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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

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2023 grads are entering a job market that is not so quick to employ new grads. This is a shift from the past two years where companies were fiercely competing to recruit interns and recent graduates. Although the U.S. Although the U.S. Reach out to other alumni to ask about their career paths and establish a relationship.

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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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What’s Next to Be Your Best? 3 Personal and Professional Development Trends in 2024

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Not only do personal and professional development opportunities provide key benefits to employees—like learning new skills, boosting confidence and credibility, developing leadership skills and increasing earning potential—but employers greatly benefit too. Why are human skills important?

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Unmasking the Corporate Return-to-Work Fallacy: A Genuine Approach to Junior Staff Development

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” However, come spring 2023, Salesforce stipulated that their sales and marketing personnel should report to the office four days a week. Group mentorship: A senior employee mentors a group of junior employees, fostering a collaborative learning environment while easing the time demands on the senior staff.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna.

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Wellbeing and organisational agility will dominate workplace conversations in 2023

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Practicing strategic workforce management by adapting scenario planning to prepare for any situation, building a skills inventory to best leverage and empower employees, and creating employment programmes to source a wide range of talent across full-time, part-time, gig, and seasonal workers.

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Women Presidents Organization CEO Camille Burns Shares Her Hopes for Women Leaders

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How does WPO help women in executive-level positions network with peers and mentors? It taught me to build up other skills, to realize that I’m not going to be good at everything. This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Photo courtesy of Women Presidents Organization.

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