Strategies for landing a remote job Candidates for remote jobs can use job boards, LinkedIn and even in-person networking to find the right opportunity, writes Deanna deBara. The best remote workers are those who are organized, self-motivated and know how to use any technology required to complete the job, deBara suggests. The Muse (10/24)Use internships to decide on the right career path
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Only take unpaid internships that offer skills you can't find elsewhere, says career website founder Lauren Berger, who has taken on 15 internships in her career. Taking so many internships, Berger says, helped her "pick and choose what I did want to do and also what I did not want to do after college." Yahoo (10/25)
The Landscape
Why and when managers should get out of the way Sometimes the best managers don't manage at all, and knowing why and when that's true is imperative, writes Robert Sutton, a professor at Stanford University. "Bosses who are in tune with how employees feel about them are in a better position to understand when they are seen as overbearing or squandering people's time," he writes. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (10/27)Startups can't find enough qualified employees A third of small business owners said they had job openings that they couldn't fill, which is more than double the reported amount in 2017, according to a SCORE survey. The results suggest a lack of qualified applicants, with entrepreneurs often doing more of the work themselves and hiring contractors for the rest. HR Dive (10/28)
Your Next Challenge
How to succeed at sales when you're not a salesperson Even entrepreneurs who are not sales experts can hire high-performing salespeople if they know what to do in each growth stage. Start with a sales team of one -- yourself -- and then network with salespeople, hire for potential and test new strategies, writes Steli Efti, CEO of Close. Forbes (10/28)
Balancing Yourself
Student loan debt taking a toll on workers The attention on student debt is growing, and companies now recognize the stress some employees are under, says loan management counselor Shann Grewal. "There's a growing body of work that would suggest there are social, economic, and health implications of student debt," says Katrina Walsemann, an associate professor at University of South Carolina, who led a 2015 study on the issue. Quartz (tiered subscription model) (10/28)
As part of a massive exhibit highlighting the work of Leonardo da Vinci, the Louvre collaborated with a team of virtual reality experts to give people a whole new way to experience the artist's "Mona Lisa" masterpiece. The exhibit leveraged infrared, x-ray and refractive data to create a 3D version of what Mona Lisa might have looked like in real life. DesignBoom (10/28)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
