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Keeping Your Professional Skills Current…Or Else

Keeping Your Professional Skills Current…Or Else

My gosh there are a lot of people out of work right now and many of them are looking forward to taking your job right out from under you. Not a very pleasant thought when you take a moment to think about it. However, the reality is that many displaced workers are doing a better job getting their professional skills current than most people who are still employed. Community colleges and other institutions of higher learning are experiencing some of the…

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How to discover your personal strengths in about 30 minutes

How to discover your personal strengths in about 30 minutes

Being asked to articulate your own, or others, strengths is not as easy as it sounds. I know that when I have sat down to work on a personal mission statement or writing my core values, I quickly run into writers block.  It is not that I do not have strong values and core beliefs, but giving them written form is more of a challenge then one would think. As part of a mentoring program that I am participating in, we…

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