Careers
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Career Corner: Tips for Starting a Job Search from Harvard Business Review
If you have been with the same job for a significant amount of time, it takes a lot of preparation to get ready to apply for a new position again. A lot of information in your documents is no longer current, you don’t know if your contacts have changed roles, and it is all a…
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Career Corner: Get to Know a Recruiter Before You Need One – Here’s How
Oftentimes, it is better to have a tool in advance before you wind up needing it. The worst time to decide to buy a snow shovel is when there are already several feet of snow on the ground. The same is true with finding people who can help you get a new job if you…
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Career Corner: Looking for a New Job? Should You Get Loud About Your Availability
If you have been out of work lately, perhaps you have been seeing others using hashtags like #OpentoWork and wondering if that is a strategy worth trying to announce your availability. It is a strange paradigm shift, where being unemployed used to nearly make you a pariah to recruiters, but now in the culture of…
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Career Corner: How to Tell the Boss You’re Burned Out
American culture prides itself on people who push themselves to the limit. So you risk facing a lot of criticism for saying you need a break. Just look at some of the reactions Simone Biles got for prioritizing her mental health over competing in the Olympics. Many bosses are unsympathetic and consider taking a break…
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Career Corner: Improve Your Time Management Skills
It can feel like you are never really free to relax nowadays with how much there is to get done. Your job, responsibilities around the house, and fulfilling family responsibilities are all enough to be a full plate for anyone. So how do you stay on top of getting it all done? If you have…
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34 Places to Network as an Entrepreneur or Small Business Owner
What do you do when you don’t have time to network? You make time! It’s important! Make networking a habit because if you don’t ask, you don’t get. If you have spent time building the know, like, and trust with your network, you can ask them for help when you need it. Networking is a…
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BUCKSCO Careers – Qlik
Based in King of Prussia and operating in more than 100 countries, Qlik helps enterprises around the world move faster, work smarter, and lead the way forward with an end-to-end solution for getting value out of data. Its platform is the only one on the market that allows for open-ended, curiosity-driven exploration, giving everyone — at any…
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Career Corner: 5 Steve Jobs Presentation Hacks to Wow the Room
While Steve Jobs is a controversial figure, nobody will deny the ability he had to get people excited for Apple’s newest idea. As the site Inc. describes, Jobs became the spokesman for Apple because he knew how to captivate people and give them something to remember. Here is what Inc. had to say about what…
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Career Corner: Best jobs for 2022? Think Communications, Healthcare, and Cybersecurity
The demands of the job market are always changing, but the conditions of the last few years have accelerated that change. The pandemic and increased reliance on digital tools has changed what jobs are coveted. Courtesy of CBS, here are some of the most in-demand jobs for 2022: Speech-Language Pathologist These individuals are trained with…
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Help Wanted, *Please!*: Bucks County Employers Heap on the Incentives to Fill Open Positions
As the current real estate market has morphed to sellers’ significant advantages over buyers’, so, too has the area job market, which now heavily favors job seekers. To fill open positions, Bucks County employers are now coughing up perk after perk, and available personnel are reaping the benefits. Michelle Haddon linked into this new normal…
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What If MLK Had Social Audio for “I Have a Dream”?
If MLK had the social audio technology in 1963 that we have today, he would have reached so many more people than those who heard him from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Listeners would be tapping on their clapping hands’ emoji from their smartphone’s social audio apps and would have heard the power and…
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Career Corner: Don’t Let Your Outdated Résumé Ruin Your One Chance to Make a Good First Impression
Your résumé is typically the first impression you get to make on an employer, so you want to make sure it’s a good one. If you haven’t tuned yours up in a while, you might be damaging your job prospects by neglecting doing those updates. Fortunately, Allison Pohle of The Wall Street Journal recommends some…
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Career Corner: Vaccination Status Is the New Must-Have on Your Resume
It is becoming more common to hear news stories about people showing up at restaurants or shops only to be taken aback to hear they must show proof of vaccination to enter. However, such policies only seem to be becoming more common, possibly now extending to job interviews. According to The Wall Street Journal, listing…
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Career Corner: 9 Reasons Why You Should Use LinkedIn
While LinkedIn has been around since 2003, some people never got into it. Perhaps you are one of them and just assumed it was something you’d never use, and now regard it as yet another niche social media platform. That’s far from the truth, as LinkedIn can actually help out your career in many ways…
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Wall Street Journal: Computer Pioneer Who Lived in Upper Darby Has Died
Bruce W. Arden, an expert in the early years of computer science who once lived in Upper Darby, died Dec. 8 in Livona, Mich. He was 94. One of his students at Princeton University, Eric Schmidt, who went on to become chief executive of Google, described Dr. Arden as “one of the founders of computer…
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Career Corner: Keep Your Job Search Moving Forward — Even if Recruiters Ignore You
You can do everything right in your job application and still have it not be enough. Despite submitting a taut, qualified resume, and a well-written, personalized cover letter, you can just wind up with no response. After a few weeks of waiting, you realize the company has decided to ignore you. And they are far…
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LinkedIn Poll Tips and Results on The Best Way to Find a Job
Poll results are in on how people found their last W-2 job. Results are not surprising. The winner is networking, of course! But wait, there’s more! Even with 12,943 views of this poll on LinkedIn, there were only 241 people that voted to result in the following: 11% online social network 11% company website 24%…
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Career Corner: Learning To Sell Is Critical For Your Career
Since the start of the pandemic, an increasing number of people have been taking their careers into their own hands by starting their own small businesses. But for people without experience, it can be hard to learn the right skills on the fly. One of the most important skills for any person on any career…
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