Career Development
How to Make Successful Employers Want You (2 Simple Steps) – By Tayo Solagbade
November 7, 2013









"All successful employers are stalking people who will do the unusual, people who think, people who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them." -- Charles M. Schwab You can get better career advancement opportunities from your current employer, and simultaneously attract better employers to come knocking on your door.  Simply implement the […]







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Career Development
How to Safely retire into Self-Employment (A True Story)
October 31, 2013









A client once told me how the first boss he worked for often told him: "Look Alooya, if you work 8 hours in a day for an employer, start making effort to work one hour per day for yourself as well. Think of things you can do for yourself to earn income that will benefit […]







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Career Development
Is Your Job Straining You?
October 24, 2013









Quick Tip: This article ends with a download link to the MS Excel template for my 10  item Employee Morale Guage Quiz, which you can customize for your use. People who don’t love their jobs are likely to feel this way (i.e strained) more often. But I’ve also met others who love their jobs, but […]







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Career Development
What Video Interviews Don't Reveal About What It Takes to Succeed
October 23, 2013









I have a deep passion for analyzing success stories, and extracting useful learning points from them. My most recent obsession has been ESPN’s video about how a guy, born without arms, rose to world class success as a vehicle engineer. The video however lasts only 7 - short - minutes. But It Actually Took That Guy 22 […]







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Career Development
NEVER Let Anyone Tell You What YOU Cannot Do! (Transcript Slideshow Version of ESPN’s July 21 “SportsCenter” Profile video about Richie Parker)
October 19, 2013









I created this PowerPoint slideshow (and published it on slideshare.net), to give people with poor (or zero!) connectivity, an alternative means of “learning” about Richie Parker. NB: To get the Power Point file version, CLICK HERE NOW to download it in a zipped folder (3MB approximately). === Read the article I wrote about Richie: It's titled […]







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Career Development
Announce Your Goals, and You'll Be Forced to Achieve Them
October 18, 2013









Just today, I replied to an enquiry by a facebook friend, about progress I’d made with my Pineapple Peel based drinks production project. He’s not the only one who has been asking me this question. Clients, friends and relatives have intermittently requested to know how far I’ve gone. Thankfully, I’ve always had significant progress to […]







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Career Development
All You Really Need Is Ingenuity...aka Creative Thinking (True Story: Man Born Without Arms Designs Championship Winning Race Cars)
October 17, 2013









How much effort do you put into doing your JOB each day? And how many times have you told your employer (or boss) you could do MUCH more...IF ONLY s/he would send you on some training, or buy some latest gadget for you to use? Well, I’m here to tell you (using the amazing achievements […]







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Career Development
He Called Me "Voleur" (Thief)!
October 12, 2013









In this article, I discuss one big mistake some non-Nigerian Africans seem to be making in thinking about Nigeria. To do this, I share a true story about a Francophone African undergraduate in his 20’s, who called me a thief - and meant it. Why? Because he daily saw me typing away on an Internet […]







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Career Development
Farm Business Can Give You a Safer Entry into Retirement (Part 2 of 2)
October 11, 2013









This is the second and concluding part of this article. The first part appeared here, yesterday (9th October 2013). Here's Why I Suggest You Start Your Farm Business SMALL, While You're Still In Paid Employment: I believe in the smart use of money. People who have suffered severe, potentially traumatizing lack of access to money, […]







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Career Development
Farm Business Can Give You a Safer Entry into Retirement (Part 1 of 2)
October 10, 2013









It's a fact of life. One day you'll retire from paid employment. Do you have a plan laid out for what you'll do post-retirement? This article discusses one proven vocation you can adopt, even before that day arrives, to ease yourself into safe retirement. Some Career Persons Try to Wish Retirement Day Away, By Refusing […]







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