Humanics: A way to ‘robot-proof’ your career?
Source: BBC News By Tim McDonald As artificial intelligence becomes both more useful and more widespread, workers everywhere are becoming anxious about how a new age of automation might affect […]
What Salary Should You Ask For? Here’s How to Figure Out What You’re Worth
Source: Time By SAMANTHA COONEY Whether you’re nailing down the details of a new job offer or hoping to negotiate a raise in a current role, you probably want to make sure you’re being paid fairly. One […]
Are we too broke to stick to our principles?
Source: BBC News By José Luis Peñarredonda Would you quit your job on ethical grounds? Last summer, a dozen Google employees did just that. According to several reports, they ditched the […]
Just how short could we make the working week
Source: BBC News By Bryan Lufkin 29 August 2018 If you’ve got a full-time job, chances are you’re working eight hours or more a day, probably Monday to Friday. Of […]
100 Women: ‘I dye my hair brown to be taken more seriously at work’
Source: BBC News By Sarah Buckley and Amelia Butterly A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business – dyeing her blonde hair brown, and ditching her […]
How to Deal With a Narcissistic Boss
Source: Real Simple By Jeffrey Kluger August 31, 2017 Paul Bradbury/Getty Images If you’ve had more than a few bosses in your career, you’ve likely had at least one stinker. […]
The automation-resistant skills we should nurture
Source: BBC News By Livia Gershon 26 July 2017 Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data are changing the world of work. Retail jobs are disappearing in the US while […]
The career ladder is dead But the career ‘web’ may be far more daunting
Source: BBC News By Alina Dizik When Nina Cheng graduated from university less than a decade ago, she didn’t think she’d be selling fox fur iPhone cases for upwards of […]
You can teach yourself to be a risk-taker
Source: BBC News By Vivian Giang 7 June 2017 It took Binta Niambi Brown several years to walk away in 2013 from the comfortable life she had built for herself […]
Working from home may actually hurt your career
Source: BBC By Eric Barton 18 April 2017 When Ian Wright started working from his home in London last November, he thought he had the ideal setup. He could spend […]
Top 10 Fears That Hold People Back In Their Careers
Source: Linkedin BY Bernard Marr Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker What’s holding you back from landing your dream job or advancing in your career? Are you afraid of failure? Of the stress […]
Should you change your name to get a job?
Source: BBC By Vikram Barhat In a world where assumptions based on ethnicity can often hamper job opportunities for minorities, Terence King feels like he got a raw deal. He […]
How to robot-proof your children’s careers
Source: Financial Times By Sarah O’Connor Employment Correspondent Pity school careers advisers. If economists are to be believed, vast numbers of jobs will have evaporated by the time today’s pupils […]
Video: Dr Abdus Salam receiving his Nobel Prize in 1979
Or click on the link below to watch the video on YouTube. Dr Abdus Salam winning his Nobel Prize in 1979 This video contains rare footage of an Ahmadi Muslim […]
Why British students are heading to Germany
The Telegraph: All of a sudden, we Brits are taking an interest in universities that are neither Russell Group nor red-brick, but positively Continental. It’s something that would have been […]
Why (worldly) Successful People Often Feel Like Frauds?
Businessinsider.coom: A lucky (or perhaps irritating) few of us are seemingly born with swagger, but for the vast majority of people, confidence and ease comes with practice and accomplishment. But […]
The Value Of A Stay-At-Home Mom: You cannot afford it
Businessinsider.com: This Mother’s Day, go ahead and tell your mom how much you value her―just don’t try to back it up with numbers. New survey data shows a decline in […]
What future for the younger generation?
by Jean-Michel Berthoud, swissinfo.ch Youth unemployment is a major problem in Europe: in the European Union over 20 per cent of under-25s are affected, and in Spain and Greece it’s […]
$106,000 College Education For Free? Antioch College Waiving Tuition For Students Enrolling In Next 3 Years
Source: Yahoo finance How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Sounds crazy? Actually, I’m serious. Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is waiving the tuition for all its students, who enroll in the next three years. How much […]
The 10 Best Fields For Job Satisfaction
Telecommuting and flex-time privileges might have made the world of work more comfortable, but they’ve also made the lines between our work life and the rest of our life less visible. This isn’t an open letter of complaint, however. The truth is that we’re a society that lives, and loves, to […]