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This Canadian Real Estate Agent Helped His Daughter Break an Unusual Guinness World Record and Found a Breakthrough of His Own

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He helped his daughter set an unusual world record : most national anthems sung in their home countries in a calendar year. All in one calendar year. When she was interviewed, the first thing they would ask her is ‘do you know what you’re singing about?’ The logistics are nuts. And could you imagine doing it now?”

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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How to interview freelance marketers It’s impossible to achieve goals you never set — so define and communicate your objective and scope of work in the first interview. Review marketer job descriptions to better understand standard skill sets of different marketing specialties, and tailor your interview questions accordingly.

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My Three Words For 2015

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As we kick off the 2015 calendar year, I don’t just look back at the twelve months gone by but I envision the twelve ahead. When I put together my NOW Year Action Plan in late October, I decided what My Three Words for the year ahead were going to be and I will be using them as driving forces for everything I do in 2015.

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3 Steps to Hosting and Organizing a Successul Telesummit Event

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As the host of the Telesummit, you then get to interview each speaker and they share their expertise with the telesummit attendees. But the reality of it is that it’s a lot of work to pull off: There are the speakers to schedule on your calendar. The interviews to conduct and record. c) 2015 Tracey Lawton.

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Want to Work at a Startup? Read This First

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Quick responses to messages and being early to interviews are at least as important as years of experience and strong interview skills. John Rampton, Calendar. This article was published in January 2015 and has been updated. When we hire, we pay less attention to what candidates say and more attention to what they do.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Sara had a vision for what Spanx could become that very few people shared,” says Gillian Zoe Segal, who interviewed Blakely for her book Getting There: A Book of Mentors , in which she profiles luminaries such as Warren Buffett, Ian Schrager and Anderson Cooper. Sara Blakely on juggling work and life Loads of responsibilities tug at Blakely.

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17 Time Management Strategies to Help You Tackle Your To-Do List

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Study the interviews, speeches, biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women. You no longer have to sit down and plan out your calendar for the week because productivity apps make it easy to set reminders, stay on track and get things done. This article was originally published in December 2015 and has been updated.