The writer firmly believes and is a huge advocate for the following statement: The sole purpose of work is to finance your life! This concept is of vital importance, but one that is all to foreign to most people. So what does it mean exactly to have a “healthy work life balance?” Look at your [...]

Are you one of those individuals that can easily “obtain” employment, but have a hard time “maintaining” the employment?  If that category encapsulates you, don’t worry, you are not alone. In working with youth, accountability seems to be a major problem in their lives, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Accountability much like [...]

When you find a job that you love, that  is the day that you stop working.  So what does workplace “culture” mean exactly? The operational definition of workplace culture is simply ” a philosophy to guide organizational strategy, workforce behavior and management attitudes.” But why is it so important: if you find a workplace culture [...]

The all mighty job interview is not as arduous of a task as one may think because just like any other skill in life, job interviewing is learned….and what comes with learning a new skill: mistakes. Now I am not saying that having multiple job interviews per year is a good thing or a good [...]

You always have to remember to be nice to everybody on your way up the career ladder because chances are you will run into all of them on your way down. I have dealt with numerous youth that do not have appropriate references from previous employers because they let their emotions or lack of emotional [...]

Have you ever been watching professional sports and wondered to yourself: How do they get there? Let’s use soccer players as an example. Everytime that I watch a professional soccer match I don’t see them doing cart wheels and back flips, but what I see them doing the simple fundamental things perfect. You should try [...]

The easiest and most efficient job search tool has become the internet. For many youth that do not have the confidence to go and network with employers, it is a very “impersonal” way of obtaining employment. The writer has cited on many different occasions that the internet is the best way to find work if [...]