Maritime Industry Vacuumed For Expertise

Higher wages and better rotation schemes in the oil industry enable seafarers seek to escape from the maritime industry. At the same time educates only half the skills they will need until 2020.

The maritime industry in Norway will require all 10,000 Norwegian seamen up to the year 2020, according to a new research report from Fafo. At the same time there will be trained under 5000 students in maritime subjects, and a high percentage of these will end up working on oil platforms.

There is a concern in the industry that rig vacuum cleaner market and attracts labor. Before it was more fluidity between segments, which was a big advantage for Norway. When the competence-related ecosystem put into play, we lose something of what has given Norway a unique position, said lead researcher Jon Rogstad at Fafo to DN.no.

It is Norwegian Maritime Competence Foundation who ordered the survey of the industry's future skills needs.

Drawn toward higher wages

Among the Norwegian sailors between 26 and 40 years who had plans to change jobs, said over half that they wanted to work on oil platforms. Wages and working time arrangements were the factors that weighed most heavily in this election. It would also be likely that they will have difficulty obtaining such a job, since education and practical experience from the sea is attractive for rig industry.

Having practical experience along with education is very attractive, and many find that the oil industry picks it the need of people. It is perceived as a "free rider problems." It was for example said that the oil industry got a "free lunch." says Rogstad said.

More challenges

The new government has announced that they will now legislate the existing net pay scheme which ensures that shipowners get reimbursed what they pay income tax, social security contributions and payroll for about 10,000 workers a year. Minister Torbjørn Røe Isaksen has also stated that he will increase the apprenticeship grant.

Maritime Industry Vacuumed For Expertise

This bodes well for the shipowners, who can lure with the same rotation schemes or salary levels as oil platforms. Personnel Director Erling Lodden in Eidesvik underlines that the industry also has more challenges than the great need for expertise.

The foremost challenge is to get a balance in the number of educated and what the industry can take on apprentices. More in the maritime industry must take training responsibilities. To achieve this, it is essential to have predictable framework, he says to DN.no.

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More Searches For Jobs Without Education Requirements

The growing rift for positions that do not require higher education will continue to increase until 2030.

To get a job in "checkout at the supermarket," or in occupations where there is no requirement to higher education becomes increasingly difficult, and the struggle for such jobs has barely begun.

Aftenposten recently talked, got a supermarket shop at Majorstua in Oslo into a total of 585 applications for a vacancy as a store employee. Full scoreboard is consisted of completing the goods and serve checkout - a position where there are high standards of education.

Meanwhile brands NHO Reiseliv one influx in the number of applicants at all levels within the hotel and restaurant industry. The entire 849 applicants had applied to two positions with coffee chain Starbucks in Oslo.

High labor and internal career opportunities:

The labor market until 2030 will be tougher for those with little education, and the competition for such jobs will increase over the next few years, according to a report from Statistics Norway.

Economy Professor Kjell Gunnar Salvanes at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), believe that the influx of migrant workers may be one of the explanations for the number of applicants.

The large labor migration we've had over the last 10-12 years and that 25 percent of young people drop out of high school, gives us a fairly large group who typically seek out the jobs that do not demand formal qualifications. Manufacturing jobs are the unskilled went to before is largely gone, then it is not unnatural that there is a grocery industry in growth over the streams, says Salvanes to Aftenposten.

More Searches For Jobs Without Education Requirements

With larger stores and merging of retail grocery sector has become a more interesting arena to apply to. Several retail chains have internal career opportunities for the employees and with better working environment, there are many who see this as an alternative opportunity to get an education and career without conducting traditional education.

NHO notice changes

Also hotel and restaurant industry has registered increasing demand in the number of applicants. Rica eagle in Bergen got into 1,400 applicants for 130 positions, while Radisson Blu & Park Alna on average received more than 30 applicants for each of the 50 positions they proclaimed.

Managing Director of the Norwegian Hospitality Association, Kristin Krohn Devold, believe that less demand for master for such positions is alluring among young people with low education.

I think that tourism increases its popularity among young people because many see tourism as a social business where you can work your way to a career without taking a master, or take it later, she said to DN.no.

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Which Person Type Are You?

Some want control and quick results, others will feel that they are participating. Some seek perfection, while others want everybody to be friends. Which of these types of person do you feel most left in?

What characterizes you as a person? What are your best and worst sides? And what motivated you of?

All these are factors that point back to the person type you are. And thus what suits to study - and work with.

How do you work?

If you would prefer to see quick results, or if you like to work thoroughly through your tasks, is important in terms of what you should work with. One thinks carefully about these questions can also avoid the wrong choice of education, as well as workplace.

Therefore, there are also many recruiters who use personality tests when they find new candidates.

Fire extremes

We have taken a closer look at one of these tests, and takes us four person types, described on the basis of the DISC model. This model is based on four extremities. It is important to remember that it is not so that one is necessarily one of those types. It will always be a combination of several, but one or two will be more dominant than the other.

Which Person Type Are You?

DISC model was developed by psychologist William Moulton Marston in the US in 1928 and has since been further developed into the model used today. Marston shared personatferder into four groups, dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and compliance.

Based on these we present four different character types. Which one do you feel most left in?

Dominant:

Do you have a lot of the dominant type in you, you are happily pushing and likes to deal with problems and challenges. You can be perceived as both determined, selfish and ambitious. You are a typical competitor seeking direct response and quick results.

Typical characteristics:
Selfish, suspicious, direct, cynical, crafty, advocacy, results-oriented

Driving forces:
Control, quick results, challenges

Typical occupations:
Director, Entrepreneur

Influencing:

The solicitation type is usually easygoing, persuasive and optimistic. You may sense a man has many and great ideas, but can seem somewhat messy. You are a typical communicator, you are motivated by praise and thrive as the focal point.

Typical characteristics:
Nice, self-centered, humorous, messy, talkative, sociable, positive, visionary

Driving forces:
Attention, influence

Typical occupations:
Journalist, Actor, sells

Stable:

The stable person type is calm and loyal. You are thoughtful, and thrives best in collaboration with others. You are happily persevering and conscientious, holding time of the safe, and dislikes abrupt changes.

Typical characteristics:
Caring, thoughtful, family dear, gentle, calm, persistent, team player

Driving forces:
Solidified, stability, cooperation

Typical occupations:
Nurse, teacher

Conscientiousness:

The Conscientiousness type is a perfectionist, and base all choices on facts and logical reconsider. You want to be an expert in your field, and sets always prepared for any situation.

Typical characteristics:
Contained, factual, preachy, correct, logical, professional strong

Driving forces:
Quality, accuracy, thoroughness

Typical occupations:
Accountant, engineer

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How To Get The Confidence That Graduate Job Search

What can you apply for? Who can you turn to? And what can you really contribute? Career Adviser Mette Manus tells how to proceed to apply for a job as a graduate.

When you have just graduated and have not much to show for it on your resume, it is important that you can sell yourself. Bring out what you've done next to studies, such as offices and volunteering. Show that you have the capacity to more than studying, says Mette Manus, career counselor in Manus Motivation Group.

She stresses that it is important that you think carefully about why the company should hire you.

Think through why they should choose exactly you. Why are you unique? Bring out that you are motivated, and that you are willing to learn. There is no one who can do everything. That you can not, you can learn. It is allowed to say that you fancy the job, says Manus.

Think about what you can contribute:

One of the hardest to apply for a job as a newly qualified, is that you do not quite know what to search for. What can you really? What level are you on? Mette Manus says you must be able to defend that you are applying for the job.

How To Get The Confidence That Graduate Job Search

Search for jobs that are relevant. You must be able to defend that you seek. What can you contribute? Be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. Also the weaknesses can be turned into something positive, in that you show that you are reflective and teachable, says Manus.

She also reminds you not only have to think of education as professional competence.

Also remember that education is primarily a gateway to further education. The education shows that you are able to learn. You do not necessarily have to fill all the criteria in the announcement, but make it clear that you are willing to learn.

Do not come crawling to interview:

As a new graduate, it is important to be humble, but it is easy to be over cautious. Therefore, be sure to be better prepared than any other and that no one can doubt your motivation.

Sit well into the enterprise, and be well prepared. This applies both when to call before applying, before writing your application, and before going to the job interview.

Manus points out that positive thinking and meeting the potential employer with lots of positive energy.

When seeking a job, it is win-win for both parties. It's not just you who is looking for a job, now is also dependent on finding one that fit the job. It is allowed to be nervous at the interview, it is even allowed to say that you are there. It is important that you work mentally with yourself, so you are positive when you get to the interview. But do not be boastful, says Manus, and continues:

Many come crawling to interview, and are pleased that they share ever getting the interview. Think positive, meet up with lots of energy, and focus on what you are good at and what you have achieved previously. Think of situations where you have succeeded. Why you succeeded? What did you do exactly that context?

Ultimately, however, stand and fall on motivation:

Be responsive and humble, with try to radiate strength. See properly out and be cheerful. And show them that you are motivated. It is very important. They stand between two equally qualified, they select the most motivated.

Mette Writer 'TIPS':

• Create a career plan where you formulate what is important for you in your job.
• Check out the opportunity for internship or trainee. Here you can try your hand at many different jobs and you get good follow-up. You do not need to have education in law, economics or being educated engineer to be relevant to such program.
• Be willing to move.
• Think about whether you want to work in a large or small business. In a large business you will often have more targeted jobs and more opportunities for development, while you will get several different tasks and perhaps greater responsibility in a smaller company.
• Find out what you want to use it you have taken to you of knowledge throughout their education. Are there any special things you really want to work with?
• Remember that your job will be a win win situation for both the employer and you.
• Do you have an education? Do not settle for standing in the checkout at the supermarket. 

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The Quest For The Perfect Employer

You are finally graduating and about to step over the threshold and take the first step into the career. But where should you start?

There you have used one, three, maybe six years to prepare for this, and it certainly is not time to relax yet.

When choosing your first employer after graduation, you should of course ensure that the work you get is relevant to what you have studied and what you will spend the rest of your career to. But the first job you take should also reflect your personality that you will get the most out of it.

Does your company have the same values ​​as you?

How pleased are you taking chances? Are you stressed out of competition? You will have the opportunity to work abroad or are you of the nurturing type? There are a number of more personal questions you should ask before you decide where you want to start working life.

And question number one: can you identify with now?

It is important that you can identify with the company stands for, says career coach Trude Kvammen Ekker in Smart careers.

For do not you risk to go on a bang.

It might work for a short while, but then I think most people will feel that the compromise itself. It should be on guard for. It is bad for job health, she warns.

Which corporate culture you thrive in?

What do you think about total change dress style when you start to work? Or to only work with people who are 20 years older than you? How important is it that you get to unfold creatively and perhaps trial and error?

There are big differences in environment and culture within the various businesses. This may affect what qualities they look for in you as an employee, as well as that it has a lot to say for your well-being in the workplace, both socially and academically.

Before you apply your first job, you should do research on culture in the workplace you are considering applying with, advises Ekker.

Google now, read annual reports, and do you know someone who knows someone who works there, grab them.

What might be nice is to orient themselves toward alumni organizations. Where there are very many graduates who are in their first jobs. See if you can reach someone there with quite similar background as you, and call and ask. How is work culture? Is there a lot of overtime? Much of elbows and competition? How is the ceiling height? Ensure that culture plays in tune with your personality.

Large or small business?

When you ask if you want to work in a large or a small business set simultaneously questions about opportunities to climb within the company is important, how close you want to work the upper your bosses and it's important for you to get a lot of responsibility early.

There may also be a question of whether you have decided exactly what you want to work with. In a larger company will namely opportunities to use your expertise to be more to the place. Here there will be greater room for you to go into a professional department and concentrate on a smaller field. In addition, opportunities to participate in courses and continuing education major in a large company.

It is also safer when it comes to wages, pensions and things like that. This is also about values ​​and whether to seek safety, says Ekker.

In a smaller company, you get however welcome the opportunity to try out and taste a bit of almost everything.

The Quest For The Perfect Employer

If you start a small business, it is an advantage that you are much closer to all business processes, and learn more intensively about the company's values. You are welcome tried your hand at a lot different in a short time. On the negative side is that you do not necessarily get the chance to specialize as well.

How adventurous are you?

Despite Norway being one of the countries where regulations are most accessible for entrepreneurs, studies have shown that only 30 percent of all start-ups are still active after five years.

If you dare to pursue a job in a company that still exists somewhere in the startup phase has a lot to do with how you are as a person.

That all depends on the values ​​and linked to your personality. Are you confidence seeker by nature, I would not bet on a startup companies. But you are more willing to take risks, then you will have the chance to be part of a new little adventure that can grow. You can be there in an entrepreneurial phase where you get taught very much in a short time, says Ekker.

How important is the salary?

The question of wages is inevitable, but often a little difficult. How important is salary to you when to enter the working world? Is a thick wallet important than exciting and relevant tasks?

The larger, well-established companies are therefore happy to safer in terms of both pay and other benefits, so it may be an idea to dip in that direction if the answer is yes.

But you should still remember that to just go in search of the heaviest pay checks before you have acquired experience will not necessarily serve in the long run.

One should not be too demanding at the start. Feel free to prove something before going wage. If you start at a normal level, then you have good chances to rise in pay if you make a good effort. Something I repeat often is that wages are based on motivation. Whether you go for jobs with high salaries and are not motivated for tasks where it will fall completely through said Ekker.

Start narrowly:

Looking at the first job as a springboard, where you can learn a lot, and then start the actual CV-building afterwards? Or are you interested in finding a job where the internal career opportunities are great? How important is it to have a reputable company on your resume, you want to move abroad? How important is it with any foreign relations?

It's great if you're coming into a company with good standing and good reputation. It will follow you positively to resume further. As long as you can identify with the company, she adds.

When selecting your first workplace, you should first think long term and feel for where you want your career. The long-term thinking has a lot of motivation and interests to do. Which multi-year objectives you have, and how when you them?

But then it may one must have some intermediate goals along the way and take it in stages, says Ekker.

For it is of course not certain you get your dream job right away.

Probably you will have to have some breadth of vision when trying to find your way there. A tip is to be determined at first, and then apply slightly wider gradually. Ekker emphasizes the importance of gaining relevant work experience as soon as possible after graduation.

The most important is the relevance of the job. It's not like it need to be forever. I think well you can imagine that this is a first step, but it must be relevant.

While it is a fact that there are few employers who like you've jumped from job to job. So a couple or three years in your first job, it's nice to show. That perspective should have.

Be focused and humble:

Once you have set up all these issues and found the workplace to start your career with, it's just getting started with the next, and a bit more difficult task; to actually get the job. Advice number one is to work well with CV and application. According Ekker is something most people can work more with, and perhaps even more important when you have no work experience that is directly relevant from before formulation.

Even if you think you are without experience, you should look for items in the jobs you had before that could be relevant anyway. Have you worked in retail before, and shall apply for a job as an HR employee, put emphasis on customer management and relationship skills you have acquired through shop job.

See what you have done in such a way that it seems relevant.

Otherwise, there are two key attributes that captivates any employer:

Be focused and humble. It's a priceless combination for an employer.

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Job Interview: Be Proactive And Show That You Really Want The Job

Is this a person who can bring us something? Interest in the job present, or this is a person disappearing out the door after a year or two in the job.

Be interested:

Questions as to whether you are sincere inter listed in the job, often come at the beginning of an interview. Seems you are not sufficiently motivated or interested, there is a strong probability that you are not selected. You must appear to be genuinely interested in the job. It involves good preparation as we've talked about earlier.

Be positive and long-term:

Is it a permanent job so it is important to give the impression that you intend to be a long period and has ambitions in the industry, position and company. You should not start talking about other jobs you've applied for (except if you are in the application process with similar jobs that can be an expression of that you really are motivated to work in ( position type). If there is a temporary position you are applying for, you might answer that it is what you want to get into a permanent position in the industry / company if it is possible eventually.

Job Interview: Be Proactive And Show That You Really Want The Job

You should not start talking about that you really have plans to study further and take a master after a year in the job, but give love to express that you want about this eventually. Ask whether the company has plans where sponsoring employee education.

Ambitious but not overzealous:

Give the impression that you are ambitious, but not so ambitious that they interviewing you will feel like a threat. You must ensure that you do not appear as preachy.

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20 Tips For Job Search And Career Success

Here are 15 essential tips to help you secure your dream job, and five tips from celebrities who help you succeed in your career.

In addition to thousands of job vacancies, offering on everything you need to know about the workplace, careers and job hunting - so you want to secure your dream job.

Here is some of what you will find help:

5 Tips For CV:

1. Customize the resume to each position you are applying for. A general resume that do not show proper focus has greater odds of being rejected by employers
2. Make a list of keywords that relate to the profession you are applying for, and using them actively in sentences describing your previous work experience.
3. Do not exceed two pages. View the results and say exactly what want, but use as few words as possible to arrive at the point. Elaboration can do the job interview.
4. Focus on concrete results to be noticed in the pile of resumes. Rams accomplishments and achievements you have accomplished in previous positions.
5. Proofread! A recent perusal may actually be decisive. Spelling errors and typos in application and CV are employers biggest irritation.

20 Tips For Job Search And Career Success

5 Tips For Job Application:

1. Do not start writing "I called," or "I am seeking the position." Instead: Smell started! Explain the first sentence why you are applying for the position.
2. Instead of writing about what you've done, focus on the future - what will happen if they employ exactly you. Write about what you can bring.
3. Match your skills with what the business needs. Pull off your skills and areas of knowledge that they will be most interested in.
4. Steer clear of clichés and empty bragging. Words like innovative, motivated, results-oriented, dynamic and problem solver can get employers to shake his head.
5. Get with why you are seeking a new job. For example: I have been five years in the same workplace and is now ready for new challenges.

5 Tips For Job Interview:

1. Get used to hearing yourself talk about yourself. Get a friend to ask some critical questions, and visualize how the interviews are going to be.
2. Do not talk condescending about former employer or workplace. It shows a lack of loyalty and puts you in a bad light.
3. Show that you are a good listener. Sit up straight in your chair, hold your head up, make eye contact with the interviewer, and lean slightly forward.
4. If you are nervous; Think rather that you're excited! When you are tense it means you get mentally ready for the job interview and that the body is tightened.
5. Set your own questions at the end of the job interview. This signals that you are genuinely interested, and you get to show initiative and motivation to learn.

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5 Career Tips From Celebs:

1. Thomas Giertsen: Select career out of passion. That's what gets you up in the morning, and what makes you bothering to work all night.
2. Richard Branson: You have to take chances. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!
3. Bruce Dickinson: Learn the essence of one or two things. Do not learn a little about everything, it can all.
4. Petter Stordalen: It's about daring to be different. Seagulls, make mistakes, "quit more often." That's how you learn to get better.
5. Dex Carrington: Give a 360 ° "Kick You" to all who will stop you! As soon as I followed my passion, exploded the possibilities in all directions like a "Big Bang".

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How To Cope Telephone Interview

Many companies use telephone interviews to screen out the stack when they have many applicants. Here you can read how you are best prepared should you ever be called.


A telephone interview is a much greater extent impersonal than a regular interview, there are many evaluation criteria that will disappear, and it makes the remaining more important. Telephone interview can be both an agreed interview to a specific time, or an unexpected request from your employer when you least expect it, it makes it even more important to be prepared.

1. Be well prepared:

Just as in an attendance interview, trades a telephone interview to give an impression of yourself and how well you fit the position the employer advertises. To get the better of the other competitors over the phone it pays therefore to have well prepared knowledge of how to present themselves, what the position requires, and your cv. Have you thought through these points when the phone rings, you will be better placed to deliver a secure, credible and interesting interview.

2. Presentation:

First impressions have a lot to say. Just like at a regular interview has the way you handle the introduction to the conversation effect on the overall impression of the interview. It can apply to anything from bad answering to how you answer the phone.

When the opportunity to show you the way through solid handshake, dress code and welcoming sight is gone, the degree of civility and openness more important. Think through how you meet ordinary phone calls from unknown / impromptu number, in situations where telephone interview comes without scheduled time is even more important to be aware of how to answer the call.

3. Establish contact:

To create a conversation that flows well is a feat in itself, and is largely a likeminded dialogue with the caller. Remember that at one telephone is why you are contacted because they wish to be "familiar" with you, on this basis, there is room to keep the interest of the call up; it is largely about you, and none know yourself better. Just do not forget to include the other party in the conversation.

4. Sell yourself:

Work interviewer all about showing off in a positive way and make your application attractive in the stack of qualified applicants. In the same way as in a paper application, it is therefore important to be aware what the specific position is looking for, and bring out your features that adapt these. It is important to "sell in" correctly; be honest to not overdo your personal characteristics. Although it may seem easier to come by exaggerated claims over the telephone, it is just as easy to test these in retrospect.

Selling itself is about real convincing the employer that is done best if one is well prepared, engaged and trusting.

How To Cope Telephone Interview

5. Take notes:

If the interview is set to an agreed time, you may want to sit ready with pen and paper to jot down the main features of the call. Often when an interview is over, it is only fragments that are remembered, and to evaluate their own efforts in the aftermath it is useful to have an additional aid to remember what it was asked for, but also what you chose to respond. It may be valuable information for you to have a similar situation later.

6. Ask questions:

A labor interview is very much about the employee, but it is equally important to show that you are already interested in the position scope, and corporate workspaces. Early understanding of the workplace makes you a more attractive applicant, therefore leaves many interviews a room at the end of the conversation where the employee has the opportunity to bring other issues. Often one bit by surprise in such situations, and a good tip may be to ask questions along the way, do not wait until the end of the conversation.

Remember that this is also part of your communication abilities that employers want to test, and the more you know about the company you are applying for the job, the easier it is to give the impression that you want and is suitable for the position.

7. Know your resume:

The reason why precisely you have been called is the basis of the application you have submitted. Therefore, it assumes that you can respond quickly and convincingly to questions about individual items on your resume, both complementary and the more reprehensible. You may want to think through how the individual items appear in a larger context; is, for example. a logical connection between the employers you have had? Why did you choose that particular education did? What ambitions do you have now versus those you had a few years ago?

8. Keep the conversation going:

Embarrassing pauses in conversation may be uncomfortable in most settings, but in an interview situation it is essential that the employer does not get the impression that you do not have more to tell about yourself. Search for ways to establish something in common with the one you are called off, remember that man at the other end also is flesh and blood, and probably have long days with a number of such calls, make sure yours is the one that is remembered !

9. Exit polite:

Previously we encouraged to think through the presentation. But when you finally notice that the interview is on the wane, it is equally important to finish it properly. You may well excel that you hope to hear from them again, give a desire for a good day ahead or desire relevant luck with the other interviews. Remember that it is the overall impression from the conversation that matters at the interview, and when you almost have stood jumped out it is important to land with a real impact.

10. transcribing notes immediately:

Immediately after the interview is completed, you should bring up a computer and transcribing notes you have made during the interview. Abbreviations and haste twists will have little benefit to you at a later date if you do not care to make them into something readable. This can also be a useful way to evaluate the call while it is still fresh in the memory, and helps you to remember details from the better in retrospect.

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Take Hold Of Your Career! In 2016 New Year

Should I quit, or should I get the job? Have you had the thought often in the past, or do you think your people have been thinking? How do you know what your employees think about your job or career, so basically? And why "stalk" people to career guidance without the boss knowing it.

What's become of my job satisfaction, challenges my environment I dreamed, my vision for business purpose and meaning? Where it has taken way, what happened, what do I do now? This is no fun anymore and I want to have fun at work! However, maybe I am asking too much, maybe I should be more humble, be glad that I after all have a job. But the feeling is not good, the energy seeping out and I'm tired and little motivated. Maybe I should talk to the manager, it would have been nice, but is it a good idea then? Ugh, here there are many thoughts, it's me there is something wrong with or the job?

Why are an increasing number of people to career guidance, sneaking out, often with little guilty, and book career. Maybe you lose talented employees "totally unnecessary".

It is completely natural and perhaps even healthy to ask themselves from time to time. Maybe it "automatically" when one is fit stressed or tired. So, then, I want to ask you another question.

What question you need to ask to get the answer, "I will quit or be"? You hang with, here it can be a lot of information to collect, reflect little of it.

How satisfied are you and your staff - take the test!

Relations have "nurtured and maintained," it's something everyone knows. Culture must be built and takes time, it's something everyone knows. The communication must be clear, there is something ... etc. Yes, and so what, we do it? Indeed, when we are made aware of it, remember, so they like a "concerted effort" and the job is done. It is well here it might fail, we as leaders might not have a system, do not set the time, do not focus enough on how employees feel at work, including yourself. Are you thinking now that this I have the control, I've appraisals, we're talking together often, I ask how it goes. But what do you really know? Have you been surprised that a staff member has joined, totally unexpected? One should not be there, if one had "done the job".

Job in a new perspective

We often need to get help to put things in perspective, to get new ideas on things. We think that we have done, we get what we've got. Thus, new approaches may be useful in employee satisfaction and leadership satisfaction, yes, for both supposed to be satisfied for things to work. My experience as "external resource" in many companies, is that it is often the pattern that recurs, and that it sometimes takes new heads to create new ideas that lead to change. Simply look at work in a new perspective.

Would you be happier of the grass on the other side?

Many who come to me for career guidance has made ​​the exercise of changing company, but continues with the same duties, some several times too. However, they are not satisfied, and when it's time to take proper grip on his career. Perhaps all job outermost been avoided if the premise of continuing present. There is no point in worrying and wondering what might have been. Clarify issues. Learn to evaluate yourself and the organization you are, and learn how you can see that you have come as far as possible in one place. Will a job change for you to be a step up the career ladder, or will it prove to be a step to the side? Is the inboard or external causes? Your job is a dead end, or is it in yourself fault lies? Would a change in career make any difference in how you feel? What about further study, study guide?

Why stop people in the job?

A composite picture of course, and most know the causes. However, what we do is to talk about them and the consequences of them. Through research has reached the following main reasons.

•     The workplace was not as expected
•     It was the wrong match between job and person
•     Too little coaching and feedback
•     Too few opportunities for advancement and growth
•     The feeling of not being acknowledged and appreciated
•     Stress as a result of overtime and poor balance between the business / private
•     Loss of confidence in management

Why do people in work - struggle to retain talented employees

We use at least one third of the day at work. Therefore satisfaction is very important and unhappiness a serious matter. What does it take for employees perform maximum and remain motivated? Here are some of the important elements that should be present for that we get enthusiastic employees who thrive. High internal motivated employees perform better even when they have positions and tasks that may not seem quite so exciting in the first place.

1.   The ability to decide over important aspects of the job
2.   Social support from supervisors and co-workers
3.   Satisfaction with career, with opportunities for advancement within the organization
4.   Culture of being and being in the job for as long as it is properly
5.   Focus on work engagement, which represents positive feelings towards their job, instead of focussing on strains and negative reactions
6.   Culture of focusing on positive working (instead of negative or weaknesses) of the individual coping
7.   Highly motivated employees feel that their leaders strengthens their feeling of being competent in their job and encourages independence and development
8.   Extensive collaboration with colleagues also seems a positive effect on the employees' intrinsic motivation

Are you engaged as a leader?

A new survey by the research firm Sirota Survey Intelligence shows that when the leaders are apathetic and uninspired, there are three times as likely that those employees are there.

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Research also shows that a working day with humor, dedication and absorption in activities makes us so happy and satisfied that we after work feel that better boyfriends, better problem solvers and at all more eager to create a good environment in the home. According to researchers, it is the sense of commitment and not workload or work time which gives us a profit.

Take the temperature again

The temperature of the culture, the commitment of management, on ...? Take the temperature of what is important for the individual, management and business. Finding core values ​​and career path for managers and employees. Develop awareness of career and what's important in order to thrive and be inspired at work. Both in terms of the individual's internal processes and environment needed to stay in business. It's about manager and employee satisfaction, the inner and outer processes.

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8 Questions That The Interviewer Wants To Hear

1.What you need to know about me in addition to the issue of employment has become an easy decision for you? 

It is a question of Dan Pickett, co-founder of Launch Academy. He argues that this question allows the employer to see that you are serious and willing to be honest. This is a great tactic and pleasant interviewer question. 

2. How do you think, how will change my responsibilities within the position for three years? 

Jared Brown, one of the founders Hubstaff, sure that this question shows the long-term interest of the applicant in this position. For such a person, you can count on. Growing up with his position - is the right strategy. 

3. What can I give up working here? 

You have to be brave enough to ask this question. If you can select it during an interview, you can ask and your customers. Avery Fisher, president Remedify, always waiting for someone dare and ask him about it. 

4. How do you imagine an ideal candidate and that I need to be like him? 

Phil Labuun, president Eyeflow Internet Marketing, says that anyone who conducts the interview is always a picture of the ideal candidate. This is an honest question. And it shows your interest. 

5. How did you get started? 

Show your interest in the experience, in the way of your head, CEO of, would be a good step. Personal approach to each - it's wonderful. Kukii Jain, CEO EVENTup, believes that such a question can change the course of the interview. 

8 Questions That The Interviewer Wants To Hear

6. That allows you not to sleep at night? 

Kofi Kankam, CEO Admit.me, says about this issue as a demonstration of willingness to surrender to the full, up to the last hours of sleep. It is interesting and unusual. Why not? 

7. How do you see me in this position (your question)? 

Question from John Berkowitz, co-founder of Yodle. It demonstrates the applicant's interest and desire to speak frankly. 

8. How does the work, which I will carry to affect the mission of the company? 

Immediately evident that the applicant wants to be part of the team. And it serbezny argument. So he says and Dave Kerpen, CEO Likeable Local.

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9 Free Tests For Career Guidance

So, today, we have collected for you free tests that will allow you to know yourself better, to understand what you really want, and in the professional advantage of deal. In all good self-knowledge.     

1. My Next Move O * NET Interests Profiler:

This test sponsor US Department of Labor. With it, you can easily get into that professionally interested you most like to develop your skills and where to go. The results are even allow you to search the position that corresponds to your level of training, your skills. All in one place and it is very convenient. 

2. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator:

Pay attention to the online version - only it's free! 

This is one of the most commonly used professional tests. You can find out more about where you'd better draw energy as you make decisions easier as you are more receptive to information. These are small steps toward self-knowledge will eventually lead to an understanding of your career orientation. 

3. MyPlan.com:

MyPlan.com offers several tests in order to help you find a perfect suitable career according to your type of personality. Evaluate your skills, interests, your values ​​- it is part of the free package. The remaining tests are paid, but maybe you enough for this. Forward! 

4. Pymetrics:

Pymetrics uses a few simple games to explore your ability to react and adapt to society. The results will show you your weaknesses and strengths that will help you on your way to your dream job search. 

5. The MAPP ™ Career Assessment Test:

Warning, this test is partly free. The MAPP test - this is one of the most detailed and efficient tests. You will receive a full report of your interest, will be able to distribute a reply to some questions. Freedom there are a lot! Learn about his relationship with the analyst, logic and linguistics. But not everything is free. 20 specialty areas - you will learn about your key qualities needed to work in each of them. In any case, even for free, you will get enough information here. Do not overpay! 

9 Free Tests For Career Guidance

6. Strengths Career Test:

With this test you will check their own strengths. Learn about their abilities. Complex Systems and Visualization help just really overcome with the help of jobs tell you what your chances to once become a professional in a particular area. 

7. The Big Five Personality Test:

Learn more about how you actually work and communicate with people with this quick test. You can provide information about how you actually deal with tasks as you are disciplined, you are an introvert or extrovert, how to cope with stress at work. 

8. Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator:

This test will tell you which of the seven types according Enogramme do you feel about: enthusiast reformer, philosopher, assistant, individualist and so on. Understanding what type you concern, make it easier to find a common language with colleagues, as well as allow you to get to know your strengths and weaknesses. 

9. What Career Should You Actually Have?:

And the test of BuzzFeed may not give significant results in terms of psychology, but if during the working day you decided to conduct an experiment and very little time - start with this test.

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How To Survive A Disastrous Interview Jobs

Every happens to us. And the interview - it's not exactly the most pleasant moment in life. This is a test for resistance. Sometimes, in the morning spilled coffee on his shirt, the bus left, but you forgot the purse at home and even to the same sat phone ... And if it coincided with the day of the interview? Wow! How to survive the day and hope for a miracle!

The degree of desperation # 1 // Before and during the interviews:

1. You're late:

Of course, it is bad and we hide it from you will not. But please, do not make excuses. It sounds like the school "my dog ​​ate the homework", "I did, but I forgot." Even worse is when you start to talk about it, what terrible traffic jams now and that many people on the subway. But another thing, if you had a good reason (sick children / relatives / urgently needed to help someone). After all, the sooner you begin to interview, the better. If you have not printed a resume, then Be smart. Open it on the tablet. Or then again ... sorry (no arrivals!).

2. You forgot the name of the recruiter and know nothing about the company:

If you're in his office, then look through the eyes (try to look appropriate in this case) any - there must be a name. And if you do not remember and can not find, simply avoid mentioning, but in the end, take a card and hope that such nonsense you will not happen again. Know the name is important.

If you are asked why you chose this company as well, you know nothing at all about it, then to speculate about what the proposed position different from the position in which you are now. Try to steer, but in any case do not show perfect ignorance. Ask questions!

3. You have the phone rang, and said no elephant:

Yes, you forgot to turn it off. Rapidly blushing, apologize and turn off the sound. In any case, pick up the phone at a time will be seen as disrespectful, even if you just say "call back later."

4. You do not understand the question that you asked:

Try to rephrase it using the construction "You mean, as I understand it (a) ...." It is best to ask a question so that you ask to repeat it. And suddenly, in the middle of thinking insert "So what was your question?".

5. The interviewer is rude to you, or just a very strange behaves:

"Yes, your Gavrilov-Yamskaya University is known for its philosophical faculty", "your resume, I did not even print out", "We need a person with normal experience" - even asserting itself as you want! If the position is really well suited to you, keep yourself in hand and think about what not work for the man.

How To Survive A Disastrous Interview Jobs

Sometimes recruiters ask very strange questions like:

• What do you pizza toppings?
• Who are you on the zodiac sign and when were you born?
• In what position do you sleep?

6. An awkward silence:

Laugh it off. Or, if a serious question, just tell the recruiter that you need a minute to think. This is quite an honorable way out, rather than become flushed, sweat, start to bear some nonsense.

• Emotions going wild at all:

All recruiters too once experienced this, and you will understand if you need to go out or you ask for water. Do not be nervous. Just honorably passed through this test, which a prior uncomfortable for the person. Be yourself and even if you make a mistake, draw conclusions for the future. In general, in the process of falling into depression and discouragement is not exactly an option.

The degree of despair 2 // After the interview:

1. Assess the degree of disaster:

Firstly, most people who have just been on the interview convinced that proved to be not the best (read a book by Professor Katherine Brooks You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career). So first try to soberly assess yourself and your interviewer. Did he deliberately takes you out of balance a strange question: "What are you an animal?". So discomfort after - not a sign of failure.

2. Praise yourself for something ..:

Maybe you nervously joked (we believe it was funny) or shared the interview with something interesting in addition to "I'm sociable, responsible and generally quite think of anything." You did everything right. And praise yourself which managed to show you all of a sudden.

3. Broken heart or thunder and lightning?:

Disappointment, anger, you're funny, you feel sad, you feel like it - try to assess the feeling with which you leave the interview. And yet, try to remember at what point you suddenly - is exactly what will be the starting point (the question / opinion / your answer) your uncertainty in the results.

4. Wait for the results and do not panic:

Sometimes even the most bizarre interview as good stories end happily. So do not try to write sms in our culture it is not accepted. Politely say goodbye and wait for results. But if the answer and no decision was followed by a week- write interviewer asking to explain what went wrong and what exactly do you make a mistake.

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How To Write A Cover Letter Magic And Profitable To Sell Yourself

In a perfect fairy-tale world, we find no problem pleasing our job without any problems to get a new job. We call us the right amount of money and we have no problem appoint a salary. Unfortunately, life is not so, and for a place in the sun have to fight.

In this text, we will tell you how very profitable to sell yourself before the interview.

Draw attention of a recruiter will help outrageous and / or punctuality.

If you speak the language of psychology, there are two basic ways to draw people's attention on anything - catching and matching his expectations. Indeed, the first thing we notice, or something very bright, or what really corresponds with our expectations. 

Every day the recruiter scans hundreds or maybe even thousands of resumes and cover letters. If you - quite expensive specialists and can afford some shocking, I recommend going to the first path. That is the way catching. For example, if you like the vacancy senior financial analyst, then your cover letter and resume should be labeled, such as "The Wizard of financial analysis." Attention guaranteed pay. 

But that's the way it is expensive for a specialist who can afford to light trolling conservative banking structures. 

If you - it's just you, you still should choose the second path - matching expectations. Job title, usually formed very specific - for example, "browser market dietary supplements and homeopathic remedies." However, many applicants openly lazy to create a resume and cover letter for a particular position and call it a "journalist" or at best "medical journalist." Calling your resume and cover letter correctly, you are guaranteed to attract the attention of a headhunter, to seek out the right people for key words in the title. Plus, you show the recruiter that you care and attention to detail man. 

Why not create outrageous steep resume? This can be done with us . 

Make a recruiter in your values ​​will use headhunters familiar concepts and names. 

Scientifically proven: the easier it is something present, the more likely it seems that event. Employees of Staff - ordinary people, not unlike us.When they study your resume and see there some clear and familiar things, they believe it is much more likely. "What nonsense, this firm can be reached only after the MGU or MGIMO" - so one of my friends reacted when he saw the little-known in the summary of the applicant university, standing next to a prestigious job in the office. 

But do not despair if you do suddenly went to a little-known institution, and (for the complexity of the problem) do not work in large companies whose names are on the ear. Use the halo effect is to add value to itself as a competitor. For example, if you are in the study had to speak at a conference at MGIMO - definitely check this fact. If your little-known company has worked closely with large state holdings - tell us about it. Faced with the familiar and understandable names, recruiters relax and believe in you. 

How To Write A Cover Letter Magic And Profitable To Sell Yourself

Request a salary higher than the market will help you use anchors in the form of inflated amounts. 

Scientifically proven fact - when we try to assess the value of an object, we always start from some initial set of numbers ("anchor") and correct them in the future. Imagine a situation - you have successfully passed the interview and they ask you how much you are worth. If you type the audacity to specify the amount several times higher than your value, then further negotiations will go on adjusting this amount up or down. For example, if you request 100 K per month (prepared in the same place 40), there is a high probability that the result will be assigned amount in the region of 80-90 C. If you really like it if the company has any extra money if you do not They named their wages from the previous job. 

By the way, if you "skromnyashka" and can not crank out such a focus, then there is an easier option. Try to mention the anchor figure in the text accompanying letter, preferably several times. You can even regardless of money. For example, say that for the time you have implemented about 100 projects and spent about 100 presentations. The beauty lies in the fact that the consciousness of your interlocutor still tune to the number 100, and he starts to figure your reward, starting from this figure. 

But I personally still would not have to rely on tricks with the unconscious and announced directly to that amount. 

Knowing these little psychological techniques will increase your chance of being in the company of your dreams, with a salary of your dreams. These technologies will allow you to truly meticulously choose their place of work and open the door to actually kick.

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6 Mistakes That Twenty Years

Perhaps this is the most difficult period in the life of every human being. Especially if he is aware of this and does not understand what he wants from you, from life, from the future. You know, you can quickly make mistakes, but they need to comprehend and accept wisely and slowly. We will try. Fortunately, this is always (!) Is the time.

1. We think that 20 years - an age when everything is possible, and the solution can be changed

Nevertheless, this is the age of the most important decisions in our lives. If you look back 50-60 years ago, you probably think of myself twenty years. Yes, these are the first steps on the way up the career ladder, in a family plan, but it moves, and the pace of that sound which is heard all my life.

2. We declare loudly about themselves

Imagine that you - the fish. In the vast ocean of fish more experienced and serious. And you also a little. As you can see you? According to the features that distinguish you among the crowd. How many do not shout about your wonderful merits - here you can not hear. Not because you're not worthy. Here, just silence. Here's a metaphor. Try to immediately find their difference and carry it with dignity.

3. We, Dr. Wade loves rapidly resign

Yes, everyone in this age is inherent in youthful maximal-ism. Do not you one. However, it is worth considering before you leave the place of work: all I got here? Do I have enough connections to move on? where would I go? I manage? Be reasonable - do not run an application if your colleague is very sociable and you are sick of it. Catch Zen!

4. Status and money - is paramount at this age

Our survey group VKontakte showed that about 70% of young people choose money (wealth) rather than inspiration. What does it mean? Meeting the needs of the status of this age and the attainability of this status is available with money. What is not very true. 

20 years - the age when you can get the knowledge that when the brain operates on the absorption of information and rapid digestion. Who is easier to remember, think of to learn, and just your mind to it and continue to work at all as an ideal mechanism!

Do not just set sail in search of material, because in order to get the status, you need to have enough confidence. 

6 Mistakes That Twenty Years

5. P ly be adrift!

And it would be better to set goals.It sounds boring, we know, but the truth is. If you now focus on one thing, something that appeals to you, instead of spreading on unnecessary things - you will thank yourself later.

6. We love to compete with everyone. Not with him.

This is a favorite thing! Wait. We know that twenty years just need to assert themselves and they do it thanks to the victories. Over others. Instead of war with him, to go for a jog, to enroll. It is not necessary to strive for in order to be better than anyone else. Be better than you are now. Let's get together.

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Incredible Ideas Of 2015 Which Will Soon Become Our Life

Technologies, ideas, change, something completely new that changed our lives this year, and maybe even forever. About the weather, about the work of the cosmos!

Can a change of attitude to low-paid workers become the new hot business strategy?

Aetna, Gap, Starbucks - and even Walmart - change strategy, and to pay related to the better-paid workers.

Imagine! The audience of office in Jacksonville, Florida, gathered nearly 200 employees Aetna - the rest were connected by a network - to communicate with the CEO.

They expect that everything will go to the town hall-style Q & A. But no, they had a surprise, especially those who are on the lower rungs of the hierarchy of office: CEO Mark Bertolini said that those who earn less than $ 16 dollars an hour, receive a salary increase.


Right on the satellite are detectives who caught the company, destroying the planet from space

Now that all available photos of the cosmos, it's time to use them to stop the nefarious companies who commit covert action.

For decades, the lawyer Ray Purdy worked at the academy, studying the information received from the satellites as direct evidence and tools to address the problems of environmental law. His work has long been close to the scientific world: every month he received a call from police associations for the protection of the environment, representatives of the ministries. They all wanted to receive satellite images, but it was difficult to find and even more difficult to study. Purdy realized that this is just a chance for him.

Satellites are becoming less everything is cheaper, easier to deliver them all. A huge number of start-ups, including Planet Labs and Skybox (bought by Google in 2014) create a space fleet, which can make and send images every corner of the planet, with sufficiently high resolution so you can see the hatch or the number on the sign. Purdy and Ray Harris, a professor of geography at University College London, who devoted his career to the study of the earth, participated in the creation of Air and Space Evidence, agency, specializing in the use of satellite imagery as evidence in the investigation of the insurance cases, and legal violations. Two Ray, who act as intermediaries between the companies and people who want to use information from cosmic bodies, called the business space detective agency.

Do not relax: discomfort as a new kind of convenience.

It's time to stop mankind from turning into a useless mass, eternally seeking fun! Some designers deny ideology simplify life and come up with new challenges in our lives.

When you enter the Intervator - hacked elevator in Essen, Germany - and press the fifth floor, a lift takes you to the fourth and tells you that it's time to warm up a bit!

"All this in order to understand how you can change your behavior every day, to let something new," - says Matthias Leshke, PhD German Folkvang University of the Arts, who is working with designers, inventors, and that broke the elevator panel .


Now that we really can do Geo-engineering the planet, why not make it the truth?

Engineers dream to remake the planet that we live with our carbon emissions. How to stop the state from one of panic solutions press?

Here's a scenario that seems plausible, especially if we continue down this path ignoring climate change: drought in northern China, exacerbated by global warming. People are dying. Huge waves of migration. The government, which is well known for his attitude to crisis situations, decided on a plan to change the weather by spraying sulphate aerosols using - a combination of water vapor and sulfur - from aircraft. The wind spreads it all over the planet, ultimately increasing the albedo of the planet (the ability to reflect the sun's rays back into space). The process of global warming is changing, even if greenhouse gases continue to accumulate. So the warming process will thus be stopped and drought in China as a result.

This operation is not too much especially in comparison with the huge costs of items - instead of wasting billions of dollars a year, according to David Cave, one of the foremost advocates of Geo-engineering and professor of applied physics and public policy at Harvard - the spread of sulfate aerosols, having a global impact can be accomplished with one airbases.

Incredible Ideas Of 2015 Which Will Soon Become Our Life

Aerosol can make the sky more white, reminding us that we change the climate. But how much it would mean for the whole world, this process prevent many deaths. In any case, it is not known how the international community can stop China or India on changes in shape of the earth without the permission of the whole world.

You'll wear leather clothes, grown in the laboratory before have grown in the same burger.

No cow will not suffer when creating your bags.

Scientists can already grow a burger in a petri dish. But before we see lab-grown steaks on a market stall, we will find her skin at fashion shows.

According to the Modern Meadow, one of Start-ups in Brooklyn, we've got a future in which "grow, and does not clog." The company is working simultaneously on what you can eat and what you can wear. In the production of the presence of living beings is not necessary. CEO Andras Forgas says that grown in the laboratory skin will appear before the meat on the shelves. And it will be easier for people to accept the new biotechnology, first in the form of clothing, not a product, lying on a plate.

Please turn off their phones. Or do we turn off their own.

The increase in the places where we will be disconnected from all technologies - a useful innovation.

Head over to the usual cafe in London, or indeed in any other city, where you can find freelancers to leptopam sticky, people who scrolls without stopping on their smartphones ... But this year in London will be something special: a cafe, which will automatically block signals WI-fi, so that you pay attention to your friends, but not on the technology.

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6 Dangerous Beliefs That Can Ruin Your Career

There are some incredibly dangerous statements with which we go through life, and constantly bear repeating. And they at some point may adversely affect your career confidence.

Hazardous conviction # 1: Perfectionism = Success:

Human beings, so arranged by nature, are fallible. When perfectionism, the ideal result is your main goal, you always live with a terrible fear to make a mistake, spend too much time complaining that something is not possible, instead rejoice already made. In general, do not overdo in his life with a thrust to the ideal of creation. Because nature does not create ideal forms, but the most beautiful apples in the store are always grated wax and are composed of a pinch of GMOs.

Hazardous belief # 2: My destiny is ordained:

So many people are obsessed with the idea of ​​completely irrational that they are destined to succeed somewhere, and somewhere in the fall. Stop it now! Your destiny, life is in your hands, and the use of certain forces beyond your control to justify both victories and defeats, it is doubly unacceptable. Sometimes life gives you a card in the hands of the pagans, and sometimes you swindles. Your desire to transfer to the "wrong" hands on this game - absolutely obvious forfeited. PS Psychic fifth generation Claudius advise you never to play cards;)

Hazardous belief # 3: Always or Never!:

There is no-thing in this life that you have always done or ever will do. Remember, you told my mom that will never vandalize? break cup? So what? Get it? Limit your life, your actions, your behavior such concepts just fundamentally wrong. This all means that you can not control your life or do not want to change it. Do not give in and just honestly tell yourself that you will make mistakes and will go to McDonald's again.

Hazardous belief # 4: I do well when others disapprove:

I do well when others disapprove

Regardless of what people think about you at any time of life, one thing for sure is true in most cases: you are not as bad as they say, but not so good. If Elena at the school told you that you're a genius, and you need a Nobel Prize, you try it as soon as possible to forget. Most often, such praise is relaxing, not stimulating. You can not just disconnect from the opinions of others, but you must learn to take everything with a pinch of salt. As a positive sense and in a negative. Not so it is important that people think about you, but your self-confidence and self-esteem only your handiwork.

Hazardous belief # 5: My future My past =:

Repeated mistakes and failures can affect your self-confidence, and hard to believe that so often you can achieve success in the future. But you must remember that any failure is the result of what you risk, take responsibility for themselves. No fault can affect your ability to achieve success. Before you learn how to ride a bike, everyone had to strip the knees. So keep falling, because sooner or later all will.

Hazardous conviction # 6: My emotions = Reality:

We must learn to look objectively at their emotions. Yes, it sounds weird. Emotions destroy your vision of reality, you drive themselves and are wasting their potential. So sometimes turn off the emotions.

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