It’s a win win, really. You don’t vacuum, clean the floors, or do the dishes, and you bring home a fatter paycheque. Well, for men anyway. Men who are in opposite sex marriages, that is. (Although, I’m not sure how happy those marriages are.) A new report has found that ‘disagreeable’ married men who don’t …
There are social media experts and then there’s the rest of us. Here are some social media tips for 2021 for people who aren’t social media experts and never will be. If you want to get ahead in your career and elevate your personal brand or that of your small business, you’re probably going to …
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Should you directly contact an employer you want to work for? Yes. But there’s a right way and wrong way to do that. Here’s how to contact a hiring manager. I recently saw a Facebook post asking the hivemind what they thought about reaching out directly to a hiring manager at a company with an …
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Is it five o’clock yet? Who cares? A lot of folks don’t, as it turns out. Those were the results of an eye-opening report published this week. This new research has found that during COVID-19, a great many remote workers aren’t waiting for the end of the day to fix a drink. The survey of …
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Here’s the thing with being very, very smart: the sharpest people are not always the most successful. Sometimes having too much intelligence can actually be seen a drawback in the eyes of others, and it can lead to smart candidates being their own worst enemies on the job market. We recently covered the story of …
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Insource or outsource? If you’re wondering whether you should outsource your content marketing, here are all the reasons the answer is yes. Content marketing is a huge part of a company’s marketing effort. It takes talent, time, and experience to create consistent, high quality content and many businesses find it difficult to do so in …
You know this one. If a tree falls in a forest – and there is no one there to hear it – does it still make a sound? It’s meant to be a conundrum – a question that cannot be answered. But of course, the answer is no. It does not make a sound. Soundwaves …
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Knowing when to talk and when not to talk is valuable wisdom. There is great value in keeping quiet, and the world is full of people who make far too much noise saying nothing worthwhile. Don’t be one of those people. Here are eight examples of when to keep your mouth shut rather than open …
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In a new poll out this week, nearly 70 per cent of Canadian hiring professionals say that screening a candidate’s social media profiles is a must. While they may choose not to hire you if they find you’ve posted content they consider objectionable, you could also be ruled out of contention if they cannot find …
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Want to optimize your social media strategy and reach a larger audience of fans and followers – potentially customers? There are content management systems that will automatically post your content to your social media accounts as soon as you publish it. It’s convenient, it’s streamlined, it’s lazy marketing. Automatically broadcasting your updates ignores the first …
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