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Incorporating Modern Tools in Managing Your Network

  The goal of networking has always remained the same - make new connections, find peers within your industry, and find out how you can help others and how they might be able to help you. While

Effective Networking With Social Media Avoids a Buckshot Approach

  Has this happened to you? You establish a business connection via social media. That person responds with sending you plenty of information about their company or organization that has virtual

Managing Entrepreneurial Stress… Even When You’re Not the Boss

The Edge, Vaco

  In today's hierarchically flat, always-on work environment, more and more low- and mid-level managers are expected to manage their departments like small business owners, presiding over their

Job Hunters, Beware

There's been no shortage of warnings about the career dangers of posting racy content on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Yet many job hunters still don't heed that advice, and others don't realize th

Characteristics and Competencies of a Financial Champion

Jimmy Mullens, Vaco

During the interviewing and hiring process in finance and accounting, the hiring manager must satisfy himself of the candidate's ability to meet two criteria.  First, does the candidate's backgro

Need to Elevate Your Performance - Tap Your Inner Circle

by Jimmy Mullens CPA, Vaco

In today's global economy one truism is greater now than ever before. One must elevate their performance in order to not only succeed, but survive. John P. Kotter wrote in his book titled Leading Chan

How to Build Your Leadership Self-Confidence

Excerpt from AICPA TheEdge You'll be hard pressed to find a successful corporate executive or large firm partner who lacks confidence in their ability or decisions. But if you're like the rest of us,

30 Seconds on Leadership

Dan Davies , Vaco Raleigh

  Worthiness - From the very beginning of life we want to be noticed. Babies crave eye-to-eye contact with their mother and other care givers. If they fail to grab their attention they quickly b

Six Resume Must-Haves for CPAs (excerpt from AICPA The Edge)

  The average resume receives less than one minute of a recruiter's attention. That's about the amount of time it takes them to decide whether or not you are a serious candidate. And with the re

Is Consulting the right career path for me?

Vaco Author, Vaco Raleigh

Consulting has been around for years, but is becoming increasingly popular with the US workforce. Many professionals are attracted to this career path in the pursuit of work life balance, while o