With the spread of digital communications, it’s increasingly clear people don’t need to be in an office together to get great results. International businesses use video conferencing and cloud sharing to collaborate on projects across time zones - if you can work closely with a colleague in Japan, there’s no reason you can’t get a day’s work done ...
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What Does a CTO Do?
When you’re staffing up a start-up, you’re working with an exciting blank slate: you have the chance to put together the team you’ve always wanted to make the business you’ve dreamed of a success. It’s important not to be blinded by the possibilities, and make sure your executive team is a highly competent and experienced group who will challenge ...
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What Benefits Can ERP Software Provide A Self-Employed Business?
When you think of companies who use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, you normally think of a 100,000 employee, multi-national juggernaut deploying complex software in the attempt to streamline its 24/7/365 business. However, what about the “little fish,” self-employed small businesses and owners? Are there benefits of having an ERP ...
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5 Ways to Make Money with a Criminal Record
Getting back into the workforce with a criminal record can be rough. Unfortunately, once you’ve obtained a criminal record the many opportunities you may have had prior to being convicted, are no more. Most employers reserve the right to not hire individuals with criminal records, and unfortunately many of them exercise that right. That leaves you ...
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Positioning Your Business for What’s Over the Horizon
Having a "successful business" is really only a temporary state. In order for businesses to stay at the forefront of their industry, it has to be constantly evolving and adapting to the world as it changes. It's not even enough to be "with the times", nowadays you have to be before the times, constantly pushing the envelope of what is expected of ...
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Why More People Are Starting their Own Business
In this long-struggling economy, many people are faced with a difficult situation. They have a secure, stable job, but the income just isn't enough for them to make ends meet, especially in the face of rising utility rates, medical insurance, and college costs for their kids.
Yet they are afraid to leave the job even with an offer of one with ...
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The Most Underrated Jobs of 2015
Ever feel that your job does not get the recognition it deserves? While you may not have a flashy advertising job mingling with the who’s who in the city, but perhaps you fall in one of the top 5 most underrated jobs of 2015. In a new report by job-search site CareerCast.com, jobs were ranked that factored in potential for advancement, a ...
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Change at Any Age: Strategies for Switching Careers Seamlessly
In early 2015, Australian newspapers reported endlessly on "the 50-year-old rookie," a woman in Australia who left a career in human resources at 50 to enter real estate, and was so good at it, she won an award. Everyone loves a good career change story, possibly because it helps them see for a moment that they could pull something off one day, ...
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Interviews Always Start with this Question
Interviews always start with this question. You heard it before and you will hear it again, tell me about yourself What does this question reveal? This simple question tells the interviewer so much about the candidate. How can a single question tell the interviewer so much? You just sat down, the interviewer may be getting organized and he/she ...
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Congratulations Class of 2015, Now What?
Congratulations class of 2015! Four years or more of hard work has gotten you here. Alright, maybe it wasn’t all hard work; you enjoyed college, joined a fraternity or sorority, participated in sports, joined clubs or organizations, enjoyed a party or two and had a good time. Now you have to start acting like an adult and get a job, move out on ...
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