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July 29, 2016
How To Get The Raise You Deserve When You Work From Home
Remote workers can earn fair salary hikes if they know how to leverage their circumstances.
Working from home has plenty of advantages, but visibility isn't one of them. This can be problematic when leadership is considering who to promote. While it's not impossible to move up within a company when you're working remotely, it's certainly more challenging, says Amanda Augustine, career advice expert for TopResume, a personal branding website for professionals.
5 Things You Learned In School That Can Actually Help You Find A Job
Here's how to put some of the lessons of your college days to good use in your job search.
"When am I ever going to use this?" You've definitely asked yourself this age-old question one too many times at school—much to your professors' (and parents') chagrin. From the ins and outs of calculus derivatives to the historical timeline of the War of 1812, it seems like half of what you learn in school has no use once you leave the hallowed halls of university life.
From LinkedIn's Hiring Secrets To Working Abroad: July's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top leadership stories may help you stay competitive in the job market and show you how to earn a living overseas.
This month we learned how some people are earning livings abroad as their own bosses, how to adjust our Sunday schedules to start the week off right, and LinkedIn's tips for staying competitive in the current job market.
Six Ways To Slay The Summer Slump
We all need vacations, but getting back to work when they're over can be rough. We asked experts how to overcome the urge to stay idle.
Vacations are good for you. Several studies have touted numerous health benefits for the heart and the mind. For the latter, time off can improve cognitive function as well as build self-control and resilience. Bonus: What we experience while on vacation can affect our current state of happiness.
July 28, 2016
Peek Inside Apple's First Brooklyn Store, Complete With Exposed Brick
The Williamsburg location will test CEO Tim Cook's vision of stores as "community centers."
Exposed brick walls, polished concrete floors, pendant lamps, and a timber ceiling: Yup, we're in Brooklyn.
You Won't Believe What It Takes To Move A 2-Ton Satellite Across California
An inside look at how DigitalGlobe gets ready to launch a satellite into orbit. It's easier said than done.
You may not have heard of DigitalGlobe, but you've definitely seen its work in action.
Brainstorming Is Dumb
Studies show it produces fewer good ideas than when people think on their own. Thankfully, there's a better way to work in groups.
If you work in an office, your boss has probably forced you into a brainstorming session or two (or 12). Brainstorming, after all, is supposedly a killer way to come up with ideas, and businesses want to take advantage of all that collective creativity. But it turns out that brainstorming is actually a terrible technique—in fact, people generate fewer good ideas when they brainstorm together than when they work alone. Thankfully, there's a better way: a technique called brainwriting (think brainstorming, but with a pen and paper and less chitchat). And in a new study, researchers tested out variations of this method to understand exactly how to help people come up with their best ideas.
Virgin America's New App Puts A Travel Agent In Your Pocket
The airline's new app by Work & Co launches in beta this week.
Travel agents were among the first casualties of the Internet age, rendered obsolete by websites that let travelers select and book their own flights. But considering how time-consuming and complex it can be to hunt down the right seat at the right time and for the best price (be honest—how many airline tabs did you have open the last time you tried to fly?), some of us may be nostalgic for the golden age of travel in which your trusted agent knew your preferences—where you fly most frequently, window or aisle seat, first class or economy—completed the booking to those specifications, and bid you a polite bon voyage.
How Small Companies Can Attract Talent From Google, Apple, and Facebook
You'll never compete on prestige or financial returns, but there are other strengths a small company can offer.
Successful companies are built with strong talent. Employees who have been with you since Day One are valuable because they're often entrepreneurial, and people who have an impressive resume as a result of working for high-profile brands can give your company a different kind of boost.
How To Ace A Data Science Interview
Here's exactly what to expect at each stage of the dreaded data science interview.
Interviewing for a data science job? You have your work cut out for you. The data science interview is a complex beast, with behavioral questions mixed in with a bunch of technical questions. Considering how competitive the field is, you've gotten pretty far if you're able to land an interview in the first place, but you still have further to go—and that can be daunting.
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