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Job profile! Tour guides for regional contact trips: Live like the locals
Good money can be made in tourism by organizing trips tailored to the customer's personal wishes and offering them a vacation that doesn't seem like a vacation. See changes as an opportunity! The Zukunftsinstitut predicts: No other market can tackle the next few years with such positive prospects as the travel market. However there is […] Read more
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Job profile! Toy maker in Brittany: making the world a better place as a social entrepreneur
In the Breton town of Saint-Brieuc Dominique Bébin, children and adults alike learn how to build and paint puzzles, sailing boats, pen holders, cars and articulated animal figures. But Dominique doesn't just want to tinker, he wants to make the world a little better. An idea that made him known far beyond the borders of Brittany and even abroad [...] Read more
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Job profile! Family entrepreneur: Creativity, entrepreneurship and personality lead to success
Really outstanding, innovative ideas rarely arise from complex, strategic considerations, but mostly when someone more or less by chance discovers a need, i.e. the market niche: That was also the case with the family company Agloves. The Idea January 1, 2010 and Snowstorm Over Washington DC Today 23 year old Jean Spencer wanted to take a look at hers eMails on your [...] Read more
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Job profile! Serial Entrepreneur & Billionaire: From Failure to Shutterstock Founder
In 2003, the American Jon Oringer founded the Shutterstock photo agency and became a billionaire. His motivation: his own need for pictures. But not all of his ideas were successful. In the start-up report he reports on the failure and new beginnings. In the beginning there was the picture. How often have you thought to yourself that this product or offer should be available? With […] Read more
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New start & new start with 40 & 50 plus: Chances for silverback in mid-life
If you listen to the calls of Kassandr from business and politics, demographic change hovers over us like a sword of Damocles. Our society is getting older and older - and there is a lack of young people. Or is it just a matter of perspective? The young and wild at 40 or 50 What is old, what is young? In our […] Read more
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Career advancement: 5 New career paths in companies
“Making a career” generally means becoming a boss or manager. What many employees overlook: The specialist career also offers an alternative to the "classic" management career. Goals and strategy Many companies offer up-and-coming talents the opportunity to embark on a so-called specialist career. A clever move, because nowadays technical experts are more than ever [...] Read more
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Job profile! Tourism startup founder: HomeToGo as a meta search engine for holiday homes
The principle of the meta search engine, which searches various providers quickly and easily, is well known from various areas: The job search, for example, or also in hotels. HomeToGo now applies the principle to holiday homes and holiday apartments. HomeToGo: Idea and founder The holiday home search engine HomeToGo was founded in 2014 by Nils Regge, Dr. Patrick Andrä and Wolfgang Heiglund founded. [...] Read more
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Young job starters worldwide: What to do if earning a lot of money is not the goal of life?
The only thing that would appeal to Marie about marriage is the white wedding dress. Otherwise she doesn't seem to think much of conventional security either. Anke Ernst is now in New Zealand on her professional and self-discovery trip around the world. She talks to the French Marie about marriage, security, the variety of different career opportunities and the disorientation of the internship generation. Simple […] Read more
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Honorary teacher in Germany: academics below the poverty line
On a normal Tuesday morning, Susanne Hausner's alarm clock rings at 6.45 a.m. But she doesn't come home until around 21 p.m. Nevertheless, she hardly has more than 882,50 euros left over for rent and groceries a month. And that despite the fact that she finished her studies in Politics and English with excellent grades. Despite political [...] Read more
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OPINION! Bill Rothschild, rocket scientist with NASA's space shuttle program: "Work hard, don't take no!"
At Boeing, Bill Rothschild was responsible for the strategic planning, development and project management for the Boeing components of the space shuttle system and temporarily had access to top-secret information from the USA. I met on the NASA site in Houston, Texas. In an interview he talks about how to become a rocket scientist, about Felix Baumgartner's stratospheric jump - and about the [...] Read more
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Job profile! Mobility advisor: help in the jungle of transport
Personal services are in vogue in an increasingly complicated world - also in tourism. The Süddeutsche last year printed this article about the still new job description of the mobility advisor. I am publishing a more detailed version of the post with links here. The trend: innovative services for everything to do with travel and mobility Not everyone wants their [...] Read more
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Job profile! StartUp founder: TWO young professionals, language tandem & intercultural exchange
"Back then, three years ago, I would have needed your project!" Laura said to me, an Italian who moved to Berlin in her late twenties, hoping to find work as soon as possible - and encountered cultural and linguistic barriers. Our company emerged from precisely these considerations. Where we can help Despite her [...] Read more
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Job profile! Balloon driver: dream job as a life philosophy!
Anke Ernst has been on in the past Best of HR – Berufebilder.de® reported from their trip around the world about the attitude towards life of young people. But there are other exciting life plans - such as Max's, whom I met in Provence (France) and who, as a balloonist, goes wherever he goes. The passion made into a job! Actually […] Read more