Continual learning is key to fending off complacency | Comparing your success to your co-worker's hurts your career growth | One good connection can lead to many
Continual learning is key to fending off complacency Today's technological workplace requires that you develop an agile, always-learning mindset to avoid becoming complacent in your career. Ways to stay fresh can include lunching with a different co-worker, taking a new route to work and testing alternative ways to do tasks. Kellogg Insight (11/7)Comparing your success to your co-worker's hurts your career growth Building a successful career is like an ultra-marathon, rather than a sprint, and comparing your career to the success of a co-worker's is setting you up for failure, suggests Taylor Cotterell, executive VP of NaviTrust. Focus on your own career by working harder, getting noticed for your own good work and developing new skills. Forbes (11/7)
A study by JDP found that a quarter of LinkedIn users use cropped photos or selfies in their profiles, and many others have no photo or grainy shots. Search through profile photos of LinkedIn users within your field and find the best ones to get ideas to better your own profile photo, suggests Andy Kerns of Digital Third Coast. Quartz (11/7)
The Landscape
Ark., Mo. voters allow higher minimum wage Ballot measures have been approved to increase hourly minimum wage to $11 in Arkansas and $12 in Missouri in coming years. Arkansas' hourly minimum wage is $8.50, while Missouri's is $7.85. The Hill (11/6)
Your Next Challenge
You have seconds to impress the hiring manager, study shows You only get about 7.4 seconds to make a good first impression with your resume, according to career site Ladders. Keep resumes short with blocks of white space and declarative sentences, rather than long paragraphs, writes Lydia Dishman. Fast Company online (11/7)Increase the odds of landing the job by customizing your resume The perfect resume will have an attention-getting layout, relevant keywords and clearly articulated achievements, says resume consultant Ainul Naim. Customize the resume for each job by highlighting specific skills and experience that relate to the position. New Straits Times (Malaysia) (11/7)
Balancing Yourself
Why preventing burnout is critical Prevent burnout by realistically assessing your workload and making adjustments to reduce your mental and physical stress, suggests Dr. Luke Powles. Symptoms of burnout include headaches, insomnia, fatigue, memory issues and gum disease. Metro Magazine (11/2018)
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is suing the Boy Scouts of America over a May proposal to remove "Boy" from the name of its program for 11- to 17-year-olds and rebrand it as Scouts BSA in 2019, arguing that the shift marginalizes the GSUSA's mission and violates its trademarks. The GSUSA asserts the announcement of the change misled potential members into thinking the two organizations had merged or that the GSUSA had gone out of existence. The Associated Press (11/7),BBC (11/7)
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
