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Jumpstart Your Career
Below is an alphabetical listing of past Career Center articles to help you along the road to success.

Writing A Resume
Your resume can make or break your chances of getting an interview. Here are some timeless tips to get you started.

Are You Burned Out?
Excessive stress can lead to ineffective work habits. Take this quiz to find out if you are stressed out.

Back to Business
For many Americans, the events of Sept. 11 have dramatically changed the workplace. Here's what managers can do to help their employees cope.

Balancing Act
Manager and employee collaboration is the key to managing the many demands of work and family.

Battlefield Work
How to deal with generational conflicts in the office.

Budget-Friendly Benefits
Get the most employee satisfaction without breaking the bank.

Career Center
Mentoring is essential for career advancement

Career Center Are You Doing the Right Thing?
The Buddhist-inspired concept of right livelihood refers to work that is consciously chosen, performed with full awareness and care and leads to enlightenment.

Career Center: Assessing the Value of Benefits
ADVANCE asks a business expert: How much are benefits really worth?

Career Center: Dressing for Success
If first impressions are the longest lasting, then job-hunters should always pay careful attention to how they dress.

Career Center: Lighten Up, Will Ya!
Unhappiness on the job is common, but humor can help change your outlook.

Career Change
Complexity in health care opens new opportunities for clinicians to explore.

Career Coaching
This is an ideal time to set up a support team behind you so you can move forward. It is also a time to share what you have learned with future successors.

Career Goals and Stress
How to achieve goals and maintain your sanity.

Career Resilience
Preparing for Change Now

Celebrating Diversity in the Workplace
Managers play a crucial role in ensuring that diversity is valued in the workplace. Here are some helpful tools.

Change is Good
Conquering resistance to change is the key to your career success.

Communicating to Reduce Conflict
Effective communication skills can foster open and non-defensive working relationships.

Communication Channels
With changing technology, we have many ways to communicate. Choose the method that is most appropriate for your message and your audience.

Continuing Education: Your Professional Responsibility
Is there a correlation between continuing education and clinical competency? Many people think so.

Control and Power
What's the difference and how should you use them?

Crafting Happiness
This long term care center has turned a fun tradition into a retention program.

Creating a Caring Culture
With too much cold emphasis on the bottom line, we can lose sight of creating a caring culture for the mental well being of employees.

Creating Time to Manage
Six tips to be a better manager.

Dealing with Crazymakers
You know who they are. They can be in your workplace, neighborhood, or even your family. Here's how to deal with them.

Desperately Seeking Interview Skills?

Detecting Substance Abuse

Do the Right Things
In the fast-paced health profession, learn to target your energy in the right direction.

Don't Let Defensive Nature Harm Patient Care

Elevating Manager Training
A well-trained manager can retain employees and reduce turnover.

Employee Ethics: Do our staff know right from wrong?
To succeed in the corporate world of e-mail, perhaps history must repeat itself.

Employee Performance Management
Managers have an ethical duty to help employees improve.

Enforcing Personal Boundaries
Being a leader means that you expect the best of those around you and you hold them to the higher standard.

Evaluating and Negotiating a Job Offer

Expressing Workplace Concerns
One of the most difficult types of communication is expressing a concern or complaint in the workplace. Here are some tips to make it easier.

Finding Your Field
Exploring career options in the health care industry.

Fixing a Flat
Dealing with a weak team member is like fixing a flat tire. Here's how to handle the situation.

Gaining Perspective on Money
It's fine to set a goal of owning a nice home and car. It is when we expect these things alone to provide fulfillment for us that we get in trouble.

Getting What You Give
Employee training and staff development is the gift that keeps on giving to your health care facility.

Growing Employees
Creatively coaching employees on career development canenhance employee retention and increase productivity.

Handling Employee Performance Problems With Care
By following this sage advice, you'll be able to handle difficult employees and improve performance.

Health Care Leadership Success
Leadership is a fundamental skill for managers. Fortunately, you don't have to be born with it.

Hiring Right The First Time
Hiring right the first time goes right to the bottom line.

How to Find the Perfect Fit

How to Say Goodbye
Terminating an employee is a painful process, but you can take steps to reduce the pain for managers and employees.

Industry Pros
A viable market exists for therapists who want to use their clinical skills in industry

Inspire the Fire
Direction, faith, priorities and actions fuel productivity in you and your employees.

Keep it Up!
How to Stay Motivated as a Health Care Worker

Keeping Everyone Happy

Keys to Successful Interviewing?

Lassoing Time
To make the most of your workday, follow these time management tips.

Laws On Death & Dying
Advance directive laws provide a means by which individuals can legally exercise some control over their own demise

Leadership Means Caring
An edict for the clinician-turned-manager

Leading the Way
Quality in a long-term care facility reflects the quality of its leadership.

Leading Your Team
How to create high-functioning teams that produce results.

Learning to Live
Make the most out of your personal life and career.

Legal Ease: Evading Employee Lawsuits
Long-term care employers should consider requiring employees to arbitrate employment claims.

Legally Speaking
Top Ten Myths About Whistleblowers

Light a Fire!
How to stay motivated as a health care worker

Lighten Up, Will Ya!
Unhappiness on the job is common, but humor can help change your outlook.

Management Dilemmas
How do you deal with potential time-off abuse among employers? Knowing your options can prevent potential problems.

Managers as Change Agents
Managers must be change agents to achieve business imperatives.

Maximizing Employee Strengths
Make the most of your employees' time and skills by matching their job duties to their strengths.

Merit in the Asking: Knowing How and When to Talk to Your Boss About a Raise

More Than Money
Designing effective compensation and recognition programs entails looking at more than salary.

Moving Along
How to carefully look for a new job while you are still employed.

My Generation
To recruit and retain employees of all ages, managers must understand the different motivators of four distinct generations.

My Mentor
With the current and persistent nursing shortage, a strong mentoring program could be a viable solution.

Netiquette for E-Mail
With the overwhelming popularity of e-mail, make sure your messages are not misinterpreted. Here are some ways to create more effective e-communication.

Networking: The Key to Success in Your Career

Plan, Prepare, Practice - Go!
Navigating a job fair for optimum success.

Preventing Staff Burnout
The first step to reducing the staffing crunch is to keep the employees you already have.