Featuring the Best in Career Advice, Digital Marketing and Franchising

A 2016 BNP Paribas Global Entrepreneur Report shows that, when it comes to business, millennials are extremely active and savvy. On average, millennial businesses are started at around age 27, where baby boomers would have started around age 35. 

What’s perhaps more interesting about millennial generation entrepreneurs is that they have a turnover of over 40% more than baby boomers.

Are you a marketing professional interested in working in a different field or company, but don’t quite know how to make the leap? Looking to transition from sales to another career? Sometimes change is good, and for many marketing and sales professionals, the transition to digital marketing careers is a worthy investment of your time and skills.

If you were to ask youngest workers what do millennials want in a career, many of them would probably say that finding a fulfilling job is more important than the details of the job itself. But when you actually examine millennial dream job ideas, some of them are overly idealistic, and it’s possible that this lack of a realistic perspective is hindering generation Y’s job growth and professional potential. With that in mind, today we’re going to talk about how to effectively evaluate millennial dream jobs in 2018, how to make sure that your expectations are realistic, and how to avoid being disappointed by a dream job.

Maternity and parental leave were created to ensure that mothers and parents aren't penalized for leaving the workplace temporarily to raise children, but that doesn’t mean that every woman who takes mat leave will actually return to the workplace. In fact, when you look at how many mothers return to work after mat leave, about 10 percent of women don’t go back within a year, and as many as 43 percent of highly qualified women with children are leaving their careers at some point in their lifetimes. It’s clear that some women don’t return to work after having children, and today’s discussion will tackle some of the more common reasons behind this decision.

Being a mother is an enormous but rewarding responsibility, and many women wonder whether they’ll be able to balance home life and work in a way that allows room for both. While it’s not always possible to be a working mom in a traditional workplace, there are career options that allow women the freedom and flexibility they need to succeed as both mothers and entrepreneurs, and a WSI digital marketing franchise is among the best and most affordable opportunities of this kind.

Have you been looking for a way to build brand awareness and authority in your new business or startup?

Carving out a spot for yourself among the entrepreneurs of today can be a challenging task that requires thought and research at every step. Even something as seemingly simple as choosing between a traditional versus a new age business can demand attention and resources, and this can make it difficult to choose the right type of business for your career path. The good news, however, is that both traditional and new age businesses can offer opportunities for success, as long as you modernize traditional business ideas, keep some traditional elements in any new age business, and remember that marketing is vital to the success of any venture.

Many millennials struggle with finding career opportunities that meet their diverse needs and skills. Millennials, for instance, expect workplaces to be flexible and collaborative, but they also want stability and security. Similarly, they want work environments to be fun and relaxed, but they also demand social responsibility from businesses. This is why digital marketing is absolutely the right career choice for young and ambitious entrepreneurs because it gives you complete control over these factors and more.

One of the biggest and most important decisions any professional woman will have to address in her career is whether to have children and whether to take an extended maternity leave. The problem is that mat leave can, in fact, have an adverse impact on your career, forcing some women to choose between pregnancy and career. However, the full answer is much more complex than a simple yes (mat leave can affect your career) and no. Modern professional moms are exploring and discovering new options that allow women to experience the best of what motherhood and a professional career can offer.

What is your dream job? This is something that people ponder from the time they're old enough to enter the school system, and teachers start asking, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The problem, however, is that not every person has a dream job, and even more, people struggle to figure out what type of job would bring them the most fulfillment and success in life. But if you're struggling with how to find your dream job, there are a few steps you can take to find the career path that would best suit your needs and goals, and today you'll learn about assessing your personality, experiences, and strengths to determine ideal jobs for yourself.