Tactics for Job-Hunt Success If you're finding it tough to land a job，try expanding your job－hunting plan to include the following tactics： Set your target．While you should always keep your options open to compromise，you should also be sure...
How to create a career portfolio ？ In a recent Gallup survey，53 percent of Americans with full-time jobs said they knew someone who had lost a job in the past year．Of that same group，more than a third feared becoming unemployed themselves．F...
Using the five sources of your power at work Every employee has five sources of power to draw from．Assess your potential power sources and use them to your advantage． 1. Personal power is all about your charisma，your passion to achieve the stre...
Dealing with Adversity A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her．She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up．She was tired of fighting and struggling．It seemed as one problem...
Qualities Employers Seek Almost every career requires such skills as listening，speaking，reading，writing，decision making，researching，reasoning，creativity，persuasion，leadership，interpersonal communication，and organization．In add...
How to handle a difficult boss A difficult or abusive1) boss can poison2) the best of jobs．But you are not powerless；before you even consider quitting，try the boss－taming strategies below． CHANGE YOUR OWN WAYS Few people are randomly violen...
Secrets of Self-made Successes １．Dream Big Dreams－－How to visualize，imagine and create an exciting picture of prosperity． ２．Develop a Clear Sense of Direction－－Learn a powerful，proven goal－setting exercise that c an change you...
On Being A Star At Work Robert E．Kelly，a consultant for major corporations and a professor at Carnegie MellonUniversity，has written a book entitled How To Be a Star at Work，in which he teaches readershow to improve their day－to－day behavi...
An American Professors Advice to Chinese Students Try a little to stretch yourself and integrate into the greater society around you．It s definitely1) a challenge．It can be difficult and unpleasant．But it can also be fun and enriching，rewardi...
Letter to a Young Friend Among all the people I know，there is one very special friend．She is young，beautiful and intelligent1)．Her name is Caroline，she lives in Hongkong and she is 7 years old．She goes to a school meant mainly for expatri...
Dusk Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the park of a busy city．It was 6:30 on an early March evening．The sun had set，the street lights were on，but it was not yet dark．In the half－light of dusk，many lonely people were walking alone in the...
The Days of Picking Blueberries Growing up with six sisters wasn't easy．We had our share of differences of opinions over the years．My parents never had much money and even food was sometimes scarce．We were lucky to get our stomachs full．If th...
Spider Finds Home in a Woman's Ear An Athens doctor who examined a 33－year－old woman after she complained ofheadaches，removed a spider that had made its home in her ear．The patient，after thedoctor removed the spider，got fine again and suf...
About A Friend He wasn't a guy of big words1)，and he seemed to live entirely in his own world．I remember that during the days he worked with us none of us exactly knew who he was，where he came from or what he was looking for，and afterwards he...
The Day Death Came To Town Long ago，in a little town not so faraway，three young men sat outside a tavern．They saw a funeral procession passing by．They asked a young man who worked in the tavern1) to find out the identity2) of the dead person．...
