Steve Jobs passed 11 years ago, but he's still someone people turn to for career advice. Jobs once said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward." In the context of your career, this can be loosely translated to mean: Trust that what you're doing right now will get you where you want to go. That is [...]
You’ve downloaded the hot new productivity app. You’ve made your to-do list. You’re ready for success… Now what? It can be hard to find an app that helps you do the ACTUAL work. Fast Company writer Jeremy Caplan suggests taking it back to basics with something as simple as the Apple Reminders app. Any old list app will do: Reminders, Google Tasks, and [...]
In L’Oréal’s West Coast HQ, employees can task a “concierge” with picking up their dog at daycare and bringing it back to work for $5 an hour. This is just one of the perks the cosmetics giant grants its workforce. There’s also an onsite garden where employees can pick veggies to take home, not to mention laundry service and people who will fill [...]
Every hiring manager seeks the same thing: that archetypal “high-potential employee” who is destined to be a huge star. These are the people who’ve had all the schooling, mentors, and resources they need to be practically guaranteed success. They have the right personality and character traits. They typically test well. They hit all the markers for success. But quietly standing behind that high-potential [...]
You found the perfect candidate for a key open role. But then you got ghosted. It happens to the best of us. No way to say exactly where things went wrong, but Glassdoor surveys say there are a few primary reasons candidates drop out of the interview process without a trace: Candidate simply took another role Salary and/or benefits in the offer was/were [...]
Your employees aren’t slackers. They’re not “quiet quitting” because they’re lazy or disenfranchised. They’re just not engaged, and there’s probably a reason for that. A recent Gallup survey found that, whatever you want to call it, more than half of the US workforce is not really feeling it at work these days. Employee engagement has been dropping since the pandemic started, and that’s [...]
The term “born leader” is a bit of a misnomer. The reality is that leaders are not born; they’re nurtured, developed, often self-taught and almost always creative. They’re held aloft by mentorship, and they learn as they grow. Perhaps you’re not in a situation where you have a mentor. Or while you like your company and your teammates, your supervisor is not someone [...]
Even while companies are downsizing and recession looms, a lot of folks are still mulling over a career change — or dropping out of the workforce altogether. The Brooking Institution reports that 4 million people are now missing from the workforce, but where have they gone? The theoretical cost of those lost wages is around $170 billion a year (potentially as high as $230 [...]
Even while a lot of companies insist their full workforces come back to the office, Fast Company reports that Fortune 500s are wasting millions of dollars on physical office space that’s not being used anymore. In a new study of thousands of workplaces, the metrics company Density found that a huge amount of office space sits empty for a lot of the day [...]
It’s December, the month when we all somehow find ourselves with less time and way more to do. Meetings can be a real drag this month. They take away from the time we could spend being productive. Of course, they serve a purpose. Or do they? Yes and no. Meetings with succinct agendas submitted in advance and well-prepared participants can be highly useful. [...]