Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Bias against parents — and especially mothers — has been well documented. We call it the “Maternal Wall,” and we’ve been studying it for years, researching how women who have always been successful at work sometimes find their competence questioned when they take maternity leave or ask for a flexible work schedule. […]
beastfromeast/Getty Images Not long ago, I had the chance to speak to a networking group for job seekers over the age of 40. Many of the people in attendance had worked for over 10 years at companies and were then let go. A number of them had been out of work for six months or […]
PM Images/Getty Images For years, companies, universities and nonprofits have researched the reasons why women are less likely to enter STEM fields — and why, once they enter, they face challenges that frequently push them out. In prior research, we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% […]
If you’ve ever painted a room you know that getting every nook and cranny is pretty difficult and Tim Allen help you if you have hardwood or carpet. The tarp alone costs more than the paint. Now, thanks to MIST, your robot can manage the entire job, slapping paint up like a robotic Jackson Pollock. […]
Despite Facebook being under fire for everything pertaining to Cambridge Analytica, the company still hopes to be able to do some good. Today, Facebook is dropping its platform fees pertaining to fundraisers for personal causes. That means Facebook is getting rid of the 4.3 percent platform fee in the u.S. and the 6.2 percent fee […]
The maker of Shadowverse and Granblue Fantasy is teaming up with Nintendo for a new mobile RPG. Called Dragalia Lost, the Japanese-style action RPG will be a free-to-play game though likely loaded with Loot Box-style mechanics that will result in a financial windfall for Nintendo and developer Cygames. The trailer doesn’t reveal many details about […]
The UK government has suffered yet another defeat in the courts over a surveillance regime that critics have dubbed a ‘Snooper’s charter’. Today the UK High Court agreed with digital and civil rights group Liberty’s crowdfunded legal challenge to a portion of the UK’s 2016 Investigatory Powers Act that gives the state the power to […]
Over coming years Ford intends to stop selling most of its cars in North America. This plan would leave just the Mustang and upcoming Focus Active as the only traditional car it sells while crossovers, SUVs and trucks make up the rest of its lineup. The news was abruptly revealed in Ford’s latest quarterly financial […]
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today Katie Roof and I were joined by James Hardiman, a partner at Data Collective (DCVC). If you want to tell him how he did, he’s on Twitter here. It was good to have Hardiman on board as […]
With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft is launching a number of new features for its desktop operating system today. Most of those apply to all users, but in addition to all the regular feature updates, the company also today announced a couple of new features and tools specifically designed for its business users […]
Following the steady pace of its semi-annual update cadence, Microsoft today launched the latest version of Windows 10. For the most part, there are no major revelations here since Microsoft’s Windows Insider program now regularly provides early access to all the new features to those who are brave enough to try out pre-release software. But […]
Unlike other browser vendors, Microsoft remains committed to a relatively slow update cycle that sees the company launch major new versions of Edge in sync with the bi-annual Windows 10 updates. It doesn’t look like that’s changing anytime soon, even as the Edge mobile browser is seeing far more regular updates now. Since today is […]
After a brief delay (though Microsoft won’t confirm or deny this), Microsoft today announced that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update will be available as a free download to users worldwide on Monday, April 30, with the broader rollout starting May 8. As with every Windows release, there’s plenty of new features, cosmetic tweaks and […]
The ongoing trend of consolidation in the world of ridesharing continues apace, with the latest development coming out of Europe. BlaBlaCar, the French carpooling platform, is acquiring Less, a young carpooling platform based in Paris and focusing only on urban rides, paying drivers on a per-kilometer rate to incentivize them. The financial terms are not […]
$4.5 billion-valued ride-sharing startup Go-Jek may be busy in Southeast Asia, where it is aiming to step into the gap following Uber’s exit, but that isn’t stopping it from looking at opportunities elsewhere in the world. Over in Bangladesh, motorbike-taxi hailing service Pathao has announced that it raised a “pre-Series A” investment led by Go-Jek. […]
While Bumble BFF and Hey! Vina help adult women find new friends, there isn’t a social network dedicated to young women. But Brooke Chaffin and Catherine Connors are looking to change that with the introduction of Maverick, a social network that connects young girls with female mentors to express their creativity in a safe space. […]
When you and a coworker are discussing a conflict you’ve been having, you might be tempted to launch into your account of the events, assuming that your counterpart should see things exactly the way you do. But that approach is unlikely to go over well. Instead, treat your opinion of what’s happened as what it […]
DocuSign priced its IPO Thursday evening at $29 per share, netting the company $629 million. It was a better price than the e-signature company had been expecting. The initially proposed price range was $24 to $26 and then that was raised to $26 to $28. The price gives the company a valuation of $4.4 billion […]
[embedded content] As we navigate further and further into this strange Ready Player One-like future that plenty of tech companies are investing heavily, Disney wants to ensure that people can feel content in the most life-like way possible. Disney Research has shown off some research into the world of haptic feedback via a vest with “pneumatically-actuated […]
With Microsoft’s BUILD 2018 conference right around the corner, the company just made good on a promise from last year’s conference; Apple iTunes is finally coming to the Windows Store. The music software was originally forecast to arrive by the end of 2017, but it took a bit longer to finally find its Windows home. […]
For GPU-based training, the AMIs come with Chainer 4 fully configured with CuPy, NVIDIA CUDA 9, and cuDNN 7 to take advantage of mixed-precision training on NVIDIA Volta V100 GPUs powering Amazon EC2 P3 instances. Chainer 4 also provides improved support for TensorCores in Volta GPUs used in low-precision computations. The AMIs also deploy the […]
Bluetooth and smart speakers are a dime a dozen these days, and many of them aren’t bad — so what it often comes down to is style. Native Union has my number with its latest device, which accentuates the classic bookcase speaker look with a tech-heavy back end and brass volume knob. It’s a collaboration […]
This updated Quick Start builds a highly available, secure global transit network on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 5 minutes. It deploys Aviatrix Controller and Aviatrix Gateways in a central virtual private cloud (VPC) on AWS to manage routing between remote networks (spoke VPCs) in a hub-and-spoke model. A central transit hub […]
The new Db2 LUW source adds to the existing list of relational database, NoSQL, and object store sources supported by DMS. If the database migration target is Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift or Amazon DynamoDB, you can use DMS free for six months. SCT supports conversion of Db2 LUW objects to Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon […]
On today’s wildly successful earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky dropped a bit of a bombshell for Amazon Prime subscribers. The retailer’s everything-and-the-kitchen-sink annual subscription plan is about to get pricier. On May 11, Prime annual memberships will jump $20, from $99 a year to $119. The news follows a similar announcement back in January, […]
It’s an end of an era in Cupertino today. Apple just announced the end of production on its AirPort line of base stations, a list that includes the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, the company noted that it will continue to sell its remaining stock, but […]
The job hunt: it’s something we all go through in our lives, yet there’s still a surprising amount of mystery around it. Do I need to write a cover letter? What’s the best way to prepare for an interview? And why do I never hear back, even after sending dozens of applications? We know that […]
Thanks in part to its colossal cloud business, Microsoft earnings are drenching shareholders in dollars. For the quarter ending March 31, 2018, the tech ringer from Redmond saw its revenue increase to $26.8 billion (up 16 percent) from $23.2 billion, with operating income up 23 percent to $8.3 billion, up from $6.7 billion. Income was […]
Amazon just announced that it’s scored the rights to stream Thursday Night Football games for another two years. The contract renewal will bring 11 NFL games simulcast on Fox to its Prime video offerings for both the 2018 and 2019 seasons, including weeks four through 15 of the season, save for Thanksgiving. The NFL and Amazon […]
Square just announced that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Weebly for $365 million in cash and stock. While Square is best known for its payment software and hardware, it’s also been expanding into other areas; for example, with the acquisition of food delivery service Caviar and corporate catering startup Zesty. Weebly, meanwhile, offers easy-to-use […]
Amazon reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, sending shares up 7 percent in after-hours trading after its significantly better-than-expected report. The company reported earnings per share of $3.27, well above the $1.26 that analysts had been expecting. This worked out to $1.6 billion in net income, up from $724 million last year. Revenue […]
MoviePass is known for a pricing model that sounds too good to be true — in exchange for paying $9.95 per month, subscribers get up to one movie ticket per day. At least, they used to: If you try to sign up now, that isn’t quite what you’re offered. Instead, there’s a bundle that combines […]
Stock market investors greeted payroll software company Ceridian with enthusiasm on its debut Thursday. After pricing above its expected range at $22 per share, the stock shot up 42 percent, closing above $31 by day’s end. Ceridian helps clients ranging from BlackRock to Trader Joe’s keep tabs on personnel, including payroll, benefits and onboarding. Its […]
Daniel Tawfik Contributor Often when I attend a conference or a networking event I am surprised by how many people operate at the periphery of the tech industry. Social media gurus, SEO “ninjas,” bloggers, etc. It’s a coterie of tech “club promoters.” The hype men of the industry. “Hack your way to success.” “Meet the […]
Zurich-based DeepCode claims that their system — essentially a tool for analyzing and improving code — is like Grammarly for programmers. The system, which uses a corpus of 250,000 rules, reads your public and private GitHub repositories and tells you how to fix problems, remain compatible and generally improve your programs. Founded by Veselin Raychev, […]
Teradyne, a prosaic-sounding but flush company that provides automated testing equipment for industrial applications, has acquired the Danish robotics company MiR for an eye-popping $148 million, with $124 million on the table after meeting performance goals. MiR, which despite the lowercase “i” stands for Mobile Industrial Robots, does what you might guess. Founded in 2013, […]
Tesla’s VP of Autopilot and low-voltage hardware, Jim Keller, is leaving the company, Electrek first reported. In a statement to TechCrunch, Tesla said it appreciates “his contributions to Tesla and wish the best,” a spokesperson said. “Tesla is deeply committed to developing the most advanced silicon in the world and we plan to dramatically increase […]
AWS SMS is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. It allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.
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Using DAX, you can improve the read performance of your DynamoDB tables by up to 10x—taking the time required for reads from milliseconds to microseconds—even at millions of requests per second. DAX manages cache invalidation and data population on your behalf. It also works with existing DynamoDB API calls so that developers can use DAX […]
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images You’re double booked. It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. It’s something for your family at odds with a work commitment. These situations can trigger guilt and stress. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. And stress because you […]
You can now record configuration changes to AWS Lambda using AWS Config. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. With Config, you can track changes to the Lambda function, runtime environments, tags, handler name, code size, memory allocation, timeout settings, and concurrency settings. You can also record changes to Lambda IAM […]
pbombaert/Getty Images The revelations of the #MeToo movement seem to have caught many men by surprise. Comedian Aziz Ansari was “surprised and concerned,” believing his encounter with a woman to be “by all indications completely consensual.” Well-known actor Richard Dreyfus was “bewildered to discover” an incident wasn’t consensual, leading him to “reassess every relationship I […]
Jamie Jones/Getty Images In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Slack argued that “the electronic digital computer, with its capacity to hold large amounts of data and to execute multiple complex instructions and accuracy would…find […]
Bhavesh1988/Getty Images Over the last few decades, the job market in the U.S. has changed in many ways. But one trend that hasn’t received nearly enough attention is the steady rise of occupational licensing: more and more jobs are requiring workers to be licensed to enter the profession. In the 1950s, approximately 5% of U.S. […]
Let’s cut straight to the chase: most cover letters are bad. In fact, Dawn Rasmussen, certified resume writer and president of Pathfinder Writing and Career Services, happily admits that “I love writing cover letter openings because I know how bad they usually are.” But that doesn’t mean your cover letter is destined for the slush […]
Many people see informational interviews as tricky. What are they for, really? They’re definitely for gathering information about a certain industry, job role or career path, but they’re also valuable in helping you get a job. Not only can they inform your job hunt with insider information in a way that the internet sometimes just […]
Bhavesh1988/Getty Images Over the last few decades, the job market in the U.S. has changed in many ways. But one trend that hasn’t received nearly enough attention is the steady rise of occupational licensing: more and more jobs are requiring workers to be licensed to enter the profession. In the 1950s, approximately 5% of U.S. […]
Welcome to BrightLocal’s 2018 Voice Search for Local Business Study We’re living in a voice-activated world, with Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana making it into more consumers’ homes—and pockets. But while the onslaught of voice search is well-established, there has been comparatively little exploration of its impact on local businesses. To […]
When videos go “viral,” they quickly get a lot of views on the internet, often through rapid user sharing on social media. The content of those videos varies a great deal, and they can be a mixture of user-generated content or carefully planned advertising. For example, the Old Spice marketing campaign in 2010 became a […]
Our startup journey has proved it — guest blogging is king, queen and all the aces in content marketing. Guest blogging lets you share expertise and build authority in the industry, and the backlinks you receive to your own website helps your SERP rankings. We started Chanty from scratch. Thanks to the staircase guest blogging […]
When one of your employees quits, you may take it personally. But keep in mind that their decision may have little to do with you: Most people leave because their opportunities for growth are limited. Encourage all your employees to openly discuss with you their goals and plans for the future, even if those plans […]
RCF is an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for detecting data points that diverge from otherwise well-structured or patterned data set. Detecting these anomalies in data can be critical in a variety of applications – such as identifying fraud detection and incorrectly-priced products as a retailer, or monitoring the health of emergency room patients. The Amazon […]
hamzaturkkol/Getty Images When employees lack self-confidence, it can be hard to get them to perform at their best. So how can you help them excel at their job? What kind of coaching should you provide? What’s the best way to boost their self-esteem? And how do you deal with your own frustration around their insecure behavior? What […]
HBR Staff/Arata Photography/Getty Images “Cheetos! Please Cheetos!” Riku Nakamura’s daughter, Akari, lunged toward the grocery store shelf. His wife, Aoi, sighed. “Remind me: Why are we walking down this aisle again?” “I wanted to see how rice cakes are displayed. I don’t understand why our rice crackers can’t be in this section, too.” Aoi nodded […]
Raymond Gehman/Getty Images Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. Managers in banks, hospitals, police departments, call-centers, and retail outlets who want […]
Amazon CloudFront announces the addition of a third Edge Location in Singapore and second Edge location in Taipei, Taiwan. Every Edge Location that we add to the AWS infrastructure increases CloudFront’s capacity to serve secure content with low latency and high availability, around the world. A full list of CloudFront’s global infrastructure can be seen on the […]
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Raymond Gehman/Getty Images Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. Managers in banks, hospitals, police departments, call-centers, and retail outlets who want […]
Raymond Gehman/Getty Images Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. Managers in banks, hospitals, police departments, call-centers, and retail outlets who want […]
Every year in late spring, people from around the world choose to take a fresh look at their relationship with electronic media. They do so by participating in Screen-Free Week, which this year starts on April 30. This annual “media detox” began in 1994, when it was called TV-Turnoff Week, and has found renewed relevance […]
Should I tell them my salary range? Do I want too much? Am I undervalued? Will the recruiter try to lowball me? Do my colleagues earn more than me? These are the questions that may be running through your mind when you think about negotiating your salary for a new job. However, there’s no need […]
Writing a strong cover letter definitely increases the likelihood your sales job application will get a response. First, it tells the hiring manager you’re a good communicator. You don’t need to be J.K. Rowling to excel in a sales role, but you do need to be capable of expressing your ideas clearly, succinctly and compellingly. Second, it […]
From resume screening tools to Robot Vera, an AI-based software technology that helps recruit and hire humans, it’s safe to say that the robots have become a necessary evil that job seekers need to contend with. Automation and machine learning have become a recruiter’s best friends, helping to sift through hundreds or thousands of applications. […]
Have you ever read a job description and thought to yourself, “I wonder how much they pay?” If salary is top of mind, you’re in luck. With Glassdoor Salary Estimates, you can see how much a position pays before applying. No more wasted job applications and no more lowball offers. Here are 18 transparent companies […]
Raymond Gehman/Getty Images Today, monitoring technologies are increasingly inexpensive—and staggeringly expansive. This has made it easier than ever for managers to intensively monitor employees at work. These technologies run the gamut, from body-worn cameras and closed-circuit televisions, to traceable identification cards and keystroke trackers. Managers in banks, hospitals, police departments, call-centers, and retail outlets who want […]
There are a lot of reasons you might be thinking about deleting your Facebook account — perhaps you think you spend too much time on it and want to take a social media cleanse, or maybe you and your friends have already stopped using it, so there’s no reason to keep it around. It’s important […]
It’s hard to tell an employee they didn’t get the promotion they were vying for. Your goal should be to deliver the news clearly and with empathy. Start by validating your employee’s contributions and thanking them for applying. Avoid comforting statements like “Next time you’ll get the job,” which make promises you may not be […]
You can now record configuration changes to AWS Elastic Beanstalk resource types using AWS Config. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed in multiple languages. You upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. With […]
AWS Auto Scaling allows you to discover scalable resources underlying your application and scale them all using a single scaling plan. Previously, AWS Auto Scaling discovered application resources based on an Amazon CloudFormation stack. Now, AWS Auto Scaling can also discover scalable resources that you have categorized for your application using resource tags. Resource tag-based […]
AWS Glue automates much of the effort to build, maintain, and run extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs. Glue crawls your data sources, identifies data formats, and suggests schemas and transformations. Glue automatically generates the code to execute your data transformations and loading processes. Glue is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to provision or […]
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Amanda Goodall, a senior lecturer at Cass Business School in London, argues that the best leaders are technical experts, not general managers. She discusses her research findings about doctors who head up hospitals, scholars who lead universities, and all-star basketball players who go on to manage teams. She also gives advice for what to do […]
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Nicholas Blechman for HBR In the early days of corporate environmentalism, the focus was mainly on big, heavy industries. Fossil fuels and mining had the most obvious environmental issues, as well as extensive regulatory regimes to navigate. These days, however, sustainability discussions are more often focused on the actions of consumer product, retail, and tech […]
pm images/Getty Images Pay TV has over $100 billion in revenue in the U.S., with a wide array of large and small firms vying for a piece of the action. As recently as 2012, over 90% of U.S. households subscribed to cable, satellite, or another pay TV service. But the market is in turmoil, despite attempts to […]
Keiichi Ichikawa/EyeEm/Getty Images Loneliness is a painful and pernicious emotion. Defined as “a complex set of feelings that occurs when intimate and social needs are not adequately met,” loneliness is different from depression, being alone, or feelings of solitude. It has more to do with a person’s quality of social relationships rather than their quantity. […]
Donna Grethen/Getty Images We often hear about the power of personality, and how some traits are beneficial for our careers while others are more harmful. For example, we know that being more conscientious (hard-working, driven, reliable, and organized) is associated with better job performance, and that being nice (more agreeable) does not pay off in […]
Donna Grethen/Getty Images We often hear about the power of personality, and how some traits are beneficial for our careers while others are more harmful. For example, we know that being more conscientious (hard-working, driven, reliable, and organized) is associated with better job performance, and that being nice (more agreeable) does not pay off in […]
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The Best Time to Post on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+ [Infographic] Social media is one of the best ways to amplify your brand and the great content you’re creating. But it isn’t enough to just post content to social whenever you feel like it. Some times are better than others. So, what […]
Would you describe yourself as a compassionate person? Even if you don’t necessarily see yourself that way, I bet you’re compassionate at least some of the time (e.g., when you’re well-rested and not in a hurry), or with certain people in your life (e.g., with your closest friends). Compassion can be thought of as a […]
The average job opening attracts 250 resumes, and the average interview process from start to finish can take 23 days. Phone interviews can help you determine which candidates have the critical thinking and interpersonal skills necessary for an in-person interview. When you weed out less qualified applicants right off the bat, you can narrow down […]
When you’re going through a personal crisis, you’ll likely need the support of your colleagues. But they may not know how to be useful, so ask for their help thoughtfully and specifically. Describe what you need and why the help is meaningful to you, and, as with any request at work, give a deadline. For […]
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The AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. About the examThe security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. It validates understanding of specialized […]
Protect Yourself Against The Unknown – Cyber Crimes Revealed Source: BestVPNS.co.uk Crime is prevalent in today’s society – we see a plethora of stories on the news relating to criminal activity and our law enforcement organizations have to deal with a myriad of different types of crime, day in day out. One particular brand of […]
Philip gould/Getty Images When you’re a leader — no matter how long you’ve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there — you are merely overhead unless you’re bringing out the best in your employees. Unfortunately, many leaders lose sight of this. Power, as my colleague Ena Inesi has studied, can […]
Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr NASA today is a very different beast from the NASA of the 1960s. Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, […]
Getting ready for a big job interview can be stressful, and the best thing you can do to calm your nerves is to ensure you’re adequately prepared. Improvising responses and questions on the spot works for some people, but there’s no reason to leave it up to chance, especially if you have your heart set […]
There are plenty of up-and-coming cities for professionals on the move. Take our quiz to figure out which city is right for you! Home > Quiz: Where Should You Move For Your Next Job?
vincent tsui for hbr When someone you work with annoys you, it’s tempting to avoid the person as much as possible. But this isn’t always feasible and often only makes the situation worse. You’re better off cultivating some empathy. How can you do that with a colleague who rubs you the wrong way? How can […]
With GDPR on the horizon, email marketing expert Kevin George takes a look into how you can personalize your email strategies for better engagement while avoiding the spammy tactics that GDPR is designed to prohibit. In an age of information overload, email marketing can be a powerful tool for your local business. Considering the more […]
When you’re burned out and exhausted, it’s easy to think of yourself as a victim of circumstances — and forget that you have a say in your situation. Instead of blaming everyone else for your being overworked and overstressed, take ownership of it. Think to yourself: “Others may have contributed to my situation, but I […]
How to Create and Share an Infographic Resume [Infographic] The modern job search is incredibly competitive, and technology has made it easier for your resume and job application to be overlooked and discarded before you even make it to the interview. Luckily, technology is also here to help. There’s no longer a template for how […]
Let’s face it: A job search is, typically, anything but fun. It’s almost as if it carries its own five stages of grief. At first, there’s denial of its demoralizing nature. Then comes the anger over either radio silence or rejection from prospective employers. Of course, there’s bargaining — “I promise to never complain about […]
A PR campaign can have a long-lasting impact on your brand’s reputation and public image. But it must be well-planned. An effective PR campaign is more than just a press release on a new product or a fundraiser to raise brand awareness. To create a remarkably effective PR campaign, you need to take some big […]
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Buyer personas are a crucial component of successful inbound marketing, particularly for the sales and marketing departments. After all, the marketing team needs to know to whom they are marketing, and the sales team needs to know to whom they are selling. But once you sit down to craft your buyer personas, you may find […]
How to Write a Business Plan Write an executive summary. Describe your company and business model. Analyze your market’s conditions. Explain your product and/or service. Outline all operations & management roles. Design a marketing & sales strategy. Detail a financial plan with business costs, funding, and revenue projections. Summarize the above with an appendix. Not […]
Business Pages: Facebook Marketing Do’s & Don’ts Marketing Muses has created this helpful infographic to help you understand Facebook Business Manager’s best practices that will help drive the right kind of customer to your website or business while creating a MASSIVE Facebook audience. DO’S Make Stories Make sure you are telling a […]
Here are some of our favorite Pantone Colors! Check out our new article on Marketing Psychology: Theory of Color for more details on tactics behind every color in the spectrum.
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htu/Getty Images Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Someone who gets a huge amount done — without working longer hours? Super-productive people are in every industry. The most productive software developers write nine times more usable code per day than the average developer, according to research by Michael Mankins. He also found that […]
Is your boss making your life miserable? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Moshe Cohen, a senior lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. They talk through what to do when your boss is a jerk, a workaholic, […]
diane555/Getty Images Alongside popular misconceptions that healthy people do not need the flu shot and myths about the harmful side effects of the vaccine, numerous studies have shown that one of the biggest reasons people don’t get vaccinated is that a physician never recommends it. (Eighty percent of patients say they would be more likely to […]
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CSA Images/Getty Images You want to be a great boss. You want your company to be a great place to work. But right now, at this very moment, one of your key employees might be about to walk out the door. She has consistently brought her best game to work and has grown into a […]
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CSA Images/Getty Images You want to be a great boss. You want your company to be a great place to work. But right now, at this very moment, one of your key employees might be about to walk out the door. She has consistently brought her best game to work and has grown into a […]
CSA Images/Getty Images You want to be a great boss. You want your company to be a great place to work. But right now, at this very moment, one of your key employees might be about to walk out the door. She has consistently brought her best game to work and has grown into a […]
CSA Images/Getty Images You want to be a great boss. You want your company to be a great place to work. But right now, at this very moment, one of your key employees might be about to walk out the door. She has consistently brought her best game to work and has grown into a […]
The Best Careers For Your Myers-Briggs Personality Type Many job placement companies and career counseling centers will factor in a person’s Myers-Briggs personality type when finding them in the perfect job. Find your type and find a job that fits your specific disposition. Ready to learn about the different Myers-Briggs Personality types? Take it a […]
Here’s the Information You’re Probably Giving Social Media Networks, and How They Protect It People have questions about the security of our digital data. That ranges broadly, whether it’s passwords, online banking information, or what we do on social media. And more than ever, people are asking, “How is my information protected?” In order to […]
The World Happiness Report has been published every year since 2012, giving countries important data about the well-being of their people and how it compares to other nations’. One of the primary proponents and editors of the report is renowned economist Baron Richard Layard of the London School of Economics. As a researcher, Layard has […]
It’s a question SEOs get asked again and again: ‘How can I rank locally in an area outside my city?‘ There are plenty of reasons why you’d want to rank in cities where you don’t have an address, but getting into local rankings outside your area can be challenging. On April 18th, 2018, BrightLocal CEO […]
When you go on vacation, ideally you should disconnect from work completely. But if going off the grid truly is not an option for you, set boundaries for yourself so that you aren’t tethered to your device. Make a plan to check your messages once a day at a particular time, or only on certain […]
This SlideShare was originally published on LinkedIn’s SlideShare site created by Jordan Crown. E-Commerce Problems & Solutions Guide by Jordan Crown. E-Commerce Problems & Solutions Guide Problem No. 1: Your website doesn’t inspire customers to return multiple times. Earning customer loyalty is a matter of building trust and making the shopping experience as easy […]
These AMIs, along with the previously announced .NET Core on Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu AMIs, make it easier for you to modernize .NET and SQL workloads on free Linux-based operating systems, without the need to buy Windows Server licenses. You can launch SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Amazon Linux 2 Candidate […]
This post is an excerpt from the video series 4 Essential Microsoft Excel Skills Every Marketer Should Learn. If you want to become a master of the almighty spreadsheet, watch the full video series here. I know, I know … “VLOOKUP function” sounds like the geekiest, most complicated thing ever. But trust me: as was […]
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9 Mistakes To Avoid On Your Resume [Infographic] Crafting a standout resume is a lot of work. Not only do you have to write the darn thing, but you also have to check (and double-check) for typos, even out your margins, make sure you’re not repeating the same action verb 10 times … the list […]
