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How Work Placements Can Improve Diversity In Engineering

The Horizons Tracker

The opportunity to gain experience in the workplace is tremendously important when embarking on your career, but such opportunities are not equally available. One’s connections, financial status and personal circumstances all play a part in the availability of placement opportunities. ” Compulsory practice.

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Well Connected People Get Results

Coaching Tip

Once people learn the Right Person-Right Approach method, they don''t go back to their old ways. As the business world and the Internet become increasingly intertwined , it''s becoming apparent just how relevant that platitude is to the success of your career and business. How People, Not Technology, Seal the Deal. .

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. If you keep following the edges and watch what the youngsters are doing, it gives you a pretty good idea of what’s coming.”

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Reskilling the Future of Work

HR Digest

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also widened job opportunities. What should companies do now? This begs a pressing question: What do we do next? We are at a major inflection point that will largely determine the future of work.

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Talking with Each Other @ Work

Coaching Tip

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." An open office environment.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

A good PM may know the Do’s and Don’ts of a customer interview, but the best PMs have the ability to empathize with customers in that interview, are tuned into their body language and emotions, and can astutely suss out the true pain-points that their product or feature will address. Emotional Intelligence (EQ).

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How to Get the Most Out of a Conference

Harvard Business Review

How do you figure out which sessions to attend? And what should you do if you’re an introvert who hates small talk ? “Today, probably even more than ever before, networks are a key form of social capital for achieving goals in both your professional and personal lives.” Career planning.