Meet Shara Senderoff, who feels the intern hiring process is broken, particularly in creative industries like film, TV, music, and fashion. Step one: Ditch the paper resume.
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Younger & older workers have different rules & expectations. Here's what Gen Y should learn from more senior colleagues. This is part of a 2-part series.
Read More »Have Start-ups Stopped Being Fun?
Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it. But more whimsy is exactly what young start-ups need. Nick Bilton at The New York Times isn't having any fun.
Read More »Have Start-ups Stopped Being Fun?
Google & Apple innovate to win--fun has little to do with it.
Read More »What Glass Ceiling? Killer Career Advice From Women Who Lead By Example
It's been more than 100 years since 15,000 women marched through the streets of New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay, and voting rights,
Read More »When There’s No Simple Solution At Work, Learn To Embrace The Mess
This is the third in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton . Read the first installment, Are You A Power Poisoned Boss?
Read More »How to Feed Your Start-up: 8 Rules
To build a better company culture, start in the kitchen. Here are the 8 delicious ways we fuel our company's growth. At Thumbtack, we make food a priority.
Read More »What to Do When Relationships Sour
Business relationships can sometimes turn bad. Heres how to protect your business from a bad breakup.
Read More »4 Steps to a Billion-Dollar Business Idea
There is an unprecedented opportunity today to make money while doing good for the world. Here's how to find a place to break in.
Read More »Out of Sight, Top of Mind
How to keep a business on track when its top performers are scattered across the map. Caldwell, Idaho
Read More »This Week In Bots: Dino Robots, Fish Robots, And The Future Of Self-Driving Cars
Let's do the weekly electric boogaloo through a menagerie of mechanical wonderthings. No humans required.
Read More »Minding The College Gap
In her sophomore year at Chicago's ACE Technical Charter High School, Kewauna Lerma had a 2.25 GPA. Yet when Jeff Nelson met Kewauna, he knew she was capable of getting into and graduating from a four-year college. Nelson is the cofounder and Executive Director of Urban Students Empowered ( US Empowered ), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to college preparedness and college persistence (keeping students in college once they have enrolled) for low-income high school students.
Read More »Physics sheds light on the role of humidity in ironing
Ironing increases the humidity of a piece of cloth by injecting water vapor in the form of steam. But how does the vapor affect the fabric? Until now, it was thought that its only effect was to soften the fibers
Read More »Raise Your Hand if You Want to Be an Executive
Anyone?
Read More »Renowned Climate Scientist Under Fire for Heartland Expose
By Laird Harrison OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - The prestigious California-based Pacific Institute climate research group has launched an investigation of its president and founder, Peter Gleick, after he admitted fraudulently obtaining documents from global warming skeptics challenging his work. The institute in Oakland revealed its inquiry into the widening controversy in a terse statement posted on Wednesday on its website, hours after the San Francisco Chronicle said it was discontinuing an online blog that Gleick had been writing for the newspaper.
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