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Do you ever wonder how other successful career minded professionals schedule and invest their time? Computerworld offers an short yet insightful look into the schedule of a prominent healthcare Chief Information Officer. John Halamka as CIO at both Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School has seemingly achieved career success retaining a position […]

“The most satisfying jobs are mostly professions, especially those involving caring for, teaching and protecting others and creative pursuits,” said Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey (GSS) at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. LiveScience provides us with a look at the Most Satisfying Jobs in their recent […]

Penelope Trunk discusses “How to get your company to listen to your ideas” at her Blog Brazen Careerist. Penelope states that “most employees don’t sell their ideas to their company properly.” “When you have an idea, sell from the perspective of the people who can make or break your outcome. Think about what obstacles would […]

Jane May, in her Careerramblings.com blog, provides the following 21 Strategies for Managing Workplace Culture. As she writes, “Some [career minded professionals] might hate the company [they] work for, or are unclear of the companies’ culture. As a result, [they] are not able to manage workplace politics. The following list of strategies for managing workplace […]

Inc.com writer Tamara Schweitzer wrote the article U.S. Workers Hate Their Job More Than Ever. Here is some information from that writing:

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Career Hacker * www.careerhacker.com * By Bill Inman * www.billinman.com

 
Embarrass, insult or argue relentlessly with your manager.
Say negative things about your employer or its mission every chance you get.
Be at the top of your pay range without providing added value.
Take the work-life balance credo too far.
Complain to HR about your boss or co-workers without first trying to work it out directly.
Use HR as a […]

Everybody starts their career somewhere,even CEOs. Below are some interesting profiles of CEOs and how they broke into the business world:

Gary Kelly
CEO, Southwest Airlines
THEN

First job after college:CPA for Arthur Young & Co. in Dallas
Responsibilities: staff auditor,CPA
Annual pay (2006 dollars): $47,996
College: University of Texas,Austin
Degree:BBA, accounting
Year of graduation: 1977

NOW

Started with Southwest: 1986
First […]

Althea DeBrule, of Extreme Career Makeover, provides the following 10 Career Fitness Tips:

Set Goals You Know You Can Reach. Keep your goals realistic. Unrealistic goals leave many people feeling like a failure even after a career success. Rather than feeling good about what has been accomplished, many feel dissatisfied because they have not yet attained […]

Looking for more respect at the office? Here are 10 tips to earning it:
1. Consistently complete projects on time
2. Refrain from complaining or criticizing
3. Follow through on your commitments
4. Speak up in meetings, but don’t dominate the discussion.
5. Know your stuff
6. Be willing to engage in difficult conversations
7. Communicate with confidence
8. Stay off the grapevine […]

To accelerate your rise to the top of your profession consider job hopping from company to company asking for more responsibility and money at each leap. “Companies are looking for people who have broad experiences and people who can capture knowledge, absorb it quickly and advance into other positions,” writes Curtis Crawford author of “Corporate […]