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5 Things You Need to Consider Before Getting An MBA

The Master’s in Business Administration is a highly sought-after degree that can provide you with various benefits. Those with an MBA hold higher management positions, whereas those without it tend to work at lower levels. The MBA allows them to negotiate a higher salary and secure a job in a highly competitive business community.

MBA degree considerations

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The degree can prove very useful to your long-term career plans if you are interested in jobs in a business-related field, such as management or as a company founder.

However, an MBA does come with trade-offs, as you will need to invest your time, energy, and effort in pursuing the degree.…

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How to Make a Great Career Choice

Recent graduates and career changers ask themselves, “What type of career should I choose?” Although excited about choosing a meaningful direction in life, they also feel uncertain about the right path to take.

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If you’re unsure what you want to do for a living, overwhelmed by your options, get creative. Explore novel options. Today, it’s easy to research any career. Read about different ones in books or magazines. Go surfing online. Talk to people in the field.

Here are three examples of interesting careers.

1. Travel Physical Therapist

This is a wonderful career if you’re interested in healthcare and love to travel.…

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8 Essential Elements of a Sales Training Video

Employees spend an average of 8 hours per week on company-sponsored learning and development. If you’re like most sales organizations, you might be wondering what tools and channels to use for your employee training and development efforts. Video has emerged as a leading tool for content delivery since it’s now accessible everywhere with the proliferation of high-speed internet networks.

Sales training video

Video is also an effective sales and  sales leadership training tool for your salespeople. It has already been written about the benefits of using short videos to drive sales effectiveness, but how can you create a sales training video? Here are eight essential elements that go into any successful corporate video.
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Why Cybersecurity Is More Important Than Ever for HR Specialists

Right now, it seems like cyberattacks are on a steady rise. 2021 is already a record year when it comes to data breaches. Pinpointing only one reason behind it is impossible. However, the need for remote work opened up many opportunities for cybercriminals. The outbreak of COVID-19 allowed hackers to take advantage of remote workers and their lack of cybersecurity knowledge.

Cybersecurity issues

So how do human resources (HR) specialists fit into this? HR specialists are in charge of data that is attractive to cybercriminals, such as personal information, the list of clients, salaries, and so on. Not to forget that HR had to switch to hiring people online during the pandemic.…

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How Businesses Can Avoid Workplace Retaliation

When an employer punishes an employee for exercising their rights, this is known as workplace retaliation. This punishment can be any action that may be construed as adverse and hinder an employee from pursuing legal action. Workplace retaliation can happen for a variety of reasons, but sexual harassment and racial accusations are two of the most common.

Workplace retaliation claim

However, even though it happens a lot, it’s illegal for your employer to retaliate against an employee for filing a sexual harassment or a racial discrimination complaint. Retaliation charges are usually harder to drop than the original claim.

Businesses often find themselves walking into a retaliation complaint due to easily avoidable mistakes.…

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Make the Right Hire for the Following Positions

If you run a medium sized business ranging from 100 to 999 employees, it is imperative that you make the right hires. At that size, you are going to always be in a state of hiring just to maintain your numbers. That is because there will always be employee loss.

Hiring employees for key company positions

Workers will walk away in search of something better. You will always have to let some go who turned out not to be a good fit. And there will always be some who get sick, or worse. If you are not always doing replacement hiring, your numbers will shrink. To grow your numbers, you have to bring in more people than you are losing.…

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How to Deal with a Toxic Co-worker

You come across different types of people throughout your career. You might connect to some individuals on a deep level, making them your work best friend. On the other hand, you might also meet some people that make your workplace a living hell. When you’re bothered about a co-worker that has a significant impact on your mental health, you might be dealing with someone toxic.

Coworkers serious conversation

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Whether your co-worker is being toxic on purpose or unknowingly, it can alter how you feel at work. There are six types of toxic employees, including the slacker, gossip, lone wolf, emotional mess, and close-minded know-it-all.…

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A Non-Clinical Healthcare Career: From Economics to Administration

When people think of the healthcare sector, an image of a doctor or nurse likely springs to mind. Yet, there are many more occupations that support patient care, efficiency, and department operations.

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If you don’t have a desire to enter a clinical field, many other paths provide exceptional salaries, a rewarding working life, and many career opportunities.

Make a positive difference to a community by learning about some of the best non-clinical healthcare careers.

A Healthcare Economist

Healthcare organizations must juggle various financial challenges alongside adhering to many laws and regulations and improving patient standards. For this reason, the sector is reliant on intelligent, skilled healthcare economists to provide insightful financial guidance.…

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5 Tips to Keep Employee Morale High

Your employee’s morale is very crucial in determining the productivity of your business. Therefore, you need to ensure that the employees are content and happy as they perform their duties. With the right morale, workers will get their assigned tasks done within the stipulated time.

Employees with high morale

While it might be impossible to make everyone happy and content all the time, it is your responsibility as an employer to create positive morale for your workers. If your firm is flourishing with pessimistic morale and negativity, then its productivity levels will decrease. Generally, low production is something you would not wish to deal with within your company, thus the need for small actions to help you boost and keep your workers’ morale high.…

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How to Manage a Remote Staff Effectively

Though many people hoped that the world would have already turned back to “normal” in the wake of COVID-19, we are still in the midst of a pandemic. Unfortunately, the virus continues to impact individuals, businesses, and governments across the globe. Moreover, many of the changes that came with the novel Coronavirus are likely here to stay; remote work just happens to be one of them.

Remote working for business success

Now, many businesses are seeing the inherent benefits of having a remote staff. Remote workers generally require less overhead and, in many instances, can provide better output than they could in person. However, this doesn’t make the task of managing a remote workforce any easier.…

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