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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Here’s how to put some of the lessons of your college days to good use in your job search.
“When am I ever going to use this?” You’ve definitely asked yourself this age-old question one too many times at school—much to your professors’ (and parents’) chagrin. From the ins and outs of calculus derivatives to the historical timeline of the War of 1812, it seems like half of what you learn in school has no use once you leave the hallowed halls of university life.
You should only promote someone after they’ve proved themselves, right? Wrong, says this talent management expert.
You have a low-performing employee and a high-performing employee both up for the same promotion: Who do you promote? It’s no contest, right?
Speak to people often enough and you’re bound to slip up. Here’s what to say next to smooth things over.
If your job involves speaking to people, it’s bound to happen: You get called out for something you say. Maybe you’ve misspoken or made an innocent error. Maybe you voiced some provocative views. Maybe you’ve even offended someone.
The crisis in Crimea led—however indirectly—to a fruitful collaboration between the Peace Corps and the language-learning app Duolingo.
In early 2014, when Kremlin-backed forces seized Crimea, few employees in the Pittsburgh offices of Duolingo had any inclination it would lead to an exciting new collaboration.
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