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5 Things to Do Before Your Next Job Interview

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Job interviews are no different. The more insight you have into your position and the company you’re interviewing for, the more poised you’ll be during your talk with the hiring manager. Do your homework before the day and you will be more confident , because you’ll be prepared for your job interview.

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The Assist Conference 2015

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I am so proud and delighted to launch the first conference from Practically Perfect PA – The Assist Conference 2015. It is taking place on the 27th February 2015 in London and as you can imagine I am very excited! To power us to have the confidence to seek more recognition and rewards. The Assist Conference 2015.

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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

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So, instead, we might replace it with an easier question: “How confident do I feel?” How to avoid it: When it comes to confidence, we want to have enough, but more isn’t always better. What we need is accurate confidence; we need our confidence to match our likelihood of success. Explicitly consider the other side.”

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

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For weeks, Kelleher failed to compose a persuasive note requesting an interview. At last, “I stopped trying to see my own needs, which were to get an interview with her, and just went with extreme empathy,” she says. Confidence to spare. This article appears in the December 2015 issue of SUCCESS magazine.

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24 Do’s and Don’ts to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

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Failure can erode your self-confidence and make it hard to believe you’ll achieve a better outcome in the future. Brené Brown said in a recent interview, “What if you knew that everyone in the world was trying their absolute best?” This article was originally published December 2015 and has been updated. Do: Assume the best.

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Francis Ngannou Is the Reigning UFC Heavyweight Champion, But That’s Not What Makes His Story Worth Telling

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An interview with this particular competitor doesn’t really need to get into the specifics of MMA. Ngannou talks about his past and his future with an almost shy thoughtfulness, as if he is realizing with every new interview that his story is remarkable. In December 2015, Ngannou flew to Orlando for a fight.

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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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