As the global pandemic shuts down businesses and keeps workers in homes, job seekers can follow these tips to get hired amid the coronavirus. Hiring experts suggest using downtime to update resumes and LinkedIn, gather references, do your research and prioritize industries that are still hiring during the pandemic. Full Story: CNBC (4/7)
How to improve mental health while working from home With everything going on in the world, working remotely can be hard for people who are more sensitive to their surroundings, but Jamal Nichols has ways to stay sane while staying home. Helpful rules for staying balanced and productive include accepting what's going on, regulating your routine and creating a comfortable workspace. Full Story: Medium (tiered subscription model) (4/6)
Making the Connection
Now could be the time to become a leader With the shakeup in every industry, now is the time to reassess your skills, focus on what you want to accomplish in your career and emerge as a leader in your organization, suggest executives. "You might think of this time as lost time, but in reality, it could be the most important part of your career," says Cynthia McCafferty, CEO of Hawthorne Strategy Group. Full Story: The Business Journals (tiered subscription model) (4/6)
Help teams benefit from "heat experiences" "Heat experiences" -- high stress, high-stakes situations that occur during times of turbulence and change -- must be handled carefully to nurture growth and avoid turnover and burnout, writes Chris Watz of the Center for Creative Leadership. Watz offers four ways trainers and coaches can prepare their teams to handle, and benefit from, these experiences. Full Story: Training magazine (3/31)
A company in South Africa is offering free daily livestreams of safaris. The excursions are authentic in that you never know what you are going to see, and some of the livestreams cater to kids, with guides answering questions the kids ask. Full Story: Lonely Planet (4/6)
The Water Cooler
Smart toilet can detect diseases Researchers have developed a new toilet that automatically conducts urine and stool analysis to scan for various illnesses. The results from the toilet are shared via the cloud, but one of the biggest challenges the team had to overcome was correctly identifying the user. Full Story: Stanford University School of Medicine (4/6)
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