“Fish don’t know they’re in the water.”
They just swim.
That is a saying and a mindset that Tracey Zimmerman, the newly appointed and first female president and CEO of Robots & Pencils, an international digital innovation firm, takes to heart.
Read MoreIssue 133 — June 29, 2020
One thing COVID-19 has done is make life easier for introverts.
If you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of networking, in the sense of walking into a large room full of people you don’t know and trying to make connections that will be useful to you in your professional life, while balancing a beverage — it might seem in first blush that at least that worry is over.
But the reality is your network is your net worth.
Read MoreIt was the first of many smart choices for the team that created Unqork, a software development app, that recently raised $80 million in venture capital and has grown to 160 employees in two years. Jane Tran, vice president of strategy, says that the url name “Uncorked.com” costs $500,000, and the url “uncorq” cost $14.99 on GoDaddy.com.
Read MoreSuper good news for your wallet if you work in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin or Pittsburgh. Awesome if you are in transportation, marketing and advertising, or IT. PayScale Inc.’s latest Q3 2019 PayScale Index, which tracks quarterly trends in compensation, shows that overall wages in the U.S. increased 2.6 percent in the past year, with job growth averaging 161,000 new jobs per month for the first nine months of the year.
Read MoreLaverne McKinnon loves the underdog. And she also loves to persuade. A film and tv producer, leadership coach and adjunct professor with two decades of programming experience, McKinnon is all about telling stories of triumph—especially the ones we tell ourselves.
Read MoreFreelance or contract workers are a growing portion of the economy. But working from home, connecting only remotely to your organization, team or management, may not be the blissful utopia everyone imagines.
Read MoreThe partial shutdown of the federal government affecting 800,000 workers plus recent layoffs at major newspapers, retail stores and company takeovers show every leader, entrepreneur and professional needs a plan for unanticipated, sudden changes in income present and future.
Read MoreIn the new Oscar-buzzing movie, “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, Melissa McCarthy plays the late real-life author Lee Israel who turned to fabricating and forging historic author letters to make a living and pay the rent when her book deals dried up.
Read MoreMost of us have likely fantasized about what we would say to a manager, boss or supervisor when we announce we are leaving a job.
Read MoreWhile most of my friends and colleagues debate the recent episodes of “Game Of Thrones” or even “Bachelor in Paradise,” I prefer to offer insights from my favorite TV indulgence, “The Great British Baking Show.”
Read MoreYou’re one in a million. Those are not your odds of getting job at Dell, Inc., that is how many job applications the tech giant receives each year.
And while Jennifer Newbill, senior manager in the Global Talent Center of Excellence for the Texas-based international company, does not look at each resume, she is responsible for the experience of every job candidate globally for Dell. She manages the global employment team on candidate attraction, engagement and experience.
Read MoreCommencement season seems to bring out the best in advice, most notably from women leaders around the country and the world sharing their wisdom about failure, success and dreams, hopefully inspiring the next generation of women leaders.
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