Archive for the 'Personal Development' Category
February 19, 2008
This is the article that appeared on The Daily Star on Sunday, 17th February, 2008.
The University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) in collaboration with Jobs-ICT launched a programme titled ‘Career Vision’ yesterday to train and prepare its graduates to face the challenges in the present competitive job markets, says a press release.
The university signed a [...]
Categories: Career Building, JIPLerz Activities, Personal Development, Students
Tags: career, career vision, jipl, JOBS-ICT, tatiana pavlovsky, ULAB, vision
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January 28, 2008
Here are four easy ways to increase your job satisfaction:
Think positive
While you might feel your job is the worst on the planet, everything has a silver lining. For starters, be grateful you have a job at all. Put things in perspective. For example, start with the realization that everyone has a bad day at work [...]
Categories: General, Personal Development, Professionals, Soft Skills, Students
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January 24, 2008
E-mail stress is widespread in today’s workplace. In workplaces today, employees feel stressed by the amount of e-mails they receive and their obligation to respond in a timely manner.If your e-mail provokes anxiety, consider the following tips for reorganizing your inbox:
Get rid of habits. Many professionals, when they hear the ping of an incoming message, [...]
Categories: General, Personal Development, Professionals
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November 28, 2007
Why is it important to maintain a positive attitude at work? A positive attitude at the workplace will prepare you for reaching peak performance while creating a can-do culture.
Positive attitudes lead to the following outcomes:
Optimism – Success, longevity and happiness are all by-products of optimism. With an optimistic attitude, you will see yourself as being [...]
Categories: Career Building, General, Personal Development, Soft Skills, Students
Tags: work attitude
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November 22, 2007
Work harder or work smarter?
“In order to get more done, you need to invest more time……. Studying three hours a day will get you better grades than the guy who skims through a few chapters before the test. More work = more results.”
“………working smart beats working hard. In some cases working more can actually damage [...]
Categories: Career Building, Personal Development
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November 15, 2007
You may know how to do it. But if you can’t tell me you can do it, I DON’T WANT YOU to do it!!
On November 6, 2007 I participated in a workshop on Export Sector Strategy Development for the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) held at Bangladesh China Friendship Convention Center (BCFCC), Dhaka. There were [...]
Categories: Employers Feedback, Personal Development
Tags: communication skills
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November 5, 2007
“Most folks are about as happy as they
make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
The way we think reflects on our daily life – people even perceive us exactly how we want them to perceive us. A positive approach towards life attracts success, because this is what teaches how to think big, how to win [...]
Categories: Personal Development
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October 18, 2007
A few weekends ago, on the 5th and 6th of October, Tatiana and I had the opportunity to teach a Motivational Session for the new freshman class of ULAB. The workshop was part of a 4 year program in partnership with ULAB’s new Career Services office to help prepare students for their future careers upon [...]
Categories: JIPLerz Activities, Personal Development, Students
Tags: liberal arts, ULAB
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October 18, 2007
Survival in the workplace depends on many attributes of the employee, one of them being office etiquette. Etiquette is a combination of many various attitudes of a person, all of which combine to the final outlook which creates an impression which can make or break a person. Here are some tips to follow to make [...]
Categories: Career Building, Personal Development, Soft Skills
Tags: workplace etiquette
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October 14, 2007
On the 14th of October, our team published an article on JIPLerz.com about a recent blog post about 7 Ways to Overcome the Fear of Failure by John Wesley.
In the blog, Wesley states 7 different methods to kick start yourself into action. Many people do not attempt new jobs, lifestyle changes or go against the [...]
Categories: Personal Development
Tags: fear of failure, success
Comments: 3 Comments
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