Pivot for greater career fulfillment Pivoting your career can lead to greater fulfillment if done strategically, explains Rebekah Rombom, general manager of Online Programs at Flatiron School. The key is knowing what management wants and giving them just that, such as training in a particular skill that the employer feels would help the company, Rombom suggests. Bustle (1/15)How traveling benefits your career
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Personal travel can improve one's career in several ways, such as gaining a broader perspective on life and learning more about people and cultures. You experience new things while traveling, which helps opens your eyes to new point of views and understandings, explain Kelly Lewis and Nikki Vargas of Unearth Women. Forbes (1/15)
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The top three cities for networking in the US are San Francisco, Boston and Denver, according to data collected by Tech.Co. The study ranked the top 25 cities in the country based on data aggregated from Meetup.com, PayScale, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and more. Tech.co (1/14)
The Landscape
Fed study: Faster wage growth unlikely Unemployment rates are the lowest since the 1960s, but that doesn't mean wages will increase at a faster pace, finds a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Average hourly earnings for US workers increased 3.2% in 2018 and are expected to grow at a gradual pace. Bloomberg (tiered subscription model) (1/14)
Your Next Challenge
Student loan payoff as a company benefit becomes more commonplace An increasing number of employers are offering to contribute to paying on employees' student loans, from $50 a month at Alabama Credit Union to $2,000 a year at Aetna. With companies struggling to find qualified employees, student loan debt payoff has become an attractive benefit to help reel in quality workers. The Washington Post (tiered subscription model) (1/15)Show your personality in your post-interview thank-you email The post-interview thank-you note should include some personality, provide value and convey that you want the job, explains Cambria Davies of HubSpot. Customize every follow-up email and avoid thank-you note templates, as a prefilled template comes off as cold and unenthusiastic, suggests Davies. HubSpot (1/15)
Balancing Yourself
Defeat stress and feelings of being overwhelmed with these tips Tackle the difficult or boring tasks early in the day to ensure you'll feel a strong sense of accomplishment by the end of the day. This helps defeat stress and has the secondary effect of helping you sleep better at night knowing you challenged and defeated a tough task, explains Lauren Berger of Intern Queen and Career Queen. InStyle magazine online (1/15)
The Water Cooler
The north magnetic pole has moved toward Siberia The Earth's magnetic pole in the north has wandered so far -- away from the Canadian Arctic and closer to Siberia -- that the most recent map of the world's magnetic field from 2015 is incorrect. The up-to-date World Magnetic Model, which is used for navigation including Google Maps, will be published Jan. 30. LiveScience (1/14)
[W]hen you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
