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Getting Started

Welcoming and Onboarding new Virtual Team Members

When you are working with a virtual team, it is essential to make sure that everyone feels welcome and knows what they need to do to be successful. Onboarding new team members can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be.

The following blog will discuss the best ways to welcome and onboard new virtual team members. It will also provide you with some tips on making the process as smooth as possible for everyone involved.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started

3 Practical Tips For Making A Career Change Into Healthcare

Over the years, people found the need to make career changes to improve their quality of life. While some were successful at it, others couldn’t keep up with the change and ended up returning to their previous careers. In 2020, 80% of workers felt the need to switch because they saw no advancements in their respective careers.

Therefore, if you find yourself among this group and are probably considering switching to healthcare, these tips may be useful.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started

How to Land Your Dream Career

Perhaps you’ve recently graduated from college or university and are having trouble charting out a suitable career path. Well, maybe you already have a 9-5 job but are dissatisfied with your present position. Landing your dream career may appear to be a challenging task, but it is possible with determination, perseverance, and consistency.

The standard advice for selecting career paths is “Do what you love”, however, how do you achieve that dream career, the career you truly want to pursue? To land the career of your dreams, you must first figure out what you want to do and what attributes you are looking for in a position.

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Career Change, Getting Started

3 Careers For Empathetic People

Empathy is a quality that is highly prized and – it sometimes feels – all too rarely shown. In truth, it is a character trait that can often be a weakness, not because it’s a bad thing to be, but because it makes you vulnerable. Spend too long watching TV, and you can easily find yourself, as an empathetic person, being turned off a lot of careers. Investment banking? Too callous. Law? Too cynical. Teacher? Too frustrating, and so the list goes on.

Even jobs which from the outside seem ideal for empathetic people might be a step too far. The idea of becoming a veterinarian or a nurse may seem ideal to begin with, but for someone who fully feels their emotions and those of others, they can be heartbreaking on a daily basis. So you have to choose carefully, and below we have some examples of jobs which could be ideal for an empathetic person.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started, Interviews, Job Search, The Immigrant Worker

How To Pass Your Technical (or Tech Company) Interview

You’ve been able to tweak your resume for your technical interview using the tips we shared previously. With no experience in the tech industry, how do you ace your first technical interview?

This is probably going through your mind and explains why you are here. We’ll answer this question for you by providing trusted tips and tricks as well as direction to help you make the best of this opportunity.

This article is also helpful for any person who isn’t necessarily going in for a technical interview which requires high coding knowledge. So it can be applicable for product management, sales development roles, etc. If this is your first interview at a tech company, then you should check this out!

We’ve also included tips from interviewers we have worked in the past with. So this is up to date utilizing recent interview experiences from some of our clients as well as our knowledge.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started, Job Search

Landing Your Dream Job During a Pandemic

The honest truth is everyone wants to find some version of their dream job! If we are being completely blunt, we’ve made this statement at one point or the other at various stages of our career.

It often feels like there is a lot of pressure in life to find your dream job. So many people out there talk about how they’ve found a job that they are passionate about and others feel like they deserve that as well, which is only fair. However, most often than not, the job you’ve worked so hard enough to actualize might turn out to not be as you expected. For example, you might begin to feel unfulfilled after some time on the job.

Alternatively, you might outgrow something that you always thought you wanted to do from childhood. And all of a sudden, it no longer feels like a job that you are interested in. This can feel intimidating given all the time you must have spent training and trying to accomplish the goal of getting the ‘dream job’.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started, Job Search, The Immigrant Worker

Step by Step Guide: How to Choose a Career

Some people are fortunate to easily find and choose a career path. Some other people are in between and have to figure things out. In this article, we’ll help you figure out how to discover your career if you currently have no clue what you are doing.

Whether you are an immigrant looking to get into a career that interests you in your new country or simply a person who wants to feel fulfilled in your job, this is the post for you.

The fact that we spend a number of hours working should be enough reason for you to want to be in a job that makes you feel fulfilled. We’ll provide you with a detailed approach to finding a career that aligns with your passion and interests.

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Career Change, Getting Started, Job Search, The Immigrant Worker

Step-By-Step Guide: Cover Letter For the US & Canadian Job Market

A cover letter adds an extra touch to your job applications and definitely helps you stand out from the crowd. Many people may think that they aren’t necessary, however, a number of employers and recruiters still note that cover letters help in setting a candidate apart.

Imagine a recruiter receiving thousands of resumes with no accompanying cover letter – and then you send out your application with one! You’ll definitely be remembered.

So how can you write a killer cover letter that not only tells you apart from the crowd but also displays you as a qualified candidate? When will you need a cover letter? We’ll be sharing in-depth information on this in this article as well as answering every other question you may have regarding cover letters.

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Career Change, Getting Ahead, Getting Started, Job Search, The Immigrant Worker

Step-By-Step Guide: How to Negotiate your Job Offer

From understanding negotiation tactics to learning the right things to say when you want to negotiate, it can feel like a lot of work and sound intimidating! But, by now you are probably tired of failing to negotiate or to win when negotiating if at all.

For you to feel better prepared, we’ll share information that will help you win when negotiating your job offer so that you can feel confident and fulfilled in taking up your next opportunity. It’s a skill that can be mastered.

In the scenario we’ll be discussing, this negotiation will come in handy after you have been verbally offered a job and want to counter offer.

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