Time management at work is critical to your long-term career success. Time management and work performance go hand in hand because time is certainly a finite resource that we cant buy more of, as much as many of us would like to.

Some careers are simply known for being high-stress and requiring employees to work long hours. Time management at work is something we can all improve upon and one of the easiest ways to make better use of your time is to eliminate classic time wasters.

Here are some time management tips you can utilize at work:

1. Stop organizing or attending meetings that serve no real purpose.

If you have to attend the meeting, keep it on topic and ask the person calling the meeting to put a time limit on it that everyone knows about and stick to it. The worst thing is when you attend a meeting that serves no purpose that goes long.

2. Stop wasting time surfing the Internet.

How did people waste time before computers? The Internet is a great resource but it can also be a great time waster. Use the Internet for relevant work-related purposes only.

3. Stop other people from wasting your time.

If you are a nice person and people take advantage of it by dropping work on your desk that you shouldnt be doing, you are going to have to learn how to say no from time to time. If people always pop into your office to talk, shut your office door. If they dont get the hint, tell them you are busy and politely ask them to leave. Same thing with phone calls: keep them short and to the point whether you are making the call or receiving it.

4. Organize your phone calls and emails and how you respond to them.

One way to get work done is to (where possible) only answer your phone and emails at specified times rather than simply answering the phone every time it rings and responding to an email whenever one arrives. Instead, respond to phone and email messages at one time once you have completed your current tasks rather than handling them each time they occur.

5. Learn to tell the difference between necessary and unnecessary work.

Understand what work needs to be done and what can be eliminated or delegated to someone else where applicable. Look for ways to improve the way you complete work and try to automate or streamline work that you need to do regularly.

Carl Mueller

My name is Carl Mueller and I'd like to thank you for learning a bit more about me!

I feel that I have numerous relevant experiences during my career that come in useful when helping people with their careers:

I know what it’s like to work internationally, having worked overseas (in New Zealand, from 1994-1998).

I've survived several corporate downsizings while many of my colleagues were being laid off.

I have also experienced being laid off twice myself during corporate downsizings.

I know what it’s like to be self-employed.

I've helped many people find better jobs. I started to work as a professional recruiter in 2000 first as an Information Technology (IT) recruiter and then in general recruitment across many industries including IT, manufacturing and marketing. Since this time, I have helped many people find their dream career and it’s a great feeling.

I experienced one of the slowest hiring periods in recent memory especially during the general hiring slowdown that followed the Y2K frenzy in 1999, the bursting of the dot com bubble in early 2000, and then the employment market bottoming out following September 11, 2001.

These were certainly not great times to be a job searcher in most industries nor was it a particularly good time to be a recruiter.

Following this, I began running the day to day operations of an Internet-based company in early 2003 that focused on developing online software and subscription-based websites for consumers. It was then that I fully realized the power, usefulness and potential of the Internet which really spurred me to set up my own website which you can view in my Personal URL section below this bio.

I’m also a Platinum Ezine Articles Expert as recognized by EzineArticles.com, one of the most visited websites on the Internet. This special designation is earned by having consistently high-quality articles published and viewed on their website. All of my submissions are related to helping you find your dream career and many of my articles get reproduced on other websites by their webmasters.

Good luck with your career and I hope I have been of assistance to you!