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Engineers Join Startups For Love, Not Money

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers wanted to explore what might prompt a highly sought-after engineer to overlook jobs at prestigious organizations in favor of a riskier startup, often on lower pay. The study found that for many engineers, this lack of pay isn’t an issue. over the course of a decade. . over the course of a decade. .

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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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Closing The Gender Gap In STEM

The Horizons Tracker

Closing the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) goes beyond just getting more women into fields like computer science. They dove into the numbers from the American Community Survey between 2009 and 2019. They finish by saying it’s not just about family roles affecting women’s careers.

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Managing Insecurity Report – The role of good management

Chartered Management Institute

million people - are in severely insecure jobs, often characterised by low pay, unpredictable hours, poor protections, and limited career progression. Half of workers surveyed (51%) say their mental wellbeing is affected by sudden changes to their work, schedule, or weekly hours. Against this backdrop, nearly one in five workers - 6.2

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Cost Of Living A Key Concern For Top Talent

The Horizons Tracker

That was the message from a new report from engineering recruitment company Terminal. This results in nearly 40% of Canadian and Mexican engineers preferring not to move to the US for work, even if they were offered a significant salary increase. Broken recruitment.

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Nurses: attracting more men to the profession could help with talent shortage

The Horizons Tracker

A global survey of nurses undertaken by the consultancy firm McKinsey in the summer of 2022 highlighted the perilous state of the sector. The survey, which was conducted in France, Singapore, Japan, the US, Australia, Brazil and the UK, found that around one in four nurses was considering leaving the profession.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

Great Leadership By Dan

ASDA, a UK grocery chain, was selected as the top employer of choice by a Sunday Times survey. Culture Change is Dangerous to One’s Career Someone might come to the conclusion that a person leading organizational change will risk losing their job. Results of the culture change process include: ?

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