A job interview has multiple components. Interviewers will likely take some time upfront to discuss your work history and do a general assessment of your fit for the role and company. And oftentimes they’ll leave 10 to 15 minutes at the end for you to ask some questions of your own. You’ll want to fill that time by asking about the role, company and people who are interviewing you — so make sure to do your homework on all three before you come in. But according to former Google recruiter Nolan Church, there’s also one question every job candidate should…

Mark Cuban learned the key to a successful sale when he was just 12 years old. In a recent interview with GQ, Cuban was asked what the “key to selling well” was. His answer: “You’re not trying to convince people. You’re trying to help them.” He learned this piece of wisdom at his very first sales job. At 12 years old, Cuban started what would be a long and successful career in business by going door to door selling garbage bags, to make enough money to buy himself sneakers. When selling to his customers, Cuban noticed that each customer would…

Matt O’Hayer estimates he’s started “about 50 businesses,” from carpet cleaning to chartering sailboats. His biggest success came when he stopped “trying to get rich” and started a company he believed in — one with a “deeper purpose,” he says. That’s Vital Farms, which says it’s the nation’s largest producer of pasture-raised eggs. The business works with more than 300 family farms across the country, and can process up to six million eggs per day. It brought in $362.1 million in net revenue last year, marketing itself to customers willing to pay $6 to $10— multiple times the current national…

Debt Management Office (DMO) has opened an offer for a 10-year N150 billion forward ijarah (lease) Sukuk instrument at a rental rate of 15.75 percent per annum, payable half-yearly. Patience Oniha, DMO director-general, announced the offer during an event titled “2023 Sukuk Issuance – Investors Meeting” held on Thursday in Abuja. The Sukuk is a strategic initiative that supports infrastructure development, promotes financial inclusion and deepens the domestic securities market. Since the establishment of the initiative in September 2017, Nigeria has issued five sovereign Sukuk — 2017 (N100 billion); 2018 (N100 billion); 2020 (N162.557 billion); 2021 (N250 billion) and 2022…