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Bill Piker's Articles in Career

  • THE ENTREPRENEURIAL POTENTIAL QUIZ
    The 25 questions in this quiz are designed to measure competi­tiveness, self-reliance, patience, emotional stability, flexibility, objectivity, and other important entrepreneurial traits. When you've finished, you can total your score to see how you might fare as a business owner
  • Are You Ready to Own Your Own E-Commerce Business ?
    Starting a business is exciting and nerve-wracking. It will be one of the biggest investments you'll make during your lifetime. Not just financially, but emotionally as well. Doing it right will mean taking on a lot of responsibilities and making a lot of sacrifices. It will also mean working harder than you ever have before.
    ARE YOU READY TO RUN YOUR OWN E-Commerce BUSINESS
    If you are seriously considering a change of careers and considerating starting an E-Business you should consider carefully a number of factors and questions of yourself .
    Business ownership especially E-Commerce is not for everyone. If you don't have the right skills, personality, and commitment to operate a business, you'll be in trouble before you make your first sale. So before you begin planning your E-Commerce business, you need to take a hard look at yourself, your family, and your finances, and give honest answers to some very important questions.
  • Why Consider Offshore Banking for Your Personal and Financial Privacy in this Post 9 / 11 Era
    In this post 9 / 11 era you should consider offshore banking as a means of protecting your own and your family's personal and financial data and records from prying eyes .
  • Hedge Funds : Should You Consider Them for Your Portfolio ?
    " Hedge Funds " are both a trendy investment and an exciting play.

    The problem in this raidly changing fluid market is that both the terminolgy , concepts and practices change on an ongoing basis.

    Be fluent with both and you will be in a much better position to discuss your investment stategy and not be " buffaloed. into wrong choices .
  • Improve Performance through Positive Thinking and Behavior
    The importance of positive thinking and behavior can not be understated in your job search and / or career and new job promotions. Remember that everyday is a new life to a wise man.

    You can train yourself to have new ways of thinking and behaving to enhance your career , job prospects and way of life.

    The past need not be a barrier to your success in life.
  • Practice Self Talk and Positive Affirmation Statements in Your Life
    The importance of Positive Self-Talk as well as focusing with Positive Affirmation Statements cannot be overstated as tools to help you achieve your chosen goals.
    Most people do not understand the importance of the role that Positive rather than negative self-talk play in accomplishing the goals of their lives.
    Learn the simple basic rules of Positive Self Talk and well as focus on Positive Affirmation Statements and they most certainly will bode you very well along the path of life.
  • Strategies for an Effective Job Search to Get You the Job or Career You want
    In order to get that job or career that you ultimatly want it is most important to plan and organize your job search.
    Professional contacts in the field of your choice , research , networking and using employment headhunters are all very effective tools at your disposal .
    Plan your Job search . Research . Network .
    You will be on your way to the job or career that you really wanted all along .
  • Crisis Management Can Be The Important Key To Your Company’s Survival
    How a company handles a crisis illustrated that crisis management is often the key to a company’s very survival.

    Handled well it can prosper the company.

    Handled poorly it can very well destroy the firm itself.
  • Preparing and Obtaining Your Job References for Your New Job and Career
    Preparing and checking your job references thoroughly is a very important final step in completing your job search and resume preparation steps.
  • Job Interviews Give Them What They Want to Hear
    Job interviews. Each interviewer thinks that they are using new and novel techniques. Really it all goes down to the book they read this week or most likely last year.

    Preparation is everything in job interviews in order to give the interviewer the "right answers:.
  • Preparation for Your Job Interview is Everything
    Preparation is everything in life and as well in preparation for job interviews. You may think that it is fine to “run by the seat of your pants.” In your mind it may even be admirable.

    Preparation is not an option. It is everything when it comes to getting that job. Ultimately you should know more about the company or organization than the person inteviewing you.
  • A Job Interview Should not Unnverve You ?
    Do job interviews unnerve you? Think of it the other way around. The employer is there to convince you that you should invest your time and energy building a career over their dreams.

    It is not a matter of uprightness or conceitedness. You are willing to spend to devote your expertise, time and substantial effort into this enterprise. It is standard good concern.