93% of employers want to see soft skills on your resume—here are 8 of the most in-demand ones

Published Wed, Jul 13 2022 Gili Malinsky@MALINSKID When applying for a job, there are many ways to optimize your resume. You can check the listing to see where the employer’s priorities lie in terms of experience, and make sure to highlight what’s most important to them, for example. You can include any major achievements like … Read more

5 Keys to Becoming Your Own Best Coach While Running a Business

Using a business coach can be difficult and expensive. Self-coaching is often a better solution. • BY MARTIN ZWILLING, FOUNDER AND CEO, STARTUP PROFESSIONALS@STARTUPPRO After many extended coaching sessions with entrepreneurs and small-business owners, I’ve found myself wondering if my value-add was anything more than you could get by self-coaching. Of course, my years of … Read more

The Top Five Questions You Need to Ask Before Hiring a Virtual Employee

Published: June 11, 2018 Updated: June 3, 2020 The Top Five Questions You Need to Ask Before Hiring a Virtual Employee Felicia Sullivan The future of work is remote work. Gone are the days when everyone punched timecards and clocked in. In those days, managers would dedicate part of their day to monitoring employee attendance, … Read more

Words That Land Interviews and Job Offers

By Martin Yate March 23, 2021 Bestselling author Martin Yate, a career coach and former HR professional, takes your questions each week about how to further your career in HR. Contact him at the e-mail address at the end of this column. The words you use in a resume or social media profile—your most critical career … Read more

Work From Home – managing distractions.

If you’re working from home while your kids are remote learning – you may find this article by Janice Marturano helpful. Coffee and Quiet! Sep 16, 2020 Are You Missing Your Life? Learn How 3 Tips And A Cup Of Coffee Can Help. Janice Marturano Contributor – Forbes – Careers When external and internal distractions … Read more

Happy Thanksgiving – How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_gratitude_can_transform_your_workplace How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace From nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies, learn how organizations are embracing a culture of gratefulness. About the Author When consultant Stephanie Pollack was brought in to work with the state chapter of a national nonprofit, morale was low. The organization was in the middle of a transformation that brought in … Read more

5 Stunning Resume Mistakes…

A Google Executive Reviewed More Than 20,000 Resumes–He Found These 5 Stunning Mistakes Over and Over Former Google senior vice president Laszlo Bock reviewed more than 20,000 resumes while he was at the company–sometimes Google received more than 50,000 a week. By Peter Economy The Leadership Guy@bizzwriter In your lifetime, you will send dozens (if … Read more