Start the conversation about a raise or promotion by expressing appreciation for recent opportunities in an email to your boss, writes K. H. Queen. The message should connect the dots between your projects and positive outcomes for the organization and include praise from superiors.
Creatives might fail to champion their ideas if they don't learn how to articulate their rapid-fire thought process, writes Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, chief talent scientist at ManpowerGroup. Some tend to dismiss ideas from others, thinking too highly of their own, while ignoring the need to collaborate with team members who are better at executing ideas.
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Map a professional network by identifying the groups you regularly interact with, such as neighbors, other parents or people from the gym, writes Nancy Marshall, CEO of Marshall Communications. Target a few people from each group you'd like to get to know better and find ways to build personal and professional relationships.
The US economy added 164,000 jobs last month, holding the unemployment rate steady at 3.7%. July marks 106 straight months of adding jobs, with the total US labor force rising to 163.4 million, a new record.
Summer is quieter for many businesses, making it easier to sell your case to hiring managers with a strong cover letter, writes Anne Fisher. If you arrive to learn the hiring manager that you prepared to meet is on vacation, ask their replacement about a recommendation and if it's OK to contact the permanent hiring manager once they return.
After answering the call for millenials to pursue meaningful work, Allison Hope explains why she feels liberated now working in a mundane, corporate job. "A job that you deem meaningless requires less of you, entails very little emotional energy on your part, and is therefore unlikely to pose a risk to your wellbeing," she writes.
Cesar Hernandez-Isidro, a bioengineering undergraduate student at Florida Gulf Coast University, is developing a wheelchair design that assists the user in climbing stairs, hiking in uneven terrain, traveling in snow and more. Hernandez-Isidro has used 3D design software and printing to build a slimmer all-purpose wheelchair that expands and contracts to the user's need.
