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How soft skills smooth the way to career and life success
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How soft skills smooth the way to career and life success

Remember the most successful and popular students you knew in school? They seemed to be comfortable with everyone, intelligent, kind and fun. Anyone would be happy to work with them on a group assignment. These people are probably well-liked and respected as adults too, and would be valued in any workplace. What do they have that others don’t?

Slashing jobs has hurt colleagues and left me feeling miserable
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Slashing jobs has hurt colleagues and left me feeling miserable

cpjobs.com has partnered with code-R to bring you examples of challenges faced at work and practical advice to empower yourself and others. Regretful Reaper: I’m a terrible human being. Over the past month, I had to personally let go of many of my colleagues, and it wasn’t even their fault. They were all great people. I handpicked most of them to join the company. Many of them became good friends. Some of them won’t even speak to me anymore.

Own your anxiety: How to make workplace anxiety work for You
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Own your anxiety: How to make workplace anxiety work for You

Workplace anxiety is pervasive. It affects all employees, regardless of age, tenure or industry. As the modern workplace continues to undergo changes pertaining to decentralisation, downsizing and restructuring, workplace anxiety will continue to escalate. What’s more, the culture of overtime in Asia has made stress more common than not, further enhancing feelings of anxiety at work.

【職業特搜】 Digital Marketing Manager 最考跑數「續航力」
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【職業特搜】 Digital Marketing Manager 最考跑數「續航力」

背景:Raymond —— 喺Marketing Agency做Digital Marketing Manager逾六年 */ 人工及晉升機會 35,000元 成功爬上Digital Marketing Manager位置,一般都有3.5萬元月薪,當然生意好的話,年尾花紅普遍都過60,000元。至於晉升機會,第一級可以跳升至Senior Digital Marketing Manager,再進一步就可以晉身Director級別,成為公司高層。 壓力指標

Are your high flyers flying under the radar?
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Are your high flyers flying under the radar?

Success isn’t born, it’s made. Day after day. Year after year. The challenge for big and busy companies is spotting those executives who are quietly putting in the late nights and diligently developing themselves into the leaders of tomorrow.