Story provided by Business Insider – Faced with one pointed question after another regarding your career, a job interview can quickly take on the feel of an interrogation. But employers aren’t the only ones who get to poke and pry during the sit-down. At some point, job candidates can make inquiries that flesh out everything … Continue reading
Story provided by FiveThirtyEight – When Jared Sullinger, the nation’s No. 2 high-school recruit, finished his freshman year playing center at Ohio State in 2011, he was forecast to be drafted into the NBA in the top three. But when he declared that he was going back to school for his sophomore season, his draft stock plummeted, … Continue reading
Story provided by 99u – A message pops up in the company chat channel: A new marketing idea “for discussion” from a colleague. You’re immediately irritated, because you’ve got a hundred other things on your plate and deadlines looming – but you also have strong opinions and want to ensure they’re heard. You compose a terse … Continue reading
Story provided by Fast Company – President Obama, nice boss that he is, wants you to stroll into work whenever you please. All right, that’s not entirely true. But at the White House Summit on Working Families this week, Obama did encourage employers to provide more flexibility–especially when it comes to family leave and childcare. As a … Continue reading
NeighborGoods.net is the leading social platform for peer-to-peer borrowing and lending. Need a ladder? Borrow it from your neighbor. Have a bike collecting dust in your closet? Lend it out and make a new friend. By sharing with your neighbors, you can save money while reducing waste and strengthen your local community in the process. Best … Continue reading
Story provided by Inc. – I’ve spent some time around unsuccessful people. Most of them live in a bubble of hopelessness trying to figure out how to break out of their cell (or cubicle). It’s sad. One person I know is so unhappy and stuck that he seems to always be moving backward, not forward–faltering so much in … Continue reading
Story provided by Pacific Standard – “Hi Rachel,” greets my barista on most mornings. He smiles. Scrawls my name and personalized order in black marker on a white paper cup. Swipes my card. And then—before turning to the La Marzocco espresso machine to make my latte—he swivels the iPad around to face me. The screen, … Continue reading
Story provided by Millennial CEO – Seth Godin wrote, “A brand’s value is merely the sum total of how much extra people will pay, or how often they choose, the expectations, memories, stories and relationships of one brand over the alternatives.”After all, there are brands we as consumers absolutely love. And there are brands … Continue reading
Story provided by Gizmodo – Earlier today, Facebook announced that it was going to start using all of that ever-so-illuminating app and website data it collects to serve us with more targeted ads. In other words, Facebook is getting ready to use your browsing history to benefit advertisers. Here’s how to stop them. Of course, just because … Continue reading
Story provided by FiveThirtyEight – The Huxtables are America’s favorite TV family, according to a YouGov poll published this week. If you don’t know who the Huxtables are, you might be in one of the 3.3 percent of U.S. homes without a TV or you might just be young — their NBC sitcom, “The Cosby Show,” filmed its last episode in … Continue reading