Career Management

Archive: 12-2010

• Five ways to risk failure and improve your career

  Failure can be a great motivator, and an even greater teacher. According to Dal LaMagna, it pays off big time to take career risks early and often.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 28, 2010, 5:57 AM PST

• Top five Career Management discussions of 2010

  The top five discussions in Career Management for 2010 ran the gamut from sexism to people getting fired for their tweets and their Facebook pages.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 23, 2010, 9:00 AM PST

• Techie seeks non-profit job: How to be a big, misunderstood fish in a small pond

  Trends in social entrepreneurship and skills-based volunteering, inspired by boomers who want more from work than wages and worry, are motivating greater numbers of corporate employees - even...

  Posted by Ellen Berry | December 22, 2010, 12:00 PM PST

• Poll: What was your #1 career challenge in 2010?

  TechRepublic contributor Justin James describes some of the struggles he’s faced on the work front this year. Share your toughest career challenges of 2010.

  Posted by Mary Weilage | December 22, 2010, 4:24 AM PST

• Personal productivity is a cross between organizational skills and courage

  Problems in personal productivity have a lot to do with fear and not wanting to tackle the harder projects first.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 21, 2010, 4:41 AM PST

• Study says computers more harmful to IQ than smoking marijuana

  A study conducted in 2005 said that use of technology was more harmful to one’s IQ than smoking marijuana. And that was before the smartphones revolution!

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 20, 2010, 4:57 AM PST

• Get your daily workplace solace in Haiku form

  It’s like Dilbert has gone digital. A new iPhone app and Kindle download offers solace from the workplace grind through Haiku poems.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 16, 2010, 7:09 AM PST

• What is the worst behavior a manager can have?

  We’ve all seen our share of manager behaviors that can derail a team. What do you think is the worst?

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 15, 2010, 4:39 AM PST

• What should job seekers be doing during the holidays?

  In this guest post from Tim Heard, an HR Recruiter, you’ll get some tips on how to handle your job search during the holiday season.

  Posted by Tim Heard | December 14, 2010, 5:57 AM PST

• While onsite employment has been stagnant, demand for online workers increases

  With the explosion of smartphone technology this year, freelance developers have found lots of work.

  Posted by Toni Bowers | December 13, 2010, 5:31 AM PST