There are many factors that contribute to a person's success, both personally and professionally. However, the one that we'll be addressing today could be considered the #1 rule and the foundation for success. And that certainly includes success on the job.

That foundation is personal responsibility, and the #1 rule regarding personal responsibility is that you must be willing to take responsibility for yourself and for your actions (or inactions) while at work.

Taking responsibility for yourself is the first step to showing your value as an employee. After all, you don't need special skills or training to do this. You just have to make the decision to do it. It’s that simple.

This is an opportune time to point out how important decisions are in regards to your job and your career. Specifically, how important making the right decisions are.

It should not be surprising that making the right decisions is critical to enjoying more success. After all, there's a good chance that your parents or other people have been telling you that all throughout your life. That same principle applies to the workplace.

What does taking responsibility for yourself mean? It means making conscious decisions about the following things, among others:

• Your attitude
• The amount of energy and enthusiasm you bring to the job
• How you treat and react to your co-workers
• The amount and the quality of work that you do
• Your desire to learn more and continue to improve
• How you respond in the face of adversity
• How you react to success and to praise

The bottom line is that employers, including your current employer, want people who take personal responsibility in these areas. Employees who take responsibility for themselves are more valuable than employees that do not.

So if you want to excel in your job and grow your career at the same time, this is where you start. Because you can't go wrong with taking responsibility for yourself. It is the sign of a valued, productive, and trustworthy employee.

If you are currently seeking a new job, Time Staffing's team of qualified staffing specialists offers assistance to job seekers in the light industrial and clerical fields. We prep candidates thoroughly by answering their questions and addressing their concerns.

Earlier this year, Time Staffing won ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to their clients and candidates. ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Award is the only award in the U.S. and Canada that recognizes staffing agencies that have proven superior service quality based entirely on ratings provided by their clients and job candidates. Time Staffing received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 75.4% of their placed talent, significantly higher than the industry's average of 45%.

Are you currently engaged in a job search? Then Time Staffing can help!

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Personal branding has been a catchphrase in the employment marketplace and job market for the past several years.

However, personal branding is just another way to say "reputation." Because essentially, your reputation is what people think about you, and what people think about you is your personal brand. Specifically, what people about the experiences they've had with you constitutes your personal brand.

As you might imagine, your reputation - or personal brand - is integral to your success. Below are four benefits of building and then maintaining a positive professional reputation:

#1 - Increased job security

Employees with a stellar reputation are less likely to be laid off. It's not impossible for them to lose their job, mind you, it's just less likely. That's because those employees with less than stellar reputations are typically the ones that management believes they can do without.

#2 - More likely to be chosen for important projects and assignments

Managers are more willing to give critical assignments to those employees with positive reputations. That's because they know they can trust those employees to get the job done and also get the job done right. This is a sign that management believes you are a valuable employee, which is exactly the type of employee you want to be.

#3 - Better chance for a promotion and/or a raise

If you want to advance through the organization, this is the way to do it. In addition, it's the way to secure more compensation for the work that you're doing. Anybody who is serious about their job and serious about their career is probably interested in getting a promotion and a raise. Your professional reputation is one of the deciding factors in whether or not you receive them.

#4 - Better options for future employment opportunities

Let's not forget the future, shall we? After all, unless you plan on staying at your current employer until you retire, then you'll be working for another organization eventually. It's just a matter of time, and you want to be 100% prepared when that time comes.

Whatever you want to call it, your reputation or your personal brand, what people think of you does matter in the professional setting. This is especially the case if the people in question have control or influence over what can happen to you in that setting.

So strive to build (and maintain) the best reputation possible in the workplace.

If you are currently seeking a new job, Time Staffing's team of qualified staffing specialists offers assistance to job seekers in the light industrial and clerical fields. We prep candidates thoroughly by answering their questions and addressing their concerns.

Earlier this year, Time Staffing won ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to their clients and candidates. ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Award is the only award in the U.S. and Canada that recognizes staffing agencies that have proven superior service quality based entirely on ratings provided by their clients and job candidates. Time Staffing received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 75.4% of their placed talent, significantly higher than the industry's average of 45%.

Are you currently engaged in a job search? Then Time Staffing can help!

Contact us today to find out about the employment opportunities that are available in your chosen field.

How, exactly, do you determine job success?

The first step is determining which areas or aspects of your job should be measured in terms of success. After all, as the saying goes, "If you can't measure it, then you can't improve it." And enjoying professional success is all about continual improvement and development.

The two critical areas of job success are as follows:

#1 - Technical skills and aptitude

Technical skills is another name for "hard skills." These are the skills that involve the technical aspects of your job. For example, this would include working with machinery. If you're working in an office setting, it would include working with a computer and with related computer software programs.

As you might imagine, the greater your proficiency with these skills, the more valuable you will be to your current employer. And the more valuable you will appear to any potential future employers.

#2 - Everything other than technical skills and aptitude

This includes everything else that you do in the workplace and how you do it. While technical skills are often referred to as "hard skills," these are commonly labeled "soft skills," since they often pertain to how you interact with other people.

However, this also includes intangible attributes such as your attitude and work ethic. Once again, these are forms of value for your employer. The better you are in these areas, the more valuable that your employer will consider you to be.

Take a few minutes to evaluate yourself in these areas. First, how proficient are your technical skills? Would other people consider you an expert in a certain area or areas? If so, which ones?

And what about everything other than technical skills? How well do you work with others? How would somebody else characterize your attitude and work ethic?

These are important questions to ask. That's because your answers can provide you with a starting point in terms of your efforts to improve and enjoy job success and career success in the future.

If you are currently seeking a new job, Time Staffing's team of qualified staffing specialists offers assistance to job seekers in the light industrial and clerical fields. We prep candidates thoroughly by answering their questions and addressing their concerns.

Earlier this year, Time Staffing won ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to their clients and candidates. ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Award is the only award in the U.S. and Canada that recognizes staffing agencies that have proven superior service quality based entirely on ratings provided by their clients and job candidates. Time Staffing received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 75.4% of their placed talent, significantly higher than the industry's average of 45%.

Are you currently engaged in a job search? Then Time Staffing can help!

Contact us today to find out about the employment opportunities that are available in your chosen field.

First of all, if you have a job, then you should count yourself as fortunate. That's because there are tens of millions of people in the United States who do not have a job and would like to have one.

Second, you might think that it's a forgone conclusion that people who have a job would want to be successful in their job. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. At the very least, there are some individuals who do not take pride in their work and/or have no interest in reaching their full potential, to speak nothing of growing their career.

So if you are gainfully employed, then you should do whatever you can to take advantage of the opportunity. With this in mind, below are three simple reasons to strive for success in your job:

#1 - Your employer has invested in you.

Your employer hired you because they view you as an investment. And as such, they are expecting a return on that investment. In other words, they believe that the benefit you bring to them will be greater than the cost incurred to employ you.

That, in a nutshell, is how employment works. The greater the return, the more valuable you are as an employee. And if you don't produce a positive return at all? Then chances are good that you will eventually become a former employee.

#2 - Your co-workers are depending upon you.

You are probably not working a vacuum. That means you have co-workers with whom you interact, even if you're working from home and your communication with them is in a remote fashion.

While you are responsible for your own success, you are also partly responsible for the success of your co-workers. You have a responsibility to them to do everything in your power to be as successful as you can possibly be on a daily basis.

#3 - YOU are the ultimate beneficiary.

When you get right down to it, the more successful you are in your job, the better positioned you are for future success. It could be success with your current employer, or it could be success with another employer in the future.

This, perhaps more than anything else, is reason enough to work hard, take pride in your work, and strive to do the very best job that you can.

If you are currently seeking a new job, Time Staffing's team of qualified staffing specialists offers assistance to job seekers in the light industrial and clerical fields. We prep candidates thoroughly by answering their questions and addressing their concerns.

Earlier this year, Time Staffing won ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Client and Talent Awards for providing superior service to their clients and candidates. ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing Award is the only award in the U.S. and Canada that recognizes staffing agencies that have proven superior service quality based entirely on ratings provided by their clients and job candidates. Time Staffing received satisfaction scores of 9 or 10 out of 10 from 75.4% of their placed talent, significantly higher than the industry's average of 45%.

Are you currently engaged in a job search? Then Time Staffing can help!

Contact us today to find out about the employment opportunities that are available in your chosen field.