Career Growth
117 articles
Ease Your Career Transition With This Straightforward Guide
Changing careers isn’t a sign of failure, it’s a financial necessity. People are holding more and more careers in their lifetime, and you’re probably going to have to completely redesign your brand and professional identity more than once if you want to keep the lights on. But finding that new job, ...
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Kickstart Your Dream Job Search With This Resume and LinkedIn Training Kit
Many people don’t realize that a job hunt is in itself a second job, and has all the same time, commitment, and skill requirements that any other professional position would demand. Unlike most jobs, job hunting, resume writing and LinkedIn profile creation don’t have trade schools. Unless, of cours...
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If This is Success, Please Don't Be Successful
Aren’t you tired of pictures showing booties in thongs, besides a limo, as a proof of success? I mean seriously, getting cash, girls, and cars, is that really society’s view on leading a successful life? If this is success, please, don't be successful! If you were looking for girls in bikinis, chunk...
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10 Things Successful People Never Do
Successful individuals are admired by most of us. Everyone wants to be like them, but when you try to imitate their success, you'll notice that it's not that easy. What is their secret ? No one has a clear answer, and no one can claim to know the sure path a person should walk to get there, but when...
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How To Genuinely Thank Your Employees
Apart from providing top-quality products and services to its customers, a company needs to treat its employees in a similar way for it to be great. Your colleagues are your greatest asset, as they improve the quality of your products, are in charge of communicating with customers and manage high-le...
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3 Self-Sabotaging Zones that Stop Women from Leading
As a brand strategist and business coach, I have had the opportunity to coach some of the most brilliant women I have ever met, and have personally spoken to many others. They all had one thing in common: "feeling stuck."I can think back to when I felt stuck. It wasn't because I wasn't working hard,...
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Why Falling in Love with the Grind Can Kill Your Progress (and What to Do Instead)
Have you ever met someone who seemed to love the grind a little too much? Maybe you? Years ago, I worked in an office selling insurance and investments (it was more fun than it sounds). The culture was one of self-improvement, making it big (we were sales people), and persevering through the grind t...
3 min readThink You’re Ready to Make the Jump? 3 Reasons You Might Not Be Ready to Leave Your Job
Five years ago, I made the jump from full-time employment to self-employed entrepreneur. But I made the jump too early – and I paid for it with a lot of hard times (the School of Hard Knocks was never more real to me). I failed horribly and miscalculated my readiness to make that jump. But in many w...
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The Truth About Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is one of those topics that just never goes away. Society’s expectation for us to realize some form of financial success combined with our innate desire to pursue what we love are constantly at each other's throats. And when we approach the problem in this way it’s inevitable: some...
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The Power of Starting From the Bottom: Why Being Disadvantaged Is Your Biggest Strength
No one likes the idea of starting from the bottom. To have to start from zero, without anything to your name, the slow uphill climb seeming almost unbearable at times. You might feel disadvantaged, just starting out in your pursuits or recovering from a setback, however, starting from the bottom off...
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Defining Career Success: 5 Questions to Ask Yourself in the New Year
The fresh slate of the new year is a fantastic time for updating goals, rethinking commitments, and taking a deep, ponderous look at where you are and where you want to be, both personally and professionally. And the new research that LinkedIn just released couldn’t be more timely. While there are m...
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5 Inspiring Leaders You Should Absolutely Be Following On LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become quite the social hub for entrepreneurs and professionals in the digital space. With 467 million users (as of 2017), the platform is a thriving ecosystem filled with inspiring entrepreneurs, business owners, and thought leaders who are worth following --both for inspiration but al...
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I Quit My Six-Figure Job - Here Are 12 Lessons I Learned in 12 Months
A little over a year ago, I left the nine-to-five world. I was over it... the pointless meetings, living for the weekends, and spending 40 hours of my week unfulfilled. I knew there had to be more out there instead of just watching life go by year after year. I left a very comfortable $100,000+ "car...
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3 Life-Changing Books that Inspired Will Smith to Succeed
Remember the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Most of us do. It's one of those quirky classics from the '90s that everyone either watched or wanted to watch. Will Smith, the young rapper who played the street-smart kid from Philadelphia, worked his way into million-dollar success before the age of 18. A few...
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6 Jobs That Allow You to Make Money Online
It’s never been easier to make money in a way that is both convenient and flexible based on your goals and lifestyle. Whether you’re an undergraduate making your way through college, a parent making ends meet, or a hustler just looking to make a little extra on the side while you work towards someth...
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How to Tell Your Boss You're Quitting Your Job
I had been working on my last startup for about a year when I finally decided to go full time. We were generating some revenue, and I had enough savings in the bank from my full time job to keep me afloat for at least 6 months. My partner and I wanted to focus aggressively on sales during that time,...
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5 Key Ways to Stay Sane While Working Toward Success, According to Hollywood's Top Pop Manager
Scooter Braun is the founder and executive owner of one of the most successful entertainment and media management companies in Hollywood, boasting international sensations such as Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande and has “broken more new artists than any other music executive in the last decade.” </p...
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How This Millionaire Business Owner Went From Poverty Stricken to Personal Coach Extraordinaire
Best-selling author, multi-millionaire, life coach Christian Mickelsen is dedicated to helping people around the world improve their lives. Today, he’s the owner of a multi-million dollar coaching business and the author of four books, including his latest release Abundance Unleashed: Open Yourself ...
1 min read5 Common Reasons People Get Fired and How to Easily Avoid Them
Getting fired is clearly not a pleasant event. In fact, it can be a terrible experience for your ego to come back from and, in some cases, it can be also very embarrassing. Sometimes, it may even not be your fault, but you’ll still have to carry the shame and the reputation that will follow you ever...
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Bill Gates Reveals What He Learned From Warren Buffett About Work-Life Balance and Self-Assessment
Sure, Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest people alive. That doesn’t mean he knows everything though. Everyone has something left to learn and for Bill Gates, it appears that lesson came from no other than Warren Buffett.On his GatesNotes blog, in a post entitled “What I learned at work this year,” ...
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