Building to Scale, ‘No Experience Required’

This SaaS company realized that recent grads outperformed sales pros with 10 to 15 years’ experience. That prompted the company to radically transform its hiring process. Image credit: Shutterstock.com Last year, my partner and I raised $3 million to scale Jump Crew, our social marketing and sales outsourcing business. Our first task: sharing our ideal hiring profile […]

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5 Ways to Leverage Your Pain, Disappointments and Hurt

Why do you believe what you believe? Once you start asking questions, your outlook may change.   Image credit: Shutterstock Let’s play a game. What if you viewed pain as fuel, hurt as something to look forward to and disappointments as your servant. How would that change your outlook on life? On your relationships? On […]

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Drop Out and Get Schooled: 4 Bad Reasons to Go to College

Are you going to college because it’s right for you or because others say you should?   Image credit: Hill Street Studios | Getty Images This article is an excerpt from Entrepreneur partner Patrick Bet-David’s new book, Drop Out and Get Schooled. In most homes, we are told to go to college by married parents, step-parents […]

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The Job Interview Will Soon Be Dead. Here’s What the Top Companies Are Replacing It With

This strategy may quite possibly make the job interview extinct.   CREDIT: Getty Images Most companies rely on the traditional in-person job interview to make hiring decisions. But I’m here to tell you, it doesn’t work. In fact, it’s a terrible tool. Here’s why: 81 percent of people lie during the interview. No joke, 81 […]

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Qatar Traffic Dept releases list of 113 violations, fines

The traffic department has issued a list of 30 violations that attract varying fines for light vehicles, with provision for seizure of vehicle in at least three of them. These violations are, namely, drink driving, using language or symbol which is against public decency and hit-and-run incident. Here is the List of Violations and Fines: […]

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Help sought for victims after fire in labour camp

Help sought for victims after fire in labour camp The labour camps recently met with major fire accidents that forced hundreds of Qatari residents to suffer over the last couple of days, wherein they lost their belongings. Civil Defence contains a fire broke out at Silia without any casualties. #MOI_Qatar — Ministry of Interior (@MOI_QatarEn) […]

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Qatar always alert to cyber security threats: Hashimi

Author: Gaurav Sarma The Under Secretary-General for Cyber Security Q-CERT at the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC), Khalid al Hashimi stated that the State of Qatar is always on alert to the cyber security threats. While addressing the opening session of the five-day ‘Regional Cyber Drill’ (ALERT) in Doha, Hashimi explained that Qatar’s Cyber […]

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Ministry reminds employers and employees of the law

The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs (MADLSA), has directed employers to desist from terminating employees while they are on leave. The Ministry took to social media to remind the employers as well as the employees about two important sections of the Labour Law which deal with the issue of ‘Leave’. One of […]

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