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Balancing Work and Home Life While Being a Parent

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The imbalance between personal and professional life can lead to burnout – a syndrome recently recognized by the World Health Organization as a disease. When you become a parent, your priorities change. Your personal life becomes more demanding, and it becomes equally more difficult to cope with job demands . Studies indicate that at least 1 in 3 employees perceive a high level of stress caused by the conflict between work and personal or family life. Interestingly, the way work influences parents also has significant effects on children's development as a high level of stress at work has a negative impact on the child. However, the relationship is also inverse. The stress caused by the problems of interaction with the child or in the family equally affects work performance. The most common sources of stress as caused by the workplace include role ambiguity, overload, career management difficulties , etc. There's also the case of personal beliefs and aspirations, emotional he...

How to Prepare for a Phone Interview

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The phone interview is a means that companies use to filter applications. Thus, the questions will be directed to those aspects that are important to meet the requirements of the position offered and to assess the professional concerns and motivations of the candidate. The requirements that can be questioned in this first interaction can be from professional experience, training or language level to the salary expectations of the candidate. For you, as a candidate, the purpose of a phone interview is to confirm that you are the right candidate for the position you applied for and that you deserve to go on to the next selection stage with other candidates.  For the representative of the human resources department, the purpose is to ensure through a discussion that you are one of the candidates who meets the relevant criteria to occupy the future position in the organization. Through his or her questions, the HR representative of the company consciously selects the candidates that q...

Things to Consider When Applying for Roles