Take a Look in the Mirror and Face Your Employment Future Honestly

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It requires a self-awareness check of skills, capabilities and a mental shift from "wait and see" to "see and do." There is a frightening tendency to assess only those things that are comfortable and overlook those areas in which honing a few more skills can alter a career path for the better. The mirror reflects, but the individual evaluates. There is compelling agreement from a variety of disciplines that human beings are capable of being more than birth place, birth order and birth day, but more often than not. settle for whatever slot they fell into without examining if that's where they belonged.

The mirror reflects, but the individual moves. As preparation is made to begin to travel along this 21st century road of change and opportunity, the wise counsel imparted to Laertes by his father, Polonais, as he begins his life-altering journey in Shakespeare's "Hamlet." should resound from cubicle to cubicle and business to business: "This above all: To thine own self be true."

Instead of surfing the Net looking for video poker games, that time should be dedicated to looking for online self-assessment tests, legitimate university degree programs, information about job trends, and opportunities for professional growth.

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Take a Look in the Mirror and Face Your Employment Future Honestly

Facing the future entails a long, hard look in the mirror and the willingness to realistically assess the picture in the reflection. If it looks fine, check to make sure there are no monkey...

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