Free Online Education

Organizations like WorkSource are there to help with funding education for demand occupations. But that’s not your only option. Many top universities offer free courses online. Education Portal.com ranks several of the best free university courses available for people who want to enhance their personal knowledge or advance in their current field.

Enlist your Internal Partner for Success

In Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Napoleon Hill spends many pages on discussing your subconscious mind. Hill believed strongly in the power of visualization and your ability to influence your destiny through positive thoughts. He also believed that you must engage your subconscious as well as your conscious thoughts if you want to succeed.

Staffing Companies and Your Career Part 2

We’ve heard some professionals say that they’d never consider “temp” work. This recession has changed a lot of things, and attitudes about staffing companies may be one of them. If you thought you’d never want to work for a staffing company, here are some facts that may change your mind.

The Tao of Joblessness

We see many jobseekers who are having trouble letting go of the past. They long to turn back time and recapture their former employment. Who can blame them? They had more money; they felt useful and more important. But as long as they are focused on what was, or even what might be in the future, they have trouble enjoying what they have now.

The post suggests defining yourself not by what you have(including a job), but by who you are. If you were a strong, happy, hardworking, loving person before you lost your job, you still are that person today.