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From Layoff To Liftoff: 5 Steps To Rebuild Your Career

Allwork

Prioritize saving your contacts, and forward any emails that would help your resume and, if applicable, your portfolio. This includes: New details to cite in your resume or cover letter. After your final day, it is important to take time to reflect, but more importantly, take time for your health and mental well-being.

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How Companies Can Support Moms in–and Returning to—the Workplace

Success

The pandemic added additional obstacles for parents, with just under half of moms (45%) “not actively working” after the pandemic hit in April 2020, according to the Census Bureau. Research shows that longer maternity leaves result in better health outcomes. This puts a lot of pressure on a woman’s career,” Marin says.

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Could Hiring “Hidden Workers” Solve Your Skills Shortage?

Allwork

44% of middle-skill hidden workers reported that finding work was just as hard pre-Covid-19 as it was during the research’s 2020 survey period. The report found that although the hidden worker situation has been exacerbated by the pandemic, the problem has in fact been getting worse over the last few decades.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

My book about the move towards four-day workweek, Shorter , was published in the US in early March 2020. Rich Leigh, whose Gloucester firm Radioactive PR moved to a four-day week in 2019, told me, “I can’t move for great resumes from great people” who were wanting to escape London but remain in the industry.

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New DOL bulletin — Compensable break time for remote employees

BMT Office Administration

Back in 2020, the Department of Labor released a Field Assistance Bulletin to its investigators, which concluded that an employee who worked in the office, ran errands during the afternoon, and continued working at home didn’t need to be paid for the time she was running errands because it was personal time. She starts work at 7:00 a.m.,

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Why the over 50s are leaving the workforce in huge numbers

Workplace Insight

But if older workers have been put off work due to health risks or lack of opportunities, it would mean the economy is being deprived of potentially productive workers – which could cost the state in various ways. of workers who were employed in Q4 2020 with a wage in the 25th-50th percentile were economically inactive by Q4 2021.

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The Great Resignation: This is How Your Recruitment Strategies Must Adapt to This Change

Recruit CRM

Since December 2020, approximately 25 million Americans have voluntarily quit their jobs, and it doesn’t look like businesses will see a reduction in their turnover rate anytime soon. Resume template websites are just as popular as ever because Americans want to find employers that appreciate them. In fact, it’ll likely get worse.

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