Soft skills are highly desired in today’s professional industries.

Many work environments look for hard and technically learned skill sets but soft skills tend to hold more power over positions. It’s important to know hard skills, like Adobe Creative Suite or book-keeping software, but your soft skills show how you work with others, whether that be a client or a coworker.

While the design of a modern resume might offer more unique and creative ways to showcase your experience, many resume templates are adding unnecessary and even unprofessional additions to your resume.

Whether you buy a template off of Etsy or create your own, your resume design should avoid the following design elements.

Over the last few weeks of the year, I've been reading and working through much of Meera Kothand's CREATE. It's been much easier to determine who my target audience is, my marketing strategies towards my target audience, and goals that I'm hoping to achieve for and through my business start-up.

Share-for-share Facebook posts helped me a lot when I first started out and needed guidance as I learned how to start my blog. After a month or two and working through CREATE An Intensive Biz Playbook & Planner: Scale Your Online Business, Create Explosive Growth and Build a Brand You Crave, I was able to rely on my own marketing strategies to make my blog visible and marketable for my target audience.

It’s important to know the possible warning signs of a toxic work environment. Knowing these signs and incorporating tips on how to survive toxic work environments is essential to your growth as a young professional.

Finding a certain niche within a graphic design career can make many graphic designers barmy.

These books should help you find various topics of graphic design that could help you produce various graphic design projects with plenty of graphic design tips and ideas.

After I found stable employment, I knew I needed to start thinking of a plan to pay off my debt. It wasn’t going to be able to be my first priority but it needed to be one of my main priorities over the next few years.

That’s when I found Suze Orman’s Debt Avalanche Method. Orman’s Debt Avalanche Method allowed me to focus on the interest rates to further my personal finance goals with my mountain of debt.

I spent a lot of time looking at how to create a portfolio before I was able to design my own.

Based on my professional experiences, here are some of the best graphic design portfolio examples.

When you leave a job, whether you’re leaving for another or leaving the workforce, there are many considerate habits you should employ when handing in your resignation letter (Hint: You should include a resignation letter).

Deciding on a set of projects for your creative portfolio can be overwhelming.

Being selective and stingy about your projects can help you rather than hurt you in the interviewing process. An interviewer is more likely to be impressed by a fewer amount of projects that are done exceptionally well, compared to a hodge-podge of your best mediocre work.

Have you ever wondered just how to create your graphic design portfolio that will get you the job?

It can be a tough task to showcase your graphic design portfolio for a potential employer. Here are a few things to keep in mind when deciding how to create your graphic design portfolio.

Since many of my friends and family could probably benefit from a few organization ideas for their home, whether it’s been a personal goal for the new year or they just need a fresh start, these are a few of my thoughts on Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up book, Netflix show, organization ideas, and audience members.