Mon.Apr 03, 2023

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Maximize Your Potential! How to Leverage Your Skills FULLY in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

If you feel underutilized in the workplace, you’re not alone! This is such a common complaint, and it’s easy to see why. Most people have a wide array of talents and interests, but most jobs have only a limited set of duties and responsibilities. Even if you’re overworked, you may still be underleveraged! The good news is that you can change the situation using your voice and your influence.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

In 2004 I was enjoying the highest-paying, most respectable job I had ever worked. Everything from the title on my business card to the location of the building fed my notion of success. Then a Cadillac Escalade sideswiped me on my way home one evening. After an ambulance ride and an MRI, I was told there was a problem with my spine. Over the course of the next few months, I waited to find out if I needed surgery.

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Ireland Passes Remote Working Law

Allwork

What’s going on: Amid much excitement and expectation last year, plans for legislation allowing employees to request remote working were revealed, and last week the “Work Life Balance Bill” passed through both Houses of the Oireachtas in Ireland in relative silence. Ibec, a prominent business group, contested the necessity of this legislation and said that many companies were already providing either remote or hybrid working, according to RTE.

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Should I Use a Robo-Advisor to Manage My Investments?

Success

A robo-advisor offers affordable financial services that use computer algorithms to automate investing based on a person’s goals and risk tolerance. They help level the investing playing field and encourage individuals to invest and plan for their futures. With the start of robo-advisory services, investing became more accessible to the average consumer who didn’t have thousands of dollars to invest with a traditional brokerage firm or time to monitor and rebalance their portfolios.

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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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Your Top Job Candidate Is Probably A Liar

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On average, 72% of a job applicant’s resume is accurate while the remaining 28% is embellished. Identifying resume embellishment is simple when employers effectively interview applicants and follow through on background checks. Hawaii is one of the top 10 states with the least accurate resumes, with an average of only 35% of a candidate’s resume being accurate.

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Using IoT Tech Is Crucial For Office Planning And Employee Health

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“The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects — things — that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet,” according to Oracle. Allwork.Space recently caught up with Erin McDannald, CEO and Co-Owner of Environments to talk about some of the technologies her business is using to gain a deeper insight into how the built environment is utilized by employees.

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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

Roger Ebert hadn’t spoken a word ahead of his final years, but America seemed to be listening to him more than ever. His movie reviews. His online journal. His autobiography, Life Itself. While other newspaper columnists from his generation might have been crotchety and bemused about tweets and video streaming, Ebert’s medical realities propelled him to the head of the class, affording him newfangled awards like Webbys’ “ Person of the Year ” and the No. 1 ranking in the National Society of News

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McDonalds Prepares For Layoffs

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What’s going on: This week, ahead of announcing layoffs, McDonald’s has made the decision to temporarily close its US offices, according to The Wall Street Journal. Corporate employees in the US and some international locations have been instructed to work remotely and cease all in-person meetings at the headquarters so that staff changes can be made virtually.

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ChatGPT Will Write Your Resume in Minutes, but Should You Use It?

Success

In a matter of months, ChatGPT and other AI-based software have gone from relatively unheard of to a potential part of our everyday lives. They’re causing both concern and elation across multiple industries , including HR departments. Job applicants are sometimes proudly, sometimes secretly, using ChatGPT to create cover letters, resumes and even entire applications, and employers have something to say about it.

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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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America’s Sunbelt Cities Are The Nation’s Hottest Job Markets

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What’s going on: Nashville, Tennessee is officially the top job market of the year, according to The Wall Street Journal ‘s annual rankings. Austin, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida took second and third place respectively. The five factors taken into account were 2022 wages, active workforces, unemployment rates, employment level changes, and labor force size.

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Flexible working is the new “work-life currency”, claims new report

Workplace Insight

A new report, Future of Work Life , from Ericsson Consumer & IndustryLab explores the ways in which employees and employers navigate the current work environment and their views on the future of work shaped by the pandemic, digitalisation and the fluctuating labour market. Almost half (48 percent) of the employees in the study say that they enjoy increased flexibility at work. 52 percent consider flexible work hours or locations as key requirements, and 25 percent say that flexibility is the

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Does it Make Sense for the CEO of a VC-Funded Company to Hire an EA?

C-Suite Assistants

As the CEO or Founder of an early or late-stage start-up, what can you do to weather the shoals of today’s VC landscape? Venture Capital funding and exits are down. Inflation, interest rate, funding sources, bank shocks- it’s all happening. Is it time to hunker down and do layoffs or are there other ways to be the proactive leader you need to be and hire an EA?

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How to Conquer the Day

Productivityist

Years ago, I scribbled this quote down on a sticky note and I’ve shared it multiple times: “Cope with what you can’t control. Command what you can control. That’s how you conquer the day.” This simple yet profound idea invites us to reflect on the nature of control, how it affects our well-being, and how we can better manage our emotions and decisions in a world filled with uncertainties.

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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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Andrew Filev Founder Of Wrike | Reclaiming Lost Productivity & Improving Workplace Culture

Allwork

Guest Episode Video Transcript  Andrew Filev Founder And CEO of Wrike Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading collaborative work management platform. He started the company in 2006 to help people and companies work more productively and be more time and cost efficient. About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects.