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10 High-Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a College Degree

HR Digest

Career Guide: Jobs That Don’t Require a Degree. If you love technology and developing computer programs, this is the career for you. Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Graphic Designer.

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The Contrasting Fortunes Of Work In Healthcare And Manufacturing

The Horizons Tracker

As unemployment has remained relatively low throughout many developed countries, the focus has turned instead to the creation of ‘good jobs’ There is a feeling that many of the new jobs are insecure, poorly paid and with few career prospects, and the positive unemployment stats therefore hide a multitude of sins.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

To help answer why there are not more women in the top ranks of leadership, scientists at Development Dimensions International (DDI) , the global leadership development consultancy, released two research studies aimed at finding the answers. Make sure your leaders have high-quality development plans.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

Unlike Germany, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, the United States has generally failed to develop widely accepted skills standards for particular sectors. The evidence points to the potential for improving disadvantaged workers' career prospects more than traditional offerings from the U.S. public workforce-development system do.

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A Guide to Finding and Hiring the Best Contractors

Harvard Business Review

To help companies better understand who contractors are, where they are in their career paths, what they want out of their next job, and where they can be found, we recently aggregated and analyzed data from public LinkedIn profiles. Appeal to what contractors want from their careers.

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Older Workers Need to Stop Believing Stereotypes About Themselves

Harvard Business Review

Older workers are generally seen as less motivated, less willing to engage in training and career development programs, more resistant to change, not as trusting, more likely to have health problems that affect their work, and more vulnerable to work-family conflicts. Constructive feedback from line managers.

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Promoting the Non-Obvious Candidate

Harvard Business Review

Companies define career paths accordingly and carefully map, often in a linear fashion, the various roles one has to fill to reach higher management ranks. A commercial leader in financial services moved over to a health care business, bringing with her the ability to structure deals and work closely with C-suite executives.