8 Ways to Prepare for a Global Career
Working abroad is a good way to boost your resume. Aside from providing travel opportunities, a global career can also hone your marketable skills, increase your salary by as much as $25,000 assuming you’re bilingual/multilingual, and make you a better person.
However, it can also be intimidating. With hundreds of countries in the world, plus …
How You Can Boost Productivity by Tracking Your Time
Tracking your time is essential if you want any chance at being productive.
You might notice there are some days where it feels like you’re working hard all day, but when it’s time for you to clock out, you realize you didn’t get that much work done. It doesn’t make much sense, because you spent …
Businesses Need to Outsource to Survive – Is Yours?
When business is bad, it’s bad … and when business is good, it’s both good and bad. Having new clients come pouring in is enough to make you want to dance a jig but also rip out some hair while trying to figure out how to manage it all. You feel stressed and overworked, but …
How to Manage Peers When You Get a Promotion
First off, congrats on your promotion! You deserve a pat on the back for a job well done. After all, they wouldn’t promote you if you weren’t good, right?
Still, you can’t help your nerves right now. What if your peers don’t take you seriously? Or what if they take you too seriously? Are you …
How to Use Personality Tests in Your Job Search
Searching for a job — including studying and preparing for a job — can be a difficult task. For every person who has known they wanted to be a fireman or nurse since they were five years old, there are many more who need help honing in on a career. They also need some guidance …
Personal and Business Branding Through Community Service
Building a brand is one of the hardest things a company can do. You know what “I’m lovin’ it” means. You know what a bright red cross means — but how those companies are able to go about creating their brands takes some ingenuity. It doesn’t need to be all flashy slogans and Super Bowl …
5 Tips to Make Employee Scheduling Easy
Everyone has 24 hours in a day, but sometimes as a manager or business owner, you feel like your time is like putting socks in washing machine. You know you started with 24, but somehow, two or three disappeared right before your eyes.
Scheduling your employees, even if you only have a couple, can be …
4 Ways to Improve Your Company’s Diversity and Inclusion
It’s the year 2016, and diversity has finally emerged as a near-universal value in the business world. Company leaders from Alaska to Florida have discovered that to ignore diversity is to ignore untapped pools of talent and potential — and doing so leaves our workplaces woefully incomplete in the process.
But understanding why inclusion and …
6 Legal Steps to Starting a Business
Starting a business can feel like an overwhelming task, from both a personal and legal standpoint. Today, I’m here to walk you through some of the legal steps you’ll have to take in order to get your company off the ground.
As you’ll soon see, with some planning and preparation, the task might not look …
How to Answer “Have you Ever Been Fired?”
Being fired or “let go” from a job is not necessarily something you bring up in discussion with people or want to talk about, especially if your next employer is the one asking the question. However, you’re going to have to face the facts that during the interview process you’ll be asked about the gap …