Career Flux

Everyone deserves a meaningful career and employment.

Tips for Your First Day at a New Job

After months and months of job hunting, you may have finally found something and the relief is palpable. However, the excitement of getting selected for the new job may soon be replaced by some nervousness at the time of joining your new office. Here is some career advice to take into account when starting your first day at a new job.

7 Tips For Getting A Pay Hike

Very few people actually enjoy asking for a raise. Unfortunately, it happens to be an essential part of career advancement. Many employers simply will not pay you more until you ask for more. After all, if you are willing to work for less, who are they to argue? If you want that raise, you are therefore going to have to build up the courage to ask for it. Here are seven tips for getting the ‘yes’.

Eight Tips for Acing a Video Interview

Most people are less than pleased when they first hear that they will need to demonstrate their prowess to a potential employer via a web cam. There is actually very little difference between video interviews and the traditional face to face variety, however. I will now outline eight simple steps for handling a video interview like a pro.

Women In Uniform: Law Enforcement’s Better Half

Forget everything you’ve heard about law enforcement being a male-dominated profession that’s unfriendly to female entrants. This may have been so a generation ago, but these days the landscape has changed decidedly for the better. Read on for more on why a career as a police officer may be right for you.

How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Telecommute

Although just about everyone has fantasized about telecommuting during the morning rush hour, very few people manage to make working at home a reality. Provided you meet the requirements in terms of both your personality and your job description, there is little reason why you cannot be one of them. All you have to do is to get your boss on board with the idea. Here are nine tips for doing just that.

Five Ways to Trim Your Budget While Unemployed

If you’ve recently found yourself unemployed, you’re in for a stressful time. Even the calmest among us can suffer depression, anger and even sadness when facing unemployment. If you or your partner have recently lost a job, here are five ways that you can easily trim the fat from your budget.