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Chasing the Dream: How to be a work-at-home success

Working at home is a lot of things: rewarding, fun, challenging and flexible, to name a few. But how do you do it well? It all...

Career and Time Management

13 Co-workers you hate

After working long hours, sometimes it's time for a little workplace humor. Here, we give you a list of our 13 most-irritating...

Super Moms Guide: Time Management

Work-life balance trumps money

We are all striving to find a work-life balance where we can have a career but also have plenty of time for our kids, loved ones and...

Live Green

Best green jobs in the next five years

With a huge push and tremendous investment in clean energy, and more environmentally friendly business practices, considerable...

Career Advice

Top 10 career tips for recent grads

Though the unemployment rate is improving in many areas of the country, finding a good job is still not easy -- especially for new...

Career Advice

Booming career fields for 2012

Whether you're just graduating from college, re-entering the workforce or looking to make a career move, you need to find a field...

Super Moms Guide: Time Management

How to balance life as a single parent

Balancing work, kids and a social life isn't easy for any parent, and when you are a single mom, it becomes even more difficult. We...

Career Advice

How to manage your online reputation

Showing up for a job interview looking polished and being articulate are no longer enough. Today you have to manage more than your...

Career Advice

How to make the best first impression at work

Starting a new job is never easy. You’re nervous, you don’t know exactly what to expect and most important, you want to make a good...

Career Advice

5 Tips to working with the office drama diva

If you’ve ever had a co-worker who drains your energy and creates frustration by her controlling antics and negative attitude, you...

First time pregnancy

7 Tips for going back to work after baby

You think nothing hurts more than childbirth, until you go back to work. After all those weeks of bonding with your baby, leaving...

Career Advice

Biggest job interview blunders to avoid

We all know how stressful job interviews can be and we’d be hard pressed to find someone who don't fear them. But they are a...

Career Advice

6 Signs it's time for a new job

Not every job is meant to last forever – even if you thought it was the perfect job for you. Like relationships, it can take a while...

Career Advice

5 Surefire ways to fail an interview

Think you're an expert when it comes to job interviews? Think again. If you haven't yet landed the job of your dreams, it may be...

Career Advice

Don't make these workplace mistakes

Getting a job is one thing, but if you want to keep your job, you should keep in mind this advice on what to never, ever do at the...

Career Advice

Starting a business: 6 Tips from a celebrity salon owner

Katie Cazorla, owner and operator of The Painted Nail in Los Angeles, has proved that she means business. Her spontaneous lifestyle...

Career Advice

The working girl's guide to being confident

Not all women are alike, but some of us aren’t the best at asserting ourselves at work. We don't say no, we don’t ask for raises and...

Organizing & Cleaning

5 Organizing tips for working moms

Whether you work from home or just use your office for family purposes, giving your home office a spring cleaning will boost...

Career Advice

How to be happily employed in a tough economy

Times are tough -- that’s what I keep hearing. However, in my line of work, business is booming and I am quite happily living the...

Career Advice

3 Ways to take control of your career

Career control is not an illusion. It just takes counter-intuitive strategies that will give you a career vision and build your...