Taking a breather from looking for a job doesn’t have to mean wasting time. Here’s how to put your procrastination to good use.
We all know the feeling. You’re applying for jobs and plan to reward yourself with 20 minutes of Snapchat or Pokémon Go (gotta catch ’em all, right?) for every application you submit. But soon, 20 minutes turns into two hours and before you know it, it’s already the end of the day and you’ve only applied to one job. Sigh. Why is time management so hard?
The term may make you grit your teeth, but “thought leadership” can be more than just another bland marketing strategy.
CEOs and their marketing teams have long taken “thought leadership” to mean penning blog posts and taking speaking gigs—and so it does. But there’s a much wider range of options out there, and the narrow few that most business leaders tend to tackle can make for diminishing returns and a whole lot of similar-looking content.
One writer explains why companies are wrong to think flexible work and social responsibility have nothing to do with each other.
Plenty of companies do a lot of great work when it comes to corporate social responsibility. And many companies are generous with their flexible and remote work policies. But very few see these two things as having much, if anything, to do with each other.
This week’s top leadership stories may help you stay competitive in the job market and show you how to earn a living overseas.
This month we learned how some people are earning livings abroad as their own bosses, how to adjust our Sunday schedules to start the week off right, and LinkedIn’s tips for staying competitive in the current job market.
Over a career spanning eBay, LinkedIn, and Instacart, Elliot Shmukler figured out how to turn A/B testing into a management tool.
Over his career, Instacart VP of product Elliot Shmukler has seen the interplay of people and products unfold across many industries. For instance, the former Wealthfront and Linkedin product leader knows that much of what takes people sideways with money and career involves emotions. He’s also seen the same dynamic at play as product managers make decisions to pursue ideas, essentially their currency at a startup. Bake into the equation different product management styles with shrinking launch windows and the pressure compounds. That’s why Shmukler champions A/B testing, not only as a sound product development practice, but also as an effective management tool.
You weren’t expecting to have to contribute, but suddenly all eyes are on you. Here’s what to do.
You’re in a meeting with your boss, discussing an upcoming initiative your department is working on. Suddenly, he springs it on you—that nausea-inspiring question you weren’t at all prepared for: “So, what are your ideas?”
Here’s exactly what to expect at each stage of the dreaded data science interview.
Interviewing for a data science job? You have your work cut out for you. The data science interview is a complex beast, with behavioral questions mixed in with a bunch of technical questions. Considering how competitive the field is, you’ve gotten pretty far if you’re able to land an interview in the first place, but you still have further to go—and that can be daunting.
When his father died young, Evan Rosenbaum formed an attachment to the Apple computer his dad left behind.
Evan Rosenbaum was 2 years old when his father brought home the Power Macintosh 7100.
When everyone’s looking to you for answers, one CEO recounts from experience, the pressures can be intense.
Martin Senn, the former head of Zurich Insurance,
committed suicide in May this year, less than three years after two other top Swiss executives took their own lives. It’s difficult to generalize from individual tragedies like these, but it’s just as difficult not to see a common thread. It’s long been argued that companies could do a lot more to support their employees’ mental health and well-being, considering that so many of those pressures arise in the workplace.
One writer puts it bluntly: “Being awesome and waiting around for recruiters to notice isn’t enough.” Here’s what to do instead.
Ever wonder how some people seem to be swimming in interviews and job offers, even though you never hear about them talking about pounding the job-hunt pavement?
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