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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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Helping New Employees Into Healthcare

The Horizons Tracker

Individuals who enrolled in an eight-week pre-employment program have successfully transitioned to new careers within the NHS. The program, operated by Inspira in partnership with the North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, aims to provide job seekers with employability skills and practical work experience.

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Tips for Physicians Transitioning to the Business Side of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Burned out or disenchanted, many physicians are moving from medicine into the business side of health care. But the transition can be a tough one. This article offers four tips for navigating the new landscape.

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WHE21: Can Behavioral Economics Solve Your Company’s Health Care Problems? | with Derek Yach from Vitality Institute

Engaging Leader

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health.

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Cross-Training to Strengthen Leadership Skills

Let's Grow Leaders

When he’s not guest blogging for Let’s Grow Leaders, David provides data and writing solutions in the health care field. Creativity energy grow your career Help People to Grow cross training leadership leadership development personal development skill building' Follow him on twitter.

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Managing Change in Health Care

Coaching Tip

By Guest Author Pamela Shaheen DrPH. Healthcare organizations seem to be particularly challenged in reinventing themselves when compared to other industries. . Why is that? It's part of the human condition that, in the face of change, we like things the way they are.

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Is Money More Important Than Meaning In Our Work?

The Horizons Tracker

Although having a job that means something to you is important, it seems that money talks louder when people consider their career options and their current jobs. This is what recent research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found.

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