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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Maximize Your Product Management Training Programs with LMS
Ongoing training and education are critical for success in many fields of business. Technology advances, market conditions change, laws and regulations are enacted or repealed, and the state of the economy influences buying and expansion decisions. News feeds and industry blogs can [...]
Boosting HR Efficiency with an Enterprise Retarget Planning System
It takes a lot of time and staff members to maintain an efficient employee management system. However, with an Enterprise Retarget Planning (ERP) system in place, businesses can slash costs, streamline processes and focus on the core elements of their business. Human retarget [...]
Strengthen and Update Your Years Old Resume
Most people older than high school age have a resume of some sort. For younger employees who have recently been in and out of jobs, this resume may be modern, sophisticated-looking, and highly up to date, with everything from work experience to [...]
Start a New Career in the Online Gaming Industry
The lingering global recession and economic uncertainty around the world has not only thrust many people unexpectedly into job search mode but it has also changed the types of jobs that most job seekers are pursuing. As the economy evolves job seekers [...]
Negotiation Know-How : 6 Keys to Masterful Deal Making
Whether in your business or personal life, making deals—from the biggest ones that take months to finalize and involve teams of lawyers to the nominal ones that are sealed with a handshake after a 10-minute chat—is an art. Deal making is a [...]
5 Reasons why Picking up a Hobby is Good for your Career
Whether you enjoy shooting some hoops on the basketball court or learning new songs on the piano, hobbies in moderation are highly beneficial to a professional’s well-being in more ways than you think. In addition to acting as a tension reliever, as [...]
Online Education gets a Boost in Tough Economy Infographic
74.5% of institutions report that the economic downturn has increased demand for online courses and program. Nearly 30% of higher education students now take at leas one online course. Here's an infographic showing the current trends of online education as opposed to [...]
Creating Balance in Work Life to Promote a Higher Standard of Excellence
In an interview with Careerbright, work/life balance expert Sheri Riley, founder of GLUE, Inc. and creator of the Exponential Living program (www.exponentialliving.com) offers some profound thought-provoking insights on work life strategies for a satisfying career and meaningful achievement and accomplishments in life. [...]
I love doing THIS but make Money doing THAT
Possibilities and options for pursuing a passion or continuing in with a day job which does not meet your aspirations but meets your needs to make a living. In the quest of making your present job and career more satisfying, here's an excerpt [...]
American Employment Wages and Expenses Infographic
In August 2011, 153.6 million Americans held some form of employment, while 1 4 millions were unemployed. About 6 million of those have been employed for more than 27 weeks. Here's an infographic looking at the most popular jobs, wages and expenses of [...]
Fired by a Phone Call?
Of all the ways of firing - calling to tell you are fired comes of as highly annoying and shocking. Carol Bartz - now the former CEO of Yahoo claims to be fired over phone comes to us as a shocker indeed. [...]
Say NO to Pushing an Elevator Pitch during Networking
Contrary to what many career pros might suggest – do not use your elevator pitch during networking. (Except of course, if you are at a pitchfest or a funding specific networking event) Tips for Effective Networking Here's what meaningful networking is about: Build goodwill, [...]
What’s your Perfume Policy?
Do you have a perfume policy at your workplace? If not, this story brings to light that you must plan on one! The readers of this article are on the jury on the perfume policy incident at this company. What is your [...]
Does Social Media Hurt Productivity or Spark Creativity?
Social media as it is being used today for personal and professional goals can be an excellent creativity booster and an awesome networking medium. It hurts productivity when you let your time spent on social media trickle in to your time allocated to 'work' to achieve your [...]
Jobs For Me on the Wall
A new web based application that allows universities to provide their students with full career center services directly on their Facebook Page. This app is available through Facebook to entry-level recruiting and is free to use! Students, recruiters, universities, it is time [...]
Adding QR Code to your Resume
Would a Quick Response (QR) code get you a quick response on your resume? Maybe or maybe not but it’s a wise move to catch on the new trends and with some solid reasons that I list here, I hope you'll agree. Some [...]
10 Key Strategies for Perpetual Career Management
In today's work world where jobs are readily changed or eliminated, "doing a good job" is no longer an effective, long-term career strategy. In a recent interview, Ford R. Myers, Career Coach, Speaker and Author of "Get The Job You Want, Even When No [...]
5 Fundamental Career Change Tips for Working Professionals and the Unemployed
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not [...]
We Need Emotions at Work
When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative, visual right brain and the analytical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working. In other words, there is a physic synergy taking place in our own head. And this tool [...]
Reading a Lot but getting Less Done – What to do with the Information Overload
Information overload often results in more of sharing and less doing? Is that good or bad? Twitter and other social media applications are great at sharing news and latest happenings around the world. It is now so much simpler to be an [...]
Defining Responsibilities and Expectations at a New Job
"With the death of the traditional career paths, so goes the kind of traditional professional development previous generations enjoyed. You can no longer count on employer-sponsored training to enhance our communications skills or expand your technical know-how. The expectation for every junior employee is that you can do the job you've been hired to [...]
What to do when your Current Career Path does not fulfill your Aspirations
Unhappy at work, overworked or just plain unsatisfied at your present career, what are your options? There are many wise words out there and this video is one such that might help you find out how you can move toward a satisfying [...]
Top 5 Happiest Places to Work
This article was contributed by CareerBliss.com, a career community dedicated to helping people find happiness in the workplace. New York City and Los Angeles are cities notorious for the hustle bustle of city work life—but do such large metropolitans bring job happiness [...]
How to get out of Student Loan Debt
Nearly 20 million Americans attend college each year. Of that 20 million, close to 12 million – or 60% - borrow annually to help cover costs. There are approximately 37 million student loan borrowers with outstanding student loans today. Source: American [...]