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.
Remote Communication Tips for the Workplace
A recent survey on how businesses have communicated with their staff and customers/clients throughout the pandemic. The research showed: 56% said there has been more collaboration during Covid-19 53% said they have received weekly updates from their company, 27% daily Email (73%) Zoom (66%), and Slack (60%) were the most [...]
How To Find A Job Where You Can Work From Home
Finding a work-from-home job requires patience, determination, and a keen understanding of your personality and working preferences. If you are considering working from home, these tips should be helpful. Is a work-from-home job right for you? Before you begin searching for a [...]
Using Savings to Boost Your Career
Starting out in the working world is never easy. But if your parents opened a junior ISA account for you, you could be in luck. Having some savings backing you can really help to accelerate your career when used wisely. Whether you’re [...]
My performance has suffered during the pandemic. Now what?
Credibility Can Be Reclaimed. Here Are Four Ways to Do It. This is a guest post by Angie Morgan “I want to get back on track.” This is a common refrain I’ve heard from many professionals recently. They’ve known for quite some [...]
3 Ways To Eat Healthy When You’re Too Busy With Work
As a busy professional, you might have a rigorous routine and often lack time to sit and have a proper meal. On top of your work deliverables, your remaining time may be divided among your family, friends, and other obligations. To sustain [...]
Struggling to Approach Book Writing? Here’s What You Need to Know
This is a guest post by Genevieve Georget So many of us grew up learning about the classics in school: “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Lord of the Flies,” “Romeo and Juliet.” We read books as a study of literature to learn theme [...]
Get Educated: The Best Degrees to Get In 2021
Looking to start college in 2021? Wondering which degrees would be the most beneficial for you? You're reading the right article. Below, we're going to discuss some of the most useful degrees that you can get in 2021 and the coming years. [...]
Study Reveals Healthcare and Social Care are the Top Careers for Gen Z in 2021
Study Reveals Healthcare and Social Care are the Top Careers for Gen Z in 2021 with Remote Working Alienating Graduates Small Business Prices analyses the top industries and countries for a graduate career trajectory to reveal the best places for Gen Z to [...]
Save Money and Get Out of Debt Using These Tips
Debt can feel like a dirty word in the United States, given how many people are struggling with their finances. Even when people got support through government stimulus, statistics show that Americans owe close to $1 trillion on credit card payments. Such [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
4 Ways Upgrading Your Education Can Boost Your Career
Many adult students claim that their desire to go back to school to continue their education stems from a desire to move ahead in their career or begin a new one. The truth is that self-improvement is the basis for any advancement [...]
When It Comes To Careers, Values Matter. How Can You Retain Them In The Workplace?
It can be tempting to separate the idea of personal values from the act of finding gainful employment. According to the WSJ, taking this view is a folly, as your values can have a big impact on the work you conduct. What’s more, as values [...]
Language Skills: Is It Possible To Learn Japanese Online?
If you’re on a mission to learn Japanese online, there are all sorts of textbooks and courses out there to fit every budget. You can learn from a book, a fixed set of private lessons, or fly halfway across the world to [...]
How Can I Improve My English Writing Style?
When it comes to speech or writing, the substance doesn't matter nearly as much as delivery. No matter how good the content is, it may still fail to appeal to the audience because of how it’s presented. Remember when people say they [...]
Seven Side Hustle Ideas You May Not Have Considered
Whether you want to make a little extra cash or you dream of the day you can put in your two-week notice at work, there are many side hustles to choose from. When you pick the right one, it has the potential [...]
Critical Thinking and Innovation – The New High Ranking Skills at the Workplace
"For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models, process, culture and management." ~ Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO You might attribute critical thinking and innovation as [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to the Easiest Programming Languages to Learn
Did you know that there are over 250 programming languages in existence? Only a handful are popular while most are outdated or used for very specific purposes. By learning the right languages, you could start on a path to an awesome, well-paying [...]
Employees Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Bad Managers
You've heard this statement all the way along, right from your parents generation to our current one and even though it is a cliché, it still stands true. Interviewing a few employees who recently resigned from their jobs, it was quite evident [...]
Want to get into Shopify? Here’s how to launch your career.
Specialist marketing jobs are difficult to land. They are not always advertised, and those who win these positions have cultivated the work from a base of experience and relationship building. Here we consider how to build your career from the ground up. [...]