LinkedIn is the business world’s Facebook. On LinkedIn employers can search through profiles to find potential employees. If your profile stands out, then the jobs come to you! Put an end to your endless job searching. Think of a LinkedIn profile with as much importance as a resume. Now-a-days your profile is checked before...
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We All Need Help With Our Resume
By Marielle Bose-Moody, Braathe Marketing Intern
There is no universal best way to make a resume. You can however, make the best resume for you. Every person is different and has different skills and past job experiences they want to showcase on their resume. Well, what is the best way to display all of it on your resume? Should it...
How Score.org can Help you
By Marielle Bose-Moody, Braathe Marketing Intern
Starting a new business is difficult. How would you like to ease some of your worries and get some assistance? Score.org is a helpful website that can aid you in your new small business venture. They provide mentors in your area and workshops! If you don’t have time for a workshop or feel confident...
5 Ways to get Feedback
By Marielle Bose-Moody, Braathe Marking Intern
We all need answers. Whether it’s a response to know what’s for dinner, a yes or no to that date, or the answer to a math problem. Let’s talk about how to get feedback about your progress. It is difficult to move forward when you don’t know what you need to improve upon. Well...
How to Write a Resume
By Gigi Benami, Braathe Marketing Intern
Writing a resume may seem easy in retrospect, but when you’re sitting in front of your computer, looking at the cursor blinking, it may be a bit more difficult to figure out where to start. Begin by writing out a list of your achievements. Discuss past jobs, volunteering opportunities, your school history, and specific...
Interview Tips
By Oscar Marchi, Braathe Marketing Intern
Applying for a job is something that most people have to go through at least once in a lifetime. Often times included in this application process is a face to face interview with a manager or representative from a company. This is where that critical first impression is made and can often make or...
Stress Management
By Gigi Benami, Braathe Marketing Intern
Some days, it feels like life is throwing priorities at you like snowballs. It’s quite easy to become overwhelmed and unsure of yourself. When everything feels to be too much, write out all of your priorities. Take different colored pens or markers and create a game plan of what projects are easier to complete...
Tips to Help Companies Avoid Making Bad Hires
A lot of bad hires have to do with a lack of a standard interview process. In addition to not having a standard interview process, interviewers at many companies ask the wrong questions. They fail to ask questions that evaluate if the candidate would be a good fit for the company culture as well...
Teaming with Accelerators
by Rufus Wingfield III Business Accelerators can be very advantageous to making your startup business profitable. Accelerators are geared toward fast-tracking your startup, accelerating the pace at which it grows, helping you stand apart from others, and turning a profit the soonest. Selecting the right accelerator for your specific startup, together with choosing the...
How to Navigate HR Compliance
by Rufus Wingfield III Human Resources is one of the foremost and vital, yet daunting challenges for any startup or small business, and many midsized businesses. In addition to being the nucleus for administrating and operating the business, it is also, more times than not, the hub for meeting and maintaining regulatory compliance for...