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Everything You Need to Know About Oilfield Services

Strategy Driven

It’s important to have strong problem-solving skills in this field. As the oilfield service industry recovers from the oil price crash in 2014, producers are demanding more from their service providers. Production technicians work on rigs to operate equipment that helps extract and process oil.

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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a situation chronicled in a recent paper from Wharton, which highlights how in recent years high-skilled graduates have discovered that they can earn more in salaried jobs than they could by starting their own business. This would have less of an impact on higher-skilled entrepreneurs, for whom the decline has been most pronounced.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Is Flexible Work Key To Attracting The Brightest Talents?

The Horizons Tracker

This can be especially so with a more flexible form of part-time work, where employees work with their manager to reduce their work load while still having career progression opportunities open to them. ” To achieve this outcome however requires a fundamentally new approach to assigning job tasks, and indeed how to manage careers.

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Re-engaging Five Generations in the Workplace

HR Digest

For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S Simple and intuitive work model will help employers to send specific emails to an individual employee based on their skills and interest.

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Planning Your Post-Retirement Career

Harvard Business Review

In a 2014 Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey , 72% of employees over age 50 reported that they’d like to continue working in retirement. Senior executives with extensive skills and an overflowing Rolodex may be able to write their own ticket. Career Transitions. Leaving a Stable Job to Create Your Dream Career.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

.” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.