The 12 Best Free Photoshop Plugins for Designers
While Adobe Photoshop is a powerful, creative platform, using plugins can help to extend its capabilities and use it to its full potential. Using an add-on can help you perform tedious or difficult tasks in ...
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Our Seattle Office Crash!
This past holiday season we had the chance to celebrate the holidays in unique fashion. Four members of our staff traveled from Chicago to Seattle and once again, we were accompanied by our ...
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Interesting article on brainstorming!
The myth of the brainstorming sessionOver dinner a couple months ago, one of my friends said he needed some help coming up with a name for a new website.He told me a bit about the ...
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The Triangle of Happiness Calculates How Happy You Are With Your Job
Most of us know if we're happy or unhappy at work, but if you'd like a more precise calculation of your job satisfaction, take this quiz called the Triangle of Happiness.It's called that because three ...
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A Better Way to Group Brainstorm
Over dinner a couple months ago, one of my friends said he needed some help coming up with a name for a new website. He told me a bit about the site and asked if ...
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60 Plus Tools for Today’s Innovator
Almost everyone wants to be known as innovative, to be an innovator. Companies and individuals seek to demonstrate that they are capable of “out of the box” thinking, as the saying goes.I have recently worked ...
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TED Talks: 5 great talks on work
Popular business author Dan Pink picks his 5 favorite TED Talks on how to find greater success at work.Check it out on ted.com!
How You Succeed At Every Job Interview!
I´ve been intending to write today´s blog article for a long time. One reason being that over the years I´ve seen many candidates who have been very good in job interviews and who got the ...
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The Best and Worst Careers, Based on Job Outlook and Work Environment
Check out this interesting infographic highlighting the best and worst careers! Via lifehacker.com.
10 Words to Avoid on Your Resume
You are a person that still needs a resume to get a job in today’s world of networking and making contacts. We don’t believe that you’re fresh out of university, or high school, but maybe ...
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15 Business Etiquette Rules Every Professional Needs to Know
Professional social situations can be awkward.The rules are slightly different from standard social settings, yet business schools rarely discuss professional etiquette topics.In her new book "The Essentials Of Business Etiquette," Barbara Pachter writes about the specific skills ...
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12 Ways to Optimize Your Resume for Applicant Tracking Systems
You filled out the job application, updated your resume and clicked “Submit.” But as the days or weeks pass, you never receive a phone call or email from the employer. What happened?Unbeknownst to many job ...
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A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings
Ask your team to identify their biggest productivity killer and inevitably two issues will rise to the top of the list: managing their inboxes and their meeting schedules. I'll tackle the former in a future ...
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Social Media Infographic inspired by Game of Thrones
Do you work with social media? Check out this Informative and fun Infographic via HootSuite!
CMOs: Build Digital Relationships or Die
The term "digital disruption" sounds painful. The word disruption implies that things are going to get broken up. But for companies that take advantage of what digital can do, disruption will have the opposite effect. ...
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Don’t Accept An Offer Without Asking These Questions
Job seekers who have been looking for new opportunities for months, or even years, are unlikely to spend a lot of time and effort evaluating a new offer before signing on the dotted line. If ...
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Companies Try to Make the First Day for New Hires More Fun
Why is the first day on the job often the worst?New employees tend to be greeted with stacks of benefits paperwork, technology hassles and dull presentations about company culture.But some companies—hoping to create a first ...
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Three Ways to Get Unstuck in Your Career
Are you’re constantly overlooked for a promotion that never comes? Do you grind away at the job you think you have to do instead of DOING the job you want to do? Do you think ...
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Creating the Best Workplace on Earth
Suppose you want to design the best company on earth to work for. What would it be like? For three years we’ve been investigating this question by asking hundreds of executives in surveys and in ...
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5 ways to address a cover letter besides ‘To whom it may concern’
One of the most common pieces of job-seeker advice we give on The Work Buzz blog is to personalize application materials as much as possible. This includes the addressing of your cover letter. There may be ...
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Work-Life Balance: Can Americans Learn a Lesson from European Nations?
A woman works with analytics at a PR firm. She’s up and out the door at 6am and doesn’t return home until 9pm. On weekends, you’ll find her nose stuck in her laptop doing more ...
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