CAREER SELF-HELP
Career goals are reached when you take on the reins of your career. Find the best career advice articles here.
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis
3 Ways To Maximize Productivity When Self-Employed
Simply put, being self-employed means working for yourself rather than an employer. You earn income directly from your own trade, business, or profession. Given these points, self-employed individuals are what we call freelancers, entrepreneurs, and businessmen. To be self-employed, you may begin with a particular set of skills and find the best ways to put [...]
Why EQ Beats IQ in Driving ‘True’ Leadership Success
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern. In many ways, being an effective leader boils down to your ability to influence people—a proficiency that is driven by one’s emotional intelligence (EQ). Leadership is more about soft skills—the ability to inspire, persuade, guide, sway and communicate in a way that’s “heard” rather than just “listened to”—than [...]
10 Key Tips for Building a Successful Career
Your job makes you miserable. You spend day after day running groceries over a scanner and listening to people complain to you about things you can’t control. It’s time to put yourself back at the beginning of the career stage. The question is, how do you get started from the top? It’s hard work that takes [...]
7 Advantages Of Taking Online College Courses
With the novel coronavirus pandemic upon us, the term 'new normal' has become a household term. In education, this can primarily be felt by the enhanced use of online learning tools. COVID-19 has caused a change in how students learn. Recently, increasing numbers of educational institutions worldwide will rely on online platforms to provide broader access [...]
Specialized and Professional Master’s Degrees 101
Looking to expand your career horizons? A master's degree can help skyrocket your income and lead to new opportunities. However, time and retargets are often a factor when entering into a higher education program. Although many degree programs take years to complete and require on-campus visits, you can also focus on securing a degree online to [...]
5 Tips on Strengthening Workplace Communication Skills
This is a guest post by Aurora Heidrick Communication is highly essential in our daily activities. Communication is used daily to convey message, impress, influence and simply get work done. The only thing is the level of communication for each individual varies according to his/her applications. As a worker, you have to possess top-notch communication skills. [...]