Adjusting to your new job

Design Your Own Job Through Job Crafting

Job crafting can be viewed as changes that employees initiate in the level of job demands and job resources in order to make their own job more meaningful, engaging, and satisfying. As such, job crafting can be used to complement top-down approaches to improve jobs in order to overcome the inadequacies of job redesign approaches, to respond to the complexity of contemporary jobs, and to deal wi...

Getting organized in your job.

The benefits of being organized when starting one's career are countless and worth the time and effort in developing an effective and efficient practice. Established protocols, good habits, and methodical communication that include all members of the team will help create a system that keeps all components of one's practice organized. Adhering to these strategies requires self-discipline. Apply...

No, Brian Williams, Your Job Isn't to Scare People

It's not an exaggeration to say that the American public hates the media. A poll conducted by Gallup [2] last year showed that merely 32% of Americans had a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in the mass media. A Harvard poll, reported by The Hill [3], concluded that 65% of Americans think the media publishes fake news. Who can we thank for Americans' disgust with the media? Journalists lik...

What's Next? The Smart Nurse's Guide to Your Dream Job.

Adjusting Your Dreams ? High School Plans and Dropout Behavior 1

At the end of middle school, many low-achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disengagement and eventually lead them to drop out of high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achievers can be helped to formulate educational objectives that fit better with their academic aptitudes, throug...