Category Archives: Career Useful Information

There are many career-based articles in this sub-category.

For What Career Path Are You Best Suited?

Are you uncertain about the best career path for you? Have you ever taken a career aptitude quiz? Here’s an interesting, easy, and fun “Career Decoder” quiz from Careerealism to encourage you to think more about your career options: “Using … Continue reading

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More Senior Women Executives Emerging in Retailing

After a very long period in which men have dominated the senior executive positions in retailing, more women have now ascended to top positions. As Laura Heller writes for FierceRetail: “Change has been slow to come to retail. And that is … Continue reading

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A Valuable Site for Retail Startups

The Retail Startup is a Web site operated by the popular Retail Owners Institute (an organization we have referenced several times before — see, for example, 1, 2, 3): “The Retail Owners Institute has developed this site as a kind of … Continue reading

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