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How Social Class Affects Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

This confidence may have a class element to it, as research from the UVA Darden School of Business found that people of higher social class tend to have an exaggerated belief in their abilities, especially compared to their lower-class peers. The idea that every bias is a defect may well be wrong.” Advantages beget advantages.

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Keep Employees Motivated, Engaged, and Productive.

Rich Gee Group

Offer Career Development Opportunities - Providing career development opportunities is crucial for retaining talent. BTW - don’t sign them up for cheap online classes or a ‘company-wide’ training firm with instructors who are terrible at motivating and teaching. Setting actionable goals for their development.

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How Promotion Age And Speed Affects Research Productivity

The Horizons Tracker

Getting promoted early in academic careers and being more productive later on are closely connected, and a recent study by Adam Mickiewicz University shed light on this in a new way. The study looked at a large group of Polish scientists in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields—16,083 in total.

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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

When we start out in our career we’re often placed in the perverse situation of expecting to know exactly what we want to do for the next 40/50 years while having no real experience of any career, let alone the multiple careers that might give us a realistic ability to appraise which one suits us best.

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My Gift To You This Season.

Rich Gee Group

I believe that staying abreast of new ideas, trends, and information is essential to a high-performing career and business. link ) Build Your Career Bug-Out Bag - be prepared to make a quick jump to a new position when unscrupulous bosses meddle with your career.( This is my gift to you. 275+ episodes and going strong!

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Careers You Can Get Started in Fast

Strategy Driven

Everybody wants to have a successful career, but that’s easier said than done. Not only do you have to spend years mastering your craft and working hard to succeed in any career, but most careers also require years of school and thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. You have so many options within the field. Trade Work.

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Women win class action status to sue Google over pay disparity

HR Digest

Four female ex-employees of Google have won a class-action status to pursue a gender disparity lawsuit against the company on behalf of nearly 11,000 women. Female engineers at both Twitter Inc and Microsoft Corp were unable to bring about a class-action lawsuit against the companies for gender bias.

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