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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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You can’t get the best out of freelancers until you’ve honed your management processes. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication. Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion.

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From Layoff To Liftoff: 5 Steps To Rebuild Your Career

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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. Update your resume. Careful reading of every detail mentioned on a resume is key. Carefully, and honestly.

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WeWork’s Potential Bankruptcy: What Will Be The Effect On Office Vacancy Rates?

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percent in San Francisco, up from 10 per cent in late 2020, according to data from CBRE.” Some locations may be good enough to make the loss of WeWork manageable in the sense that the building can be re-let to another occupier. This raises questions for U.S. real estate as well as U.S. real estate, U.S.

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

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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. Some have tried to reenter after several years but have found it hard because of the work gap in their resumes. Are more kids more difficult?

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Could Hiring “Hidden Workers” Solve Your Skills Shortage?

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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. Second is inflexible recruitment management/marketing and applicant tracking systems, which tend to rely on restrictive parameters. Be transparent and inclusive.

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Is Your Job in Danger?

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If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that nothing is certain. That means, have your resume up-to-date and ready to go at all times; make sure your LinkedIn profile is robust; and be an active, generous networker even when you’re not job searching. At the time of this writing, we’re in the midst of a global pandemic.

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

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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.