Research shows early failure can lead to bigger success later on | What color is your workplace personality? | Simple gestures show employees they're valued
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Welcome to the busiest hiring month Hiring picks up in September, but now businesses are looking to fill their staff before the holiday season. Make sure your resume is updated, your job search is focused, and you're ready to negotiate because these will be quick hiring decisions, writes career consultant Kourtney Whitehead. Forbes (10/1)Research shows early failure can lead to bigger success later on If something in your career didn't go your way, stay the course because good things may be coming, write Dashun Wang and Benjamin Jones. Research shows that those who didn't give up after an early failure or "near miss" went on to surpass those with the early success or "narrow win." Harvard Business Review online (tiered subscription model) (10/1)What color is your workplace personality? In the University of Phoenix's enrollment office, employees were fluent in this color code psychology that groups two types of workers by color. "Yellows tend to be really good at working the room. Reds tend to be more type A, like bulls in a china shop. You're passionate, you're not sensitive, you get over things quicker," writes manager, Eric Shapiro. The Seattle Times (tiered subscription model) (10/1)
Making the Connection
Simple gestures show employees they're valued Leaders can show employees they are valued without busting the budget, consultant Angela Kambouris writes. Her 11 tips include holding "stay" interviews, offering learning opportunities, partnering with food trucks and creating individual development plans. Entrepreneur online (10/1)
Robots and artificial intelligence are becoming more common and pose a larger threat to jobs, which could make the humans who hold them reluctant to ask for a raise, according to new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. This shift could explain the reduction of US worker national income over the past 20 years, despite the lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years. Bloomberg (tiered subscription model) (10/1)
Balancing Yourself
Social media can serve as a mental health aid Celebrities, students and professionals are opening up on social media about their struggles with mental health. Organizers have created specific hashtags for different issues in order to reach anyone who might need a safe community to be heard, to open up or change the way mental health is discussed. Albuquerque Journal (N.M.) (free content) (10/1)
In order to keep control of his name and art, Banksy has opened a housewares store in London. The store, named Gross Domestic Product, has no doors, but goods can be purchased online while they last. BBC (10/1)
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel Allende, Chilean American writer National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
