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Major built environment institutes renew joint pledge to tackle global instability as cities boom 

Workplace Insight

With almost 70 percent of the world’s population predicted to live in cities by 2050, major built environment professional institutes, including architects, planners, structural engineers and landscape practitioners, have renewed their joint pledge to collaborate to tackle urgent global challenges.

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

More and more professions that require advanced degrees or highly specialized skills are joining the gig and/or on-demand economy. Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." A good example is law. 

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These Are The Fastest Growing Jobs Dominating The Green Economy Right Now

Allwork

The role of environmental, health, and safety specialist was the fastest-growing green job between 2016 and 2022. . Experts have warned that the world is at a crossroads when it comes to the environment and current common resources. . With modern times comes the need for modern solutions. .

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Never have more people believed—with more reason—that success hinges on reading, workshopping, boot-camping, seminar-ing, and otherwise launching yourself into new realms of skill or knowledge. Some managers worry about investing in developing people who can then easily take those skills to a competitor,” says David G. Allen, Ph.D.,

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5 Good Lessons from Bad Bosses

Success

My boss’s nonexistent interpersonal communication skills and mastery of passive aggression made her ill-suited for a job in, well, communications. When it comes to leadership and maximizing the potential of your team, a healthy, collaborative environment is always going to be more effective than isolation or condescension.

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Some Gen Zers Are Including Their Social Media on Resumes—Should You?

Success

Sharing the links proactively lets them know that you are comfortable with them searching, and most importantly, gives the candidate a free and easy way to share carefully curated profiles that demonstrate their personality, skills and interests,” she says, with an emphasis on “carefully curated.” Everything else?

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

Success

They are sensitive to the environment they’re in as well as their internal, emotional environment. Creative achievement requires executive function skills —the opposite of leaky attention, one of the many contradictions that makes creativity so messy, Kaufman says. They don’t disregard things as irrelevant.