I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. My email box is filled with around 25-35 new emails messages daily that come from various shopping sites to which I subscribe (you get advance notice of sales, coupons, etc), and a few other select sites. One of those sites is The Ladders. I used this site when [...]
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One of the more interesting things I noticed when I moved from California to Seattle was the general lack of “dress” people employed. Now I am all for wearing things that are comfortable and feeling at ease in your clothing, but I also think that looking nice, and presenting yourself well can help you in [...]
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So I came across this article about “Heartache Leave”. Hime, a marketing firm in Japan, has instituted paid time off for employees for when they go through breakups. In your 20s you get one day off, in your 30s two days, and 3 days after that–the rationale being that going through a breakup is like [...]
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Mentors
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Mentors are a great way to grow and learn from another’s experiences and can help accelerate your career. There are all sorts of mentoring relationships–formal ones, managers, and even one-sided mentoring (where someone may be a mentor and isn’t aware of that fact). I encourage people to have more than one mentor. All you are [...]
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I used to always hear about strategies and methods that would allow people to fit into their jobs better. They would be endlessly focused on changing themselves so they could be more successful themselves. And I was one of these people. I started my career as a scientist and my job was to repeat the [...]