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Dress for Success! How Dress Code Can Change Your Life

Posted by: Kayes on: 07 Mar, 2009

dress-codeIf you have recently burned out your shoe soles finding a job and endured hours of interviews to finally land a job in your career, then hats off to you and congrats for making the first step to your career.

You being chosen out of all the applicants around you, especially in this tough economic condition, is more like gaining victory in a war field.

But now that you are in a good start for your career, along with proper sense and knowledge of what you are doing, you should also come up with a proper image of your self. Just having professional outcomes in today’s career is not enough; you must also have a professional dressing code that boosts your identity from all others.

Improving your image adds significant importance to your career. Not just a general knowledge but also many researchers confirmed this statement with proof. One of the best-known image consultants John Molloy made years of researches and now finally confirms that ones dress code produces serious impact on their career.

Amongst all the experiment Molloy performed, one of them showed direct results on how a persons success is directly linked to his/her clothing choices. Molloy appointed a 28 year old to go to the railway station in New York to ask peoples around in there to pay him $1.50 for a fair since he has forgotten his wallet at home. The 28 year was given an hour wearing plain t-shirt and jeans, and another hour wearing suit and tie. An amazing result was obtained when those 28-year-old men bought up $8.5 wearing plain clothes and triple the amount wearing suit and tie.

Thus, Molloy confirms that wearing clothes of specific patterns boosts ones image and carrier, and that is what takes someone to reach success.

Researches from Molloy and nay others highlighted some points on how your dress code should be when you are stepping into your new carrier.

# What to be considered wearing
You cannot just wake up in the morning and pick one clownish violet t-shirt or a rainbow colored tie to put on and go to your workplace. There are many different points you have to look at when choosing the best outfit for the day.

Firstly, you have to understand what line of work you are in to. You need to know how your boss dresses. You need to get a feel of what your company is like, and then you will be able to base on all these factors while choosing a parent dress code.

If you want to be the boss, then dress like your boss itself. Find out which stores they get their clothing from and attack the stores with your full pockets. Remember, your boss is the one to give you promotions, thus cloning your boss’s style makes them see themselves in you, in not just performance wise but image wise too. This you should really consider investing on some dresses to gain success in your career.

# What not to consider wearing
Even if you do not want to look savvier than your boss does, at least try to dress normally. Do not over dressmaking you look like slobs. Just make sure you do not cross the limits of what your office atmosphere allows you to. Being under dressed is ill advised, but over dressing is also of no good too. After all, wearing an over coat in summer or a bow tie in a meeting will just end up making you the fool of the day.

# Keep yourself tidy
Do not forget to wash up regularly; do not even have a microscopic sized spot visible on your clothing. If you are into long travel or heavy-duty work, learn to crumple your shirt in a tidy manner.

Refer to some fashion sites and learn the latest official fashion trends. They are a great help for boosting your image with modern fashion and a role model in your work place.

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    Tricks to Increase Your Promotion Chances

    Posted by: Kayes on: 04 Mar, 2009

    Increase Your Promotion ChancesAre you stuck in the same level for year until now? Are you unnoticed by you employer? Are you searching for the tricks that can increase your promotion chances?

    If so, then you opened the right page. Follow the below listed formulas that has been revealed for you that will surely improve you chances for a promotion.

    # Spruce up your attitude
    You should act more enthusiastic than other colleagues should in your work place. Stand taller, speak more fluently, walk quickly, react faster than others, sit with your employer showing more energy than others do and always remember to keep a smile stuck on your face very often. Pull out good on every event in the work place, and take advantages of the opportunities that present themselves.

    # Go out of your expectancy
    Run an extra mile, of your said to walk. Try to work extra, show extra helping hand to your colleagues, clients, or your boss itself. Show them you are at their best service. Do not limit yourself do things because that is how it should be going, try to expand your work limits by yourself. This makes your boss feel you are able to take responsibilities.

    # Raise your hands first
    Always speak up first for any tasks before any of your colleagues do. Volunteer to participate on a group work, a task force, or a project that no one else had agreed to. Go fro projects that give you high visibility, it lets your boss see you are working hard. Let your boss know that you are just top happy to have extra load of work on you and that you are doing in efficiently, on time and in an outstanding way.

    # Be the guide
    Try to be helpful to every one at your workplace. Try to solve out intricate problems that your colleagues cannot find, solve it as if it was nothing for you. In fact, walk up with bravery to your boss’s room and work to problems that will surprise them. Boost your identity by being a problem solver, and at last, do not even bother to appreciate thanks from our boss – just say, “oh – it was nothing!”

    # Reproduce your daily habits
    Start being productive and consistent in your habits. Come to work earlier before anyone does, take short lunch breaks, spend less time socializing, and go at last of everyone. Always burry yourself under piles of papers, do not talk too much. This makes your boss feel you are dedicated for the company’s service.

    You see, these all steps will be quite difficult for you to follow tomorrow, or they after tomorrow, but once you are adjusted – you made it. You should realize that promotions do not just come overnight; you will have to fight for it.

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      14? You Are Just Old Enough For a Job?

      Posted by: Kayes on: 01 Mar, 2009

      Law states in fine lines that 14 is the minimum legal age in or after which a person can get a job.

      Most of the 14-year jobs yaw to the service category like fast food chains, ice cream parlors, grocery stores or similar others alike. However, teens having jobs in this age must have a work permit from the law, as well as from the school. These types of teenage jobs do not provide the teens with good money compared to the hours worked, but is an excellent form of living.

      Some teens have the edacity to start a business on the market. These businesses do not than to mean they are a billion dollar agencies. These businesses are in fact home based like utilizing eBay service to sell their products. Some sell snow shoveling, leaf raking or some sell self-designed t-shirts. However, this kind of ten businesses gives out less profit too, but is good method of marketing ones product. This kind of business is an effective way of making ones firm identity on the market, which can be of use when the teen grows up f or some serious business. The business takes time and effort, but we all know that every business starts out small.

      Being stuck at them also gives a good earning, this is 21st century.

      The internet offers various types of work to be done, just by sitting in ones homes. There are many different opportunities for teens to earn online, one of the most simple of all is to sign up for online survey form filling job. It is not only easy and requires least of knowledge to accomplish the tasks, but is relatively less time consuming and better paying. Internet jobs are less time and energy consuming. Any body can take advantage out of it.

      So if you are a 14-year old teen with our parent not giving you enough pocket money, go out and fetch your working license and show your parents you are worth a living too.

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        Not Eligible? Add Values to your Skills – Now

        Posted by: Kayes on: 23 Feb, 2009

        My skillsNot too back in the past, during the period of the economic boom, employers had to offer a rational motivate to find them some serious employees. The situation was like employees could negotiate its own position, of course depending on the type and case of job level. Sincere employees were so scarce during the period that they used themselves as a position of strength.

        But now, the scenario is just the opposite.

        Now that world is facing a prolonged economical recession. Now a days, employers are peeling off jobs and the emphasis has changed trend to as what you can provide the employer with – not what the employer will provide you with.

        In this scarce job market, competition is no doubt at their very peak. Moreover, here employers have more choices when hiring an employee and this choice mainly depends on how much you can offer the company in terms of skills and knowledge. It is on you to walk up to the employers to make them offers of what you can do for them that is incomparable and irresistible to employers, assuring you to be selected as a  employee ensuring a job at the current economy.

        You might be thinking of how is it possible?

        The answer to it is you just need to be multi skilled, rather than just mastering in one field. A multi- skilled person have more choices to offer to the company that a rather single skilled person who has focused on only one field in their entire life.

        Companies which are shredding jobs right now to reinvent themselves with expert workforce need more flexible, multi-task accomplisher and smart employees. Employers should such like they can switch jobs and work out tasks easily. Employees should realize that they are not just a functionary in the company, but rather be some one who would assist the company to make some major turnaround.

        People nowadays are more or less multi-skilled, but employees traditionally was prefer if they were more concentrated on a single topic, multi-skilled peoples of that time often found themselves sitting by the road side.

        But the phenomenon took a different route, the emphasis is set to vote for multi-skilled employees to prove their value to the company – the functionaries are to be fired right away!
        Retraining is to be made for future employees as an obligation. It is such that multi-skilled employees who develop their brains out side should benefit more to the organization they are working for.

        Self development is more important than forcing one’s self for nurturing these skills. In order to survive in this new economy and the tougher ones ahead, we should produce self initiatives rather than wait for someone to spoon feed us. We need to realize and admit the new realities of living standers in this modern society where competition has its no end, jobs are their rare events until you are a standalone compared to thousand others, and that you yourself must provide as much as you can to your employer.

        It is not just about your past academic performances, not the number of certificates you have or neither the diploma or degree title that carries along with you, but literally the skills that you are mastered in that can assure you to be one unique in a million others.

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          Why Some Women Cross The Finish Line Ahead Of Men?

          Posted by: Kayes on: 08 Feb, 2009

          Women who apply for jobs in middle or senior management have higher success rate than men, according to an employment survey. But of course far fewer of them apply for these positions. The study, by recruitment consultants NB selection, shows that while one in six men who appear on interview shortlists get jobs, the figure rises to one in four for women.

          The study concentrated on applications for management positions in the $45,000 to $1, 10,000 salary ranges and found that women are more successful than men in both the private and public sectors. Dr. Elisabeth Marx form London based NB selection described the findings as encouraging for women, in that they send a positive message to them to apply for interesting management positions. But she added, “We should not lose sight of the fact that significantly fewer women apply for senior positions in comparison with men”.

          Reasons for higher success rates among women are difficult to isolate. Managerial and executive progress made by woman is confirmed by the annual survey of board of directors carried out by Korn/Ferry/Carre/Orban International. The survey shows a doubling of the number of women serving as non-executive directors compared with previous years. However, progress remains painfully slow and there were still only 18 posts filled by women out of a total of 354 non-executive positions surveyed. Hilary Sears, a partner with Korn/Ferry said, “Women have raised the level of grades we are employed in but we have still not broken through barriers to the top.”

          In Europe a recent features of corporate life in the recession has been the delayering of management structures. Sears said that this has halted progress for women in as much as de-layering has taking place either where women are working or in layers they aspire to. Sears also noted a positive trend from the recession, which has been the growing number of women who have started of their own.

          In business as a whole, there are a number of factors encouraging the prospect of greater quality in the workforce. Demographic trends suggest that the numbers of women going are now passing through Higher education, making them better qualified to move to into management positions.

          Organization such as European Management Development Network provides a range of opportunities for women to enhance their skills and contacts. Through a series of both pan European and national workshops and conferences the barriers to women in employment are being broken down.

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