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Top Tips for UAE Cultural Etiquette

Top Tips for UAE Cultural Etiquette

Over the past 2 decades, the UAE (Dubai in particular) has become a significant business and leisure destination. From its stunning architecture to its irresistible beaches, the UAE has redefined the art of hospitality in its central geographical location where “east meets west”. Learn the ins and outs of the Arab culture to make the most of your trip or relocation to this fascinating...

Top Tips for Job Search from a Recent Graduate

Top Tips for Job Search from a Recent Graduate

As steady progress is being made through commencement season, the relief of finally having completed a degree is slowly and surely being replaced with the panic of the endless abyss that is job hunting. As numbers of students graduating continue to rise exponentially, the need to set oneself apart from the crowd is more vital now than it was a generation ago. So what can be done to give one an...

The 4 Steps to Impactful Business Communication

The 4 Steps to Impactful Business Communication

We recognize that communication is a key skill for success and the driver for getting what we want and need, yet we often fail to recognize the most effective method of communication, the method of communication that supports shared understanding and purpose.

6 Top Tips to Get Along With Millennials at Work

6 Top Tips to Get Along With Millennials at Work

Companies are putting in serious efforts to make the millennials feel welcome without undermining those that came ahead of them. While it might be tricky, it is not impossible. After all, age is just a number!
Here are our top tips on how you can get along with millennials in the workplace.

Life After Graduation – What to Expect and How to Deal with it!

Life After Graduation - What to Expect and How to Deal with it!

Life after graduation is the tangible, petrifying “afterlife” of the average twenty-odd-year-old. While college may have initially been an overwhelming idea, four years and some incredible memories later, the last thing a college senior desires is to leave the comfort of the university and enter into the “real” world. Graduation life is a lot less happy-go-lucky than the years preceding it. Here...

What Are the World’s Most Powerful Languages?

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“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” This famous quote by Charlemagne is especially significant in an increasingly globalized world, where functionality in multiple languages may be considered as the passport of a true global citizen. Therefore in a world with over 6000 spoken dialects, what languages would be the most useful to maximize communication? The following is a list...

Top Tips For Graduating Successfully

Top Tips For Graduating Successfully

Although the four years spent at college is a stark contrast to the first 18 years, hundreds of thousands of students graduate every year from universities across the world, and go on to lead successful lives and careers.  Alternatively, there also remain those that do not make it through the rigors of college life. So what makes a good student and how does one go about successfully completing...

7 Essential Skills Every Call Center Agent Needs to Be Successful

7 Essential Skills Every Call Center Agent Needs to Be Successful

Even with state-of-the-art virtual contact center software with every feature available, the precise equipment, and numerous reporting dashboards, an effective call center is only ultimately as good as it agents. Statistics from the 2016 Customer Engagement Index survey conducted by [24]7 showed that 47% of customers were likely to take their business to a competitor within one day of...

Arabic Phrases Useful to Learn During Ramadan

Arabic Phrases Useful to Learn During Ramadan

Ramadan is a holy month in the religion of Islam and is marked by a time of required fasting. Observance of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. Ramadan takes place in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which is lunar-based., and therefore falls on a different date in the Gregorian calendar every year. Here’s our quick guide to useful phrases you should know in Arabic during...

10 Steps to Get Ready for a Leadership Role

10 Steps to Get Ready for a Leadership Role

A leadership role is the most pivotal position in a business. A leader has the power to sink their organization or make it soar. Contrary to popular belief, no one is born a leader. Leaders are made. It takes years of hard work, determination, and sacrifice to be a great leader.

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