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5 Tips for Becoming Valuable in a New Job

On The Job

The job-hunting experience can be a stressful one: sending out resumes, interviewing, sending out more resumes and interviewing again. It can take weeks, even months, to nail the job you want. But before you begin to feel too comfortable in your little cubicle, are you sure you’re doing everything you can to hang on to that job?

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8 tips to help you find your way in this tough job market

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8 tips to help you find your way in this tough job market While I knew there was a good chance the unemployment rate would go up, when I heard the latest figures were 10.2

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4 ways to "manage up"

On The Job

Know what’s going on in an organization by meeting with those on the front lines and learning of their challenges. Not only did you learn skills that will help you in relating to managers throughout your career, but you also made sure others knew that you had some valuable input. Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Roberta, Hopefully, everyone -- no matter the age -- will learn important lessons such as being more resourceful, networking and being resilient. We can learn so much from history, but as soon as things start to do well again, we seem to forget everything we learned. At least they will be that way for a couple of years!

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Are You Stuck in Gender.

On The Job

Instead, they say, women should “learn to say no and mean it.” Learn to delegate. By believing only he can do a job right, a man who has this attitude undermines his leadership because “you can’t be a leader without followers,” they say. What lessons have you learned about communicating better?

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Is your employer clueless about your needs?

On The Job

What employers can learn from these answers is that an employee deciding to leave a company may not have anything to do with his age or satisfaction with his work, but rather on where he identifies himself in his career. Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y? 8 tips to help you find your way in this tough job.

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10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Always look for ways to expand your horizons and be able to show an employer how you faced a challenge and learned. I hope everyone has learned in the last year that leaving your future to fate or in someone else's hands is a move they may regret. Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y? Embrace social media.

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