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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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. [...]
7 Tips For Individualizing Your Work Uniform
Work uniforms are required in some industries. Besides being used to identify workers, occupation-specific apparel can also serve to protect employees working in hazardous conditions. Apart from protection and identification, the staff in a uniform-only workplace can likewise feel they belong to [...]
5 Signs You’re Ready for a Midlife Career Change
The average person who changes career is 39 years old which indicates that many midlife workers feel stagnant in their industry. There are various signs you need a career change from losing interest in your hobbies to constantly feeling exhausted. Perhaps you're [...]
5 Job Perks and Benefits that Should Impact Where You Work
A job comes with the base salary and depending on the company, some amazing perks and benefits that go a long way. What you do can say a lot about you. It’s not a stretch to state that some people’s careers define [...]
Career Starter Guide – Should You Specialize or Be a Generalist?
When you think about the job market, you can probably see that, in a simplified way, it can be divided into two parts - jobs for specialists and generalists. If you want to start your career, at some point, you will have [...]
3 Crucial Financial Lessons From The Coronavirus Pandemic
Image Source: Pixabay The pandemic left a mark on us all, especially financially. Keep reading to find out how to prepare yourself for future uncertainties. The pandemic has turned the entire world upside down. At a point, everything stopped, and we had [...]
8 Marketable Skills to Learn in 2021
With the new year comes new chances to grow one’s career. This can mean going after a promotion, applying for a more rewarding position in a new workplace, or building yourself up so you’re more prepared for these opportunities should they arise. [...]
5 Tips for Staying Focused When Working at Home
There's no denying that the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns introduced by several governments had taken a toll on many people's mental health. As experts from the Primal Harvest store admit, "The chronic stress, anxiety, insomnia, lethargy, and even depression for many of [...]
Etiquette 101 for Your Video Conference Calls
This is a guest post by Vicky Oliver If you are still working from home, as close to half the American workforce is, you are likely spending a sizeable chuck of your work week in Zoom or other video conference meetings. Just as with [...]
Part-Time Courses that can Lead to Highly Satisfying Careers
Recent world events have seen day to day life change in many ways that no one could have predicted. For those who have managed to retain or find gainful employment, working from home may now be a massive part of normal life. [...]
How to Generate Extra Income During a Pandemic?
What seemed like a two week period of being confined to the boundaries of your home at first, has now extended to what feels like an eternity. Let's knock on wood here, though; we'd rather take what we got now than somehow [...]
6 Benefits of Online Classes That Make a Huge Difference
For better or for worse, many people underwent major career changes in 2020. As people's needs and public life changed in ways we never foresaw, life in the modern workplace adjusted to match. If you feel like you need to brush up [...]
How To Make Student Living Work For You When Studying For Your New Career
When you are heading to college to study for a new career, one of the most critical aspects you must think about is where you’ll live during your college years. Whether you’re in your first year of study or the last year, [...]