Soft Skills List: The 9 Most Important Ones To Master
Here’s a little secret: If you can take on some of the traits on this soft skills list, it’s almost guaranteed to bring you major fortune in life, well beyond the workplace.
Liam Carnahan
Surviving a Toxic Work Environment: How To Deal (and When To Move On)
I’ll walk through the signs of unhealthy workplace culture and give you a step-by-step process to deal with the toxicity for good.
How To Close a Sale: Proven Strategies From Sales Pros
f you don’t know how to close a sale, you aren’t going to make it long in your...
Job Offer? 5 Signs the Position Has Opportunities for Growth
Determining whether a job will help you grow and learn when you’re still in the application and interview process can be tricky. But we’ve got a few tips and resources that will help.
Academic Burnout Is Real: Know the Symptoms and Solutions
Academic pressure is perhaps the biggest pressure—as students get older and move through high school and college, they take on more and more work, often balancing hours of homework on top of a full class schedule, plus finals, tests, theses, and more. Don’t let academic burnout jeopardize your mental health or your school career. Keep these signs in mind, and check in with yourself to see whether you might be approaching burnout.
The Best Apps for College Students (Plus Other Must-Have Resources)
Many students are balancing school and work at the same time, while also trying to plan their careers, navigate a rapidly shifting economy and job market, pick up new technologies that are still being developed—oh, and somehow have a social life, too. And don’t forget self-care! Your phone can also be one of your best tools to manage college life, as long as you have the right set of apps installed.
Question Everything: 6 Reasons It Pays to Think for Yourself
Learning to think for yourself makes a huge difference in life, and the sooner you start developing the brain muscles needed to question everything, the easier it will be.
How To Take a Professional Headshot (and Edit It to Perfection)
What if you don’t have the extra cash or time to hire a photographer? You’re in luck—these days, you can DIY a professional headshot with the camera on your phone and some simple editing tricks.
How To Find Internships (That Are Actually Worth Your Time)
It’s easy to think of interns as ambitious and naive worker bees whose eagerness makes them easy to exploit. Maybe they are sent on humiliating coffee runs or forced to perform mind-numbing tasks for no income. That perception of internships is outdated… mostly. The question is, how do you tell the good opportunities from the bad ones, and where do you find internships in the first place?
Why Adapting to Change Is a Workplace Superpower
Adaptable people don’t simply roll over and accept whatever comes their way. Rather, they look at change objectively, doing their best to remove their emotions from the equation as much as possible.