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Bacardi Limited is the largest privately held, family-owned spirits company in the world. It is originally known for its eponymous Bacardi White Rum. Now, it has a portfolio of more than 200 brands and labels. It was founded by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso in 1862. Don Facundo was a Spanish Merchant and was born in Sitges, Catalonia Spain in 1814, then he emigrated to Cuba in 1830. The company employs 6,000 people and it manufactures at 29 facilities in 16 markets on four continents. In 150 countries, it sells a lot of its product. The company sells more than 200 million bottles per year and in 2007, the company's sales were US$5.5 billion up to $4.9 billion in 2006.

Reaching your work goals may look like a daunting task at first. With careful planning and implementation of right strategies, you can step up the career ladder quicker than you thought of. Here are few tips on how to get promoted at work quickly:



Continue learning

Learning is a lifelong process. To grow in your career, it is imperative that you keep accumulating knowledge across industries' trends, challenges and insights. Staying updated about your domain knowledge enables you to tackle challenges at work more efficiently and higher your chances of getting noticed by employers.

Lead when required

To take charge in a work environment doesn't always require you to be in a top position. You can assume a leadership role when circumstances demands at workplace. Exhibit your leadership skills while solving a critical problem at work by effectively communicating, motivating and working in coordination with other team members. Also start taking responsibilities a level in advance to show that you are ready for the next role.

Give your best

When you give your best in your work, you stay visible for your passion and performance. If you want to add more value to your work, then go t

International Business Machines Corporation or also known as IBM, is an American multinational technology company based in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries. The company originated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911 and was renamed as International Business Machines in 1924. The company actually manufactures and markets a lot of stuff such as software and middleware, computer hardware. It also offers to host and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

Acer Inc. or commonly known as Acer, is a Taiwanese multinational hardware and electronics corporation specializing in advanced electronics technology and is based in Xizhi, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Most people nowadays only knows the products of Acer but they don't know what Acer Inc. is. Acer was founded by Stan Shih, Carolyn Yeh (his wife), and a group of five others as Multitech in 1976. The company began with eleven employees and US$25,000 in capital. It was primarily a distributor of electronic parts and also a consultant in the use of microprocessor technologies.

British Airways is the flag carrier and largest airline in the United Kingdom-headquartered in Waterside, Harmondsworth, England. It is the second-largest in the United Kingdom when measured by passengers carried. Actually, a British Airways Board was established by the UK government in 1972. They established it to manage the two nationalized airline corporations which are British Overseas Airways Corporation and British European Airways. On March 1974, all those companies including two smaller, regional airlines Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines were merged to form British Airways. After 13 years as a state company, British Airways was privatized in February 1987. It was part of a wider privatization plan by the Conservative Government.

Today employers face multiple challenges with traditional online hiring portals such as:

ü  Escalating cost of accessing candidates database which is largely unused

ü  Time-consuming candidate search and review process

ü  Hard to zero-in on the right resource

ü  Limited branding options

Needless to say, all the above factors slow hiring online which delays bringing candidates on-board. To help employers tackle these online recruitment problems, Pinhopes - a new-age online hiring destination, has introduced innovative profile filtering features, video based online hiring process, multiple branding avenues combined with cost-effective payment option. Here are the key differentiators which help employers hire 3x faster:

Get relevant applications from interested candidates - Every time

Unlike existing online recruitment portals Pinhopes doesn't deal in database business which means employers are not required to search for right candidates, in a database which is largely unused. Instead employers get relevant applications directly from active job seekers for a job opening, without putting much effort.

No tedious candidate search process - Advanced built-in search bubbles best ta

Video interviews are becoming immensely popular in today's workplace. Today, companies are increasingly catering to global clients with diverse resource requirements, therefore hiring via video interview online, is the need of the hour

We all know that it is awesome to own one of the products of Prada. What if you were given a chance to work in this luxurious fashion house? What exactly is Prada? Prada was founded in 1913 by Mario Prada in Milan. Mario Prada is Miuccia Prada's grandfather. This fashion house specializes in making men's and women's leather goods, footwear and clothing, cutting-edge with one-of-a-kind crafted products. It also produces fragrances, eyewear, accessories, and other luxury goods.

Air Canada is the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada. It was founded in 1937. It provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 182 destinations globally. Air Canada is based in Montreal, Quebec but its largest hub is located at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The predecessor of Air Canada is Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) and it inaugurated its first flight on September 1, 1937. In 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline and changed its name to Air Canada. Well, it was then privatized in 1989.

About Chemonics/ATAR: The Afghanistan Trade and Revenue Project provides technical support and assistance aimed to strengthen the business climate of Afghanistan to enable private investment, enhanced trade, job creation, and fiscal sustainability through the critical Transition period and continuing into the Transformational Decade. This will be achieved through interventions aimed at 1) improving the capacity of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) to formulate and implement a liberal policy framework for trade and investment in accordance with international standards; 2) enhancing integration in the regional and world economy through the promotion of trade and agreements, enhanced economic corridors governance, and private sector linkages throughout South and Central Asia; and 3) strengthening revenue generation for fiscal sustainability and trade facilitation through reforms and anti-corruption measures in customs.

A cover letter gives you a chance to make a case for yourself, and cover everything you cannot express in your resume. It affords you an opportunity to come across as real people and explain your suitability for the desired position, to potential employers. Companies often look for thoughtfully written cover letters, as a method of screening applicants who lack the necessary skills or interest for the said position. Cover letter can thus form into a marketing vehicle for any prospective job seeker.

Multitasking often gives us the feeling of being productive, doing numerous things at once. But does it really works? Studies revealed multitasking can actually result in losing 20-30% of your productive time.

To become the market leader of e_payment technologies in Afghanistan. our goals : we are going to bring the fasts payments in Afghanistan.

The Walt Disney Company is really a great company. It is also known as Disney, an American diversified multinational mass media, and entertainment conglomerate based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second world's largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. The company was founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney on October 16, 1923. Do you know that the company operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and Walt Disney Productions? Well, it then proceeds on using its current name in 1986.

Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean and lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland. Japan is also known as the "Land of the Rising Sun". It is also a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Hokkaido. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, G8, and G20 and considered with great power. The country has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP. Aside from that, it is also the 4th largest economy by purchasing power parity globally. Japan is also the 4th largest importer and exporter worldwide. It benefits from a highly skilled workforce and is among the most highly educated countries in the world.

In this age of e-hiring, employers are increasingly shifting from traditional to highly dynamic medium of recruitment.

In this age of e-hiring, employers are increasingly shifting from traditional to highly dynamic medium of recruitment.

With increasing use of new media in recruitment, you need more than a resume to showcase your personal brand and stand out from your competitors. Regular CVs alone are not enough to convince potential employers why you should be chosen for a job. Let your 1-min unique self-promoting video and LinkedIn profile do the personal branding for you and help you get noticed by employers.

Choosing a career is easy but to be sure of its existence in future is pretty difficult. If you look decades back from now, you must have noticed a number of careers that existed but have become obsolete now. However, there are certain careers that are likely to exist in coming years regardless of economic situation or changing business requirements.

Adidas AG is a German multinational corporation based in Herzogenaurach, Germany. It manufactures and designs clothing, accessories, and shoes. In Europe, it is the largest sportswear manufacturer and second biggest in the world. It is the holding company for the Adidas Group which consists of the TaylorMade-Adidas golf company, Reebok sportswear Company, and 9.1% of FC Bayer Munich and Runtastic, an Austrian fitness technology company.

Nike Inc. is an American multinational corporation that engaged in the development, manufacturing, design, and worldwide marketing and sales of services, footwear, equipment, apparel, and accessories. It is based in Washington Country, Oregon United States. Nike Inc. is the largest suppliers of apparel and athletic shoes, and a major manufacturer of sports equipment. It already employed more than 44,000 people worldwide as of 2012 and it is the only brand that was valued at $19 billion, making the most valuable brand among sports businesses in 2012.