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Erin Wade Of Vinaigrette Restaurants: “Positivity is infectious, and it makes people want to come to work and do a good job”

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Erin still writes the menus and tests recipes for her restaurants Vinaigrette, Modern General Feed and Seed and The Feel Good. In your opinion, were you a natural- born entrepreneur or did you develop that aptitude later on? Staffing is hard. Then I try to come up with a solution, to see the opportunity embedded in the problem.

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Dana Look-Arimoto of Phoenix?: “The next facet is Family”

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A 2018 SIA Global Power 150 for Women in Staffing, Dana has accrued a wealth of knowledge and experience over 20 years of leading corporations and understanding what motivates people. When I started my career I began in staffing, and I stayed in that space for the majority of my career. I headed global teams for many years.

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4 Strategies to Help Remote Professionals Be More Reflective

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Keeping a log of your accomplishments and the goals you reach can help you better prepare to make the case to your supervisor or a recruiter that you’d succeed in a new role. If written honestly and objectively, a professional self-assessment can help you gain insight into your strengths and identify areas where you could use improvement.

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Bethany De Lude: “It never gets easier”

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I had a strong aptitude for STEM subjects, loved tackling hard problems, and excelled broadly but without a focused direction. For example, I have been referred to as “Little Missy” and “Young Lady” inboard and senior leadership meetings at which I was the only person of my gender. Unfortunately for my mom, I was not that kid.

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Josh Bersin: “Environment becomes core”

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From the ongoing shifts caused by the COVID19 pandemic, the impacts caused by automation, and other possible disruptions to the status quo, many wonder what the future holds in terms of employment. For example, a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that estimated automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030. Do not pass it up!

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“Be on the leading edge”, With Douglas Brown and Sara Silver of Silverware

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Sara Silver, president and solutions architect of Silverware Inc. A strong student with an aptitude for math, Silver earned a BA in mathematics and economics from Northwestern University. Her interest and knack for programming, prompted her resignation and transition to consulting with companies in need of information solutions.

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Finding Gold in Adversity…

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The reality began to dawn on me that I was actually not in employment when the flow of income had stopped coming in. It is your attitude more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude”. Funmi Akinsanya-Alake. What I had just heard hadn’t quite sunk in, all I could do at the time was stare into oblivion. Zig Ziglar.