The Happy Career Path

Helpful Tips for Productively Working from Home

Helpful Tips for Productively Working from Home

Working remotely comes easier to some than to others, and there are important considerations when deciding if you're a good fit for a telecommuting position. Currently, however, many people are being thrust into remote work by the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time,...

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It’s Important to Honor Your Commitments While Job Hunting

It’s Important to Honor Your Commitments While Job Hunting

There's a piece of career advice—and really, it's good life advice in general—that doesn't get nearly enough attention: Honor your commitments while job hunting. In terms of what we do here at SRI, we'd like to draw attention to two commitments every job seeker makes,...

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How to Know It’s Time to Leave Your Job

How to Know It’s Time to Leave Your Job

It's perfectly normal to have problems at work, dislike certain details about what you have to do, get frustrated, and so on. But the good should always far outweigh the negatives, and it matters that you feel a sense of fulfillment from what you do for a living....

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Deciding if You’re a Good Fit for a Work-From-Home Job

Deciding if You’re a Good Fit for a Work-From-Home Job

Telecommuting positions have become much more common across many industries in recent years. Constant advances in computing, communications, data sharing, and other technologies make it ever easier for people to work remotely. Some people thrive in a telecommuting...

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What Makes a Great IT Leader?

What Makes a Great IT Leader?

Many articles have been written on characteristics of IT Professionals, some positive and some well, not so positive.  I have come to the conclusion that the expectations of what is needed to be a strong IT leader in an organization doesn’t always match up with what...

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The Happy Commuter

The Happy Commuter

We recently posted a very interesting Wall Street Journal article, “Secrets of the Happiest Commuters” by Sue Shellenbarger, simply because the title was so unique.  When have you ever seen the words happy and commute in the same sentence?  Usually we associate the...

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