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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). After I interviewed Britney Spears over email—a story that made the cover—I was done. Dinners were skipped or consisted of a cheap street meal. Broken. * * *.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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The average monthly salary is just $500. I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., Kelly started his own podcast, The Sales Evangelist , and interviewed fellow sellers about what worked and what didn’t, essentially “evangelizing” about the topic.

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Preparing for the Interview

Laughing all the Way to Work

I had an interview at 11, but I was busy with my job, my father was in the hospital and I was trying to arrange an engagement party for my daughter. I just didn’t have time to bring my clothes to the dry cleaner, and worse than that I had an inch of grey roots showing and I hadn't coloured my hair. It ended up I did get the job.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

These are reasons for quitting that would be reasonably offered in letters of resignation and at an exit interview. Reasons that are more difficult to be written down in a letter or spoken aloud in an exit interview. It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. It’s just not that simple though.

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

One perk of working for a star is the clothes, she said: “One assistant I knew was the same shoe size as her celebrity, so she got all her hand-me-down designer shoes.” Today, Low-Kramen said, a starting salary for a celebrity personal assistant on call 24/7 can typically hit the low six figures.

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Celebrating National Customer Service Week by honoring the best

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In the overwhelmingly successful business called Zappos, their philosophy, culture, and obsession with customer service has changed the 1999 Internet shoe business to shoes, clothing and more with annual revenues of over one billion dollars. Interview with Rob Siefker of Zappos – Part 3 of 4 This is the third of a four part interview with.

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Taylor's a Feminist – But So Is James | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

That means that if I take a salaried job today, I might be earning $32,550 while the guy next to me earns $35,000. We’ve passed the “resume” stage, and entered the “interview” stage. Many of you with families would gladly take on a job at twice your current salary even if it meant some sort of weird workplace problem.

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