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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

If your speed bump is a lack of the right skills, it helps to first do a quick cost/benefit analysis to see if investing in an upgrade will be worth it. If you are in Human Resources, you can improve your technical skills with the PHR and SPHR certifications offered by the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

Technical support can become marketing; marketing can turn into human resources; back office managers move to the front office and the other way around. Since they are starting “late,” they believe they should do a cost benefit analysis to see if their reorientation is “worth it.”

Career 8