Category: Career Skills
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These Labor Saving Innovations Are Key To Solving The Housing Crisis
PELLA The overall economy has nine million job openings, and the government is pulling levers to get that down to eight million, anticipating that it will take four to five years to recover jobs lost during the pandemic. And, while the AI revolution will have a big impact on productivity growth in the next 10…
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5 Secrets To A LinkedIn Profile That Can Compete In The 2023 Job Market
GETTY Would you believe me if I said you could check any of these items off your to-do list just by giving your LinkedIn page a facelift? It sounds shallow, but it’s true: the likelihood you’ll receive a job interview or have a career-changing conversation within the next year rely heavily on the caliber of…
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Apprenticeships are Headed Off The Shop Floor and Into The Office
Gabrielle Lurie (Reuters) Once the domain of skilled tradespeople like mechanics, electricians, and plumbers, apprenticeships have been expanding their reach—and heading into the office. Companies faced with a labor shortage and ambitious goals for diversifying their workforces are launching apprenticeship programs to hire and train up employees in cyber security, accounting, data analytics, design, business operations,…
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The Pros and Cons of Adding Soft Skills To Your Resume
tsyhun/Shutterstock More and more, I’m seeing job recruiters encourage the addition of “soft skills” to your resume—here’s when you should (or shouldn’t) follow that advice.In recent conversations with job recruiters, I’ve noticed an emerging theme in what they’re looking for in a resume: the inclusion of so-called “soft skills.” While many recruiters still think a…
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How Do You Reach the Other Side of Change?
Antonio Giovanni Pinna Retrospectively, it’s easy to understand which parts of our education have most impacted us. I can’t say my college European History 101 class helps me as an entrepreneur, but my seventh-grade typing class continues to serve me well, and the art class I took that same year opened me up to seeing…
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Colleges are Using AI To Prepare Hospitality Workers of The Future
imaginima via Getty Images AI could not only reduce the number of jobs, but it has already begun to change the way existing jobs are done by handling tasks such as guest check-ins, customer inquiries and the like. For that reason, in the hospitality industry of the future, rather than people who interact with customers, the…
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The Most In Demand Job Skills Might Not Be The Ones You Think
lucky sun/Getty Images] Raise your hand if you’ve gotten so familiar with some of your tasks at work that you can do them practically without thinking. Some rote tasks become this seamless nearly instantly, yet others require certain skills to start with and that muscle develops over time, the more you complete each one.…
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How To Use The Hawthorne Effect To Increase Your Productivity
bbernard / Shutterstock.com There’s a fine line between being micromanaged and overly surveilled and being monitored enough that you get good work done. That line is actually called the Hawthorne Effect, and it’s a phenomenon in which people are more productive when they feel they’re being observed. If you’ve ever noticed you push yourself a little more…
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