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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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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. That makes a huge difference in helping more people discover it.

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Male Employment Isn’t As Steady As We Think

The Horizons Tracker

However new research challenges this idea and shows what happens when we stick to the belief that men should always be the main breadwinners, even though the actual job market is very different. “Some of our earlier work has really shown that some of these things matter a lot for your health at midlife,” the authors explain.

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Should Virtual Therapists Come With A Health Warning?

The Horizons Tracker

With the cost of living crisis, these pressures haven’t been reduced, and research from Cambridge University highlights how this can have a knock-on effect on our careers. Indeed, clinical trials are underway to test whether such a service could become part of official mental health care.

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Featured Instigator: Eileen McDargh

Lead Change Blog

Focusing on resiliency, Eileen has found great synergy with health care audiences and long term care, educators (as an award-winning educator, she went from teaching kids to grown-ups—who are still like kids), and women’s leadership groups. I quit and never looked back.

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Age Discrimination in the Workplace: A Tale as Old as Time

HR Digest

With the market where it is today, more and more experienced workers are delaying their retirement or returning to work, only to find the job market increasingly closed off to them. This forces them to turn to the more commonly available entry-level positions where they can restart their careers from scratch. In the U.S.

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Employee Retention Strategies Go Beyond Competitive Salaries

HR Digest

This could include health benefits, time off, retirement assistance, etc. The SHRM study also found that 62 percent of employees reported health care/medical benefits as important job satisfaction components, and 41 percent valued defined contribution plans like 401(k).