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How to Make a Career Choice When You Are Undecided

HR Digest

What kind of career path would suit you best? A career choice should be based on your strengths and weaknesses. A career choice should be based on your strengths and weaknesses. If you don’t know how to decide what career you want , consider asking yourself questions: Why am I interested in this field? Are they similar?

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Finding Our Second Wave Is Key To Maintaining Career Success As We Age

The Horizons Tracker

Professional sport provides perhaps the most visceral example of career transitions in modern society, as the athletic potential of performers is usually limited to perhaps a decade, after which their physical strength wanes and they’re no longer able to maintain their competitiveness. Past our peak.

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Traditional male-dominated careers still find few takers in women

HR Digest

Sports and associated careers. There are more female athletes and member representatives in sports bodies and associations, but these are just token representation or an anomaly, it is still not the general rule. Sports commentating, coaching, management, medicine, all are still male-dominated careers.

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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

. ☙ When asked the secret of his political success, Ford reveals more than he perhaps intends by replying, “I made everyone else’s problems my problems.” ☙ “Ford never doubted the contribution of college sports to his character or career. Teamwork and grueling preparation were educational values in themselves.

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: 10 Entrepreneurial Types and Their Journey

Leading Blog

We need new ways to lead during the crisis – from how to reshape our careers or work, to how to craft a fresh collaborative model in this instantly all-digital age. So he made “a conscious decision to play sports, to be a gangster.”. Sure he read the sports, but he also pored over the business pages. He saved a lot of quarters.

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The Secret to Reduce Turnover in the Great Resignation is Recruiting the Team That You Have

Great Results Team Building

Every year, for those who follow sports, there ae key dates on the calendar that fans of college football or basketball get excited about. Athletes across the country choose a school and are celebrated on sports talk radio… They are applauded on ESPN for their choice of a new place to work… It is very exciting.

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Responsive Leadership: Needed Now More Than Ever

Leading Blog

No matter what industry or organizational structure—business, politics, nonprofit, religious, entertainment or sports—examples abound where leaders have violated their trusted role and experienced a public downfall. All leaders face adversity at some point in their careers.