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Unveiling Career Paths Through Skill Mapping
Rediscovering one’s potential begins with an inward journey; map your skills as a traveler charts unexplored lands, where each ability represents a new route.
9 Fatal Career Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs
Career paths are like tightropes; one misstep can mean a serious fall. Let's navigate the 9 fatal career mistakes to keep you balanced and moving forward.
7 Strengths of World Class Product Managers
In the U.S. alone there are over 40,000 Product Managers. It's a growing field of professionals who work across-departmentally to help guide the process of developing a product (these days, typically tech hardware or an app) from design to successful sales.
5 Easy Invoicing Tips for Stress Free Freelancing!
When you first start out in the freelancing world, there seems so much to learn. Certain aspects of running your own business can be initially intimidating, especially financial processes and procedures, and invoicing is one task freelancers are often confused about.
"Quiet quitting": a risky trend that's got even more dangerous
A friend of mine said she decided to follow the quiet quitting trend. She will put in minimal effort but continue to work at her company. She felt her company wasn’t valuing her efforts. Other reasons were a lack of good projects, & no promotion. But is there more to this trend?
First Impressions and How To Master Them
First impressions matter. Rightly or wrongly, in todays’ fast paced society, people make snap judgements of each other based solely on appearances. At best, this judgement is personal opinion and doesn’t matter much. At worst, it leads to intolerance, bias and discrimination.
A Twitter thread by Dave Kline
I've hired 100s of people. And made costly errors at every step of the process. Here are 15 recruiting mistakes (and how you can avoid them):
This is how your favorite writers worked
Introduction. In the Daily Ritual, Mason Currey explores how history's most creative people "organized their schedules in order to be creative and productive." Here's how 8 popular writers worked to create their masterpieces👇
Learn to speed read – the Tim Ferriss way – in minutes
How to speed read in a flash: Start with an estimate of how many words are on every page of a particular book. (It should be a standard one, without graphs or lists.) Count the number of words contained in 10 lines. Divide that by 10. That’s the average number of words per line.
The Subtle Art of Yoga in Daily Hustle
Yoga isn't just for the flexible elite; it's a cupboard of calm in your daily chaos. Tuck it in between emails and hustle like a Zen master with a schedule.
Creative, Productive Ways to Say No
If the person expects you to jump at every request, Try, “’l have to give that some thought. I’ll call you back I an hour.” If you are met with anger or sarcasm, remain cordial and end the conversation with “Okay, then, I hope you get it worked out.”
White Collar Recession: 10 Things To Do When You Lose Your Job
Layoffs have been ramping up in recent months due to a stalling economy, company restructurings, and AI taking jobs. Some are speculating about a “white-collar recession”.
Thinking of resigning? Don’t make these 6 mistakes
We quit our jobs for a pay raise, work-life balance, workplace politics, new roles, or other reasons. If you plan to quit your job, you need to do it the right way and with elegance. Follow six things when you leave your job -
Discover your top strengths for work and life!
The bestseller Strengthsfinder 2.0 by Tom Rath centers around the idea that there are 34 common talents as discovered through Gallup's 40 year study of human strengths. This culminated in the Clifton Strengthsfinder assessment which millions have taken for self discovery.
Copywriting for Beginners
Copywriting as a career has erupted in popularity lately as savvy writers realise the profits to be made by freelancing online. Creating ads, web copy, writing articles, blogs and emails for publication online can be a flexible, well-paid and well respected position!
Setting strong roots to succeed at technical writing
I recently took part in a Hashnode Bootcamp on technical writing, which inspired me to think about what actually makes developers good at writing💡
Have you given up on your employees? Try this.
Leaders are meant to bring out the best in other people. Are you struggling with leadership skills? Do your employees have low energy levels and sound uninterested when given a challenge or difficult task?
The Best (and Easiest) Ways to Fire Someone in 2024
Believe it or not: firing is a tool, not a punishment. This idea is essential to your toolkit as an employer. Master its use by understanding the work, providing clear direction, and offering any necessary support. (This will take time.)
5 Mistakes on Your Resume You Should Fix Now
1) Education Placement: Many resume templates put education at the very top of the page, just below your name and contact info. This is a mistake. Here's why:
Smart Ways to Handle Critics, Haters and Trollers
At some point in your life, you may have gotten an unsolicited comment from someone and felt weird about it. It’s even worse if you have exposed yourself to social media. Everyone has an opinion and expresses it without any hesitation.
The 4 Best Apps for Copywriters
Twenty or so years ago, those in the business of words only had recourse to a dictionary, thesaurus, and their wits. Cut to today and we now have access to a vast array of apps with multiple use cases for copywriters. Below are 4 that can improve and streamline your workload.
4 Ways Animals Can Teach Us to Succeed
Long have we labored under our misconceived superiority to animals, believing that bipedal locomotion, opposable thumbs, and an oversized frontal lobe cements us at the top of the pyramid. However, there is still much we underestimate about the creatures we share the earth with.
Not everyone has to ‘shoot for the stars’
The motivational ethos has permeated our culture. Everyone is exhorted to “shoot for the stars”. But this outlook isn't realistic. It could even do damage. @
The essential ingredients of successful teamwork
If you could distill the essence of teamwork into one word, it would be cohesiveness. Any team that can gel together in harmony has an enormous competitive advantage…
How I learned to cook better... with minimum effort
The easiest way to get cooking is simple: read the full recipe in advance and follow it to the letter. Not doing this is the number one thing that trips people up.