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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Volunteering – The Best Tool to Explore Career Options
Career planning tips from a teen - Guest post by Tara Iyer, A diligent teenager who is eager to start her career planning on the right foot! As a kid, I never used to volunteer much – prior to the eighth grade, [...]
What Can An MBA Do For Your Career?
High unemployment means an intensely competitive job market. That probably comes as no surprise. However, whenever the competition for jobs becomes this fierce, those looking for jobs are looking for a foot in the door while those with jobs begin looking for [...]
10 Ways to Enliven a Boring Work Life
Now you’ll say why don’t leave it if you have boring work? Well, you know at times, you just can’t. A family to take care of, loans to pay off and other compelling circumstances make it not so easy to wriggle off [...]
Workaholism – Detrimental to Productivity and Health
Are you a workaholic? Guest post author Anita Brady takes a look at how workaholism has become a growing problem with the American workforce. The words "workaholic" and "workaholism" evolved in the mid-1960s and '70s to describe a growing problem, particularly in [...]
The Art of Leaving Your Job Gracefully
“There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over -- and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.” ~~ Ellen Goodman [...]
7 Effective Ways to Fight Burnout
This is a guest post by Beverly Flaxington. The usual prescription for employee burnout is to work less. However, that so-called remedy doesn't take into account why we feel unhappy at work in the first place, why we are suddenly stressed out [...]
How Your Job Burnout is a Hostage Crisis
Burnout News Flash: One in three workers expect to burnout out on the job and is seriously considering quitting work due to job stress (www.mercer.com). It’s amazing how common job burnout has become. That means that every three cubicles you pass at [...]
12 Ways to Create a Killer First Impression
This is a guest post by Vicky Oliver. In the business world, you only get one chance to make a first impression. Will others see you as meek, ill-mannered, and inexperienced or confident, courteous, and curious? It's up to you. Here are 12 ways [...]
Multitasking and Time spent on Social Media Resulting in Higher Stress
What would you say to such stats on our daily increase of multitasking activities and higher use of social media to do more and achieve more: Our daily consumption of media has more than doubled in the last 50 years from 5 [...]
Seek Support when Pursuing Higher Education while Working or with Family
Completing a degree while working and especially with a family to support can be stressful at times, for a woman especially. You could be taking courses full-time, part-time or online, get an online MBA, or just take classes towards extra education; social support [...]
5 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Any Job Interviews
Most of us have been there. We’ve sent out what seems like a thousand resumes without receiving even so much as a kind refusal – only the desolate sound of crickets. Why is that? Of course there are hundreds of reasons, many [...]
25 Inspiring Quotes for Career Success
Make the most of every failure. Fall forward. ~ Unknown Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a [...]
Earn a scholarship worth up to $20,000 from Strayer University to help with the completion of a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree
Strayer University offers Associate, Bachelors, Masters and undergraduate certificate programs in a wide range of academic courses. They provide flexible class schedules, and with more than 92 convenient campus locations in the US as well as online learning options support working students. [...]
5 Career Choices that Are Still Going Strong
According to the current news, the economy is on the rebound. That may be true in some areas, but there are industries that have permanently lost jobs. Manufacturing positions in the automobile and textile sectors are chief among these. Many people that [...]
How to make your Goals SMART
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ~ Arnold H. Glasgow To get somewhere you have to know where to go and how to get there. Goals are your destinations or benchmarks [...]
3 Ways to Improve your Business Communication with Effective Listening
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well” - John Marshall The first step toward mastering better communication skills is to be a better listener. It goes a long way in making communication effective [...]
Checklist – How to Prepare for your First Day at Work
Joining a new job is both exciting and an anxious time. How would my boss be? What's it going to be like working in a team of professionals? Am I prepared to take on this responsibility? The questions may be many but [...]
Learning Future-Proof Skills Is More Valuable Than A Degree
The value of college should not be based purely on the degree you may obtain from completing a two or four year program. While Bachelors and Masters degrees are still very valuable accolades that act as foundational stepping stones for many careers, [...]
Higher Education often Equates to Higher Income and a Better Economy
If you think that a higher education will get you a better income - you're right! In a competitive workplace, skills are your best asset. Tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce will have to be prepared to do new jobs that are less mechanical and, [...]
Checklist – What you must do before you Quit
All set to resign from your present job? Make the transition smooth by knowing what you must do before you quit. Here's a checklist on what to do in the last week of your employment. (However you must consult your HR department [...]
International Networking Week – 10 Tips to Maximize Networking Success
Ford R. Myers, career coach, speaker and author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring", advocates that networking is the number one way job seekers get hired, regardless of the economic climate. "Networking is not about 'schmoozing,' [...]
5 Tips that help you Take Off from the Career Plateau
What is a Career Plateau? A career plateau is the point in your career where / when you do not feel any additional upward mobility because there are fewer positions which are either not open or there are more people vying for [...]
6 Indications that the Job is Not Right for You
Very few people honestly love their jobs. The majority of us attend work because it is required in order to maintain a certain level of comfort. However, you should not hate your job. We're spending more than half of our lives at [...]
How to Not Ruin Your First Day On The Job
When you first start a new job there's a lot going on in your head: stress over impressing your employers, jitters over learning new software or administration procedures, a new sleep schedule, etc. It can be hard to think rationally about how [...]