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Successful Women executive in digital marketing

Wise Words of Women Who Thrive in Digital Marketing

Digital marketing is evolving at a rapid pace. Today, it is essential to implement digital marketing strategies in all businesses. It reinforces brand awareness and customer support and has the potential to earn higher revenues. However, there is an important issue to consider. A Digital Skills Gap Report made by the Digital Marketing Institute affirms that […]

More Emotional Intelligence Typically Means More Money

We have all heard about emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ). No wonder. We’re all emotional and passionate people. That’s what makes us human. But here’s the deal: Some humans deal with everyday emotions better than others. Therefore, it is crucial to access emotions in one’s personal life as much as they are in one’s […]

A Guide to Getting a Job Offer After Internship

Landing an internship is a HUGE win. It’s a great opportunity to cut your teeth in the workplace and you should congratulate yourself on getting ahead in the very competitive internship market. At worst, any internship is a learning experience and at best, it’s the first step to proving yourself at your dream company […]

What is a Career?

Generally, we tend to think about the career as only the professional life, which starts once we finish our studies and enter the job market and goes on till we retire from the professional world. Thus, we tend to think about a career as a series of jobs during our professional life. The word ‘Career’ […]

How To Build a Great Career: Five Tips

If you have read our earlier article on the definition of what a ‘career’ is, you will have more clarity on why it is important to think of the work you do in terms of a ‘career’ so that the paths you take will lead you to where you want to go, and what you […]

Networking for Personal Branding and Professional Growth

Even if you are not thinking of changing your career, it is important to keep in touch with your industry’s latest developments, what is happening, what people are doing, and the latest advances in technologies. Why is this so? This is because it is important to create and maintain long-term relationships with your peers, elevate […]

Differences Between Working for Non-Japanese and Japanese Companies

Understanding, accepting, and accommodating are crucial for success and enjoying working in a different cultural setup. Accepting everything can be debatable, but then change is always slow. Even if we wish to change a system, we must first become a part of the system to make people listen to us. And to become a […]

Behavioral Interview Questions: Examples and Tips

Behavioral interview questions are the tricky part of an interview, and you need thorough planning and practice answering them. This article will describe behavioral interview questions and discuss examples of such questions. Moreover, we will also cover tips for answering these questions, which are designed to check your behavior in different situations and analyze […]

The STAR Method to Prepare for Interview Questions

Preparing for an interview doesn’t need to be a nerve-wracking experience. You want to put your best foot forward and impress the interviewer. Of course, there will be questions, but you don’t know what kinds of questions you will get. Here comes the STAR Method to help you out with an organized way to answer […]

Why Soft Skills Matter for Career Success, and How to Develop Them

Recently, a survey among employers in the US found that “problem solving” was rated the most important skill for any employee to bring to the job. In the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook 2020 survey, a whopping 91.2% of respondents rated the possession of problem solving skills the most crucial attribute […]