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What would Jordan Peterson say to somebody who was facing their Performance Review?

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As somebody who has become a global phenomenon for his views on self-improvement and personal development, it is not surprising that Jordan Peterson’s advice is sought after in a range of situations. Performance reviews are no exception, and if a person were to ask him how to best approach their own performance review, Peterson would […]

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Moving To A Bigger Office – Where Do You Start?

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Moving your business to a new office can be exciting, though most companies will struggle as they go through this process. It isn’t as simple as giving your employees a new address, and you need to work extremely hard to make sure that you’re handling the move effectively to make use of your new space. To

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Qualifications vs Experience: Which Is More Valuable?

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Should you focus on gaining qualifications or experience to obtain your dream job? This post discusses the benefits and drawbacks of both to determine which one is really more valuable

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Tips for Writing a Letter of Recommendation for Graduate School

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It’s understood that students must write various academic papers to earn grades and have a high academic score. However, teachers also write certain papers, and some of them are written for students. Thus, students frequently ask their teachers to write a letter of recommendation for graduate school. This is a specific piece of writing written

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Formulating a Career Goal Plan

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Career Planning is an activity that should not stop once you are done with your high school or college. In fact, it should be a constant process in your life as you start working. There must be some regularity in this activity, because contrary to the general perception, people usually change their careers (not jobs)

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Identifying Your Career Goals

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It’s better to start the process of identifying your career goals early, to create choices and opportunity to prepare. Here are 4 steps to do this.

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Identifying Your Personal Threats

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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths, weaknesses and opportunities in other blog posts (links to respective blog posts). In this blog, we will try to round off the SWOT analysis with the final piece of the puzzle – the threats. In personal development, threats are anything that can jeopardize the

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Identifying Your Personal Opportunities

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You are sitting on your workstation, wondering if your skills are getting dated. You try to update your resume and are hit by the hard truth: “You haven’t learnt anything new in a long while and neither have you challenged yourself enough to be mentioned in the resume.” If that is the case, then you

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Identifying Your Personal Weaknesses

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We have already discussed how you can identify your personal strengths in this other blog (link to Identifying Your Personal Strengths blog post). However, it is equally important to be able to identify your weaknesses and find ways to counter them. A lot of us find it difficult to admit our weaknesses because it is

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How to Start Identifying Your Personal Strengths

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In this post, I will talk how to go about identifying your personal strengths – those that make you a valuable member of any workplace.

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The Basics of Job Hunting (Part Two)

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This is the second blog on the basics of job-hunting. The first blog took you through how to look for a new job and possibly a career shift. All of that will help you get an invitation for interview, but there is a lot more that you will need to get the job. You will

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The Basics of Job Hunting (Part One)

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It is that time of the year when a lot of us will be going through annual evaluations at our workplaces. There will possibly be some increments and some disappointments. Most of us tend to reflect on our current situation around the New Year and many of us have “changing jobs” as one of our

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How to Take the Stress Out of Business Travel

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Traveling for work is a completely different experience from traveling for pleasure. Having a job that requires a lot of travel across the world can have a significant impact on life outside of work. Jet-setting careers may sound glamorous, but, too much business travel can take its toll. If you are a frequent flyer because your

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Tips To Survive A Rough Business Patch

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Life is unpredictable in so many ways.One moment your business is thriving, and the other moment your cash supplies are dwindling. You have hit a rough business patch. Financially tough times can happen unexpectedly. And while it’s easy to get discouraged when this happens, there’s nothing that sheer tenacity and hard work can’t defeat.When things get

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Incredible Ways To Boost Your Business Efficiency Levels

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Are you interested in boosting levels of efficiency in your business model? By doing this, you will be able to make sure that you are getting the most out of your business. Usually, high-efficiency levels also mean that there will be improvements in quality which will ensure that your business reputation receives a boost too.

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Handling the Challenges of Patent Claims

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The overall strength of your patent exists in the number of claims it has. The claims are the exclusive rights that you get as a patent owner. If you have more claims, your patent is likely to mitigate any challenge in adverse conditions. They work in your favor in the case of patent litigation.However, there

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All That You Need To Know About Taxes For The Self Employed

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The number of self-employed individuals is on the rise these days because people like to be their own bosses. Being self-employed gives you all the freedom you want but there is no way you can avoid taxes. Even if you are not in a job or running a corporation, you are still making money. Obviously,

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5 Educational Party Games

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Even though students should take education seriously, this does not mean that they shouldn’t socialize. Going to parties is an excellent way of unwinding after a long week of lectures and assignments.How about playing educational games during parties. This is a good way of keeping your brain in the loop. It doesn’t have to be

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