How To Deal With An Employment Gap

There’s this picture-perfect employment history that everyone aspires for, but not everyone can have it. In the last decade, the dwindling economy has kept many professionals out of a job for a while. Yours may even be intentional to raise family, battling with a health condition, or pursuing a different career path. 

How do you now handle such gaps? Do you really have to highly the gap on your resume? Let’s start with the latter; yes, you have to mention the gap if you are returning to paid employment fresh from the gap. However, if you have gotten a job afterward, no compulsion to divulge it in your resume or during the interview, unless if asked. 

Being prepared for questions relating to an employment gap will save you from a panic attack when asked. There is always a likelihood that you will be asked questions relating to the gap in an interview, prepare ahead. You can fill it up with new skills, experiences, and certifications acquired during the gap. 

However, there is no shame in explaining to the potential employer of why you consider it essential to invest time into your family, pursue a lifelong or attending to the health of your loved ones. With a level of confidence, be able to convince the recruiter that you are ready to take on new challenges. 

Helping Your Employees Stay Fit and Healthy

One culture of high flying organizations to boost productivity, is being concerned about the wellness and health of their employees. If you can encourage your employees to eat and sleep well, stay physically active, practice mindfulness, and engage in motivation activities, you will see a new level of change to their productivity.

Look inward to see how you can create an employee wellness program in house. It’s not a luxury but a strategic imperative that will bring about results. Making your environment physically and psychologically active should, therefore, be a priority. Start by introducing standing desks alongside the usual ones. Encourage employees to use the standing desks often as sitting for too long hurts their body. While it is not healthy to be on your feet all day, sitting all day isn’t advisable either, a balance should be encouraged.

As part of your team-building efforts, ensure that the activities have some element of physical activities. It can even be in the form of competition and ensure everyone participates actively. As part of your benefits and incentives, you should partner with gyms and studios. Employees should be given a free pass to use the gyms as part of their benefits.

All of this can happen within a strict budget opening. It doesn’t have to cost a lot to stay healthy.

How To Avoid Work Burnout?

Monday, the start of a new week and you are already longing for the weekend, you may be suffering from work burnout. It could even be that you are dreading work during a weekend. These are just basic pointers to suffering from work burnout.

You can avoid work burnout if you approach work with a purpose. Take an in-depth look into what you do daily affect the lives of others. Locate the reason why you want to do the same tasks repeatedly every day. You may be doing more than what is expected of you; this is where a job analysis becomes pertinent. Go through your job description and look at what you are doing that isn’t yours.

Don’t be static all day, find time in your busy schedule to exercise regularly. It could be just pacing around the lobby to get yourself energized for the rest of the day. Now, what leads to work burnout is non managed stress. Discovers strategies that can help you manage stress; deep breathing, stress diary, and even meditation have been proven to help. Practice more of positive thinking while on and off the job also, you’ll see yourself being free from work burnout.

How To Make Yourself the Best Boss to Work With

The craziest thing about being a tough boss to work with is that you don’t realize it. You are likely to think your employees like and fancy having you around till you walk in a room and everyone takes up the freeze mode challenge. Stop and think, am I bossing everyone around because I’m the boss? Or am I leading them because I’m the boss? The term boss and leader have been used interchangeably in recent times but both have different connotations. A good boss makes his men realize that they have more abilities than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

Value your follower-ship by building a bond of trust. Stay honest and always act in transparency. Employees tend to function better in an environment where they feel valued and the boss doesn’t operate a double standard. Leading by example is vital, no employee can testify at your boss of the year gala without mentioning it. Lead from the front, while you’re dishing out the instructions and always roll up your sleeves.

How To Win Your Boss Over

Whether your boss is good or bad, you have to be in their good books. It’s always easier to go through work when you have the approval of your superiors.

Building a strong relationship with your boss will provide you with a better understanding of his expectations. Your boss’s perception of you defines your position and advancement opportunities in the organization.

To win over your boss, you have to:

Do your job and do it well

It seems obvious but it’s a fact, a lot of employees can’t execute simple tasks assigned to them. It’s not always a question of skillset, it’s sometimes about diligence. You have to work diligently and efficiently to win over your boss.

Assist and support boss towards achieving their professional goals.

You have to make life easier for your boss. Every boss has professional goals, you need to find out what it is and push it forward.

Be Loyal and Committed

Your boss might not seek loyalty but every boss loves it. Never talk about your boss with other colleagues. Be respectful and loyal