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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Due Diligence: Research is Your First Line of Defense Before engaging with an executive search firm or recruiter, it is imperative to conduct comprehensive research to ascertain its credibility. Additionally, always exercise caution when opening files from unknown sources and keep your antivirus software current.

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How to Become a Wealth Manager: Skills & Duties for Portfolio Management

HR Digest

There are two ways to do it: a passive model method that is utilizing a software or a template or through a tactical allocation where analytical skills are utilized to arrive at an informed decision of what products meet the needs of your clients and which ones will give the desired returns in a time frame. Educational Qualifications.

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The Problem of Bolt-On Acquisitions in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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9 Habits That Lead to Terrible Decisions

Harvard Business Review

We developed a software application to offer that sort of encouragement. People could enter their development goals, and the software would send them reminders every week or month asking how they were doing, to motivate them to keep on going. Some of our users came up with a name for this type of software. Indecisiveness.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

At the storage and software company EMC Corp., In the startup world, venture capitalists compile data about how many pitches they’ve listened to, how many they put through due diligence, and how many they invested in. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

.” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Go it alone.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

Over 70% of freelancers have trouble getting paid at some point in their careers, according to research by the Freelancers Union , the non-profit group, that promotes the interests of independent workers. This requires due diligence, says Younger. It’s part of qualifying high-quality clients.”