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When you are interviewing for a position as a cashier, regardless of industry, you need to highlight your focus on customer service and accuracy. Companies want to hire cashiers who are good with money and good with people. Your goal is to show that you’re both. That means showing that you’re pleasant and reliable, as well as being a positive public face for the company. For many customers, you’ll be their only point of direct interaction with the organization, so it’s essential that you show you’ll make a good impression....

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The reality, when you talk about how to motivate employees, is that they’re already motivated. As a manager, you’re charged with figuring out how to tap into that motivation to accomplish work goals. Fortunately, you control the key environmental factors that are necessary to achieve this. Environmental Factors Under the Manager’s Control The most significant factor under your control is your relationship with each employee. This is the most significant factor managers control....

Rajeev Behera, CEO of the performance management platform Reflektive, once commented, “Praise, by definition, is expressing the approval or admiration of something or someone. Feedback, on the other hand, is information about a person’s performance of a task used as a basis for improvement. In other words, both feedback and praise can be positive, but feedback is always designed to improve performance.” Feedback should be aligned with your employee’s goals and skills, and designed to assist them with professional growth....

01 of 02 CGDGAD Alternate Tuning Tom Grill / Getty Images Listen to an mp3 of a guitar tuned to low C. Low C tuning is typically associated with Celtic music, although even amongst Celtic guitarsists, it’s not a common tuning. Although this isn’t a tuning you’ll hear about very often, low C can provide some really interesting sounds for guitarists willing to explore. One of the particular benefits of the tuning is the small amount of tonal space between the open third string (G) and the open second string (A)....

Success isn’t always easy, and the road to achieving it can be bumpy. Even some of the world’s most successful and famous people, including JK Rowling, Steve Jobs, and Oprah Winfrey, lost their jobs and overcame challenges before they became someone whose name almost everyone would recognize. When work is challenging, it can be helpful to read advice and quotes on how to succeed. Failing can also be a motivator that helps guide future success....

The Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice offers paid internships for college students from the New York City area who likely lack the financial resources to accept unpaid internships. Foundation president Darren Walker wrote in a 2016 New York Times op-ed that unpaid internships favor those who already are economically advantaged. “While some students take a summer job in food service to pay the bills, others can afford to accept unpaid jobs at high-profile organizations, setting them on a more lucrative path,” he wrote....

Selling is an art. But unlike many other art forms, the art of sales is something that most can learn. This doesn’t mean that everyone can be good at sales, however. Many people new to sales are tempted to jump right into learning how to close a deal instead of learning the foundations of sales. Customers Are Priority One For a sales job to be a sales job, you will be expected to sell something....

About one in thirteen adults (18+) have participated in at least one in multi-level marketing (MLM)—sometimes referred to as direct sales or network marketing—organization during their lifetime, according to the AARP Foundation. But do these people really make money doing multi-level marketing? What’s the actual likelihood of MLM success? Jon M. Taylor, Ph.D., founder of the Consumer Awareness Institute, set out to answer those questions by conducting comprehensive research and analysis of the compensation plans of more than 400 MLM companies....

Other insurance clauses explain how a policy will respond when other policies cover the same loss. Learn more about other insurance clauses and when they matter. What Is an Other Insurance Clause? Most claims insured under general liability and other policies are covered on a primary basis. For example, if a customer files a claim against your company for a bodily injury they sustained in a slip-and-fall accident on your premises, your liability policy should cover the claim first....

Personal and advertising injury is a defined term in most general liability policies, including the standard policies issued by the Insurance Services Office (ISO). Its meaning determines the types of offenses that are covered under Personal and Advertising Injury Liability. Personal and advertising injury coverage means injury arising out of one or more of the offenses outlined below. False Arrest, Detention or Imprisonment False arrest refers to the unlawful physical detention of a person....

Released in 2004 by Xbox Game Studios, Rise of Nations: Extended Edition is a real-time strategy game that spans all of human history. You start with a single city in the Ancient Age and slowly expand, conquering hostile nations as you enact your plans for global domination. The Extended Edition includes the base game and the Thrones and Patriots expansion. If you’re looking for some help, here’s a list of cheat codes....

Sports agents represent the interest of athletes, particularly in contract negotiations. They also handle sponsorships, public relations, and financial planning. Professional athletes often are signing their first professional contracts in their late teens or early 20s and rarely have the experience or education to fully understand the legal complexities involved. In the case of high-profile athletes, those contracts often are for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and athletes need guidance handling those finances....

Definition of Barline: A bar line (or barline) is a single vertical line used to divide a musical staff into measures. In piano music – or any music in which a grand staff is used – bar lines connect both staves throughout the composition; these are called “systemic barlines.” A bar line may also be referred to simply as a “bar.” However, in British English, bar is synonymous with measure. Other types of bar lines include the double bar, the repeat bar, and the final barline....

Landlords in New Hampshire have the right to collect a security deposit from their tenants.There are certain rules landlords and tenants must follow when it comes to these deposits. Here are the basics every landlord and tenant should know. New Hampshire Security Deposit Limit Landlords in New Hampshire cannot collect more than one month’s rent from a tenant as a security deposit. Landlords who own rental property that is considered a “shared facility,” such as a boarding house, are exempt from following this rule and can charge any security deposit amount they want....

When MTV launched in 1981, viewers struggled to find videos featuring Black artists. The network so sparingly showcased African Americans in its early days that Rick James and David Bowie publicly took it to task. Despite the channel’s embrace of Black musicians such as Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kanye West today, there’s no denying MTV’s rocky history with Black music. So, how did MTV shift from shutting African American musicians out in the early 1980s to routinely spotlighting their contributions decades later?...

Professional organizers are usually people who are highly organized themselves. They have a knack for knowing where everything goes and enjoy sticking to the system they have created. If you are one of these highly organized people, and you’re also interested in helping others reach the same level of organization, starting a small business as a professional organizer may be an excellent business idea for you. Professional organizers can work with many types of people and businesses to help them clean out their accumulated clutter, get organized, and create a system for managing documents or possessions going forward....

Below is the list of Tiger Woods’ wins on the PGA Tour throughout his career, numbered from the first (1996 Las Vegas Invitational) up to the current time. Also included here are Woods’ European Tour victories plus wins on other tours, along with a few more nuggets of interesting info and trivia. Where Does Tiger Rank on the Career Wins List? Woods’ 82 career wins ranks him first all-time on the PGA Tour career wins list, tied with one other golfer:...

Premise: In this slick slasher series – at least, in the first two entries – a mystery killer stalks and dispatches of victims in a manner modeled after urban legends. The third is a whole other animal, taking a single supernatural urban legend and expanding it into a film. Warning: spoilers ahead! Urban Legend (1998) © Tri Star A killer in a hooded parka begins killing people on a college campus in the manner of popular urban legends....

“Wowzers” is just a slightly sillier, slightly more exaggerated version of “wow.” The word isn’t an acronym like FTFY or WYD, nor does it have a complicated meaning. It is, however, a word that is more acceptable to use in certain situations than in others. How Wowzers Is Used Like the word wow, wowzers is a reactive exclamation. It can be used as a standalone word to react, or as part of a sentence that elaborates on the reaction....