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4 Experiments to Encourage Employees’ Career Progress

Harvard Business Review

The authors worked with 15 organizations and over 7,000 employees to experiment with ways to increase internal career development opportunities and prove promotion isn’t the only way people can advance. Employees gain opportunities to grow, develop in different directions, and increase their career resilience.

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How to Address a Resume Gap When Switching Careers

Harvard Business Review

The prospect of a new career can hold a sense of excitement. In this article, the author offers practical advice to help you navigate your career switch when you’re worried about a widening gap on your resume. What can you do to protect your mental health and rekindle your optimism for the future?

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Careers Conducive to Creativity

Idea to Value

By finding a career including tasks and skills to bolster your artistic efforts, you’re leveraging a bit more of your day job in service of your creativity. This means a career helping you to build your problem-solving toolkit can be beneficial to your creative activities. Yet, there is undoubtedly a crossover.

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4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Changing Careers

Harvard Business Review

Changing careers can be an exhilarating way to keep yourself intellectually engaged, but it inevitably entails some risk. In this article, the author outlines four questions to ask yourself before you transition into a new field: 1) What’s motivating the change? 2) What’s the smallest way to test your hypotheses? 3) What’s your runway?

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Research: Setbacks Can Actually Boost Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that setbacks can galvanize your career in unexpected ways that make you more successful. If you’ve hit a big pothole on the road to success, take heart.

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It’s Time to Rethink Traditional Career Trajectories

Harvard Business Review

Applying this lens to our careers can yield insights and new opportunities, especially when the world seems upside-down. No job feels safe, no career path is certain, and previously “secure” professions may be under threat. This article covers the key: how we see, and talk about, the shape and trajectory of our careers.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Candidate and company profiles: Preview and expand search results to find a candidate's job history and career experience or a company's details. Advanced search: Narrow the search to find candidates using specialized filters like education, and current company technologies.

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The Power of Storytelling in Risk Management

Speaker: Dr. Karen Hardy, CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC

Join this exclusive webinar with Dr. Karen Hardy, where she will explore: Why risk communication skills are essential for career success How various forms of communication, including storytelling, can influence risk-based decision-making Methods for building storytelling skills via data literacy frameworks Save your seat today!

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Tough Bosses, Unrealistic Goals, and Other Corporate Challenges That a Customer-Centric Product Strategy Can Empower You to Solve

Speaker: Bob Caporale, Founder of Strategy Generation Company

As product managers, we’ve likely all faced this situation at some point in our careers. And have you ever had your boss tell you to just “make those goals happen,” even in the absence of any clear plan that might allow you to do just that? In fact, some of us may actually face it every single year!