5 Ways to Motivate Yourself at Work
We’ve all been there; you’re at work and you find yourself lacking motivation or drive to work hard. How do you motivate yourself and avoid seeing your performance drop over time? It’s important to always make sure you work your hardest to improve not only your company but yourself. In this article, we will discuss 5 ways you can motivate yourself at work. Always have your next goal in front of you. Whatever your goal is for today, whether it’s to complete a transaction with a difficult client or finish a project you’ve been working on, make sure you have it written down somewhere at your station where you can see it. Use this to remind yourself throughout the day that there is a specific goal you are striving for in the short term. This will...
7 Ways to Budget on a Low Salary
If you’re on a low salary, you know how it can feel to not have much money to burn and struggle to make ends meet. We have come up with 10 ways you can budget on a low salary and hopefully live a comfortable life, maybe even with enough money left to use for expendable income. Switch to own brand products. When doing your weekly food shop, try switching to own brand products to save a few pounds. This doesn’t mean you can’t buy any luxury food items that you want but if the majority of your food shop is own brand you’ll find the total of your shop is much lower. Allow yourself one or two luxuries every time you shop so you can still have the things you really like and get the best of both worlds. Find ways to save electricity at home. This can be as...
5 Ways to Tell if An Employer is Good to Their Employees
It’s important when looking for a new job to try and work for a company that you know are good to their employees. A job with happy employees is a job you will likely want to stay in long term, something you need to consider carefully especially if you are a recent graduate or young person starting work. We have come up with 5 ways you can tell if an employer is good to its employees and maybe give you some ideas for questions at interview stage to help you establish if this is a company you want to work for. Regular, well paced and reasonable length break times. Something that I have always valued in the roles I have worked in has always been break times. A company that gives its employees a decent amount of breaks at a decent length is one that...
8 Things to Do to Get Along With Your Co-workers
Whether you’re starting a new job or still in an old one, it’s important to always try and maintain good relationships with your co-workers. We’ve compiled a list of 8 things you can do to get along with your co-workers, some will apply more to those of you starting a new job but all of them can be utilised in any position to help you be more approachable at work. Be polite and friendly. It’s important when you’re working to always be sure to be polite and friendly to your co-workers where possible. This almost goes without saying, of course, as you will always want them to be polite and friendly to you. Don’t become the person in the office people consider ‘grumpy’ or ‘rude’ because then they will be less likely to approach you and you will ultimately feel...
5 Ways to Tell if an Interview Went Well
So, let’s be straight about something to begin with in this article. There is no way to know for sure that you have successfully gotten a job from a good interview until you hear back from the employer. You can do your absolute best, be perfect for the role and still get pipped to the post by someone with more experience and that’s fine, it’s all part of the interviewing process and life. However, there are a few things you can look out for to help you have an idea of whether the interview at least went well. So in this article we are going to look at 5 things we think you should look for if you want to know if you had a good interview. Look at the body language of the interviewer. Body language can tell you a lot about whether someone likes you or not....
5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity at Work
Sometimes when you work in a full time office job like a call centre or data entry role, you can find yourself stagnating and feeling bored at work. This can affect your productivity because your brain is not fully alert or concentrated on your work. In this article, we will discuss 5 ways you can improve your productivity at work and bring your focus back to where it should be. Create your own training documents to remind yourself of procedures or routines. This is especially helpful if you are still relatively new in your role and haven’t properly memorized the routines yet. You can do this either handwritten in a notebook or typed and printed. Use highlighters to colour code different sections of your documents so you can easily refer back to them quickly....