Students who have just graduated from university are usually excited to start their careers. However, new graduates soon discover that it’s more difficult than they imagined to find a job. While a strong academic background and skill set is important, many jobs often involve networking. Networking within any industry is a useful way to discover […]
Sustaining Competitive Advantage
A competitive advantage could simply be defined as the advantage or ability a firm has over its rivals in the industry; or the ability a firm has to outperform its industry rivals. A firm is said to have a competitive advantage when it has the capabilities or means to push out its rivals in striving […]
Lying in America – Fundamental to the Human Condition?
What has happened? Have we succumbed to habitual self deceit and deceit with others out of self preservation, fear, lack of confidence or ego? And if so, what damage do we incur in our personal life and business? Are we truly living in a world that evolves around deceit? It would appear the answer is […]
No Where Man in Therapy
No-Where-Man Summary: An exploration article about the modern dilemma of economic misery and how psychotherapy and counselling often fail to grasp the essentials of reality. Although this is a fictional character he is based on the multitude of people who woke up one day without a job, without money, without a family and utterly alone. […]
Demonstrating Credibility
The word credibility can be an emotive word – in its simplest terms it means evidence or a proven track record at doing a particular task. That can vary from an experienced professional footballer that plays in goal and their credibility demonstrated by a record of 121 clean sheets in 200 matches (let in no […]
Forex Brokers – Forex Trading Account and How to Start Forex Trading
Forex brokers don’t make money on each trade so you get unlimited trades with just about any forex broker. There are many brokers out there but they offer outrageous fees and other terms that you must agree to and are just not worth mentioning. Forex brokers necessarily tell you what the minimum to invest. In […]
Proving Your Value in Recruitment – Key Recruitment and Staffing Metrics for Recruitment Strategies
Do your employers know how much value you provide to them? Do they know how much more value your staffing services offer over your competitors? How do they know for sure the strategic value that your company provides? Measuring the impacts to your efforts to your employer’s bottom-line is one of the most credible ways […]
Bach Flower Remedies for Writers
The process of writing can bring great pleasure and fulfillment, but anyone who wants to succeed as a professional writer is likely to have challenges to face. Finding time and solitude to write can be difficult if you have a ‘day job’ and a family. Only a small minority of aspiring authors will achieve acceptance […]
The Convair 880
DESIGN ORIGINS: Although smaller and lagging behind Boeing’s 707 and Douglas’s DC-8, Convair’s 880, featuring the same overall configuration, could have preceded them. Seeking to build upon the success of its CV-240, -340, and -440 pistonliners, the Covnair Division of General Dynamics considered the same design route its competitors took as far back as 1955–namely, […]
Communication Style
Are you a watchmaker or a tell-timer? You know which you are when you think about your answer to the question, what is the time? A tell-timer would simply look at their watch and answer the question directly whereas a watchmaker will want to tell you how the watch works before getting round to telling […]
