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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

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Job-seekers acquire these through education, training and experience. You can even quantify these job-specific competencies by means of test scores, certifications and project outcomes. But to advance over time and lead the IT department, you will want to develop the soft skills required for project management and team leadership.

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What Size Organization is Right for You?

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With more resources, they tend to offer comprehensive benefits packages, structured training programs, and a wide range of opportunities for vertical and lateral movement within the company. Networking within a large company can open doors to diverse projects and teams, broadening your experience and skills.

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How to Volunteer Abroad (and Great Organizations to Explore)

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That can involve teaching, conservation projects, building homes, providing health care support or any of the other many options. Before volunteering abroad, you may be trained on how to do a task. You’ll meet new people—and broaden your network. This is the heart of why people volunteer abroad. You could gain skills.

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8 Steps to Climb Your Way Up to the C-Suite

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Making it from one level to the next might require a multifaceted approach that includes education, training, networking and volunteering within your company, in addition to playing to the strengths in your personality, Ogle says. Network strategically. “You’ll need to learn lots of different skills, and it will be a long haul.

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AI Is Tech’s New Glass Ceiling: Why Underrepresentation Of Women In AI Could Stunt DEI For Decades

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This can occur if the data used to train AI systems contain biases, which the AI then learns and reproduces. For example, if an AI trained on biased job application data might learn to favor male candidates over female ones, perpetuating gender inequality in employment.

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Women in Wine: 4 Sommeliers Shaping the Future of Mexico’s Wine Industry

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Women in wine Organizations like Mujeres in Taninos , for example, first started in 2020 as an effort to help Mexican women interested in the wine industry to receive training, professional and legal support. Today, the association has over 100 members that network and create job opportunities for women winemakers in the region.

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Networking with ACE Connects

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Back in November I had the pleasure of speaking to 50 assistants who were attending a networking event organised by ACE (Assistant Community EMEA), an internal networking group set up by assistants at BlackRock. I was asked to speak about networking and how beneficial it is for assistants.