Do You Have What It Takes to Be Self-Employed

Here are the 10 most important characteristics you need to be successful in self-employment:
1. Organization

2. Common Sense

3. Business Sense

4. Enthusiasm

5. Self Motivation

6. Commitment

7. Financial Awareness

8. Business Development

9. Independence

10. Support


Different Types of Self-Employment

1. Consulting and coaching

2. Starting a company

3. Franchise

4. Joining a start-up or early stage company

5. Buying an existing company

6. Writing and/or Speaking

7. Teaching and training

8. Turning hobby into a business

More blogs of a similar line can be found at biz





Extracts from " 12 Steps to a New Career" by Carl J. Wellenstein

STI Testing Resistance in coming week

Next week will be interesting as the STI will test the 61.8% resistance line again.

One wonders whether it will break it looking at the weakening volumes in the past few weeks.

China Semiconductor Industry 2009

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

China Semiconductor Industry 2009

View more presentations from Dmitry Tseitlin.

Millionaire Traits

This is worth a read

http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/millionaire-traits/default.aspx

Career Counselling

For those who are still searching after a job lost or mid-life crisis, the below website provides some useful links.

http://www.jobhuntersbible.com/counseling/sec_page.php?sub_item=048

Areas covered are

1 - Online Job-Hunting Articles

2 - Online Job-Hunting Guides

3 - The Gateway Sites & More

4 - Online Personality & Traits Tests

5 - Online Careers Tests

6 - Transferable Skills

7 - Education

8 - More Help: Career Counseling Offices

9 - One-on-One Career Counseling

10 - Offline Career Counseling

11 - E-mail a Counselor

Check it out.

What do you do when your job ends and you can’t make ends meet? – Shelly’s Story

Worth the time spent listening. Some valuable gems of wisdom.

http://www.rbc.org/radio-tv/words-to-live-by/2010/02/26/program.aspx

Careers and Training 2010

For those who are still searching, this could be a good one stop event as it covers career options, training and even starting business by Andy Ong.

More info at Career and Education 2010