- A List of Automation Proof Jobs: Physical Therapists And Nurses Are The New Call Center Workers
Don't worry about losing your job to robots and other machines. Because physical therapists and nurses are the new call center workers, where many jobs will be.
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- Difference between working at big company and at a startup
The common response to working at a big company to that at a startup is that you learn more things at a startup but job security is not so secure. The above graphic, from Reddit, paints a clearer picture. The 'stack …
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- Wage Theft: A Problem Bigger Than Plain Robbery
According to a news report, in 2012 US authorities recovered $933 million from employers, whom they termed as perpetrators of wage theft. Compare this amount to the $341 million the authorities value all the property tak…
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- The 25 Most Important Business & Career Skills All Smart People Should Know
1. Business Management: Basically, the art of getting people to do things
2. Marketing: Because the purpose of a business is to find a customer, thus, marketing
3. Selling: Knowing how to sell things to peopl…
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- How to be remarkable #130: Tell honest stories (to fix your company, startup, yourself and your job)
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise gets its name from Bizarro, the comic book villain, and it is about using honesty to get a clear idea about your situation. While storytelling has long being championed as a problem-solv…
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- Making money from your voice: The future is in doing narration
Professional announcers, speech pathologists, broadcasters and actors are not only ones who make money from their voice. Doing narration is becoming a promising vocation if you learn to modulate your voice through some v…
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- Three main career ideas from The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn), and Ben Casnocha (famous for being a very young Silicon Valley Entrepreneur) wrote this book, where the main idea is a little stale: 'manage your career as if it were a start-up bus…
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- A simple guide to the KPO (Knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry
Here are five questions people ask most about the KPO (knowledge Process Outsourcing) industry:
1. What is KPO?
KPO is the second wave of outsourcing. First, you had the wave of BPO (Business process Outsourcing) compa…
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- How to survive in a tough, manipulative workplace: work on your boss, colleagues and competition
99% of all workplaces work on the jungle law principle - survival of the fittest and the 'cunningest', if there is such a word. Rather than complain about it, you got to survive by your wits. A summary of an excellent ar…
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- Three ways to answer 'what is your biggest weakness': Answer bullshit with bullshit, give cliched answers
Most interview questions are useless, perhaps meant to gauge whether you can bullshit your way out of all kinds of situation more than anything else - modern business reality is a virtual breakfast of bullshitting champi…
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- Five ways how to deal with uncomfortable job interview questions: Without lying, say what the interviewer wants to hear
The idea is to deal with uncomfortable questions without having to lie and telling the interviewer 'what he wants to hear'. The idea is also to 'Think Ahead, Answer Professionally, and Admit When You Don't Know.'
1. B…
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- How to handle your exit interview: Be honest, but don't burn your bridges, move on with dignity
You are entitled to give honest answers in your exit interviews, but do so without burning your bridges - relationships with boss and co-workers. For example, in my only exit interview so far, I said I had no growth pros…
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- Six subjects to be careful about in your next job interview: Start with not dissing your past employer
1. Don't ever say negative things about previous employers - the interviewer will then think his company will be the next target.
2. Talk positive things about previous employers - things you learnt.
3. Avoid talking a…
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- How to turn your job firing to your benefit: Ask the boss for a candid feedback
Instead of sulking away and feeling hopelessly dejected after being fired from a job, just go to your boss, and ask for his honest (and private) feedback about your performance. This way, you will learn why you were fire…
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- Are resumes relevant?
How do you convey your education, experience and skills to prospective employersThere are two schools of thoughts. The traditional way is to list out your key specs, share it on online resume websites, take a print out a…
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- jobsearchguide: a simpleguide to 22 cool sites to find web related jobs
The internet is a great place to look for jobs and no list can a complete list. So, for starters:
Job Search Engines
1. Indeed - don't forget to set feeds and alerts for your job searches
2. Simplyhired
Special…
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- workguide: how to work like Paul Krugman
Nobel Prize (2008) winning Economist Paul Krugman has written about how he works and lists out his four basic rules of research which I think is applicable to every knowledge worker around:
1. Listen to the Gentiles -…
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- Top 15 In Demand Careers and Their College Majors
List for the young ones :-)Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services, cars, money and more.❤ If you liked all this, consider supporting us by checking out Tiny Skills - 250+ Top…
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- Best Places to Launch a Career 2007
Places where your career cam bloomNext: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home services, cars, money and more.❤ If you liked all this, consider supporting us by checking out Tiny Skills - 2…
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