Happy feel of life

Most of people who have been tired of the heavy traffic when going to work or being back home, must hope to work at home. And people also measure their success by being office-less. Actually I think we will be more productive than working in the office. But despite that also means enormous financial savings, lower turnover, improved productivity, and no costly overhead, it is still hard to convice the boss. Here are three ways that are offered by Bruce A. Hurwitz, Ph.D., president and CEO of Hurwitz Staffing, who said that could surely help you get permission. Of course you should make sure that your work can be done at home.

1. Establish yourself as a reliable and trusted employee. Lin Grensing-Pophal, the author of “Managing Off-Site Staff,” says, “The biggest barrier to telecommuting is trust, but, in reality, it’s no different from managing employees who work in branch offices or other remote locations–even internationally.”

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It doesn’t mean over that you haven’t received the call from recruiter, which represents you are failed with the interview. Recruiters have an idea of what kind of people they are going to hire, and know your shortage on specialty well after the interview. So take your phone, and call them actively. The feedback they give you will be much useful.

They know what’s happening in your industry

“The biggest perk when you’re working with a recruiter is that they are truly entrenched in your specialty,” says career coach Kevin Kermes, of Career Attraction.

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We seem easy to be tired at work but hard to take a vacation for a solid week or two from the boss especially in this economic climate. So we have to find time to rest without taking a vacation from work, so that we can return refreshed and ready. Here are some alternatives to a traditional vacation that can give you the same benefits:

1. Mini-vacations

You don’t need to travel abroad for weeks at a time to benefit from a vacation. A few days off here and there can recharge your batteries. Take a Friday and Monday off, for instance, and enjoy four solid days of time away.

“Mini-vacations are priceless and help make work less stressful overall,” says Talia Witkowski, a consultant for Heal Your Hunger, a concierge treatment service that helps people achieve and maintain work-life balance.

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It seems every one is complaining of their work for various reasons, such as that “I don’t like my job”, “I hate my workmate”, “why I can’t get a promotion”, and so on. It is easy for us to find reasons why we are unhappy. That is a wrong thought, says Srikumar Rao, the author of a new book, “Happiness at Work”. Whether you are happy or not depends on your mind, but not those reasons. How to be happy at work? Just do what Rao tells us:

First, change your mindset

“The exact attributes of what you are looking for do not exist in any job,” says Rao, who teaches a Columbia University course called “Creativity and Personal Mastery.” He believes that the single biggest obstacle to workplace happiness is the belief that we are prisoners of circumstance, powerless before the things that happen to us. To change your job, he says, you must change the way you think about it. “We create our own experience,” he insists. He relies heavily on Eastern spirituality and draws from many major religions. “The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.”

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People now become more and more aware of protecting their health from disease. So you can imagine how hot careers about healthcare will be in the future, actually from now on. According to statistics, three of every ten new jobs created in the U.S. economy by 2014 will be in healthcare service. Here are six hot careers in the promising healthcare field. Maybe your experience has told you that as there are so many people like that around you and you need them.

1. Pharmacist

* Job Duties: Distribute prescribed drugs, advise patients on medications, and monitor patient health and progress.
* Required Education: A Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an accredited college or school of pharmacy. This four-year programs requires two years of postsecondary study for admission, along with a good score on the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (PCAT).
* Pay: Median annual salary of $94,520

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Do you know what jobs are hiring and what jobs are firing? Before you do a career planning, I think you should know that first, although we should play what we want to do in the first, but not to choose in a list. You know there are more than 15 million Americans looking for work, as the unemployment rate has surged to nearly 10 percent. So you must recognize the seriousness of the job enviroment, and should be thoughtful on the job problem.

Jobs That Are Hiring

Information technology

Information technology is one of the fastest growing job fields in the United States. It’s growing so fast that companies are unable to meet the demand with only U.S. job applicants, and many companies outsource their technological needs to India and China because they are unable to find qualified IT professionals in the United States.

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You may have experienced a lot of interviews. Most of them may be not very successful. But you should not be dejected as it may be not because of that you are not competent to that position, but other reasons like below five.

1. You’re overqualified

Many interviewers may say that to you, and you take it as euphemistic refusal. Actually sometimes you are wrong. It is not just a cliche, but you really can be overqualified. It’s especially true in a tight economy as they don’t want to pay too much for you and they had better choose one who doesn’t overly exceed the qualifications.

2. You don’t know the right people

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