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Why Do Employees Resign From Their Jobs? Even the best employer has employees resign. No matter your work environment or your positive employee relationships, employees resign for reasons that are beyond your control. Sometimes they resign for reasons that are out of their immediate control, too. They resign for new jobs and better opportunities for advancement. They resign to return to school or move across the country. They resign when their spouse takes a job in another state in a hard-to-find employment field....

Keeping multiple groups on the same page is one of the biggest challenges event planners face on a day-to-day basis. While everyone involved with an event wants it to be a success, without a defined path for communications, there will always be a chance for details to fall through the cracks. Preventing oversights can be avoided by establishing an information flowchart from the very beginning. Follow the guidelines below for keeping all sides working in the same direction....

Certified nursing assistants (CNA) are responsible for providing care to patients and helping them with daily activities. This is a hands-on caregiver role providing basic health care and assistance, and it typically occurs in a nursing facility, retirement community, or hospital setting, under the supervision of a nurse. CNAs are licensed in the state they work in, and certification requirements vary by state. In most, though, you’ll need to pass a state-approved training program and pass an exam to receive certification....

In the digital age, CDs and vinyl recordings have given way to downloads and streaming music services. To keep up with these new music delivery methods, Congress enacted the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA)—which was signed into law in October 2018—to make it easier for copyright holders to receive royalties for their musical works and sound recordings. What Is the Music Modernization Act? The Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (MMA), an amendment to the original U....

Severance pay is money that an employer might want to provide for an employee who is leaving their employ. Normal circumstances that can warrant severance pay include layoffs, job elimination, and mutual agreement to part ways, for whatever reason. Severance pay usually amounts to a week or two of pay for each year the employee supplied service to the company. For executives, the severance pay may even constitute up to a month’s pay for each year of service or whatever was negotiated in the senior employee’s contract....

Marketing is a crucial aspect of home business success. If people don’t know about your product or service, they can’t buy it. Some kinds of marketing cost money, such as website hosting and email list management services. However, some of the most powerful and effective marketing tactics don’t cost anything at all. More than anything, good marketing is all about knowing your market. What does your market want or need? How do you entice them (with words, graphics, or video) to check out your business for those wants and needs?...

Cookbooks. Cars. Coins. Comics. Trading cards. Department 56 Christmas villages. When we think of collections, these are items that come to mind. But there’s oh so much more up for the collecting. Across the world, hobbyists spend huge amounts of energy and income acquiring “special” items that would put your aunt’s case of Hummel figurines to shame. In many cases, collectors of oddball items enjoy a greater sense of camaraderie and community than those who go for standard things like stamps, spoons, and snow globes....

01 of 37 The Big List of Home Business Ideas Some people know exactly what they want their home business to be, letting that idea be their guiding principle in their quest to become an entrepreneur. However, the rest of us may need some help in figuring out what our dream business might be. This list is for the rest of us. These home business ideas vary widely in skills required, start-up costs and time commitments....

Great pay, great benefits. and fascinating work. All of these can be found with a career as a United States Secret Service agent. The Secret Service is the premier protective services agency, providing security services and dignitary protection to the President and Vice President of the United States as well high-ranking foreign visitors, from prime ministers to Popes. While probably best known for their vital role in protecting the leader of the free world, Secret Service agents play a huge part in ensuring the integrity of the nation’s financial infrastructure....

LinkedIn has a feature called “Company Profiles” that enables users to follow companies. These profiles often act as fact sheets to LinkedIn users and now these fact sheets just became a little more accessible and interesting. Company profiles are private unless you’re logged in, but then you can view them freely. It’s a brilliant move on LinkedIn’s part. LinkedIn has always been known as the professionals’ social network or B2B networking playground online, so this feature only makes sense....

The “bump and run” (sometimes called a “chip and run”) is an approach shot to the green typically played from close to the green’s edge, and that is struck in a way that the balls spends a minimum amount of time in the air before rolling the rest of the way (hopefully) to the target. Bump and run shots are very common on links courses and on golf courses in dry and/or windy locations, where greens and fairways may be harder....

Within the financial services industry, especially in Wall Street firms, compensation tends to be much higher than that for comparable positions in other industries. The lucrative revenue streams that many of these firms earn are only part of the equation. Just as important is the industry’s heavy emphasis on lean staffing and employee productivity. Especially in support or administrative functions, job holders frequently are expected to discharge a much wider range of duties than their counterparts elsewhere....

The LPGA Tour has been around since the early 1950s, and many great golfers have come and gone over that time. Which ones won the most tournaments in their careers? Key Takeaways: Most LPGA Wins The leader in LPGA Tour career wins is Kathy Whitworth with 88.Mickey Wright, with 82, is the only other golfer with more than 80.Five golfers have recorded at least 60 LPGA wins, six golfers have reached 50, 11 golfers have won at least 40 times on the LPGA Tour, and 17 have 30 or more wins....

An eye for fashion is important, but it’s not going to ensure your business is a success. Retail owners must understand how to buy and sell their merchandise to make a steady profit. They must be able to manage their inventory by determining how much merchandise to purchase, how to price the merchandise, and when to mark down the merchandise to encourage sales and move it out of the store....

Looking for a way to make passive income on the Internet? Consider creating and selling digital printables online. Below you’ll learn all there is to know on how to make printables to sell on the Internet. What Are Printables? Printables are exactly like they sound; documents that can be printed and used by consumers. Today, people need help organizing, planning, and more, and they’re buying printables to make these tasks easier....

As a musician, your demo is your calling card. It can help you expand your audience, and it’s your ticket to getting noticed by record labels, so it’s important to get it right. Contrary to popular belief, demo recording doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive. If your songs are great, listeners will hear it, no matter how much cash you spent on the recording. Here are some helpful tips....

You’ve read (and loved) The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien… So what fantasy novels or series should you read next? Here are a few recommendations that will take you away on adventures you’ll never forget as well as a few books that help explain some of these works. 01 of 10 Lord of the Rings After reading The Hobbit, the natural next step is to read J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous trilogy, The Lord of the Rings....

Online retailers are capturing a larger and larger proportion of consumer dollars, accounting for 10.2 percent of all retail sales in the first quarter of 2019. Many people enjoy the convenience of shopping from home and having purchases delivered to their door. Retailers who sell only or predominantly online—and are referred to as e-commerce companies or e-tailers—may choose to go public once they’ve gotten big enough and successful enough to draw the attention of Wall Street....

01 of 09 Touring the Troon Links in Scotland (and in History) The approach to the second hole at Royal Troon, the one called ‘Black Rock.’ It is a 391-yard par-4. David Cannon/Getty Images Royal Troon Golf Club is one of the famous clubs of Great Britain, whose Old Course is part of the Open rota of links courses where the British Open is played. The club dates to the 1870s and also includes a second 18-hole links, and on the championship course one of the most-famous holes in the world of golf, the one called “Postage Stamp....

There’s a sneaker that defines every era in our lives. In elementary school, we had the infamous strap-on sneaker. In high school, people wore K-Swiss, Cortez or Vans depending on which area code they lived in. And though trends come and go, memories don’t. Let’s see if any of these sneakers trigger back memories in your life – based on a sneaker you wore, or that was hot, at that phase in your life....