Career Flux

Everyone deserves a meaningful career and employment.

Tips for Choosing Extracurricular Activities to Enrich your College Experience

It’s often said that college is what you make it to be. If you’re interested in putting forth your best effort to grow your circle of friends and participate in things that matter, try extracurricular activities such as clubs. Even the smallest colleges usually have some options, and you can often find something that fits with your program of study.

5 Ways to Increase Your Teaching Salary

If you’re a teacher and struggling to stay afloat with just your salary, it may seem like an insurmountable task to find ways to better your financial situation. However, it’s actually surprisingly easy to make a few extra dollars, and it can all be done within your area of expertise. If you spend a little time and effort searching, you’re sure to find a side-job that is fun and profitable.

Job Search Advice for Unskilled Workers

With the current state of the global economy, you would be hard pressed to find a single country that has not been affected by the major downturn in business. What we are finding is that as unemployment rates continue to rise, there is an increased demand for entry level and unskilled work as a lot of college educated and trade qualified workers just need some or any form of work.

3 Smart Ways to Improve Company Morale

Regardless of their size, all companies benefit from a high level of morale around the workplace. As an employer, it’s essential to realize that your employees are the backbone of the company, and when they take pride in where they work, they are, in turn, helping to promote the company’s efforts and positioning it as an attractive working environment.

Five Reasons Not To Change Your Career

A lack of upward mobility. A sense of impending doom. A deep hatred for your field. There are many good reasons to make a career change. And few choices can have quite as much positive impact on both your salary and your overall quality of life. Such positive impacts, however, only occur if a career change is made for the right reasons. And not everybody who makes a career change does so for the right reasons.

Working 101: Your Guide to Handling Your First Job

If you’ve just landed your first real job, congratulations! No, really. You’re one of the very few people out there who are able to kick start your career, so you’ve made a real achievement. However, simply getting a job is only half of the challenge. With companies so focused on balance sheets and keeping in the black, you will need to prove your worth as an employee in order to make sure you keep that job.