10 Tips for Spring-Cleaning Your Career You’ve sent your sweaters to summer storage, stashed away your snow boots and vacuumed up five months’ worth of dust under your bed. Your career needs a spring-cleaning, too. Whether you’re actively looking for a new job or just willing to jump if the right opportunity comes along, use this season as an occasion to make yourself a better job... 

The interest rates are rising. It is good news for some – those who look at making deposits; bad news for some – those who are looking at taking loans. Savings however have to be channeled carefully so that the maximum can be gained from the deposits. Here are the top 5 savings instruments in a rising interest rate regime. In today’s scenario the top 5 savings instruments are: 1.... 

Ever wondered how your colleague at work, who earns the same salary as you, has bought a BMW while you are still driving your 5-year-old Honda City? Chances are your colleague has utilized his or her existing salary smartly to generate passive sources of income, on the back of which the car has been bought. By generating passive income you can achieve financial freedom and flexibility through... 

The Conversation: Male Vs. Female Bosses This week on the Huffington Post, Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, an associate professor at the Tuck School of Business examined one of the final frontiers of gender (in)equality in the workplace: the perception of women as bitches–or at least bad bosses. Edmondson Bell surveyed her Dartmouth M.B.A. students to see whether they would prefer a male or female... 

Jobs, family bust beauty! Surely, this goes against the grain of most modern beliefs! Today’s British women are so busy juggling jobs and families that most of them don’t even have time to take care of their appearance, says a new study. Researchers have carried out the study and found a large number of British women lead such hectic lives that they have on average only two hours’... 

Bosses fast becoming obsolete! Have you ever joked that your boss works like a robot? Well, it could soon be a reality, for a web service has been launched that software algorithms to automatically recruit, hire and pay workers to do a wide variety of tasks. The website normally provides a forum for companies wanting to outsource their work. Now it has been upgraded so that developers can write... 

How To Manage Your Difficult Boss Yael Zofi runs a consulting firm, AIM Strategies, that counsels clients on, among other things, how to “manage up,” to deal with a difficult boss. Managing up involves assessing your boss’s weaknesses, studying his or her management and communication style, and then coming up with a strategy for working around those issues. Here are tips on how... 

Where The Jobs Are Most of Asia has managed to recover from the downturn faster than the rest of the world. So much so, in fact, that some companies are still hiring. Forbes asked headhunters and recruitment firms in Asia about the kinds of posts companies are struggling to fill. These 30 jobs are the most in demand in Asia right now. Asia-Pacific Managing Director, Regional President or Vice... 

Eight Common Workplace Faux Pas We’ve all done something stupid at work. But when embarrassment strikes, it’s best to do damage control quickly and quietly before you become the butt of office jokes. Caught With Your Pants Down We’ve all been the perpetrator or subject of an unintended bathroom stall breach. If you’ve walked in, apologize and move on–this is not... 

11 Career-Ending Facebook Faux Pas Social networking sites are the new water coolers. Facebook is the biggest–and potentially the most damaging to your paycheck. Making the wrong move online has cost many people their jobs and, in some cases, their careers. Here are 11 painful, real-world examples. Sarcasm’s Sting Gloria Gadsden, an associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania’s...