You'll find issues such as getting promoted, salary increases and raises, and dealing with your co-workers and bosses. Our main focus remains career development and job-hunting, but we wanted to also provide you with a little help on the job!

Quintessential Careers Workplace Resources:

Bad Bosses:

• Dealing With a Bad Boss: Strategies for Coping
• Do's and Don'ts of Dealing With a Bad Boss

First Days on Job:


• First Impressions Quiz A Quintessential Careers Quiz
• How to Make the Best Impression in Your First Days on the Job
• Your First Days Working at a New Job: 20 Tips to Help You Make a Great Impression

Job Burnout/Job Satisfaction/Job Stress:


• Job Burnout Quiz: How Close Are You To Burning Out?
• Job Satisfaction Quiz: How Satisfied Are You with Your Job?
• Managing Job Stress: 10 Strategies for Coping and Thriving at Work

Job Flexibility:


• Is Job Flexibility Right For You? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
• Making Your Case for Telecommuting: How to Convince the Boss

Keeping Your Job:


• Do's and Don'ts of Keeping Your Job (In Good Times -- and Bad)

Layoffs, Downsizings, Terminations:


• Layoffs Coming? Take Action Now to Lay Foundation for Your Future
• Rebounding After a Layoff Tutorial: How to Successfully Re-Enter the Job Market After Being Fired, Downsized, or Laid Off
• State's Unemployment Offices: Filing for Unemployment Benefits Online

Office Parties/Gift-Giving:


• Holiday Office Gift Giving Do's and Don'ts
• Holiday Office Party Do's and Don'ts
• Surviving the Office Holiday Party: How NOT to Lose your Job or be the Topic of Conversation Around the Office

Promotions/Raises:


• Clever Ways to Get a Raise: Perks You Might Not Have Thought About
• Do's and Don'ts of Requesting a Raise
• Getting the Raise You Deserve
• Moving Up the Ladder: 10 Strategies for Getting Yourself Promoted

Resigning/Resignation:


• Job Resignation Do's and Don'ts
• Resigning with Class: How to Diplomatically Resign From Your Job

Teams/Team-Building:


• Are You a Team Player? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
• Mastering the Art of Teams and Team-Building: 10 Tips for Top-Quality Teamwork

Workplace Assessments/Quizzes:


• Are You –- or Someone You Know -– a Workaholic?
• Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
• Workaholics Quiz: Do You Focus on Work Too Much?
• How Secure is Your Job? A Job Jeopardy/Layoff Assessment from Quintessential Careers.
• Workplace Relationships Quiz: What Kind of Co-Worker Are You? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
• Workplace Values Assessment: Do You Know the Work Values You Most Want in a Job and an Employer -- and Does Your Current Employment Reflect Those Values?

Workplace Samples/Books:


• Professional Letter of Resignation Samples
• Sample Salary Increase (Raise) Memo
• Workplace Books

Workplace Skills:


• A Dozen Top Presentation Tips

Workplace Wellness:


• Workplace Wellness Resources

Other Workplace Resources:

AmericaOutofWork.com -- a very useful site for job-seekers who are out of work. Find help coping with the stress of being unemployed, managing your finances, organizing a new job-search, or starting your own business. Free to job-seekers.

Ask the Workplace Doctors -- a question and answer forum in which you can submit questions about any aspect of the workplace communication. If selected, your question and an expert answer will be posted to the site (anonymously) and you will receive a personal response via email. Topics on the site include asking for a raise, dealing with rumors, overtime, sexual harassment, and more. No cost to job-seekers.

BetterWorkplaceNow.com -- a site full of ideas and tools to help make your office a better workplace, including numerous articles that use inspiration, insight, and humor to help you deal with everyday workplace problems and irritations. Free to job-seekers.

EmpoweringRetreat.com: Empowering Work-Life Balance Resources -- where you can find the tools and resources you need to lead a balanced life, including work you love, work-life balance, and time management. Free 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.

Job Stress Help -- a great resource for workers dealing with job stress. Includes articles, a job stress survey, and many helpful links related to job stress.

WorkOptions.com -- where you can find information and resources related to obtaining flexible work arrangements, such as telecommuting, part time, job sharing, four day work week, compressed work week, flexible maternity leave under FMLA, or other flextime work options. Get what you need to develop and negotiate a proposal. Free and fee-based.

Workplace Fairness -- a non-profit organization that provides information, education, and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide. Its goal is to bring together workers, employers, advocates, and policy makers to achieve fairness in the workplace. Find answers to all sorts of employment issues and situations. Free to job-seekers.

WorkWorries.com -- a great site that is designed to help folks deal with difficult co-workers and bosses. With more than 1,200 links to articles and resources to help you address these problems, the site is focused on finding solutions -- not revenge. Also includes discussion forums and online newsletter. Free.

Wrongful Termination Lawyer Directory -- a site for workers who feel they have been wrongfully terminated. Find lawyers and law firms that specialize in wrongful termination lawsuits. Browse attorney listings by state. Free.