Small Business? What Your Company Needs to Get to the Next Level

Small Business? What Your Company Needs to Get to the Next Level

In today’s competitive world of business, it is common for owners of small-scale businesses to find themselves struggling in sustaining their growth for a length of time. More often than not, the first years of business seem to be promising since they aim high. However, there comes a time when suddenly, they lose their momentum….

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The Top 5 Fastest Growing Jobs for Salesmen

Many different careers are available in sales. Salespeople today can make a large amount from commissions or other employer incentive programs. The following are some of the best sales opportunities. Retail Sales Some of the fastest growing careers in sales are related to the retail industry. Retailers have been expanding consistently over the years. These…

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Time for an Exit Strategy? Managing your Business and Professional Career

Whether you set up your fledgling business two months or twenty years ago, the chances are that you never thought back then that you’d one day want to leave. Or maybe you thought that you’d own that business and therefore work there until you retired? Perhaps that day has come and you are now happily…

Profiling Social Work: Underpaid But Personally Rewarding

Personal support workers (PSW), also known as social workers, are the unsung heroes of society. They provide valuable care and assistance to people who are least able to take care of themselves – the ill, disadvantaged, physically and mentally handicapped, children, and elderly. The field of social work is expected to grow from 2010 to 2020 by…

5 Common Teacher Interview Questions and How to Best Answer Them

There are many reasons why people are interested in the noble profession of educator, but perhaps the most compelling is the opportunity to help mold the young minds that will one day become leaders in industry, politics, religion, and pretty much every other walk of life. However, before you can start teaching kids to think…

How to Handle Redundancy: Learning to Cope in Harsh Economic Times

How to Handle Redundancy: Learning to Cope in Harsh Economic Times

While the U.S. may have been celebrating after lowering the nation’s unemployment rate to just 7.4%, July’s jobs report confirmed what economists have been saying for months about the labor market. More specifically, it was reported that the amount of part-time jobs created by the economy was three times higher than those offering full-time hours,…

3 Modern Day Job Hunting Tactics to Get You Found

3 Modern Day Job Hunting Tactics to Get You Found

With technological advances continuously making communications easier, companies and business recruiters are straying away from traditional recruitment channels like newspapers. Classified ads have gone the way of the dinosaur, except in their new digitalized forms like Craigslist. Today, it is simpler than ever to use technology to become pro-active in your job hunt. Instead of…

Five Inventions That Have Made Outdoor Jobs Much Easier
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Five Inventions That Have Made Outdoor Jobs Much Easier

Since the beginning of time, there have been people working outdoors. Many of the jobs that are done outside require hard labor. In times past a job outside could easily take most of the hours in a day. Thanks to modern innovations and inventions, many outdoor jobs have become much easier to do. Although there…

5 Things You Can do to Make Sure You’re Working for the Right Company
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5 Things You Can do to Make Sure You’re Working for the Right Company

Sometimes it is hard to tell if the company you work for is the right fit, a place that has a culture you enjoy and job requirements that you can meet. Finding the perfect fit may be important to you if you wish to stay with the company for a long time or aspire to…