Eating at work and staying healthy can be serious challenges. From workplace stress catapulting you into an emotional eating binge to happy hour drinks and steak dinners with clients, work can feel like Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to sabotaging your healthy eating plans. The best strategy? Plan ahead and stock your desk with an arsenal of healthy snacks for work. The items below will help keep you satiated and alert throughout the day. Nuts Optimize your brainpower and energy to accomplish tasks, all while making yourself less tempted to take a piece of office birthday cake. Fill up on trail mix or nut butter packets. Be sure to avoid nuts and mixes that contain sugary ingredients and stick to unsalted nuts with a few superfoods like goji berries thrown in. Avocados An avocado a day will keep the workplace vending machine away! These water-rich fruits are packed with protein, fiber, and healthy fats that keep you feeling full and satisfied. Sprinkle each half with … [Read more...] about Eating at Work Is a Challenge – Try These Snacks!
Archives for 2017
I Dread Going to Work – 12 Ways to Beat the “Sunday Night Blues”
I dread going to work. Well, I used to. Through the years, I have collected tips, tactics, and hacks that help me get through periods of time where I'm dreading work. Because if we are going to be honest, even if you LOVE your job (and I do!), there are occasionally projects or situations that creep up where we dread going to work. For many people, the work dread feeling sets in as the "Sunday Night Blues." And no, that is not an awful band name. Rather, it's the feeling of the work week looming large, casting a shadow on the remainder of the weekend. It starts with a sinking feeling in your stomach. If you don't catch the feeling and squash it immediately, anxiety can build like an out-of-control freight train. Thank God It's Sunday (TGIS) is something you'll never hear. Even those happy at work get caught up in the end-of-the-weekend doldrums. We are all so busy living 24-hours ahead of ourselves that some people are even hit with the Sunday Night Blues as early as … [Read more...] about I Dread Going to Work – 12 Ways to Beat the “Sunday Night Blues”
Don’t Dial It In: 7 Tips for Honing Your Telephone Interview Skills
Contributed by LiveCareer It’s easy to underestimate the importance of an initial phone interview/screen, but having polished telephone interview skills can make or break your job search. These initial screenings are designed to efficiently eliminate candidates from the larger pool. One wrong or tripped-up answer could mean the end for you! So then—how do you move past the first-round call? Timing Is Everything If you’re someone who isn’t fully awake until after that second cup of coffee, don’t accept an early morning interview. The same goes for accepting an afternoon interview if you’re prone to a post-lunch slump. In a telephone interview, your voice and demeanor are as much a part of your interviewing skills as being able to succinctly describe your experience, so you’re best to choose a time when your mind is firing on all cylinders. Typically, recruiters will offer you a couple of different days and times for an interview. Choose one during your peak personality … [Read more...] about Don’t Dial It In: 7 Tips for Honing Your Telephone Interview Skills
Q&A – Advice for First-Time Job Seekers
I recently had the opportunity to chat with vocate.me, a website designed to help students and recent grads track down great internships or entry-level jobs. We discussed the challenges faced by rookie applicants along with some tips on how Millennials can excel at their first gig. … [Read more...] about Q&A – Advice for First-Time Job Seekers
Tips on How to Find a Good Essay Writing Job
At this day and age of modern technology, almost everyone is highly dependent on the internet to find, learn, and source for various products and services. When people are interested to find a good dining place, they immediately browse the web. Students who are looking to hire a good essay writer can simply try CustomWritings to hire a good essay writer. In other words, the internet has practically opened a new world of opportunities and possibilities. … [Read more...] about Tips on How to Find a Good Essay Writing Job
19 Signs You Should Quit Your Job (Or Leave Your Partner)
The signs you should quit your job are everywhere, yet for some bizarre reason, you keep ignoring all of them. Wake up! Looking back, my only childhood regret was staying with girlfriends for too long. I'm not sure the reasons why. I'm sure I can peel away the psychological layers and find a kid who undervalued his worth. But what fun would that be?! My point is that work is a relationship too. And oftentimes, the ride is over well before we are willing to see the signs or accept reality. If you are experiencing more than three of these signs to leave your job, it is probably best to check yourself before you wreck yourself, because it sounds like this work wave is about to crash. Rather than dwell on my only regret, I have learned from it. I now read the writing on the wall and move on when the universe tells me it is time. … [Read more...] about 19 Signs You Should Quit Your Job (Or Leave Your Partner)
25 Top Growing Careers of 2017
Looking for the top growing careers in 2017 and beyond? Our friends at Indeed.com have put together the 25 best jobs of 2017. And it's no surprise that tech jobs, dominate the list, including seven of the top 10. "As every business morphs into the digital version of itself, the demand for workers with highly technical abilities is increasing far faster than supply," said Indeed Senior Vice President Paul D’Arcy. "The result is a rapid growth in open, unfilled jobs and increases in salaries for the talent that can fill these roles." These fast-growing careers were compiled by looking at gigs that pay north of $70k and have shown consistent growth in the number of job postings online from 2013-2016. 1) Full Stack Developer 2) Data Scientist 3) Development Operations Engineer 4) Salesforce Administrator 5) IT Engineer 6) Salesforce Developer 7) Quality Engineer 8) Digital Project Manager 9) Cloud Engineer 10) Management Consulting Analytics … [Read more...] about 25 Top Growing Careers of 2017
How Business Intelligence Can Help Your Bosses Make Better Decisions
There are many ingenious ways of making work better. However, while you, as an employee, can do your best to implement strategies that make a difference to your own work (and, by extension, assisting your fellow workers), the really big changes occur from the top-down on a systems-wide basis. … [Read more...] about How Business Intelligence Can Help Your Bosses Make Better Decisions
How to Let an Employee Go Like a Human: 12 Tips for Firing Someone
If you are scouring the web looking for the best way on how to let an employee go, we have some cold hard truth for you: firing someone sucks. It sucks for you, and it's likely even worse for them. However, if it's your first time bringing down the ax, we've put together some pointers that will hopefully ease the pain of firing someone. 12 Tips on How to Let an Employee Go Try to do it early. Many organizations will fire people at the end of the day to get them off the property with as little hubbub possible. But when you are the person who has to do the firing, that means an entire day of obsessing over the dreaded task. Nothing fuels an anxiety fire like anticipation, so do what you can to get the deed done early in the day. Don't throw up or pass out. I know it sounds silly, but you can't underestimate how difficult it is making a decision for somebody that can impact their entire life. Of course, you need to remind yourself that they most likely made the decision for … [Read more...] about How to Let an Employee Go Like a Human: 12 Tips for Firing Someone
Tips When Asking for a Raise
If you are looking for tips when asking for a raise, you are in the right place! Some people happen to love their jobs, while others not so much. For those people who aren’t exactly living the dream in their current job situation, it’s easy to assume that just being compensated more could make all the difference. But some studies have suggested that this isn’t actually the case, and that past a certain income more money isn’t going to make you any happier. According to a study on the topic, people are definitely happier when they’re making more money up to $75,000, but past that, a raise doesn’t do much to make them feel happier about the work that they’re doing. Whether a bonus is one dollar or a million the relationship between happiness levels out past the point of being comfortable. I mean you can only get so happy so that sort of makes sense. The study actually distinguished between two different types of happiness, which were emotional well-being and life evaluation. … [Read more...] about Tips When Asking for a Raise