How to Be a Good Salesperson: The Key Steps to Take
Good sales reps will effectively earn the respect and the ongoing trust of their prospects. Great ones earn their loyalty, admiration, and new referrals. Good reps handle objections skillfully; great ones preemptively surface the concerns and eliminate them.
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The Impact of Mental Health on Career Success: Startegies for Achieving Work-Life Balance
Business Card Etiquette Around The World [Infographic]
Did you know that 72% of people judge a company or a person based the quality of their business card? The infographic explains why you should be a bit more selective about to whom you give your business card and it also [...]
25 Embarrassing Work Stories that will make you Cringe
Spiders and chairs and stairs, oh my! Executives admit to being spooked by bugs and tripping all over the office Managers also confess to falling asleep, ripping their pants and breaking the coffee machine Think you’ve had a bad day at the [...]
Is It Too Late To Try A New Career?
People approaching the middle of their life tend to assess their circumstances and then attempt to improve them. By the time you reach the age of forty; you won’t feel like you have time to waste messing around. However, lots of folks [...]
Dress for Success – 3 Essential Suit Accessories
A suit is one of the most striking and effective tools any businessman can have. The suit you wear and how you wear to say a lot about you and your job. However, the accessories and additions you all have for your [...]
Overcoming Challenges When Relocating For Work
Your work life might be important to you, but it can be difficult to know whether you should move to a new city to improve your career and work prospects. Relocating is never an easy decision to make but if you have [...]
The Jobs That Let You Create Your Own Schedule
Having a job where you can create your own schedule must be the dream to some people. Knowing that you can commit to appointments, the school run and be their for every parent's day and nativity can help you to feel much [...]
Only Skin Deep: Can Tattoos Hinder Career Progression?
Beauty may only be skin deep, but there are so many ways in which we can beautify the surface, it almost doesn’t matter. We have access to cosmetics, clothes and accessories to make us look smart and professional in at work and [...]
Here’s Why Your Career Is Failing to Take That Next Step Up
Many of us have our career plans stretched out in front of us. Unfortunately, things in life don’t always go according to plan or how we would want them to. If your career is not taking that next step up you’d expect [...]
Want to Become a Leader at Work? Learn from Your Dog!
This is a guest post by Krissi Barr, co-author of The Fido Factor: How to Get a Leg Up at Work. Leadership is often the biggest differentiator when it comes to career success. Without it, employees can almost never succeed as managers. [...]
5 Reasons Sleep is Key for Career Success
This is a guest post by Merilee Kern. Sleep. All business leaders need it, most crave it, but throngs do not get the kind of restorative and rehabilitative sleep required to optimize mental clarity, focus, ideation, awareness, productivity and overall job performance. [...]
9 Ways Stress Hurts Your Career Outlook
If you feel like you have been stuck on the career ladder and your chances of promotion are low, you might have stress to blame. You feel overworked, underappreciated, and less motivated, and as a result, you appear less suitable for a [...]
Survey: Workers Report Being Bored More Than 10 Hours a Week
If you’ve ever had a case of the blahs at work, you’re not alone. According to a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam, professionals admit they’re bored in the office an average of 10.5 hours per week. That’s more than a full [...]
Career Tracking: What You Can Do To Get To Where You Want To Be
When it comes to your career, you may have a million thoughts and questions flying through your mind. Whether you’re in high school, college, or already out there in the working world, you may find yourself constantly thinking about your career. Because [...]
Moving Up the Ladder One Certification at a Time: 5 Courses That Could Help Your Career
Advancing your career is a long-term process that simply cannot be rushed. But by taking the needed time and investing it into your education, you can quickly advance in the career ladder and net a better-paying job. Depending on your chosen career [...]
Work Your Way Up in Your Career
People all over the world are stuck in jobs they hate. Whether it’s because they hate working in general, or because they’ve chose any job just to have the money to get by. That’s the sad reality of this day and age. [...]
11 Surefire Ways To Become The Manager Everyone Respects
When you start a job, you spend time seeking promotion. You do whatever it takes to get noticed and remembered. Then, that promotion comes, and you are immediately looking for the next step on the ladder. Doing what you can to go [...]
Feeling Stuck At Work? Prepare Yourself To Take A New Step In Your Career!
We all have those moments in life and career when we feel kind of stuck. As though life seems to be moving all around you and you're just standing still. It can be a pretty upsetting and isolating feeling for a lot [...]
What Leaders Can Do To Influence Workplace Respect
This is a guest post by Rosanne Thomas, author of EXCUSE ME: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette, and founder and president of Protocol Advisors, Inc. Leaders have enormous responsibilities. They determine the major goals of the organization and provide [...]
4 Common Causes of Overwork or Occupational Stress [Infographic]
According to Day Job To Dream Job, the 4 common causes of overwork or occupational stress are: Working long and excessive hours. Stress due to frustration at not being able to achieve the company goals. Forced resignation, dismissal and bullying at work. Suffering [...]
Making The Most Of Your Online Learning Experience
The world of online learning has exploded during the past decade or so. Massive amounts of people are deciding to look into self-development and career progression by taking the plunge and getting back into education, and the Internet is the tool that [...]
Finding the Right Career Path that’s a Calling
When it comes to finding that right job, the one that really empowers us and provides for us in the ways we need it to, it is a challenging task that we don’t necessarily figure out immediately after high school. Often we [...]
The 4th Industrial Revolution and Job Automation [Infographic]
The 4th Industrial Revolution is happening now. It is marked by revolutionary innovations in many fields including genetics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology etc. It has led to massive transformations in consumption, production and most importantly, in the global workforce. As governments, [...]
How Much Time Employees Spend on Cell Phones and Personal Tasks [Infographic]
It’s easy for workers to get distracted with all that the summer and today’s 24/7 news cycle offer. It doesn’t help that a new OfficeTeam survey finds a good portion of employees’ time is also being wasted on cell phones and personal activities. Professionals [...]
Not Feeling Challenged at Work? There’s Something you can do About it.
So many people hate their jobs that it’s become a tired and worn-out stereotype. Still, whilst so many other people may hate their jobs too, that doesn’t invalidate your right to be happy in your job role. You might love the industry [...]