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Are Retakes Anything to Be Ashamed Of?

Are Retakes Anything to Be Ashamed Of

Taking exams again, particularly after A Levels, isn’t something to be ashamed of. You might want to retake an exam due to being ill at the time you sat it, or as the result of missing the grade you needed for a university place by a few marks. While reviewing the benefits of retaking your exams, it’s also worth considering how new changes to A Level resits and the exams as a whole are going to affect how many [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM

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5 Crucial Tips For The Perfect Job Hunt

5 Crucial Tips For The Perfect Job Hunt

When job hunting, always place quality before quantity. Rather than applying to a 100 different companies, you are better off applying to 10 companies that are right for you. Finding a job in this day and age is very easy thanks to the Internet. However, landing a job is a different matter altogether. The same tools that make it easy for you to get a job also help your competitors. Here are 5 crucial tips [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 19, 2013 at 11:28 AM

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Startup Business Advice-Lessons Learned The Hard Way

Startup Business Advice-Lessons Learned The Hard Way

With this startup business advice, individuals can ensure entrepreneurial success as their business burgeons and develops A business start-up is all about introducing a novel idea into the market to pour in profits. Setting up a new business has its fair share of risks involved. However, it is the huge assortment of opportunities it entails that makes a start-up a risk worth-taking. Studies have proven that out of all business initiatives, only two-thirds are successful [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 17, 2013 at 2:39 PM

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Are Online Job Fairs Worth It?

Are Online Job Fairs Worth It

Online job fairs are worth a try if you are looking for something very specific and you have a very narrow area of specialty Are Online Job Fairs Worth It? Earlier this month, I attended a Mashable Online Career Fair, hosted by Brazen Connect. This was my first online career fair and I was very excited. The fee to attend was $10, which was a little different since most career fairs are free for candidates. [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 17, 2013 at 5:05 AM

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How Can You Get Your Sales Team On Board With Performance Goals?

How Can You Get Your Sales Team On Board With Performance Goals

Even if you don’t have control over the goals that are set, if you’re responsible for a sales team, find out how to get everyone truly excited and motivated. If you’re a sales team manager, one of your biggest responsibilities is helping your team reach their sales goals. Even if you aren’t the one who gets to set the goals, it’s still up to you to ensure they’re hit. While it’s important for a team [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 15, 2013 at 8:46 AM

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Specialized Studies Offer Students Good Job Opportunities

Specialized Studies Offer Students Good Job Opportunities

Before you decide upon your major, consider whether there are better employment prospects and job opportunities in a niche than in a broad field. Among the most difficult things for many students to do when they start attending college is to make a decision upon their major. In quite a few cases, students will find themselves switching majors during the course of their college career. Traditional college majors are generally rather broad. For instance, students [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 14, 2013 at 7:10 AM

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5 Reasons To Start A Business Instead Of Going To College

5 Reasons To Start A Business Instead Of Going To College

Should you pursue college or should you defer and contemplate starting a business instead of following the standard path. Let’s take a look… Expectations about college hold different places in people’s lives. Some people were brought up with the idea that they would attend college without question; others might be contemplating becoming the first people in their families to attend college. However, there are some good reasons to consider a different path. How about starting [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 13, 2013 at 2:06 PM

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Social Media Marketing 2013 And Its 5 Takeaways

Social Media Marketing 2013 And Its 5 Takeaways

5 takeaways of Social Media Marketing 2013 show the most important points you should concentrate on while doing online marketing for your business. The social media has tremendously grown to form an important part of business marketing that can no longer be taken for granted. It has become a center where millions of people from all over the world get connected to each other and therefore making it easier to create and achieve your particular [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM

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5 CEOs Most Strongly Associated With Their Companies

5 CEOs Most Strongly Associated With Their Companies

For reason that are both good and bad, CEOs have been able to become celebrities in the United States and across the globe. The majority of large corporations work very hard to establish a public image that is geared towards a certain message or a particular demographic of people. On occasion, however, the CEO behind these messages and carefully packaged images becomes so famous and heavily associated with the company that the person and the [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 11, 2013 at 7:53 AM

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Funding Your Startup With Your Credit Card… Good Idea Or Not?

Funding Your Startup With Your Credit Card... Good Idea Or Not

So your startup is ready to, well, start up. You’re going to need some office space to meet clients, a few computers, cell phones for your two contract employees, a website designed and hosted, or a million other things depending on your industry. Problem is, there’s not enough in the checking account to cover all these startup costs. Collateral? Forget it. You’re a renter who doesn’t even own a car. It’s tempting to reach for [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 10, 2013 at 3:53 AM

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5 Ways to Lower Small Business Operating Costs Now

5 Ways to Lower Small Business Operating Costs Now

Have you sat down and gone over ways to improve your business bottom line this year? While discovering new ways to increase revenue should be a top priority in your planning, making decisions to lower your expenses can play an equally important role in increasing your overall profits. During times of prosperity, lowering operating costs can sometimes take a back seat to expansion plans, but streamlining operations and reducing expenses is a major tenet of [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 8, 2013 at 4:01 PM

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How To Begin Freelancing To Quit Your Job

How To Begin Freelancing To Quit Your Job

Don’t quit your day job until you are sure freelancing is right for you. We share a few ideas on maintaining your job while starting your own business. The internet has allowed many people with talents to express themselves as well as show off their work to potentially gain a job and start developing an income. Ultimately, beginning freelancing is like running your own business. Depending on how you structure it, it can turn into [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 8, 2013 at 2:28 AM

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Coaching, Leadership And The Art Of Doing

Coaching, Leadership And The Art Of Doing

We take a closer look at effective leadership and the role of executive coaching. All commerce eventually boils down to interactions between people. Supervisors and middle managers often face pressures from executives to improve the productivity of personnel under their control. In turn, executives face pressures from shareholders for continuous quarterly growth. This leads to a tendency for some managerial staff to focus more on the numbers than his or her staff. Successful managers need [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM

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How to Make the Leap from Certified Pilot to Airline Captain

How to Make the Leap from Certified Pilot to Airline Captain

You want to be an airline pilot. Excellent. There’s just one problem: you don’t know how to get from “A” to “B.” You can’t just snap your fingers and magically.. materialize in the captain’s chair. You have to earn your way into it. After you’ve gotten your commercial pilot’s license, you’ve got a few choices as to what to do with it. If you’re dead-set on working for an airline, there are a few things [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 5, 2013 at 1:28 PM

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Empowering Your Staff To Empower Your Business Efficiently

Empowering Your Staff To Empower Your Business Efficiently

Focused training is a key prerequisite in your objective to empowering your staff. What should you be looking for in a suitable training company? The corporate training industry has been growing year on year and going from strength to strength for quite some time now, though it is all for an extremely good reason. This is because of the benefits that a company can receive when they take up the services of a training company, [...]

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Posted by Lucas - May 5, 2013 at 4:30 AM

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