Feature Article: Workplace Relationships Quiz: What Kind of Co-Worker Are You? Plus: A Taxonomy of Common Types of Co-Workers
Special Feature: A Dozen Top Presentation Tips
Bonus Feature: Unhappy at Work? Change How You Feel About Your Work
Extra Feature: Four Tips For Defending Yourself Against Rudeness at Work
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
In these difficult economic times, those who are working are fortunate -- and yet
most of us face difficulties and challenges in the workplace.
In this, one of our periodic issues about workplace concerns, Dr. Randall Hansen
offers an interactive Workplace Relationships Quiz to help you determine what kind of co-worker you are.
My article providing a dozen presentation tips (with bonus downloadable checklist)
should help next time you need to deliver a presentation at work.
And regular contributor Deborah Brown-Volkman brings us two articles about making the best of the workplace.
If you're NOT employed, be sure to check out -- below in our Q TIPS section -- the offer of
a no-cost e-book when you buy a copy of my friend Rita Ashley's Job Search Debugged by
June 30. I've read a big chunk of Job Search Debugged and find it packed with valuable and uncommon insights,
especially for the executive job-seeker.
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy@quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Co-Worker Assessment
Workplace Relationships Quiz: What Kind of Co-Worker Are You? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Just as it takes all kinds of people to make a world, any given workplace is populated
with a variety of personalities -- all forced to work together toward a common goal.
If you've been working for any length of time, you probably know some of the common types
of co-workers, from the competitor to the gossip, but do you know what kind of co-worker you are?
Co-workers come in all sizes and shapes -- each an individual, with specific traits
and quirks. Yet, when we examine the workplace as a whole, most people can
be placed in one of several categories.
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Unhappy at Work? Change How You Feel About Your Work
by Deborah Brown-Volkman
Work can be frustrating and stressful sometimes.
Yet no matter how tough your job is, you'll need a healthy mind and body to tackle it. If you are
eating poorly, not exercising, or internalizing stress, you won't feel well. And if you don't feel
well, you can't treat your career with the attention and respect it deserves. Without energy, you cannot
make your career as fulfilling as it could be.
As a career coach, I speak to hundreds of people each year who are unhappy with their
careers. When I ask them what they eat, how physically active they are, and how they handle
stress, their answers do not surprise me. One by one, they tell me that they are not taking
care of themselves.
How can you love what you do when you don't feel you best? How can you build momentum in
your career when you are tired? How can you fulfill your dreams when you don't have the energy to
make it happen?
Four Tips For Defending Yourself Against Rudeness at Work
by Deborah Brown-Volkman
Today's stressful workplace carries an expectation that you perform perfectly all of the time. Company
numbers have to exceed last quarter's numbers. Market share has to increase. Work has to be
completed faster. Technology advances mean that you are reachable 24 hours a day, seven
days a week. There is no rest for the weary.
All of this stress can have an effect on you and the people you work with. As a result, from time
to time, co-workers may snap at you. They do not mean it. The pressure has gotten the better
of them in the moment. Understanding why co-workers snap is important. They are overworked,
and so are you. But behavior that feels inappropriate is inappropriate and must be addressed quickly.
So what do you say to a co-worker who says something rude -- something that
does not feel right to you? Defend yourself.
Find Your Career Future. Learn More About Yourself
Career Maze is designed to help every job seeker, at every level, make smarter
career choices. Individualized to reflect your unique personality and written in
"plain English," it is thorough and easy to complete.
Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
A specific, career-relevant discussion of your workplace personality
A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
Ask the Workplace Doctors is a no-cost question-and-answer forum from communication
consultants Dr. William Gorden, Dan West, Tina Lewis Rowe, and others with expertise in workplace
communication. The site is a huge trove of workplace information.
At this site, you can submit questions about any aspect of workplace communication. If selected,
your question and our answer will be posted to the site (anonymously), and you will receive
a personal response via e-mail.
The folks at Ask the Workplace Doctors have responded to hundreds of questions about such
workplace issues as getting a raise, gossip and rumors, motivating others, music at work, overtime,
perfumes and odors, sexual harassment, and verbal abuse.
CleanTechRecruits -- a job site for
the clean tech and renewable energy sectors (including green construction, solar energy, wind energy,
biofuels, and more), where job-seekers can search job listings (by job function, employment type,
location, keywords), as well as post your resume and register for email job-alerts. No cost to job-seekers.
HomeBy3.com -- a job site for connecting individuals
looking for flexible, professional positions with companies seeking employees for flexible job
opportunities. Job-seekers can browse (by category or job type) or search (by keyword, location)
job listings. No cost to job-seekers.
jobbala.com -- provides a place for people to
rate your jobs and to do research on reviews of potential employers from others. It is not designed to be a rant and rave place, but a place
where you can anonymously express your feelings about your current and past employers. No cost to job-seekers.
WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms --
a great volunteering site for people looking to volunteer on organic farms around the world.
Browse for opportunities that most interest you and then make direct contact to arrange a
stay. Volunteers usually live as part of the family. Small fee to job-seekers.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Until June 30, Job Search Coach Rita Ashley is offering a no-cost copy of her ebook, Networking
Debugged, for those who purchase her book, Job Search Debugged.
Read what others have said
about Job Search Debugged.
The book is based on field-tested results and advice from hiring authorities and the people who refer
candidates to them. Job Search Debugged covers these topics and many more:
Get what you need from your network; job leads and introductions
Avoid common traps that trip up the competition
Create messaging that makes you memorable
Use digital job-search tools to optimize your search
More career experts on Twitter that job-seekers should follow: Career Rocketeer has compiled
a list (oops, they left off @QuintCareers
and @KatCareerGal) of authors,
bloggers, coaches, and experts in personal branding and marketing, career and job searching,
networking, social media, resume writing, and more who are on Twitter:
Get the list.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* How Job Search is Like Online Dating
* The Confidence Factor
* Green Jobs
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Finding Your First Real Job
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
