Virtual as well as in-person meetings demand the same presentation skills: good posture, clear speaking and perfect speed, according to former TV reporter Mimi Bliss. To improve your body language in online meetings, Bliss suggests using your hands, standing up, using a remote clicker for slides and using gestures that serve a purpose.
Even though the job market is down, "the time is now" to be in the job hunt, says staffing firm executive director Paul McDonald. Unemployed workers should be seeking jobs that are hiring now to make connections, build transferable skills and find good employers that could lead to a perfect fit down the road.
Texts, phone calls and mailed notes are just a few ways to maintain connection as pandemic-induced remote work drags on, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni. "Your authenticity, vulnerability and willingness to share more of yourself makes it easier for others to connect with you," she writes.
Those who hire don't always think of interviews as data, but management and social media strategist Ted Bauer says that should change. Recruiters should record and transcribe interviews to track questions and answers that will help them save time and speed up the process for candidates.
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The coronavirus pandemic may be prompting a "reallocation shock" that could inflict entire industry sectors with long-lasting damage -- so some lost jobs will stay lost. Bloomberg Economics research estimates 30% of recent lost jobs fall in this category, meaning workers may need to retrain, relocate or receive more assistance from the government.
Rather than complicate donating money with a lengthy application process, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey speeds things up by taking a more hands-on approach and working with just one person to get his contributions to organizations he deems worthy. "Within a few hours, we had an answer. And within a few days, the money was in the account," says George McGraw, whose Navajo Water Project received $1 million from Dorsey.
With kids struggling to gather summer reading materials due to school and library closures, drones are flying to the rescue. Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, has partnered with a library in Virginia to deliver books to kids.
