Category archives: Work & Careers

Best Way to Manage at Work When You Are Depressed

The physical and mental effects of depression can have a big impact on your work—both your ability to make it to work every day and to be productive. If you’ve spent some time away from work because of depression, returning to your workplace can be awkward.

Depressive symptoms such as… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Maintain a Good Sitting Posture in Your Workplace

Inactivity combined with poor posture – sitting hunched up in your chair, bending over paperwork – is a sure-fire recipe for a stiff body, tense muscles, spinal damage and back pain. And that’s just for starters. Necks and shoulders feel the strain, as do heads, brains and eyes also, especially… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Do an Easy Office Workout

The exercises that follow together make up a ten-minute workout that you can do at your desk to relieve the stress hot spots – neck, back and shoulders – calm your mind and energize your entire system.

Breathe into your shoulders

Moving in rhythm with your breath helps release tension… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Answer Questions Properly During an Interview

An interview involves an exchange of information. So both the interviewer and the interviewee must understand not only how to elicit information, but also how to convey it.

Until now, we have concentrated primarily on how to elicit information—by making the other person comfort­able, by using the resume effectively, by… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Control Your Jitters When Going For an Interview

Experienced interviewers expect a bit of nervousness early on in an interview (for example, a slight quaver in your voice), and they ignore it. On the other hand, too much fright will certainly get in your way. It will prevent you from focusing on what you need to do in… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Establish a Comfort Level During an Interview

It’s important to recognize up front that the interview is an artificial construct. Why do I say that? Well, outside of an interview, how often are two complete strangers locked in a room alone together for half an hour or so, each seeking desperately to make a favorable impression on… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Go about in Team Interviews

Before the interview begins, the employer will need to decide whether to use one interviewer at a time, or more. Is it a good idea for employers to conduct team interviews in which two people from the company interview a candidate at the same time? The answer is—yes and no.… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Get Off on the Right Foot in a Job Interview

It’s up to the interviewer to get the interview off to a good start. Unless she does this in the first few minutes of the interview, chances are good that the interview will never get on track.

And remember that the climate you establish in the interview will affect your… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Learn From the Other Side of the Table at an Interview

Interviewers and interviewees can each benefit from understanding what the other should do in preparation for the interview. At a minimum, that understanding should provide both parties an appreciation for the difficulty of that preparation, and a certain empathy for the other’s task. Beyond that, though, understanding the necessary preparation… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Make the Interview More Effective – 10 Rules for the Interviewee

Be yourself; relax. Too many interviewees try to be the person they think the interviewer wants to hire. Usually, that fails. You’ve been playing yourself for so long it’s hard to switch.

Playing another role may not be such a good idea, in any case. You may be wrong about… Continue Reading…