Strategic advice for optimizing a LinkedIn profile | Women leaders on maintaining career momentum | Want to become a better leader? Follow these strategies
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Ensuring that your LinkedIn profile highlights your strengths, experience and abilities is a crucial aspect of the job hunt, according to Donna Serdula, author of "LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies." Describing your key accomplishments rather than a generic job description and including key words in your profile are two important strategies to ensure you stand out, Serdula says. Full Story: Forbes (tiered subscription model) (1/17)
Women leaders on maintaining career momentum A ceaseless desire to learn coupled with a focused drive and flexible thinking help many women leaders maintain momentum in their careers. Interviews with women in senior leadership roles revealed that most created or held onto their momentum by pivoting jobs, seeking out more experience, switching to smaller companies or moving geographically. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (1/16)
Want to become a better leader? Follow these strategies Continue growth as a leader by reflecting on values, by exploring behavior you need to adopt to meet goals, by considering how effectively you communicate and by reevaluating goals as needed, LaRae Quy writes. "A healthy person with a strong mind is someone who continuously grows and evolves to become the best version of themselves," Quy writes. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (1/18)
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How to find your passion for work again It is possible to rekindle your passion for work after experiencing burnout by applying certain research-backed strategies, such as recognizing the personal or societal relevance of your job. Also, consider speaking with your manager about changes that could be made to your job so that it better reflects who you are. Full Story: BBC (1/17)
A Ceridian survey found 90% of middle managers have gotten burned out over the past year and a third are unfulfilled at their jobs, but HR and other executives say employers can help by listening and responding to middle managers' concerns and supporting their career development. "They're trying to work through this new world of work, they're trying to make sure they're communicating and giving direction to their employees, they're getting pressure from their management, and we've still got some financial uncertainty we're going through," says Susan Tohyama, chief HR officer at Ceridian. Full Story: WorkLife (1/17)
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Look within for hard-to-fill IT roles Many non-IT employees have hidden skills, knowledge and aptitude that transfer to IT, and CIOs should look for these employees when filling open positions, writes Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute. Upskilling and reskilling engender loyalty, reduce hiring costs in a competitive job market, facilitate onboarding and build the organization's reputation for employee-centered career growth, Bloom writes. Full Story: CIO (free registration) (1/18)
Experts say that no matter how fat a piece of chocolate contains, what's most important is that the fat is on the outside. "If a chocolate has 5% fat or 50% fat it will still form droplets in the mouth and that gives you the chocolate sensation. ... We are showing that the fat layer needs to be on the outer layer of the chocolate, this matters the most, followed by effective coating of the cocoa particles by fat, these help to make chocolate feel so good," explains researcher Anwesha Sarkar. Full Story: University of Leeds (UK) (1/13)
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