*As told to Kally from someone who wishes to be anonymous It only happened recently this year and as much as I would thought I would beat myself up or feel ashamed of my actions, I actually don’t. I do believe that my means justifies the means. Before you jump into conclusion that I am…
Tag: Career
The Useless White Elephant
No matter if your company is less than 10 staff or deck up to a few thousand, we all know an employee who is the useless white elephant in your workplace. Who He or she probably holds an important sounding title and every now and then, you might bump into the person in a rare…
Guest Post: Falling Out Of Love With Doing What You Love
They say if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Sorry, but that just can’t be true. Because even if you get employed with your dream job, it’s still a job. There are still days where you’re going to want to sleep in or play hooky and can’t because…
The best ways to motivate your employees
When running your own company, it is easy to self-motivate. You are inextricably linked to every success and every failure the company has, so you know full well that it is paramount that you are motivated to ensure that you are linked to more successes than failures. Your employees however, are not linked to the…
You Gotta FIGHT! For Your RIGHT! To Work Without Being Made Miserable
The workplace isn’t usually known as a place of fun and games. Indeed, you’ve got to be pretty disciplined and even strict most of the time. After all, you’re there to do a job. But this doesn’t mean that your work life has to be miserable. Unfortunately, it seems that an alarming majority of people…
Guest Post: QUITTING YOUR JOB IN KOREA
A few months ago I talked about how excited I was to be moving to South Korea. I was looking for a positive life change, going to a place where I could be creative and save money and travel. You may also remember I mentioned that I was kinda wary of it. I tried convincing…
Guest Post: Why shadowing doesn’t work: proper training in a call center setting
I recently left a part time job with great hours and a great location because of bad training, and it wasn’t the first time. Training can make or break a candidate. Systems knowledge and confidence are key when speaking to customers. Why then do companies so often use shadowing as a training method when it…
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