Each person is responsible for managing their own career, which includes purposeful planning and active career development throughout their working years, writes Palena Neale, founder of Mentoring Exchanges. Neale says career management is part of leadership development and stresses the importance of self-awareness, developing a personal brand, building a strong professional network and creating productive working relationships with superiors.

One way to deal with imposter syndrome is to accept the situation and turn negatives into positives, such as feeling humble, prepared and resilient instead of vulnerable, fearful and beaten-down, writes psychologist Gemma Leigh Roberts, founder of The Resilience Edge. "By looking at how you do new things in this way, you're reframing the situation so that you're not necessarily expecting to get everything right straight away -- instead acknowledging you're on a path of learning," Roberts writes.

Job applicants seeking flexible work schedules have leverage on their side to negotiate in this competitive labor market. Start with understanding the employer's policies, and present data to make your case.

Job postings requiring a COVID-19 vaccination have gone from 50 per million in February to 600 per million in early July and then to 1,200 per million in the first week of August, according to job site Indeed. ""While the number of postings requiring a vaccine is still low, it's a trend that's really taking off," said Indeed economist AnnElizabeth Konkel.

Men are trimming up their pandemic beards and hair as people return more to socializing and working outside the home -- and there are a lot of new men's styling products to help in the transition, including hair trimmers, deodorants and face washes. "It's not about being clean shaven," says Jack Gemal of Xtreme Personal Care. "It's about being groomed."

Since social-distancing protocols were put in place at the outset of the pandemic, billions of people have been suffering from "touch hunger" -- as in, the inability to do things like hug or hold the hand of loved ones. This article explains the many ways touch hunger is remarkably similar to regular hunger and why it's important that people get a chance to hug it out every once in a while.

The world's most famous anonymous graffiti artist has been stuck in his home country during the pandemic. However, that hasn't stopped Banksy from carving out some time for a "spraycation" on the British seaside.