Archive for Category: "Career Management"

Get the Numbers Right

Get the Numbers Right

This post is by Brenda Greene and Helen Cunningham, authors of “The Business Style Handbook, An A-to-Z Guide for Effective Writing on the Job.” You just put your email through spellcheck and asked a colleague to give it a quick read for typos. Everything looks good and you send it to your boss for approval. [...]

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3 Tips for Preparing Your Career for Big Life Changes

3 Tips for Preparing Your Career for Big Life Changes

Early summer often brings major life changes: weddings, graduations and moves. Along with these personal events can come career changes. Maybe you’re looking for your first job after graduation, or you’re moving cross-country for your new spouse and need to find work in your adopted home? More than 80 percent of respondents in a recent [...]

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How to Make a Strong First Impression in Your Next Meeting

How to Make a Strong First Impression in Your Next Meeting

One of the greatest things about being a young entrepreneur is getting to learn from other, more seasoned entrepreneurs. One such fellow entrepreneur I know is Teresa Garland, managing partner at Intelligender, who always seems to know how to leave a lasting impression. Recently, we asked her for her best advice for making a strong [...]

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5 Tips for Young Entrepreneurs Who Want to Be Taken Seriously

5 Tips for Young Entrepreneurs Who Want to Be Taken Seriously

Kevon Saber is the CEO of Fig, a mobile startup focused on personal well-being. Prior to Fig, Kevon was vice president of sales and marketing at GenPlay Games, a mobile games developer he co-founded. Kevon holds a BS in Finance from Santa Clara University and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kevon [...]

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17 Quick Tips for New Startup Employees Who Want to Excel

17 Quick Tips for New Startup Employees Who Want to Excel

The following answers are provided by members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library [...]

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10 Words that Can Hang You Up

10 Words that Can Hang You Up

This guest post is by Brenda Greene and Helen Cunningham, authors of “The Business Style Handbook, An A-to-Z Guide for Effective Writing on the Job.” Whether you’re on the job or in the job market, writing effectively requires familiarity with the new words, phrases and usage rules that constantly enter the workplace. Sometimes you’ll need [...]

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9 Low-Tech Ways to Manage Your Time More Wisely

9 Low-Tech Ways to Manage Your Time More Wisely

This post is by Travis Steffen, founder of WorkoutBOX, ActionJunkie Labs, and a ton of other online startups. Travis is also the author of “The Art Of The Hustler,” and star of the upcoming reality show, Pushing The Limit. Find him on Twitter – @TravisSteffen. As entrepreneurs, we’re always busy. But where does it end? When [...]

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You Just Won $1 Million: Would You Quit Your Job OR Continue to Work?

You Just Won $1 Million: Would You Quit Your Job OR Continue to Work?

On Wednesday, we asked a question on Facebook page that people often ask themselves: “If I won the lottery and won $1 million, would I quit my job or continue to work?” We were pleasantly surprised that many would continue to work and put effort into their responses on how they would allocate their million. [...]

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“Stopping Out” of College to Start Up? 3 Ways to Prepare

“Stopping Out” of College to Start Up? 3 Ways to Prepare

This post is by Stacey Ferreira, who co-founded MySocialCloud, a technology startup that allows people to store their usernames and passwords for all their online websites for auto-login and share websites with friends easily, during her senior year of high school with her brother, Scott. When she was just 18, she raised a seed round [...]

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Coach Bob Knight, on What It Takes to Make it to the Top of Any Career

Coach Bob Knight, on What It Takes to Make it to the Top of Any Career

Coach Bob Knight compiled one of the greatest records ever in college basketball: 5 National Coach of the Year awards, 3 NCAA championships, 11 Big Ten championships, an Olympics championship, and 902 victories overall, along with achieving a near-perfect graduation rate for his players. Knight is also a featured commentator for ESPN’s college basketball coverage. [...]

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