Tue.May 31, 2016

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3 Things to Avoid as a New Employee

On The Job

By now, many recent graduates have hung up their bedazzled mortar boards and have begun their first days as new employees in a brand spanking new career. When you're a new employee, you may be excited and scared, or a little or both. That's perfectly natural, and most of the other more experienced employees will understand and cut you a break. Until they don't.

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Media Bias and Pew's On-Demand Economy Survey

Small Business Labs

Most of the media is not positive about the on-demand economy. A good example is the coverage of Pew Internet's Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy report.   The study findings show the on-demand economy has extensively penetrated the U.S. economy in a relatively short time. As the study chart below shows, 72% of Americans have used some sort of on-demand/sharing economy service, 15% have used a rideshare (meaning Uber, Lyft, etc.) and 11% a home sharing servic

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Questioning The Interviewer!

Job Advice Blog

Picture yourself getting ready for your first ever grown-up job interview. You’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve got some college experience under your belt, and you’re wearing the best formal-wear a college student can afford. You hear your mother’s voice echo in your head from a few weeks ago when you called […]. The post Questioning The Interviewer!

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How to Ensure Your Business is Effective at Time Management

Small Business CEO

Time management can seem like the simplest organisational skill in the world to some people, yet others struggle with it. For businesses as a whole it is incredibly important that their time management is on point, in order for it to run as efficiently and effectively as possible. Good time management within a business comes from the top. If you run a start-up, small company or big business, then you’ll want to review and improve the time management of it.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Questioning The Interviewer!

Job Advice Blog

Picture yourself getting ready for your first ever grown-up job interview. You’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve got some college experience under your belt, and you’re wearing the best formal-wear a college student can afford. You hear your mother’s voice echo in your head from a few weeks ago when you called … Continue reading Questioning The Interviewer!

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How to make your Executive happy

Practically Perfect PA

This is a pretty fundamental question for assistants, isn’t it? How do you make your Executive happy? Some of them can be quite grumpy, can’t they! Aside from a lobotomy, there are a few other options that will ensure your Executive is happy with your performance and I thought I would share a few with you today. Under-promise and over-deliver.

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Customer Knowledge Leads to Targeted Marketing

Small Business CEO

The basics of marketing include having a memorable and distinctive brand, including your logo, colors, slogan, and so forth. But a successful marketing campaign requires more than just a great image or even a great product. photo credit: Emilio Kuffer / Flickr. The best that Madison Avenue can dream up for you is worthless if it doesn’t reach the people who are most likely to buy your product.

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