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Deborah Walker's Articles in General Business

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  • Calling All Recruiters—Is Anyone Out There?
    Introduction: If you've sent out your resume for dozens of jobs and no one is responding, it's time to find out why.
  • Sales Skills that Strike Gold at Trade Shows
    Don’t spend thousands on trade shows to get little or no sales! Learn the secrets of making trade shows work for you, and generate solid sales leads that will impact your entire fiscal year.
  • The Secret to Quick Revenue Growth: Learn to Hire the Best Sales Team
    Entrepreneurs: growing your business often means hiring a sales team. Do you know how to test their selling skills before you hire them? Find out how hire the most skilled sales professionals to propel the profits of your company.
  • Hire Smart: Four Great Interview Questions to Hire Great Sales Staff
    For the self-employed, growing your business often means hiring sales staff. Avoid the hiring traps that lead to sales staff turnover. Find out how to hire the right salesperson the first time.
  • From Pizza Guy to Professional: Three Resume Tips for New College Grads
    Are you are struggling to find your first professional job after college? Don’t be like many who fumble from one dead-end job to another before finding just the right position. Start your career off right with a resume that grabs employers’ attention. Here are three resume tips for new college grads that will transform your career image from “pizza guy” to “professional.”
  • Top 10 Interview Bloopers...and How to Avoid Them
    Learn from the mistakes of others and avoid the top 10 worst interview blunders.
  • Get Back To Work! Three Tips for Women Re-Entering the Job Market
    If you are a woman returning to work after an absence from professional life, how do you regain the momentum lost during your time off? Here are three tips to help women and mothers make the most of their back-to-work efforts.
  • Is Your Resume Recruiter Friendly?
    In today’s competitive job market, employers rely heavily on recruiters to screen out all but the top few applicants. Is your resume recruiter-friendly? Beat out your competition as the employer’s first choice to interview with these tips on creating a recruiter-friendly resume.
  • 3 Tips for Hiring the Right People—and 2 Traps To Avoid
    Are bad hiring decisions cutting into your bottom-line profits? Learn how to save time and money in the hiring process by determining quality candidates and avoiding risky applicants.
  • Is It Time To Update Your Resume?
    If a recruiter called you today with your dream job, are you prepared to send out an up-to-date resume right away? If a position within your own company opened up are you ready to put your best foot forward to win the job? If you’re not sure, read to find out the four most critical times to update your resume.
  • Do You Know the ABCs of Career Change?
    Job seekers—if you are seeking to make a significant industry or occupational career change, your resume might be working against you. Read about the ABCs of Career Change and take the fast lane to a new career!
  • Escaping the Boss From Hell: Three Steps to a Better Career
    Do you hate your job? If you wake up each day dreading the next eight to ten hours, you might be working for the boss from hell. You don’t have to live with extreme employment dissatisfaction. Find out how you can take charge of your career and be happy on the job once again.
  • Avoid the Top Five Resume Mistakes
    If you are not getting interviews from your resume you may be committing one or all of the five most common resume mistakes. Read to find out how to update your resume to capture potential employer attention and get more interviews.
  • Behavioral Interviews—3 Steps to Great Answers
    Behavioral interviews often make candidates sweat with anxiety. With the right interview preparation, you can turn nightmare behavioral questions into opportunities to sell yourself. Before your next interview learn the three steps to perfect behavioral interview answers.
  • Three Key Survival Skills for New Business Owners
    Statistics show that most new businesses fail in the first year. Entrepreneurs can beat the odds by practicing three key survival skills for new business owners: self-reliance, self-direction and resilience. Read how to put these skills into practice and watch your new business thrive.
  • The Warning Signs of Career Disaster
    Can you read the warning signs of career disaster that appear on your horizon? If not, you could find yourself without a job and unprepared to position yourself for your next career move. Learn to read the signs that indicate it’s time to take career action.
  • Baby Boomers, Beware! Don’t Let Your Resume Date You!
    Feeling symptoms of age discrimination in your job search? Your resume could be the culprit, categorizing you as out of date and over the hill. So, don’t get a face lift; get a resume make-over!
  • Do You Know the Five Steps to Customer Loyalty?
    Small business owners, do you know the one sure way to win against your competition in the fight for market share? Read to find out the key factor that will keep your business strong and thriving in the toughest market conditions.
  • How to Ask for a Raise—and Get It!
    Are you long over-due in asking for a raise, even though you know you deserve it? Don’t let lack of confidence and fear of failure hold you back any longer. Learn insider tips on how to ask for a raise with confidence—and get it!
  • Three Reasons Networking Events Increase Your Referral Business
    As every entrepreneur knows, referrals are the lifeblood of small business. Attending networking events hosted by your professional association, chamber of commerce or college alumni group lead to increased referral business. There are three key reasons that networking for referrals makes good business sense—especially for entrepreneurs.
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