to network can do it.There are numerous online tools to do it. Here are my suggestions:  Read more »