Common Traits of Successful People

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What leads to success? Most people would probably come up with similar qualities that are necessary for success – determination, fortitude, courage, a willingness to keep learning. These are but a few of the more common ones. But research has also revealed that there are other traits that many successful people have in common, ones… Read more »

How Travel Can Help Your Career

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Many people have traveled to foreign countries during their careers, either for business, education, or just pleasure. But either way, if you have traveled to foreign countries, it is an experience that you can put to good use on your resume. The skills and knowledge you pick up during your travels would be valuable to… Read more »

Never Say This to Your Employees

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Being a good boss means establishing good communication with your employees. It means being open and honest with them, respecting them and their efforts. It means doing what you can to help them succeed. It means creating an atmosphere of trust and teamwork. There are many ways to create a good work atmosphere, and ways… Read more »

What to do After the Job Interview

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Your job interview has come to an end. What should your next step be? The first thing to do, immediately after the end of the interview, is to again express your interest in the job. Let the hiring manager know directly that you want the position. Make sure there is no room for doubt. Also… Read more »

Ginning Up Your Willpower

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Willpower. It is a quality that we are all striving to get more of. Our busy lives demand a healthy amount of it. The good news is that, like our muscles, we can develop our willpower through exercising it. However, just like our muscles, we can over exert it as well. Research indicates that when… Read more »

Stay-at-Home Mom — How to get Back to Work

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Many women drop out of the workforce to become mothers and raise a family. And when the children have grown, these mothers begin looking again to return to the workforce. But the evidence shows that for these women, it isn’t all that easy. Studies have shown that there is a built-in bias against hiring women… Read more »

To Hire or Not to Hire an Entrepreneur

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You are looking to fill an open position. Among your many job applicants are a few people who have been entrepreneurs, people who have started their own company or companies. So the question that arises is whether you should hire an entrepreneur or not. As with anything, there are reasons in favor of hiring an… Read more »

Managing Remote Employees

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In today’s work environment, more and more people are working outside the office. This type of arrangement presents its own kinds of challenges for employees and managers. Many managers may assume that because workers are at remote locations, there is less need to supervise and work with them. But business experts say that just the… Read more »

Questions You Need to Ask at a Job Interview

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When you go for a job interview, you need to be prepared to answer many different sorts of questions. You are there to sell yourself, to tell the interviewer why you are the best person for the job. But an interview is more than that. While the interviewer is trying to figure out if you… Read more »

Getting the Day Off to a Good Start

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Everybody is familiar with the saying, “Got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.” It generally means that you didn’t have a very good start to the day, and it is the reason you are having trouble later in the day as well. So, getting your day off to a good start… Read more »