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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Be Self Directed and Self Motivated when Working from Home
Janice B. works for a large software firm and has been working from home for over 10 years and has found the arrangement perfect for her. Being a single parent for almost 15 years she needed to live near her extended family [...]
Part-time Workers Face Promotion Discrimination
Telecommuters are less likely to get promoted than peers who head into the office every day, according to a global survey of 1,300 executives by Los Angeles-based executive search firm Korn/Ferry International, released January 2007. Almost everywhere part-time employees have the [...]
On the Way to Reentering Workforce – Lack of Confidence
This post is in the series of strength builders when re-entering the workforce. The previous ones were: On the Way to Reentering Workforce - Conquering FEAR and On the Way to Reentering Workforce - Time Management. For a baby boomer or post [...]
8 Ways to Improve Your Work Productivity Overnight – Guest Post
Are you finding that you aren't as productive as you should be during your workday? Perhaps it is your boss who has noticed, which is never a good thing. Being productive can simplify your job down the line and, in many cases, [...]
On the Way to Reentering Workforce – Time Management
A mother needs more hours in a day. "I don’t have enough time to research the companies and network. My life is busy with three kids and shuttling from home to school and their evening activities. Where is the time?" Some tips [...]
On the Way to Reentering Workforce – Conquering FEAR
I am scared of the thought of being in an interview again. Sweaty palms and stuttering voice- that’s so me! For some of the re-entrants it is a similar experience as if stepping in the job market for the fist time. Fear, [...]
Business Cards – Do you have your Glass Slipper?
Cinderella left behind a glass slipper that helped the prince trace her whereabouts; what are you leaving behind, after an interview? Though Cinderella’s slipper slip was unintentional, but can you imagine how the story would have been without that slippery incident? Yes [...]
SAMPLE RESUME – Career Change and Re-entering the Workforce
The example here is a sample resume of an event planner who is a re-entrant to the job market (with an employment gap in her resume and a career change in plans) in career transition from a teaching job to an event planner. Learn [...]
A Part-time Job with Full-time Income – The Possibilities
Who all are looking for part-time jobs? Teenagers College Students Retirees Young Mothers People with Medical Problems or Disabilities Single Parents in Need of More Cash – A Second Job Someone in Search for a Good Life-Work Balance Why do you want [...]
Career Options for Baby Boomers or Post-Retirement
According to the Thomas C. Nelson, Chief Operating Officer, AARP (2006), by 2012 nearly 20 percent of the U.S. workforce will be age 55 or older, up from 14 percent in 2002. As the baby boom(er) generation nears retirement age, and the [...]
Make Money Fast Online, Internet Marketing and Surveys – Scam or Genuine
Are you lured by the numerous email offers you get these days to make money fast on the Internet and taking online surveys from home to earn a 4 figure income per month? If you want to explore more on this topic [...]
Entrepreneurship for Baby Boomers or Post Retirement
Baby Boomers as Entrepreneurs According to Going Your Own Way, an article in USnews.com a CGC analysis of government data shows that those 55 to 64 and older represent one of the fastest-growing groups of self-employed workers. Some 1.8 million American workers [...]
Strengthening the Pillars of Self-Confidence on the Comeback Path
In a previous post (Women Need Support to Reenter the Workforce) someone had rightly commented that when reentering the workforce the woman faces the major roadblock of conquering her shaken self-confidence. The doubts and fear of whether she would be able to [...]
How to be Optimistic during the Job Search Process
Build a Support System Being in a job search for long can be mentally draining and physically taxing, seek support in friends, family or professional help and support with career coaches or counselors. Volunteer - Do Something you Like/Love If the job [...]
Women Need Support to Reenter the Workforce – This is a Demand and Requirement for a well Balanced Society
15,000 women marched through New York City in 1908 demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. On this International Women's Day, 100 years later, still the working woman is struggling for a good work-life balance. Shorter hours or flexible work schedule [...]
Entrepreneurship for Women Re-entering Workforce
Why being self-employed could work for you now more than ever before? With work experience not featuring in your resume, or your resume highlights a conspicuous gap from when you last had a full-time job, it is time to think of a [...]
Why Women MUST Work
Are you a working mother, or do you wish to be one? There has always been a conflict in the past, present and will be in the future also on women managing career and family life- it is tough on women almost [...]
The Choice and Freedom to Work on a Flexible Schedule
A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. -- Milton Friedman (US economist) The same is perhaps true for equality between men and women at work. The struggle should not be focused towards equality of pay or [...]
Balancing Career and a Growing Family – Can a Working Mother make her Life Easier
How concerned a woman feels on managing her career and a new baby on the way depends on how well prepared you are for this major change in your life. Before having a baby you were completely focused on the job and [...]
Do you want to be a Good Boss? Here’s How
If you want to retain good talent in your company, managers need to be trained on some basic aspects of managing constituents from time-to-time. See some points here; if you are a manager do you have it what it takes to be [...]
Tips on giving Effective Performance Review to Employees
In the Inc.com article titled: Putting an End to End-of-Year Reviews, a recent study by Salary.com found that more than 60 percent of workers doubt reviews boost performance. The criticisms are legion. Annual reviews fail to motivate people long term; assessments are often [...]
What to do when your Supervisor does not Report your Complaints to the HR
You might be working with a difficult boss or co-workers and often reporting certain extreme complaints about your manager might not make it to the HR. Approaching the HR directly with your complaints may land you in the “trouble maker” books as [...]
Tips to Prepare for the Performance Review
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. ~ Peter Drucker That's perhaps how I would define Performance Management! Be it the year [...]
Best Jobs to have during Recession
What is recession? According to Wiki definition, a recession is a decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year. We fear recession since it could result in more [...]