Mark Phillips, the Founder and Board Chair at HireEducation, shares his thoughts on the power of relationships in sales in a stimulating conversation with John Golden on the SalesPOP! podcast. [...]

We all experience trauma at one point or another. It’s an inevitable part of our lives. How do you handle it when a co-worker or a boss is experiencing something [...]

Our last post looked at how to quit with grace. But how do you know when it’s time to quit versus when you should stick it out a little longer? [...]

There are lots of reasons you might want to leave a job. It’s always a good idea to quit with as much grace as possible, even if the experience wasn’t [...]

A lot is going on this time of year, both in the workplace and personally. Since most tech companies have calendar fiscal years, there’s a push to get things done [...]

It seems we chat daily with candidates about resumes—what they should contain, how they should be improved, and what hiring managers really want to see—so we thought we would take [...]

During the fall it feels like change is everywhere. We’re not just talking about work - it’s in the air: The weather is getting cooler, there’s not as much daylight, [...]

Selling happens in relationship. Lately we’ve been talking about this concept a lot. For people who aren’t used to selling or persuading others, when they think about what’s required to [...]

No one wants to either deliver or receive bad news, but it’s one of those unavoidable parts of life, especially for hiring managers, although even for job seekers. So how [...]

For most of us in or adjacent to education, the back-to-school ramp-up time feels even more like a restart than the calendar new year. With the appearance of backpacks and [...]

Our HireEducation founder, Mark Phillips, runs ultramarathons. An ultramarathon is anything over the normal 26.6 marathon distance - it’s not uncommon to hear of ultras that are 200 miles these [...]

Last month’s ASU+GSV Summit is an important barometer for what’s happening in the edtech industry - it’s arguably THE preeminent conference for edtech entrepreneurs and investors. Our CEO, Katie Morrison, [...]

One of the most common questions our founder, Mark Phillips, gets lately is, “Is the edtech market changing?” Everyone is worried about the economy and a potential recession, especially with [...]

You think you’re ready for a raise and haven’t gotten one yet (or in a while). How can you most effectively ask for a raise? It’s a delicate conversation at [...]

The end of the year is a big time of reflection and change; it’s normal to think about what’s happened over the past year and what’s coming for the next [...]

Sometimes two equally appealing opportunities come along at the same time. No two offers are ever truly identical, but as an academic exercise, let’s pretend they are. Where is there [...]

  Regularly.     But seriously, while we could end this article there, there’s more to optimizing your LinkedIn profile than just keeping it up-to-date. (Although that’s essential.) We’ll use [...]

“The only constant in life is change” -Heraclitus No matter where you are in a company, your career there is unpredictable. Call to mind 10 different decision-makers at your place [...]