Articles by tag: job skills

Content SEO: Writing for Your Audience
According to a recent Microsoft study, people’s attention spans have dropped to a range comparable to that of a goldfish. This short attention span means that as blog writers...
Continued Learning: Is It Suitable for Your Career?
The Importance of Continued Learning Most people associate learning with formal education. Formal education, in turn, usually becomes associated with a limited amount of schooling. For example, ten or...
Balancing Your Day Job and Your Passion
There is an increasing trend of employees taking up a side job, either to earn extra money or to boost career skills in a field they are passionate...
Avoid the Email Trap—Tips for Email Productivity
The Trap of Email Productivity The average American worker spends over 30 hours each week checking their email. While email is a modern communication miracle, it can also be...
How to Beat Procrastination: Worst Things First
According to the American Psychological Association, chronic procrastination affects approximately 15-20% of adults in the general population. Blame technology, blame culture, blame a generation, but we’ve all succumbed...
How to Capitalize on the Dominant Freelance Workforce
57 million Americans are members of the freelance workforce. What’s more is that the majority of these workers began freelancing by choice, not out of necessity. What’s more...
Land Your Next Job with a Strong Cover Letter
The average corporate job opening brings in 250 resumes. The recruiter has little time to sort through them and choose a handful of worthy candidates to interview. Most...
The Raise (and How to Get One)
It’s the one thing most people want, and think they deserve, but never ask for: a raise. Even when they possess the business skills to deserve one, most...
3 Crucial Steps to Create a Foolproof Contingency Plan
It’s 3 o’clock on a typical Wednesday at work. Your employees are quietly bustling through their tasks, organizing files to be discussed at the next meeting, when a...
5 Ways eLearning Platforms Trump Traditional Learning Methods
Corporate training has been catapulted into a new dynamic with 74 percent choosing learning management systems to integrate virtual classrooms into their training programs. This percentage is expected...
Solving the New Job Learning Curve
A New Job: The Unexpected Curve Amanda is starting her first day in a customer service agency. She’s been working in the industry for the last five years and starts...