HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2023

He thought, “I’ve been in this industry for 30 years, I’ve accomplished so much and yet, here I am, struggling to find a job, it doesn’t seem fair.” This article discusses several ways and steps on how to look for a job at 50, whether you’re looking to switch careers or get back into the workforce due to the recession.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. If you have no relevant work experience, it’s worth spending time gaining some in the following ways: ​ Take a part-time job in your target industry. Get some new qualifications.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Transitioning from a military career to the corporate world can be a fraught process for the nearly 360,000 U.S. In addition to networking their way into new professional circles and learning new cultural mores, veterans have to face down the even more fundamental questions: what career will best suit them?

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Career Skills Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Who wouldn’t want a meaningful career and better balance between work and home? For many of us, it’s finances that keep us from making a career change. We worry and wonder: What would a career change do to our bank accounts? But Steve, Amanda, and Brandon all left those jobs and made a mid-career transition.

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Career Budgeting Short-term Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

The logic is straightforward: learn more about your function, acquire "expert" status, and you'll go further in your career. In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. But what if this approach is no longer valid?

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Hammer Real Estate Uncertainty Career 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

You’re ready to make a career move, up to a higher level or into a different industry or an entirely new field. And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

And getting past the usual employee complaints about the financial sector (long hours, for one), he offers several often-hidden occupational hazards for the stellar university graduates who think they can make it in the industry while also holding on to ethics and personal responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

People who have bad attitudes have more career turnover. After a further two years, during which I was looking for a new career start, I finally decided to work from home and be closer to my wife and beautiful eight year old daughter whom I had neglected a lot while running these businesses in the first place.

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