Career and Professional Development Advice

Future of Jobs Report 2023: Up to a Quarter of Jobs Expected to Change in Next Five Years

According to World Economic Forum, some 23% of jobs are expected to change by 2027, with 69 million new jobs created and 83 million eliminated. Read more here

By Dorlene Curwen
Dorlene Curwen Assistant Director | Sports Management & Human Capital Management Career Coach
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Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Strategies for Female Executives

From 2015 to 2021, the number of women in executive positions across all sectors grew from 27.1 to 31.7 percent.

However, we are still a ways off from gender parity, as women comprise 47.4 percent of the American workforce. What’s …

By Ivy Exec
Ivy Exec is your dedicated career development resource.
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What Is Career Readiness?

Being able to succeed in the workplace isn’t just about completing day-to-day tasks — it’s about working with others, managing your workload, communicating your results, and building your career. All of those skills are known as career readiness. 

Career readiness …

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Transforming Toxic Workplaces: Strategies to Reclaim Company Vitality and Trust

It may come into effect when your focus moves elsewhere, or you could have gained it when you assumed a new position.

But once you see that your workplace is toxic, you can’t turn away.

Toxic workplaces drain the company …

By Ivy Exec
Ivy Exec is your dedicated career development resource.
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Leveraging Emotional Intelligence for Executive Career Success: Connecting with Others on a Deeper Level

In the workplace, emotional intelligence, or EQ, is valued more than IQ. 75% of responders to a classic CareerBuilder survey of hiring managers said they cared more about employees’ EQ than their IQ. 

“Technical competency and intelligence are important assets …

By Ivy Exec
Ivy Exec is your dedicated career development resource.
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Upcoming grants deadlines and webinars

August 23 at Noon

HNY hosts grants webinars to answer general questions about Vision, Quick and Action grants. In these one-hour virtual sessions, grant-making staff discuss the requirements and deadlines for each grant as well as budget considerations and insights …

By Career Design Lab
Career Design Lab
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Managing Up | How to Provide Feedback to Your Manager

You have a new job, or a new manager, and something isn’t working. You and your boss aren’t seeing eye to eye and you’re getting frustrated—or worse, you’re starting to check out.

Or maybe you’re finding that you and your …

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USCIS to Announce Second-Round H-1B Visa Lottery

According to WR Immigration, “An Additional 20,000-25,000+ Visas to Be Issued. Clients and employers have been anxious to know if USCIS will conduct a second-round lottery for the fiscal year 2024 starting October 1, 2023….”

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By Career Design Lab
Career Design Lab
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Artificial Intelligence Opens Three New Routes To Career Advancement

Artificial intelligence is recasting career advancement opportunities in new and interesting ways. For technology professionals, it means getting more analytical. For business leaders, it means getting more creative.

There are three types of impacts AI will have on executive career …

By Brian Brown
Brian Brown Associate Director, Operations
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5 Tips for Turning Your Internship into a Full-Time Job

Below are five tips that will help you prove that you’re proactive, enthusiastic, skilled, and collegial—which will maximize your chances of securing a full-time offer at the end of your internship.

1. Build strong relationships

Whether it’s your supervisor, coworker, …

By Firsthand
We help applicants, students, job-seekers and professionals like you find the right career path using the power of firsthand experiences.
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