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The Dumbest Mistakes Employers Make When Hiring
Everyone makes a mistake at least once. We're human. But you'd think employers would stop making THESE mistakes. (These are all things that have happened to me, or to someone I know well.)
By C.C. de Vere6 years ago in Journal
All That You Need to Know About eCommerce Order Fulfilment
For all those who do not understand what order fulfilment is—it is a sequential process of storage, pickup-up and packaging of products to ship them to the final customers. Of course, all this process needs to be initiated by the customer through online eCommerce platforms. An eCommerce company or a third-party logistics provider can handle this order fulfilment process.
By Natalie Ige6 years ago in Journal
How to Select the Best Residential Electrical Services?
Electricians are needed in every home and business from time to time for various services. Several electricity-powered gadgets and machines are used in homes and business premises every day. One cannot imagine the modern lifestyle without electricity. So for working on the electrical gadgets all year round, one needs to hire professional electrical services from time to time.
By Elley Santhow6 years ago in Journal
Universal Placement
Can I see your toes? A little while ago, I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about job interviews, our talk was pretty varied and we covered the recent revelation of one interviewer where he checks to see if the interviewee returned their coffee cup to the kitchen, and the dress code debacle (apparently toes are now offensive), among other things.
By Sam Carlson6 years ago in Journal
An Actors Conundrum
We actors live in such a conundrum. We chose a profession where our craft requires us to be the art that's on display. A painter, sculptor, poet, and other similar forms of art that are consumed by the public, can personally stand apart from the work they put out. We as actors cannot. We're it. Yet to really do our work well, we also must learn to step away from it. Therein lies the conundrum. How does an actor successfully allow the story they're telling to be front and center, without that nagging self-consciousness of the awareness of being seen creeping in? It's my belief that this is what Stanislavsky, and others before and after him, were in search of. They knew that an individuals default mode was, to put it in the words of Laurence Olivier when Dustin Hoffman asked why he thinks they chose this profession, Olivier replied… “Look at me, look at me, look at me.”
By Vince Bandille6 years ago in Journal
Tracking the Shopping and Buying Behaviors of Your Customers
Tracking the shopping and buying behaviors of your customers can help you to create a more positive experience for those individuals, enabling you to customize each person’s experience with your business and more effectively tailor your marketing tactics. In doing so, you can boost your sales and increase your business’ success. So, how exactly do you do this? Here are four tips for tracking the shopping and buying behaviors of your customers.
By Kevin Gardner6 years ago in Journal
What's in a Character?
Like a lot of writers during this time of the year, I'm participating in NaNoWriMo. If you don't know what that is, it's a challenge writers participate in every November to write 50,000 words in 30 days.
By fairy godwriter6 years ago in Journal
13th Floor Haunted House 2019
During the spooky season of this year, I had the opportunity to work as a scare actor at 13th Floor Haunted House. The idea of working there for a while came from a combination of casual job searching and the idea that it would bring closure to me as someone who usually can't go through haunted houses without an extreme reaction. No one said being a scare actor would be easy, but there were also good things that came from working there for the season.
By Monique Star6 years ago in Journal
Manufacturing in China: The Ultimate Guide for Non-Pros
1. Getting Your Design Ready Before you go through all the steps of getting a product made in China, you need a killer design. Your product doesn’t become a hit when it goes on sale. That actually starts in the design phase.
By Amanda Hughes6 years ago in Journal
6 Secrets to Great Paintings
It's a struggle to get a great painting, you work at it for hours even days and still can't seem to get that beautiful finished professional look, but if you do these 6 things you will be amazed at the end results and you will be proud of your work finally.
By Allison Prior6 years ago in Journal
Combat Writer’s Block
NaNoWriMo is something I’ve tried to participate in every year. Every year, I fail pretty hard at even approaching that 50,000 word count we all aspire to. I pick at bits and pieces of short stories and novels, never quite hitting the mark on any of them. Now, at the halfway mark of this year, I find myself ahead of schedule in the mid to high 20k range for my word count on a novel I literally conceived on November 1st.
By Sam6 years ago in Journal
My eCommerce Journey | Part 3 | Our First Lesson
It's been several weeks since I last updated this blog. A lot has been going on for me. If you read Part 1 of my eCommerce Journey, you'll know that mental health has played a large part of my year. I've been tackling it, slowly but surely.
By Jake Dawson6 years ago in Journal