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Innovative (and Absurd) Ways Companies Are Attracting Tech Talent inc.com http://flip.it/V4btd Related articles Apple’s New HQ and Why This Could Seriously Hurt Their Business (mycresearch.wordpress.com)
Think Your Interview Process is Fair? Read This Letter. BY Suzanne Lucas, inc.com Most companies demand plenty of information from job applicants. There’s no good reason for this to be a one-way street. What would happen if job candidates treated you the way you treat them? You might be receiving letters such as this… http://flip.it/OKFsL…
The 9 Worst Mission Statements of All Time BY Minda Zetlin, inc.com If your mission statement contains no typos, mentions what your company does, and doesn’t go on for a whole page, you’re already doing better than these major brands. A mission statement can be a forceful way to motivate yourself and your t… http://flip.it/cDTR7…
Performance Reviews Don’t Have To Be Absolutely Awful BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com As the end of the year approaches, so do annual performance evaluations. But the process doesn’t have to be painful and counterproductive. Here are your problems solved. The (often dreaded) annual performance review is an inescapable part of… http://flip.it/qPmeJ Related articles Content curators…
The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces…
I Rented Apartments Just to Rent on Airbnb for Profit Marshall Haas, thenextweb.com I rented apartments to rent on Airbnb for profit. Here’s how it turned out By Marshall Haas, , 04:59pm http://flip.it/ykRdo Related articles Airbnb updates Android app, brings reviews and host calendar view (otroandroidblog.wordpress.com) Could The Party Soon Be Over For Airbnb? (npr.org)…
Everyone In The World Hates Their Jobs—But Americans Hate Theirs The Most fastcoexist.com A survey asked people if they were happy to go to work in the morning. The answer was a rather emphatic “no.” What are we going to do about this global case of the Mondays? We suppose this survey of 8,000 workers…
Target’s Brightspot mobile service launches Sunday, starts at $35 per month Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Ever tenacious retailer Target is once again nipping at Walmart’s heels. Following the introduction of its Target Ticket video-on-demand service — a direct competitor to Vudu — the big box chain is now looking to get into the… http://flip.it/AakID Related articles…
Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFrom my desk at Xconomy San Francisco—aka my Potrero Hill apartment—I can look out the window at Highway 280, watch the traffic that crawls into the city every morning and back out every evening, and chuckle smugly. There’s never … http://flip.it/6DRoG
The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww? xconomy.com (Page 2 of 2) the respondents that their answers would remain anonymous, but that I’d used their scores to put together a composite index of pharma bureaucracy. By the end of business on Thurs … http://flip.it/GlS4k Related articles The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don’t…
The Surprising Identity of Each Social Network Cooper Smith, inc.com Each social media platform has cultivated a unique identity thanks to the demographics of the people who participate in the network. Some platforms are preferred by young adults, who are most active in the evening, others by… http://flip.it/j6B9e Related articles Social Media is About Relationship…
Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed overlords? A…
Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online Ryan Tate, wired.com The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that “the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” Here’s what this grand unified theory means and where it came from. http://flip.it/noY5p Related articles A Grand Unified Economic Theory?…
I have brain cancer. What’s your excuse? Ronnie Castro, venturebeat.com You may have caught the article by my friend and co-founder Matt Ehrlichman last month, titled “My 32-year-old co-founder has a brain tumor — seriously?“ To set the record straight, I’m 33 now, not quite old enough to start lying about my ag… http://flip.it/kTGHI Related…
Does Your Boss Spy on You? ehow.com by Joanna Sloame(photo: Polka Dot RF/Polka Dot/Getty Images)The Answer’s Almost Always “Yes” — Here’s What You Should KnowEveryone knows that it’s a bad idea to complain about your boss on your company email, but most people have no idea t… http://flip.it/yHgIj
The Top 100 Websites For Your Career Jacquelyn Smith, forbes.com Last year we inaugurated our first-ever list of the best websites for your career. We took nominations from readers and combed through some 700 sites in order to compile our list of the top 75. This August we put out another call for… http://flip.it/2MIhK Related…
Can Urban Planning Turn Brooklyn Into the Next Silicon Valley? Kyle VanHemert, wired.com WXY presents a smart vision for any city seeking to accommodate innovation. http://flip.it/rrvpO
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Why Everybody’s Going Freelance BY DRAKE BAER, fastcompany.com Whether they’re getting forced out of their jobs or freeing themselves from their organizations, 17 million Americans are going solo. Here’s what that means for the future of work. More Americans are declaring their independence: as in the … http://flip.it/MIZgf
Get Rich Quick by Tearing Up Your Lawn by Tim Layton, popularmechanics.com DIY Central moonlightbulb/Flickr If you live in Los Angeles, you might be able to earn a few extra bucks and leave behind the dreaded job of mowing the lawn in one fell swoop. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) h……
Thrive with Less Christina Nellemann, tinyhouseblog.com Can you not only live, but thrive, with less? A group of six college students from Michigan decided to take some time out of what they felt were lives of excess to live more minimally. They filmed the lifestyle experiment last year and made it int… http://flip.it/uGijv Related articles…
How the cloud is rescuing the $300 billion freelance industry from itself Rich Pearson, venturebeat.com Tickets On Sale Now Rich Pearson is Chief Marketing Officer of Elance. The way that businesses recruit and manage workers is undergoing a dramatic transformation. A volatile economy and an increasingly… http://flip.it/gfsrb Related articles Elance unveils Private Talent Cloud to…
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