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The gig economy has seen the world of work transform significantly, with the typical 9-5 job being pushed out to allow for flexible, independent side hustles to become the new way of earning a living. From pet-sitters and private tutors to delivery drivers and home chefs, the gig economy has grown dramatically over the last two decades, transforming the world...

By Jesse Sumrak As a small business, there will be times when you need money you simply don’t have. So when small business owners look for financing, a line of credit is usually a leading consideration. According to the Small Business Credit Survey, 86 percent of credit applicants seek a loan or line of credit for their business — for...

By Omer Molad Is a graphic designer at a major accounting firm the same job as a graphic designer at an early-stage startup? There is an obvious overlap is functional skills, but that’s where the similarity ends. A designer at startup will have limited resources and even less time. They’ll be required to “ship fast” because the clock is ticking and everything is...

By Jon Zacharias In the gig economy, you can crowdsource almost anything. From formal crowdsourcing, which often involves droves of freelancers doing data, writing or design work, to informal crowdsourcing, which might involve someone asking for recommendations or information on Facebook, millions of people reach out to the other millions on a daily basis. And you can do the same if you...

By Renee Duggan As you grow old, it becomes difficult to justify yourself in interviews, in companies which are full of young millenials. They see you as outdated and even if you possess the required skills, you're seen as unfriendly to the trendy culture of the organization. However, all is not lost. There are ways to get around these obstacles and...

By Omer Molad  First, let’s get one thing out of the way. Traditional interviews don’t actually predict performance. Rather, the best way to predict performance is to test job-related skills in context. Nevertheless, there is a place for interviews in the hiring process. Interviews are a useful tool to build rapport, and even start a relationship, with candidates after their skills have been validated. They can,...

By Dougie Beck  You may well have heard many apocryphal stories of people who have cancer not surviving because they had a negative attitude and those who did had a positive mindset. I don't know if there is any medical evidence to support this idea. But what I can say from my own experience of past 16 months of cancer treatment is...

By Major Sunil Shetty (SM) Retd This week Indian business community was shocked and deeply shaken to its core due to the untimely demise of VG Siddhartha. He was a billionaire and the entrepreneur who gave India its version of Starbucks. Those who have been following the Indian business environment; can vouch that its entrepreneurs, both seasoned billionaires, and novice startup founders...

By Benjamin P Hardy Life is busy. It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job and kids, it’s even harder. How do you move forward? If you don’t purposefully carve time out every day to progress and improve—without question, your time will get lost in the vacuum of our increasingly crowded lives. Before you know it,...

By Agnelo Rajesh Athaide The past decade has seen a wave of disruptive entrepreneurship across sectors, thanks to factors like technology enhancements, pro-SME/MSME government policies, open international trade opportunities, and focus on skill development and vocational training. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) India Report 2016-17, prepared by Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI) and its associates, 11% of India's...

Reaching the incredible milestone earning of $100 billion is currently held by only males, but who will be the first-ever female centi-billionaire and when is she predicted to achieve this monumental milestone? RS Components has analysed the fortunes of the world's wealthiest women to predict who will join Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to become the first female 'centi-billionaire'. Françoise Bettencourt...

Tech recruiters in 2019 face a surge of demand for specific tech skills up against a pool of tech talent out there which is becoming increasingly difficult to access. Now that we are already halfway through the year, we decided to look at the most relevant studies to date to understand these and other important tech recruitment trends emerging in 2019. We combed...

By Laira Martin Starting your own business comes with its fair share of unknowns. What will it look like in five years? Will it even make it five years? When will it be profitable? The list of questions never ends. Being an entrepreneur requires being comfortable with the uncomfortable. After all, if starting a profitable business were a sure thing, wouldn’t...

By Payman Taei Generally speaking, interactive marketing for your UK-based SME will be exactly what it sounds like: marketing collateral that is both created and presented in an almost entirely user-driven way. This doesn't necessarily mean it's the marketing equivalent of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book. You're not necessarily trying to turn your campaigns into a video game that your audience...

As the world undergoes climate change and new viral infections get discovered, healthcare systems are finding hard to cope up, constrained by their resources. Still, the countries that fare much better in happiness, ease of living and doing business, are also those that spend a large part of their GDP on healthcare. Free healthcare has become a prerogative in most...

By Vikash Mittersain Business managers and leaders, whether in large firms or small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), know better than anyone else the challenges of running and scaling a business. We deal daily with fierce competition, tight budgets, and demanding customers who eat into our already-thin margins. But as we look around us at the widespread adoption of digital tools like smartphones...