8 ways to recession-proof your job
In her January 31 Ask Annie column, Fortune’s Anne Fisher offers tips to help you avoid the ax, and how to keep your career afloat if you don’t. Are you worried about losing your job? If so, have you done anything about it? Any tips for surviving a recession or recovering from a layoff?
Beat the mid-career blues
Many people don’t like what they’re doing for a living, but aren’t sure what they’d rather do instead, writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her January 11 Ask Annie column. Are you bored or burned out at work? What career do you wish you were pursuing instead? Have you ever made a big career change? How?
Don’t expect a bigger raise this year
According to our crystal ball, your salary increase will be just so-so this year, writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her January 3 Ask Annie column. Do you expect to get a big raise this year? Made any career-related New Year’s resolutions? Tell us about them.
When the prospective boss is a mystery
If the company you’re interviewing with won’t let you have in-depth discussions with your prospective boss, you don’t want to work there, says Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her December 18 Ask Annie column. After all, the No. 1 reason people quit their jobs is to flee a terrible boss, so it’s important to make sure you two get along. Did you meet your current boss before you started working for him or her? Were your first impressions correct? What should you watch out for when meeting a potential new boss?
Avoid office-party regrets
In a recent poll, Monster.com asked visitors to its website what (if any) regrets they had regarding office holiday parties in the past. The most frequent response, at about one-third (31%) was “not showing up,” followed by “drinking too much” (20%), and “arriving late” (18%), writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her December 11 Ask Annie column.
Do you have any regrets about office holiday parties you’ve attended? And, if your company were to give you a holiday present, what would you want it to be?
7 ways to make your office greener
It’s surprisingly easy to make little changes at work that can make a big difference to the environment, writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her December 5 Ask Annie column. How environmentally aware is your employer? Are you doing anything to try and turn your office green?
Play office politics without getting dirty
Most of us probably think of people who play office politics as being opportunistic, manipulative, or devious and driven by the ambition to move up at work, writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her Nov. 29 column. But an expert she talked with says playing politics is an essential art that involves “building relationships that will help you and your team accomplish more than you could on your own.”
What do you think? Can office politics ever be positive? Or have you only seen the negative effects? What are the best and worst examples of office politics you’ve seen?
How to score a full-time position from a part-time job
In her November 20th column, Fortune’s Anne Fisher looks at how someone can turn a part-time holiday job into a permanent position, especially this year when companies may not be hiring as many holiday temps as they did in recent years. Have you ever turned a part-time gig into a full-time job? How did you do it?
Blow your own horn without being a blowhard
In her Nov. 12 Ask Annie column Fortune’s Anne Fisher describes how difficult it can be for some people to boast about their accomplishments at work. How easy (or not) is it to get recognized where you work? Have you managed to take credit for a job well done without coming across as a know-it-all? How did you do it?
Harmless office chitchat - or poisonous gossip?
An office where people spend a lot of time undermining each other’s reputations is not a healthy place, writes Fortune’s Anne Fisher in her November 5 Ask Annie column. Do you think the office grapevine is beneficial, or is gossip a big problem in your workplace? Have co-workers ever made you the subject of unfair rumors? Any ideas on how to keep the rumor mill from running amok?
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