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September 2, 2016
3 Subtle Ways To Make An Impact While You're New To The Job
Being the new hire with tons of "great ideas" won't always endear you to your team. Here's a better way to have an influence early on.
Being the new hire with tons of "great ideas" won't always endear you to your team. Here's a better way to have an influence early on.
You'd probably be lying to yourself if you said you've never gone into a new job and resolved to outperform your team's expectations. You have plenty of good ideas and want everyone to know that you're a genius of sorts.
From Old-School To-Do Lists To How Google Hires: August's Top Leadership Stories
August's top leadership stories may get you to take your to-do list analog and help you get noticed by a Google recruiter.
August's top leadership stories may get you to take your to-do list analog and help you get noticed by a Google recruiter.
This month we learned how Patagonia recoups 91% of the cost of onsite child care, why an Industrial Age to-do list hack still has life in it, and why Google is thinking more creatively about hiring engineers than it used to.
7 Questions For Spotting Employers' Hidden Flaws On A Job Interview
A job interview isn't always the best venue for uncovering signs of bad management, but asking these questions can help.
A job interview isn't always the best venue for uncovering signs of bad management, but asking these questions can help.
People typically leave their jobs for three reasons: they were offered a better one, they don't see a growth path, or they don't like their bosses. As a recruiter, I see all of these scenarios play out, but boss troubles are the most common by far—and they don't always stem from employees' direct supervisors. Sometimes it's your boss's bad boss who sets the tone for everybody, a problem that can be harder to detect as an outsider.
3 Digital Decisions You'll Regret Someday
Team messaging platforms, social media, and even using your own devices at work all have the potential to kill your current job.
Team messaging platforms, social media, and even using your own devices at work all have the potential to kill your current job.
The big-ticket career gaffes are pretty well-known: Don't tell off your boss. Don't quit on the spot—especially if you don't have another job lined up. And try not to get too sloppy during office happy hour.
September 1, 2016
Ed Smith And The Imagination Machine: The Untold Story Of A Black Video Game Pioneer
At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.
At APF in the 1970s, as the second-known African-American video game engineer, he helped create an industry.
Thirty-seven years ago, New York-based APF Electronics, Inc. released The Imagination Machine, a hybrid video game console and personal computer designed to make a consumer's first experience with computing as painless and inexpensive as possible.
APF's playful computer (and its game console, the MP1000) never rivaled the impact of products from Apple or Atari, but they remain historically important because of the man who cocreated them: Ed Smith, one of the first African-American electronics engineers in the video game industry. During a time when black Americans struggled for social justice, Manhattan-based APF hired Smith to design the core element of its future electronics business.
Researchers Have A Vision: Cure Blindness By Regrowing Retinas And Optic Nerves
The government's National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons.
The government's National Eye Institute is committing $12.4 million to research technologies that can regenerate damaged neurons.
Neurons are for life, as are diseases and injuries that destroy them. That's the painful truth for people who lose their vision to diseases like macular degeneration or glaucoma, which destroy the retina—the image sensor of the eye—or the optic nerve that connects eyes to the brain. But some laws of human health were made to be broken, and that may soon be true for the law of irreversible nerve damage. The U.S. government's National Eye Institute said today that it will put up $12.4 million to fund six studies on technologies that can regenerate damaged eyes.
5 Design Jobs That Won't Exist In The Future
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.
And seven jobs that will grow, according to design leaders at Frog, Ideo, Artefact, Teague, and more.
Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years.
Four Unique Ways These Companies Are Finding The Best Job Candidates
Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates' best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.
Upending the interview process lets employers see beyond candidates' best behavior to see whether they are a good fit for the work.
Hiring is a lot like dating: Both parties are often on their best behavior during the interview process, and you often don't know if the candidate and company are a good match until several months later. Unfortunately that can cost an employer time and money.
The One Question Your Resume Needs To Answer (But Probably Doesn't)
It may be unfashionable to talk about "career passion," but it's something employers want to hear about—even if they don't say so.
It may be unfashionable to talk about "career passion," but it's something employers want to hear about—even if they don't say so.
If you're searching for your next gig, pull out your resume. Take a look at the experience it recounts and see how well it answers this question:
How To Snap Into Job-Search Mode On A Dime
You weren't planning to have to look for a job, but now you're unexpectedly out of work. Here's what to do.
You weren't planning to have to look for a job, but now you're unexpectedly out of work. Here's what to do.
You liked your job. Or at least, you were comfortable in it. It didn't feel like time yet to start looking around—but fate intervened anyway: You got fired. Your job was cut in a sudden round of layoffs. Maybe your partner or spouse landed a new gig you'll both need to move for. Or maybe you were dissatisfied already and just hit a breaking point that you hadn't yesterday. Whatever the case, now's the time to kick your job search into high gear.
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