Careers
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Career Corner: Why You Should Get to Know a Job Recruiter Before You Need One
Most people don’t really plan to be out of a job, but as the pandemic exemplified for many people, sometimes life has other ideas for you. But that is also why you should think ahead and prepare for contingencies before things get bad. A lot of people don’t bother making plans to help them find…
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Career Corner: The 5 Most Common Issues That Make Your Job Harder
Even if you enjoy your job, the environment attached to it can leave you feeling worn out. However, if you recognize what the source of your aggravation is, you can take steps to mitigate it. Payscale has a piece about some of the most common issues you might experience at work, and solutions for handling…
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Career Corner: There Are Only 4 Types of Career Problems
It is human nature to overthink your problems. Even at work maybe you are feeling like nothing you do will make a difference and you don’t know why. But the first step is realistically diagnosing the problem, which may be far less complex than you believe. If you zoom out far enough, your true problem…
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Career Corner: Post-Pandemic, Small Business Is Thriving, Especially in These 5 Industries
In addition to the devastating impact COVID has had on the world’s health, it has also been well-documented how harmful it has been financially. Many lost their jobs, a lot of people are still struggling to find work, and a few major businesses were unable to stay afloat. But those conditions have also made the…
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Career Corner: Salaries are Booming for Graduates with their MBA
Early on in the pandemic there was a lot of ambiguity regarding what careers would continue to be viable going forward. Much like many other fields, business-school graduates saw their salaries impacted by the shutdowns. However, business careers have now bounced back strong, with the average salary for business-school graduates hitting $155,000. Earlier this month,…
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Career Corner: 10 Ways to Stop Dreading the Start of Each Work Week
If you have off from work on weekends, you already know that it stops feeling like you do by Sunday. Come Sunday, you have to remember not to make plans that would keep you out late because you need to be up early for work. And that causes many to feel unable to truly enjoy…
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Career Corner: How to Quit Your Job
With the current state of the job market, people are much more willing to leave their current role to pursue new opportunities. It has become so common that it has been dubbed the “Great Resignation”. And while those new opportunities can be exciting to fantasize about, quitting is still never a decision to make lightly.…
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Career Corner: What To Do If Working from Home Leads To A Lower Salary?
While there are pros and cons from the employee’s perspective to working remotely versus in the office, the biggest fear for some is that remote work will lead to a lower salary. While many companies have sustained the same productivity levels even without employees on-site, some employers argue that employees being at home gives them…
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Career Corner: The Top Careers for Healthcare Majors
Healthcare is always in high demand, but just planning to become a nurse or a doctor is overly general. There are all manner of specializations that you can go into with your medical degree. That is why it is important to determine your interest area, as well as the salary for that sub-field. Stacker recently…
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Career Corner: The Top 10 Careers for Business Majors
A degree in business can open a lot of doors for you. Depending on your interests you could apply your education towards accounting, marketing, or a wide variety of other options. But you are probably looking at salary expectations to figure out your final decision. If that is the case, Stacker recently compiled the highest-paying…
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It’s That Giving and Receiving Time of Year, Even on LinkedIn
Giving and receiving, in some form, are daily occurrences. Giving season, which typically starts in November and goes to December, is a little different. Giving season is especially important for 501(c)3 nonprofits. Some organizations only do one yearly fundraising appeal for #GivingTuesday. What’s #GivingTuesday? It’s a global movement for generosity that started in 2012. It…
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Career Corner: The Top 10 Careers for Engineering Majors
If you are looking for the most lucrative fields to get a degree in, many of the subcategories in engineering comprise some of the highest-paying positions right now. Engineering is a skill that lends itself to many areas, though, so it might just be whichever one intrigues you the most that you pursue. Courtesy of…
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Career Corner: Clever Career Platitudes May Not Be Correct or Fit Your Situation
If you have ever been at a career crossroads you have likely received some of the common career platitudes as advice. “Just follow your passion.” “Let your work speak for itself.” “It’s all about who you know.” But how true are sayings like that? Others were curious too and decided they wanted to find out.…
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Career Corner: Four Hints to Avoid the Pitfalls of Passion-Seeking Career Choices
They say, ‘do what you love and you will never work a day in your life.’ The problem is, not everyone loves activities that translate to successful jobs. And chasing the dream of finding work within whatever activity you enjoy the most can lead to huge financial losses. You don’t have to choose to have…
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Career Corner: Prepare Your Finances Before Joining the Great Resignation
We hear so much about ways to advance our careers and strive for new opportunities, but sometimes our careers don’t go according to plan and we need a break. There are many valid reasons to want to step away from working for a while, such as taking care of young children, tending to an ill…
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Introductions and Re-Introductions On and Off LinkedIn
Whether you are an introvert, extrovert, ambivert, or anything but a recluse or hermit, you typically interact with people in person and/or online. It’s usually called networking! When meeting people in person for the first time at a business-related meeting or networking event, a typical question is “What do you do?” as in “What do…
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Career Corner: 10 Highest Paying Master’s Degree Jobs
If you are dissatisfied with your current position, career trajectory, boss, or salary, people in your circle may have recommended going back to school for your master’s degree. But education can accumulate debt in student loans that might deter people who worry the degree won’t make enough of a difference. That is why it is…
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Career Corner: 7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity
If you have spent close to the last two years working from home, your job has likely been a lot quieter. But people who are now returning to the office are finding it tough to tune out all the extra activity again. Those distractions can make your productivity suffer. Regardless of your environment, if you…
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