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Long hours tipping the scales of employees’ personal health
6:21pm Tuesday 24 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers Your personal health and work life balance can sometimes be banished to the bottom of your to-do list when it comes to work deals and deadlines. If this sounds like you, take solace: you’re not alone. According to research from The Australia Institute, Aussie workers clock up some of the longest hours in the western [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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15 Weird and Unusual (But Cool) Office Gadgets
8:00am Monday 23 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers How can you not love the Cable Monkey? This is a guest post by James Adams. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines. Pens. Staplers. Felt-tip markers. Pencil sharpeners. Pencils. Bacon-Flavoured envelopes. All normal items you might find in your office. Wait, what was that last one? [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Older, wiser and back in the market
8:00am Friday 20 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers Mature-age workers are finding ways and means to revive their careers WHEN David Anderson was made redundant at 60 last year, the thought of going back on the job market was daunting. As he applied for jobs, the former transport co-ordinator realised he faced an uphill task to find an employer willing to hire older [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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5 Simple Tools That Unleash Meaningful Work
5:28pm Thursday 19 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers I recently watched a TED talk by Jason Fried of 37 Signals entitled Why Work Doesn’t Get Done at Work. The message was right on: The office has become a place of endless distraction; so much so that people seek anywhere but there to get their real work done. What happens is the real work [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Making Working From Home Effective For You AND Your Boss!
8:00am Wednesday 18 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers I had always thought that working a day or more from home in a job that provided a stable income with high job security seemed like the best of both worlds.So when I returned to work from maternity leave working from home seemed like an ideal way to earn enough money while also gaining additional [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Some simple rules for working from home
8:00am Tuesday 17 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers Working from home when you normally work in an office can change of pace for a day or two. Some offices can be filled with distractions such as co-workers with questions, background noise, and random fires needing your extinguishing attention. However, working at home presents its own set of distractions which could detract from your [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Get a Life! 7 Ways to Have a Social Life When Home is Your Office
8:00am Monday 16 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers There’s no doubt about it. Working from home can be a pretty sweet setup, with an array of privileges and perks. So sweet, in fact, that it would take an act of God or near-death emergency to claw some of us from our comfy confines and our daily “uniform” of bunny slippers and lounging pajamas. [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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10 Head-scratching Job Titles
8:00am Friday 13 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers “Director of Fun”. That was the title I was looking at on a resume for a marketing director position. As I read through the applicant’s accomplishments and responsibilities, I could see that it was clearly a marketing-type position. It stuck out, just not in a good way. What may have seemed like a great little [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Jobs that Let You Serve Others and Still Make a Living
8:00am Thursday 12 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers Though service jobs will buy you neither Gucci nor Louis nor Fendi nor Prada, some might argue that a career dedicated to serving others pays way more than any high-powered investment job could. It pays off with buckets of intrinsic happiness. Some service workers describe warm feelings of “being part of something bigger than myself,” [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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How to write an effective job advertisement
8:00am Wednesday 11 April 2012 - Lifestyle Careers Writing a job ad is just like writing any advertisement. You need to know your target audience, address them in the language they understand and offer them what they want. There’s nothing worse than writing an ad for a job you’re hoping to fill, posting it online or even running it in a local paper [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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