Career Diagnostics - Articles

Job Search Tips for Older Workers: Six Strategies to Sell YOU!

no@spam.com (Patricia Dorch) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:41:29 PDT

Interviewing requires candidates distinguish themeselves from their competition. Use Personal Branding strategies to "stand-out" and get hired.

Job Search Tips for College Grads: Seven Interview Tips for Success

no@spam.com (Patricia Dorch) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:24:46 PDT

Job search tips for selling your strengths, asking powerful interview questions and closing the interview with a commitment from the interviewer.

Developing Management Skills

no@spam.com (Greg Procknow) — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:06:18 PDT

Management development is an effort (effectively planned) that will enhance both the learner’s (hopeful manager) capacity and capabilities to manage an organization and quite possibly themselves. The most frequently cited skills of effective managers are: effective and concise communication; problem definition, identification, solving; and influencing and ultimately motivating others. Much of these aforementioned skills can be taught through training and development programs. Management development envelops the idea of training, in order for management development to occur there needs to be some sort of training in place, often offered by the company they are employed by.

Jumpstart Your Job Hunt with a Quality Resume

no@spam.com (JR Hindman) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:49:56 PDT

This is a comprehensive guide to writing a successful professional resume that hiring managers will respond to in today’s economic conditions.

How to Write a Great Nursing or Medical Assistant Resume

no@spam.com (JR Hindman) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:45:42 PDT

Help, advice, tips, and tricks to write an effective professional resume for a Nurse or Medical Assistant career.

How to Choose an Effective, Yet Affordable Resume Writing Service

no@spam.com (JR Hindman) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:38:07 PDT

This article shows job seekers how to navigate the maze of resume writers online to find serious, dedicated, and modestly priced professionals who will help them land their dream job.

Top Ten Ways to Find a Job

no@spam.com (Jill Czeczuga) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:01:10 PDT

When the economy is in bad shape, the job market is usually worse...If you put in the time and effort into finding a new job you will be rewarded no matter how fierce the competition is. Stay motivated and persistent – finding a new job is your new job right now.

Non Slip Tapes and Non Slip Flooring

no@spam.com (Jen And) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:36:23 PST

Health and safety in the workplace is becoming more and more important.

Traditional Approach to Information Architecture

no@spam.com (R.L. Fielding) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:42:05 PST

Information architects must optimize a variety of different systems and data sources to satisfy their audience’s data retrieval and analysis needs.

Personal Development Tools

no@spam.com (Admin Manager) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:01:46 PST

"Know thyself!" Sound wisdom; as true today as when it was first spoken.

Career Diagnostics is pleased to bring you a range of self assessment and reflection tools to guide your personal development.

Job Satisfaction - Self Assessment
Herzberg proposes that job satisfaction is composed of 2 elements; "hygeine factors" and "motivation" factors. Hygeine factors relate to base level, administrative factors such as pay, work environment and other benefits or facilities associated with the job. Motivation factors are more aligned with factors such as the degree of autonomy and decision making capacity associated with a job. This short 15 item survey covers both hygeine and motivation factors.

Holmes-Rahe Social Readjustment Scale
How [dis]stressed are you? Complete this questionnaire to find out your risk of stress-related illness.

Personal Resilience Assessment Tool
How resilient are you when it comes to dealing with the pressures, tensions and stresses of life? Use this Personal Resilience Assessment Tool to discover more about why you may respond the way you do.

M.U.S.E. Survey
Research suggests that women bring a different "mix" of qualities to leadership than that brought to leadership by men. These qualities associated more strongly with women, are also increasingly seen as more suited to a changing workplace. Can this be so?

Locus Of Control
The Rotter Internal-External Control Scale measures our sense of control over self and life events. Higher scores suggest individual empowerment, whereas lower scores tend to suggest a tendency toward feelings of helplessness, or at the extreme, victimisation.