Career guidance and inspiration

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Whether you're looking to grow your leadership skills at work, tackle new professional challenges, or find new job opportunities, these authors and career or recruiting experts can share their insights and advice with you.

?Let's Talk Career: Building Career Success Strategies

In this weekly newsletter from Dr. Marilyn Carroll, she curates guidance from over 20 years of managing and counseling work with students and working adults. With a focus on helping readers build and understand their organizational and management skills, Dr. Carroll covers topics as varied as goal setting and measurement, managing a sustainable and changing career over time, strengthening your tenacity, and collaborating towards success.

"Having the right talent is the key to any organization’s success. Today’s workforce is more informed, connected and demanding than at any other time in history. The 21st century brings with it a new kind of educated individual who is versed in knowledge of systems, processes, communication and technology... The most successful individuals will be those who develop their signature talent to maximize their growth opportunities."

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Win-Win Hiring: How to Hire for the 1st Year Anniversary Date Rather Than the Start Date

CEO of Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems and LinkedIn Influencer Lou Adler writes this weekly newsletter focused on careers and talent from the perspective of employers and companies looking to optimize and strengthen their recruiting and talent strategy development. Whether it's helping improve the interview process for job seekers, contemplating the future of hiring, or assessing hard and soft skills as it relates to key roles, this newsletter can provide starting points and additional resources to both job seekers and recruiting professionals.

"Ensure Hiring Managers Make Accurate and Unbiased Decisions. In order to rank high on this factor, recruiters need to present detailed evidence of outstanding performance when presenting candidates to their hiring manager clients to prevent strong candidates, especially diverse candidates, from being excluded for biased reasons. This course has been designed to help recruiters and hiring managers remove bias from the decision-making process. It starts by preparing job descriptions that define success as a series of performance objectives, not a generic list of “must have” skills, competencies, academics and experiences that are too subjective and inherently biased."

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AgilityThink: Welcome to AgilityThink: Creating Happy Profitable Employees for the Future of Work by Marti Konstant

Workplace futurist and best-selling author of the book "Activate your Agile Career" Marti Konstant, MBA writes this weekly newsletter focused on turbocharging your professional agility. By outlining ways you can harness the power of thinking like a designer to discover your next career move, or finding four new ways to stabilize your career in a volatile and quick-changing world, Marti aims to help you boost your professional accomplishments, creativity and satisfaction.

"The concept of A/B testing gives you permission to compare experiences with the wise intention of choosing the most advantageous endeavor for your talents. As a new college graduate or a mid-career professional, the modular flexibility of agile career architecture rules in favor of movement, rather than a standstill of frustration.

Reviewing your past work experience you can summarize each job experience, framing out your roles, likes, dislikes, and expansion into new areas. The series of roles demonstrate progress and gather the essential ingredients for your career story.

Before you make a move, however, make sure you understand what you like and what you dislike about each of your work situations. Decipher your particular strengths and weaknesses. This type of self-awareness will enable you to more clearly recognize the better-fitting roles and look ahead to relevant job descriptions. Your ability to predict future success stories will improve as you measure your levels of creativity, growth, and happiness."

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