Category Professional Development

Getting your first entry-level digital marketing job can seem like a daunting challenge, especially when you don't have any professional experience under your belt. Browsing forums, news sites, and LinkedIn posts you'll see people complaining about how candidates with no experience are totally screwed in this competitive job market.

Whether running your own business or leading teams in an office setting, the best leaders require a strong set of leadership qualities to help positively interact with their employees, team members, and clients. Behavioral theories suggest that leadership skills aren't ingrained and can be taught - people can obtain leadership qualities through teaching and learning these skills over time.

Although it can be tempting to use common interview questions when interviewing candidates, take that route at your own peril. Bad hires are not only costly; they can impact staff morale and damage your brand reputation. Roles that need to be filled are as diverse as the individuals who apply for them.

The inevitable changes in attitudes, technology, and communication will lead to new communities of remote workers - that was the central thesis of the book The Digital Nomad released in 1997. Fast forward to today and the global community has become a reality. In the 22 years since 1997, 4.3 billion people have come online with another 3.

There are plenty of lists out there with inspirational quotes to motivate readers to succeed or think differently about life. I'm a firm believer that while reading quotes of the day can powerfully guide you in the right direction and impact your thought patterns, it is taking action that matters most.

Whether running your own business or leading teams in an office setting, the best leaders require a strong set of leadership qualities to help positively interact with their employees, team members, and clients. Behavioral theories suggest that leadership skills aren't ingrained and can be taught - people can obtain leadership qualities through teaching and learning these skills over time.

In the digital age, your personal branding connects to your online presence. Everyone can stand out and project different versions of themselves into the world. Do you ever Google yourself? What do you find? What do your Tweets and social media posts say about you? Do you have a website to own your online real estate?

Landing any job isn't easy; landing your dream job is even more difficult. You need one of the best resumes to stand out. But that's just the beginning. Every career advice blog has one thing in common: a fixation on creating an excellent resume. The only problem is that almost all these blogs talk about regular stuff, like bullet points, sections you should include in a resume, the appropriate resume writing style, resume format, and a few basic resume templates.

“Productivity is a way to success,” most books and courses on entrepreneurship say. This statement becomes a motto for those willing to improve time management skills: the more you work and the more projects you have, the more money and the more success you get. In other words, you try to seize the unseizable.

I'm here to remind you that although you may have to work on Monday, pay your cable bill, and look presentable at that dinner party next weekend, you're floating on a f*cking rock through space. It took 13.8 billion years of supernovas exploding, galaxies colliding, clouds of gas cramming and condensing, compounds shifting and replicating, millions of generations of life on Earth, (and your parent's special moment at that Lynyrd Skynyrd concert), to perfect the miraculous, powerful human spirit that is you - the inside of a star made aware of its own existence.

Let's face it, motivating yourself is hard - getting up early and on time, eating a well balanced diet, actually showing up to the gym, balancing your work life and family obligations - it's difficult to juggle and prioritize all of these responsibilities. It takes serious, persistent, wake-up-in-the-morning-at-5am discipline to develop the daily habits that will change your life.

The best travel jobs allow you to make an income doing what you love while not being restricted to one location. It's tough to get a reprieve from your 9 to 5 job. Sadly, most people only get two weeks off in a year, which doesn't leave much room for traveling. And business travel can help to see new places, but it's tough to travel for an extended period of time.

There are currently 7.8 billion people on Earth - and the number this about to touch 8 billion in 2023, and 10 billion by 2056 . Unfortunately, the number of jobs isn't increasing fast enough to keep up with the growing population. Furthermore, statistics suggest that 174 million people are likely to be unemployed globally by the end of 2020.