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EMPLOYMENT: Do you enjoy your job or do you dread going to work every day? Recent surveys have discovered what the ten most hated jobs are, and the ten that make people happiest. The lists may surprise you.

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Business Skills: Sales calls

To be honest, few people say that they like getting sales calls. But such calls can introduce us to a useful service or product, if the seller can keep us interested and knows how to deal with our objections. How do you make such calls?

Business Spotlight 2/2011

In Business Spotlight 2/2011 you can enter a competition to win one of 100 prizes, including a one-week business English course in York, England!

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Business Spotlight 2/2011

In this special 10th-anniversary issue, we look back at some of the main business events of the past ten years. We also give you the chance to win a week’s business English course in the UK. Here's a preview of our language-learning products!

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WORKPLACE LEARNING: Harrods is famous for its luxury goods, and for turning shopping into entertainment. Now the London institution is marking another milestone: it is the first British retailer to offer an honours degree in sales.

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Vocabulary: Trade fairs

If you've ever visited or exhibited at a trade fair, you would probably know that it involves a lot of work. But if you're lucky, you’ll come home with some orders and the names of potential customers. Ken Taylor is here with an exercise on trade-fair follow-up.

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"There's a sucker born every minute" is not a slogan we would recommend today. A good salesperson doesn't think like that anymore.

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News: Good news

With so many negative reports about the global financial crisis, it's refreshing to hear some good news from Australia, where some business sectors are actually profiting from the economic downturn.

Goodbye to the good life

It seems the Japanese are no longer interested in luxury. Since 1996, Japanese sales of expensive brand-name products such as Prada handbags, Rolex watches and Armani clothes have fallen by a third. Read the text and then learn the vocabulary.

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