National Edition - June 24, 2007
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Comprehensive Career Info
Jobboom.ca has a new site to help Canadians looking online for information on jobs and careers. Launched in January, Jobboom's Career Zone section offers career-related articles written by journalists, as well as local job market information from our partners at Sun Media. Through this site, Jobboom also finds out what matters to job seekers using online polls under the "Your Opinion Matters" section. For poll results or career advice, check out Career Zone today.
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RELAXATION/VACATION
Volunteer vacations
Vacationing at an all-inclusive resort is so self-indulgent. If you can't handle all the pampering and gorging, perhaps a vacation filled with self-sacrifice and hard labour would be more to your liking. There's a new trend - a la Doctors Without Borders - where ordinary folk spend their hard-earned vacations helping the less fortunate, build housing, tilling fields or engaging in some other humbling chore for the sake of humanity.
(Source: Associated Press)
SELF-EMPLOYMENT
Coaching for success
If being told what to do just isn't your bag, perhaps you should tell others what they should do. Life coaches are like friends you pay for advice and mentors without the necessary experience. However, maybe your leadership, communication and organizational skills are just lagging and you could use the guidance.
(Source: Sun Media)
NEWSWORTHY
N.S. workforce aging, shrinking
Early explorers hailed the Maritimes as a place where mere mortals could walk on the water by stepping on the backs of the schools of cod fish. News out of Canada's Atlantic Provinces has been less rosy since. The latest storm cloud in a tempestuous and blustery labour-market microclimate shows that Nova Scotia's workforce is shrinking - perhaps sooner than the other Canadian provinces - because of an aging population and migration to Calgary.
(Source: The Chronicle Herald)
WATER COOLER
Women see enemy: Other women
Coffee talk: are women's worst enemies other women in the workplace? The author of this article believes that the rivalries between women could stem from cavewoman-like instincts, gender expectations, and a scarcity of leadership opportunities for the most ambitious women in the workforce.
(Source: Orlando Sentinel)
CYBERFINDS
Tech blogs go from hobbies to businesses
The blog-o-sphere opened a can of worms between leery employers guarding company secrets and their employees' thinly-veiled, autobiographical, tell-all ramblings on the Internet. Yet there's a whole other branch of this vast world of online self-publishing. Since the Baghdad Blogger brought the medium to the mainstream with reports from the front lines of the second Iraq War, other voices with opinions and ideas that matter have emerged. Some of the better bloggers, like the two profiled here, even get paid for their online diaries.
(Source: USA Today)
Do you blog about work?
To answer, visit Career zone, and check out the Your opinion matters section.
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How do you... deal with an overly emotional colleague or boss? In the minds of some, there's no room for emotion at work. Here are the dos and don'ts on how to de-escalate a situation the next time someone at work gets into a flap.
- One recent study indicates that about one out of six U.S. workers has experienced bullying or aggressive behavior.
- Handled poorly, these situations can be disastrous.
- If handled well, workplace relationships often improve.
(Source: Seattle Post Intelligencier)
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NOTICE: Jobboom and its sponsors do not necessarily endorse the opinions conveyed in the articles selected for this e-zine and do not assume any legal liability in consequence thereof.
Comments: info@jobboom.com
Research and editing: Austin Macdonald
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