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Tackling the Taboo: Navigating Career Gaps During the Pandemic

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In recent years, there has been a trend of many workers quitting their jobs, driving companies to announce waves of job cuts into the new year. As a result, workers leaving their positions are left with CV gaps. These gaps are now generally met with open curiosity rather than an assumption of a person’s poor performance or reliability. In the past three years, the labor market has seen an abundance of workers transition in many ways.

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29 Growth Mindset Quotes to Inspire You in 2023

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Growth mindset quotes span history. You can find evidence of what we now call a growth mindset in the words of great leaders, philosophers and spiritual leaders even in ancient times. Consider the Chinese proverb: “A man grows most tired while standing still.” Or text from the Book of Romans in the Bible: “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

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5 Brain-Boosting Snacks To Power Your Work Day

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According to the Harvard School of Public Health , snacking often leads to making poorer food choices, such as potato chips, candy, and cookies, causing unwanted weight gain from excess calories. Nevertheless, snacking throughout the workday can be profoundly beneficial to workers because it provides energy, curbs their appetite, and maintains their nutrition levels if their schedule doesn’t permit eating full meals at set times.

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Living in the Grey Zone with Mary Lawless Lee

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Mary Lawless Lee started Happily Grey, her fashion and lifestyle blog, while working as a critical care nurse. As the blog grew and attracted a large fan base, Lee transitioned to working in digital media full time. Growing up in a tiny rural town, Lee thought a woman had to check certain boxes before she was 30: get married, get a house and have a baby.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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PayPal CEO Addresses Mass Layoffs Due to “Challenging Macro-Economic Environment”

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PayPal is cutting 7% of its staff , or 2,000 jobs in response to the “challenging macro-economic environment,” according to CEO Dan Schulman. “I want to express my personal appreciation for the meaningful contributions they have made to PayPal,” said Schulman Layoffs will occur over the next several weeks and see departing employees receive “generous” severance packages.

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U.S. Private Payrolls Growth Slowed in January Due to Harsh Weather

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The U.S. saw a relatively modest 106,000 additional jobs in January, far lower than expected. According to the ADP National Employment report, December’s job numbers were also revised upwards to 253,000 from the initial 235,000 estimate, much to the surprise of economists who had forecast an increase of only 178,000. ADP ascribed the weaker-than-anticipated private payrolls gain to inclement weather in mid-January, such as flooding in California and snowstorms throughout the Midwest

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U.S. Labor Cost Growth Slows, Consumer Confidence Dips in Latest Quarter

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In the fourth quarter, U.S. labor costs rose at their slowest rate in a year — a welcome respite for the Federal Reserve in its battle against inflation. On Wednesday, the Fed is forecasted to raise its policy rate by 25 basis points, further restraining the speed of its rate hikes. “The Fed’s rate hikes in 2022 were successful at cooling an overheated economy,” said Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank. “But policymakers want to see a wider margin of slack open

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Federal Labor Board Rules Apple’s Secrecy Restricts Workers’ Rights

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Apple employees have been fighting back against the company’s restrictive work policies for years, but their efforts may have finally paid off. The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Apple’s rules limiting employee communication and collective bargaining interfere with workers’ rights, and if the parties can’t resolve the issue, a formal complaint will be filed against Apple.

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Government Environmental Improvement Plan is ambitious but needs a clear plan

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The UKGBC has welcomed the ambition and vision of the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan, particularly the water efficiency roadmap which broadly aligns with UKGBC recommendations. Yet the lobbying group also claims that the Plan falls short of providing the practical targets and policies for the built environment to play its part in halting nature’s decline.

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Intel Execs Take a Pay Cut: CEO Gelsinger to Reduce Base Pay by 25%

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Just days after Intel reported a dismal fourth-quarter financial performance, executives announced they would be taking pay cuts , while lower-level employees would see tens of millions of dollars in benefits reductions. CEO Pat Gelsinger and mid-level managers will be impacted, with Gelsinger seeing his base salary slashed by a quarter, or roughly $312,000 of his $1.25 million base pay.

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Do you walk or talk people centric change for success?

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In previous articles , I shared that there is a McKinsey report that states that 75 percent of the organisations that were listed at the time on the S&P would no longer exist by 2025 – they would either merge, be bought out or go bankrupt. This all means that organisations have to change and adapt or die. That is now less than 2 years away, so some organisations are now gone, some are struggling and some have adapted.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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7 Obstacles That Stop Women From Starting a Home Business – How to Overcome Them

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Are you a woman thinking about starting a home business? You’re not alone: many women are taking their careers into their own hands and blazing a path to financial freedom and career satisfaction. However, there can be plenty of roadblocks on the path to success. In this blog post, we’ll look at the seven obstacles that stop women from starting their home businesses – and how to overcome them. 1.

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New legally-binding air quality targets fall short of their ambitions, safety body warns

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The British Safety Council has warned that new legally binding air quality targets for the UK, which passed the final stages of parliamentary scrutiny earlier this week, fall well short of what is needed to keep people safe. The new limits will come into force in the wake of last year’s Environment Act, after the Government missed its own deadline of December to introduce them, following a consultation.

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