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Where Are All The Great Careers? Hiding Right Here.

Rich Gee Group

We all know the common and famous careers out there. Did you know there are many great career paths that are ‘hidden’ from the normal news mainstream? Careers we probably know exist if we really thought about it, but we tend to forget them when we look at the entire career picture. New technology all the time.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Gordon Berridge: Our readers, with mining knowledge, will be will be familiar with the name Sam Walsh and Rio Tinto, but to provide a complete sketch of your background, would you please share a brief summary of your career history? I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

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Tech Layoffs: Recruiters Don’t Feel So Lucky

HR Digest

As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career? Last year on LinkedIn, there were 364,970 job postings for recruiters in tech – than for software engineers – 342,586. With hiring slowdowns and freezes on the horizon, too many recruiters are on the payroll.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. Each engineer has a pet feature they’d like included in Samsung phones. To do that, Samsung’s leaders must sacrifice the egos of their engineers.

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Do your motivations undermine your ability to lead?

ReImagine Work

He said, “Don’t you think we’re going to have another restructuring, if you read between the lines?” For me, this was a turning point in my career. I had many reasons that led me to leave my corporate career. An employee walked into my office. He then asked me to read an email from our CEO he had printed out.

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What Successful People Know that You Need to Learn!

Marshall Goldsmith

It mirrored his training and mindset as an engineer. Why would executives be willing to pull the rip cord on their careers rather than adapt to such a simple routine? When we join a reading group, we’re imposing structure on our reading habits (and possibly restructuring our social life). My only interpretation is ego.

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Generation X and the Narrowing Career Path

Harvard Business Review

She is reaching a point in her career where the path seems to be narrowing suddenly and precipitously. They don't like to be pigeon-holed or pushed out on a limb of specialization — with the inherent danger of a whimsical corporation sawing that limb off behind them during the next restructuring.

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