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Witnessing someone having a panic attack can be a scary experience. Symptoms sometimes resemble those of a heart attack – sweating, trembling, chest pain, dizziness, shortness of breath -- as the sufferer’s body releases chemicals in response to a perceived threat. While you may not be able to see any danger, the fear is very real to the person experiencing it, and prompt attention is needed.

As this article notes, the body will eventually burn out all the adrenaline produced within 5-20 minutes, and the panic attack will stop. While waiting for this to happen, a...

Email is an important task for most office professionals and business people. It can also be a very time-consuming one. While spending a certain amount of time on email is unavoidable, this is also an area where you can lose valuable time, in the form of time wasted on messages that are too long or ineffective.

A rule of marketing is that each message, correspondence or other content should have one main “call to action” or directive. In other words, you should only ask the reader to do one thing—and that should be obvious. Otherwise, they may get distracted by relatively minor stuff and skip the most important thing you wanted them to do.

The same thing goes with email. If your email is too wordy or covers too many topics, the most important thing could get buried—and...

Just because the weather is warmer does not mean that professionalism should take a vacation. Vicky Oliver, author of The Millionaire’s Handbook: How to Look and Act Like a Millionaire, Even If You’re Not, offers these suggestions for showing potential employers that you’re ready to work in any season:

Tone down your nails.

“Everywhere these days we see women with four nails on one hand in one shade and one nail in another shade, often adorned with sparkles, fake diamonds, and other ‘nail jewels.’ This is TOO creative for most office environments. You don't want your interviewer to be mesmerized more by your fingertips than by what comes out of your mouth.”

Cover yourself up...

We know many of you are seeking a new (or better) job, so to help you uncover valuable opportunities, we'll be spotlighting a job of the week. This week, we’re featuring an opportunity for an assistant to the president at The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), a growing organization of 1,400 member companies.

Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, this position involves project management and other business skills to assist the President/CEO and COO in effectively running the association.

Job duties include coordinating all administrative matters for the President/CEO including managing travel and office schedules, composing correspondence and emails, and managing the budget. Will also assist the President/CEO with the NAMIC Board, committees and other...