One of the hardest parts of getting a new business off of the ground is to have enough funding. Many entrepreneurs use family members as personnel in order to avoid paying wages. It may be quite expensive to hire people to take orders or process requests. ...
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Are Employers Trying to Trick You In the Interview? Helpful Answer to a Popular Difficult Question
There is a lot of advice about how to ace the job interview. The book, How to Reinvent Your Career, lists many helpful tools, site links and examples to help with this. One of the main things that employers want to find out is if you are a positive person that...
Have you Googled Yourself Lately? Why LinkedIn and Google are Important for Your Job Search
If you are looking for a job, you probably have looked at getting on LinkedIn and some other social networking sites. If you have created a LinkedIn profile, it should show up on Google’s search engine. In some recent talks I gave to job-seekers, I asked my audience...
How to Ace the Job Interview by Understanding Introverts and Extroverts
For those of you who have taken a Myers-Briggs MBTI personality assessment, you may already know if you are an introvert or extrovert. It gets confusing to some as many say extrovert. Myers-Briggs uses the term extravert. What is important is that you understand...
Marlo Thomas Asks What Would You Do Differently – My Answer is Nothing
I was just watching a video by Marlo Thomas where she was asking people what they would do differently knowing what they know now. In my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I included a chapter about this very subject. The following is an excerpt from that chapter...
How to Get a Job: Why Employers Value Emotional Intelligence
Check out why it is so important to understand how your emotional intelligence may impact your ability to get a job. If you are interested in reading the book by Daniel Goleman that I refer to here, it is called Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than...
How to Get a Job Using a Personal SWOT Analysis
In a recent talk I gave to CareerConnectors, we discussed how you can use a personal SWOT analysis to help you realize your strengths and weaknesses. This information can be very helpful in determining things to put on your resume and can also help you discover...
How to Market You or Your Product Using Social Media
Today's Ask Dr. Diane: I just wrote a book that is available through Amazon. I'm just not sure about the best way to market it? Any suggestions? That is a good question. The tips I'm about to give can also be used to market things other than a book. You could...
How to Get a Job Showcasing Your Abilities Using Camtasia, Powerpoint and Youtube
In my presentation yesterday at the CareerConnectors.Net workshop, I presented several different examples of how to market "you" as the product in order to get a job. If you are interested in learning how to use Camtasia with Powerpoint to promote your abilities and...
Top 15 Jobs in America
In researching information for my book, How to Reinvent Your Career, I found it interesting to see the types of jobs that are no longer on the market due to changes in technology. Just as jobs are disappearing, others are being created as well. If you are interested...
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Discover the power of applied creativity, where intentional curiosity sparks innovation and propels leadership. In this episode, our guest is the one and only creativity strategist Natalie Nixon, the founder of Figure 8 Thinking, and "the creativity whisperer to the...