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What It Takes to Accelerate Your Business

What It Takes to Accelerate Your Business

I want to share with both newly minted entrepreneurs and established business owners that you can succeed despite the odds. However, sustaining your business for the long haul doesn’t require thinking outside the box but “shredding the box,” as innovation expert Frans Johansson says. I can think of no better guides than the business leaders in this issue, which highlights the BE 100s—our listing of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses—under the theme “Accelerate Your Business,” also the theme of our recent Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

The 2-Hour Job Search

“The online job application process is inefficient,” insists Dalton. “Online job postings have destroyed the value of the résumé and forever ruined the old-fashioned mail-and-wait strategy.” He argues that while technology makes the process of looking for work easier, there are several reasons why the process actually makes it harder to get a job. For one, he says, few recruiters sift through the thousands of résumés they receive for any one job post. Instead, employers rely on referrals from company employees and professional colleagues because the quality of online applicants may be diluted and the number of people applying makes it hard for individuals to stand out.

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