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What Businesses Are Looking for When Hiring New Employees
Tired of sitting in an office cubicle at a dead end job? You’re not alone. As you read this there are hundreds of professionals in the workforce with similar sentiments. So if you’re looking to make...
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Phlebotomy: Your First Step in a Healthcare Career
Are you interested in a career in healthcare? It can be confusing to find your way into healthcare careers, especially if you didn't dive into a medically geared education after high school. Don't let...
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8 Tips for Choosing Your First Job in Healthcare
Choosing a career in healthcare is not only rewarding, but needed! According to a recent survey, there is a healthcare professional shortage in America due to baby boomers leaving the field and...
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Exploring a Day in the Life of a Phlebotomist
Thank you for reading our first blog in our newest series: A Day in the Life! In this series, we’ll explore a day in the life of a number of different healthcare positions. Let begin by taking a look...
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How to Improve Your Closing Rate by Becoming a Better Listener
Good salespeople often have the gift of gab. It’s important for them to be able to engage with customers and speak eloquently about what their selling. But to be truly great, knowing when not to talk...
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How to Take Your Project Management Skills to the Next Level
Being a project manager isn't easy. You have to keep your team motivated, and working, while ensuring they stay on schedule and on budget. It's easy to feel like you're not succeeding, or like you're...
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6 Types of Entry Level Healthcare Training That Can Get You Hired
The Portland Community College Institute for Health Professionals offers six entry level healthcare training courses that will get you hired. You can courses to become a certified nursing assistant,...
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Retail Sales Teams & Your Bottom Line: Are You Hiring the Best?
If you own a retail business, you understand how important sales are. They literally define your bottom line. But have you sat down and considered how important your retail sales team is? Today's...
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Best Practices and Ideas to Increase Foot Traffic in Your Retail Store
Are you wondering how to increase foot traffic to your retail store? Winning the loyalty of customers can be challenging, but it isn’t impossible. With a strong online presence, inviting store-front...
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A Look Inside: Pavement Services
An important part of owning a business is finding the right niche for your services. Just ask John Duval, an engineer and business owner based in Portland area. John owns Pavement Services, a business...
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A Look Inside: Oculus Fine Carpentry
Three hours southwest of Portland, along a scenic stretch of the Oregon coast, stands Heceta Head lighthouse. This classic lighthouse offers a spectacular view, towering two hundred feet above the...
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Why Your Retail Business Needs to be Online
Small business owners have avoided making real strides into developing a proper online presence because of uncertainty about how to design your website or use social media in a meaningful way for your...
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How Investing in Risk Management Training Can Save Your Business
In terms of modern risk management in the U.S., it of course existed before the financial crisis in 2008, but many of us have gained a whole new perspective on insuring against risk when the crisis...
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Exploring a Day in the Life of a CNA 1
In our continuing series, we're exploring "a day in the life of…" various entry level healthcare careers. If you're considering a job in healthcare, this is a perfect series to keep up with because it...
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6 Easy Tips to Enhance Your Retail Store Today
First impressions are everything. An inviting and well maintained store can help drive traffic and encourage sales. In this post we’ll look at six tips you can use to create a welcoming retail...
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A Look Inside: Green Drop Garage
As my colleague and I waited for Farhad Ghafarzade, the owner and founder of Green Drop Garage, I knew I wasn’t in an ordinary mechanic shop. A disco ball dangles from the ceiling, a pink feather boa...
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Top 5 Points for Brand Consistency Across Channels
While running a business, you've likely come to understand the importance of having a functioning, informative, and easily found website. Of course, just having a website isn't enough — you need to be...
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A Look Inside: Bombshells Salon
Walking into Bombshells Salon, you are immediately swept away by the class and elegance of the little converted house turned boutique salon in downtown Beaverton. April Orme and DaLynne McIntyre are...
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Top 3 Facets of Business Affected by Quality (and How!)
Maintaining a level of quality is imperative of business, no matter your product, service, focus, or industry. On the surface, how quality affects your bottom line seems obvious. It's also what could...
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A Look Inside: Yarnia
Yarnia is Portland’s only DIY yarn store. It’s tucked away underneath some plaza stairs on SE Division and 41st in Portland. When you walk inside you’re surrounded by brilliant colors of coned yarn...
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