Mentorship is vital to continued growth | Good leaders often start as followers, study finds | LinkedIn updates "Experience" section of profile template
Mentorship is vital to continued growth A mentor can provide support and guidance in your career, Jimmy Okuszka writes. The relationship doesn't need to be formal, and looking to professionals outside your industry can be beneficial, he notes. The Muse (7/31)Good leaders often start as followers, study finds Professionals may be able to develop leadership skills by temporarily embracing the role of a follower, suggests a study in the British Journal of Psychology. In the study, military recruits who saw themselves as followers were more likely to emerge as leaders in infantry training than were recruits who considered themselves natural leaders. Harvard Business Review online (tiered subscription model) (8/6)
LinkedIn has launched a new design for the "Experience" section of users' profile pages. The design allows multiple positions to be listed under the same organization within a single section. LinkedIn (8/6)
The Landscape
Employers to give raises, add full-timers A CareerBuilder report says 58% of employers plan to provide raises for employees this year, with 24% of companies planning raises of at least 5%. More employers -- 63%, compared with 60% a year ago -- say they expect to hire full-time workers in the second half of 2018. CNBC (8/3)
Writing a short, positive thank-you note that mentions something not said during an interview can help land the job, writes Natalie Lundsteen of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Candidates also should send thank-you notes to contacts who helped set up an interview or secure the job, she advises. Inside Higher Ed (8/6)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
