• How a $500 Home Office Changed My Life

    Article by Fiona TappMy writing career started as a creative hobby in addition to my full-time childcare role. Then it became a nice little side hustle, complete with perks like products to review and free tickets to events. As I invested more time in monetizing my words, I coincidently lost some daycare clients. My freelance
  • It's Not for Everyone: Thoughts on Working for a Startup

    I've enjoyed a 40+ year career that has spanned multiple job functions and sectors, including business development, consulting, and business solutions in technology, pharmaceuticals, accounting, and more. However, it wasn't until four years ago that I ever considered the idea of working at a technology startup.I'm happy that I did: For the last four years, I've worked for the data management platform Reltio, and this period has by far been ...
  • How Blockchain Could Change the Way We Work and Do Business

    Standard business models typically place power and decision-making capabilities in the hands of a few executives who then delegate responsibility down the corporate ladder. The blockchain movement seeks to change all that, even as the technology fights its way into the mainstream in the face of regulatory issues and a lack of public understanding.One of the most imposing obstacles to the widespread implementation of blockchain models is that the ...
  • 4 Tips to Ensure Your Next Performance Review Is Actually Productive

    Employees and managers alike often dread performance review season, and for good reason: One poll found that only 2 percent of HR pros think reviews are useful. This raises an important question: Why are we still carrying out performance reviews if they're so useless?The truth is annual ...
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  • 8 Things That Motivate Recent Grads to Excel

    As recent graduates enter the job market, this time of year is an exciting one for companies around the globe. Graduates are cost-effective, eager to prove themselves, and generally easier to manage — but recruiting and retaining these talented young candidates is far from a walk in the park.Now that job hopping has become increasingly common, companies will have to go the extra mile to keep graduate hires on board ...
  • The Recruiting Reel: Skills Every Recruiter Needs to Master

    Given all the best practices, job seeker expectations, and new technologies with which recruiters have to keep up, it can be easy for even the best of them to feel like they drowning.Underneath all the gadgets and trends, though, recruiting is a skills-based field. If recruiters master the right ones, they'll be successful — no matter what changes come to the industry.In today's episode of The Recruiting Reel

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