Archive for November, 2009

Using social networking for your office survival

Using social networking for your office survival

I guess every­one today’s is using linkedin (www.linkedin.com) or twit­ter (www.twitter.com) , face­book (www.facebook.com) or any other form of social net­work­ing site in order to meet and know new peo­ple and estab­lish a con­nec­tion net­work between them. Before I’ll start I want to write down the def­i­n­i­tion of net­work­ing (as taken from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/networking) — the […]

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Lies your boss is filling you which are not true

Lies your boss is filling you which are not true

Going to work from 9 till 17 is 80% employee wish. its not to lit­tle, a bit to big but can be tol­er­ate. you have lunch with your office friends in the mid­dle for a 30–45 min­utes, nice dis­cus­sion going on there. and then you go home. The cur­rent state of the econ­omy in the last […]

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Layoffs cuts and survival at the office

Layoffs cuts and survival at the office

The day has when you enter the office and there’s a buzz in the air that there are going to be some cuts today (in reces­sion times as today this might come in some waves). The moment you enter into your room your super­vi­sor sends a mes­sage he wants to have a pri­vate talk with […]

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How an Office survivor pick up his freinds in the office

How an Office survivor pick up his freinds in the office

you go to work every .its becomes your sec­ond home. you spend there at least 8 hours, and in that time you are involved in some much activity’s:talking with other employ­ees and friends, per­suad­ing your boss,gossiping with oth­ers, lie to sev­eral peo­ple, blind sid­ing sev­eral more-yes, an every day basis for the office sur­vivor –master […]

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Winning office politics

Winning office politics

Each office has its pol­i­tics, and in order to secure your posi­tion at the office you have to learn and play the “pol­i­tics game”. Not every­one knows how to play this game, but every­one plays this, even if they don’t admit it.   In order to play the game you need to set up your goals, […]

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Fight Fire with All your Arsenal-An office survivor must read part 1

Fight Fire with All your Arsenal-An office survivor must read part 1

Being fired from your job is most peo­ple biggest night­mare. it’s usu­ally unfair,most of the times there not good rea­sons for it– man­ager will come with lame excuses for it-we don’t have more budget,the project was closed due sev­eral reasons,the com­pany don’t earn well,blah blah blah. no mat­ter what they tell, remem­ber that its really […]

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Interview’s question — what’s your long term plan

Interview’s question — what’s your long term plan

The time has come and you decide to move to a new big­ger office. The ques­tion that you’ll be asked is where do you see your­self in 5 years from now (or any other vari­a­tion of that ques­tion) – remem­ber this ques­tion is a tricky one that will allow you to sur­vive in a new […]

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Office cliques

Office cliques

As time pass by you notice there are cliques in the office, the only ques­tion you have to ask your­self is which clique suits you the best, which one will allow you to sur­vive, which will give you more power, which will be bet­ter for you ‚ etc.. Pre­vi­ous arti­cles talked about find­ing the right mentor […]

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