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Exposure To Different Careers Can Help Overcome The Skills Gap

The Horizons Tracker

When we start out in our career we’re often placed in the perverse situation of expecting to know exactly what we want to do for the next 40/50 years while having no real experience of any career, let alone the multiple careers that might give us a realistic ability to appraise which one suits us best.

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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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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.” An HBR Insight Center.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy.

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Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out

Harvard Business Review

” This month, Credit Suisse said it calculates who is likely to quit , and proactively offers them new career roles. ” It’s no coincidence that this sounds like consumer marketing. Marketing often influences consumers through unconscious habits, as described in Charles Duhigg’s book, “ The Power of Habit.”

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Rather, they were abandoning their businesses because of bad bookkeeping.

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