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The 10 Best Freelance Gigs—And What You Need to Get Started in Each

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In a world where people are experiencing increasing levels of workplace burnout —which is fueling a widespread desire to find more work-life balance—freelance careers, sometimes called gig work or consulting, are attracting more and more American workers. She provides social media management, digital advertising and email marketing services.

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How Influential Leader Deborah Collier Helps Digital Businesses Thrive

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Collier’s first role in the early ’90s was as a technical support engineer at the UK Ministry of Defense, initially on the help desk while studying a computer science degree in the evenings. My next venture was [at] an e-business consulting and marketing firm for 10 years,” she says. But she didn’t stop there. “My

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Smart technology needs to start with people if it wants to get smarter

Workplace Insight

First was Google’s decision in the heat of the dot-com crash to switch its model from unbiased search results to results supported by advertisements. What these and many other moments like them show is that ‘computational capitalism’ is capricious: promises made about your data today will not necessarily be honoured tomorrow.

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How We Can Increase Women’s Engagement in Leadership and Management

Bonnie Low-Kramen

Side note: We did all that without a computer or a cell phone. Most women are socialized when they are young to not advertise their ambition out of fear of appearing too full of themselves. Senior leadership needs to decide that supporting female leaders is a priority and to advertise their stance. A wild time indeed.

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my boss is having an affair with our assistant — and I’m friends with his wife

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She learned I’d been laid off from my last position and offered to introduce me to her husband (John) who owns a consulting firm in my field. Instead of advertising the position like we normally would, John hired Tammy, the “daughter of a family friend.” She was also coming in late or leaving early every day.

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coworkers’ kids are noisy at work, SAT scores in a cover letter, and more

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They usually play games together on a computer or tablet and often get loud and animated, as kids do. The exception to this is if you’re applying in a very small number of fields that actually consider them still relevant (some segments of finance and consulting, but even then generally only if you’re a student or a recent grad).

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my colleagues and I disagree on whether to hire someone who works for a competitor

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We’re hiring for a hospitality/front desk position, not like a corporate consultant/shark/CEO-thing in a television drama. The only open position is the part-time one for which we advertised. She could have waited to apply when she was at a computer and could actually send you the information you’d need to consider her.