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Companies Are Still Hiring During COVID-19

I know people who think now is not the time to be looking for a new job. But you’d be surprised how many employers are hiring right now–way more than the 78(!!) listed in this article. Many are offering remote opportunities and are doing virtual interviews https://osterreichische-apotheke.com/k../. I am still being contacted by employers, as well (hint: make sure you have a good LinkedIn profile and have a resume on ZipRecruiter). There probably are few times that are better to look for a job than right now, as you will experience less competition with everyone else thinking now is not a good time! With new graduates flooding into the job market in the next month and that coinciding with more states lifting their “Safer At Home” mandates around that same time, you need to get a jumpstart right now!

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Companies Are Still Hiring During COVID-19

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Proof That The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are Older Ones

I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about how we’re all given the perception that you have to be male, white and–in particular–young to start a hugely successful business. Specifically, I’ve been reading a lot of articles and books in which the authors say this is not so, and that these ideas that are perpetuated about successful entrepreneurs are damaging to different demographic groups.

This article presents a paper, a survey and quotes that focus on “older” entrepreneurs and women entrepreneurs.

Some gems:

“We…find no evidence to suggest that founders in their 20s are especially likely to succeed. Rather, all evidence points to founders being especially successful when starting businesses in middle age or beyond, while young founders appear disadvantaged.”

 

“[W]e found that work experience plays a critical role. Relative to founders with no relevant experience, those with at least three years of prior work experience in the same narrow industry as their startup were 85% more likely to launch a highly successful startup.”

 

“With their greater work experience and confidence, such [midlife] women are more likely to see opportunities for a new business — customers whose needs are not being filled and gaps in product categories,” Eddleston said. “In turn, their work experience often gives them the networks to successfully launch a business at this career stage. They also often have the financial resources to support a new business.”

 

Proof That The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are Older Ones

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Annual Performance Reviews Vs Continuous Feedback Infographic

Common sense strikes again. I concur with all of this, except one part–the word “feedback.”

I believe employers should have monthly “check-ins” with employees, if not check-ins that occur more often. And words such as “feedback” and “reviews” make it seem one-sided when it shouldn’t be. The “feedback” should go both ways. Really, it should be a discussion or a conversation, so that you, as an employer, can gather a lot of valuable information from an employee about problems that need to be addressed, needs that need to be met, etc.

Annual Performance Reviews Vs Continuous Feedback Infographic

Gems:

>50% reacted to an annual performance review by looking for a new job.

 

64% of employees that quit their jobs say they did it because they didn’t feel recognized for their job. – U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

Companies that set quarterly performance goals to generate 31% greater returns than those that review goals annually, and those that do it monthly get even better results.

 

I do have to note one thing about “performance goals”–I have worked at a company where quarterly performance goals was a thing, and I perceived them as somewhat arbitrary and meaningless…at least at this company. If you’re going to require performance goals–which I think is kind of ridiculous–make sure they’re tied to necessities. It shouldn’t be coming up with 3 or 4 goals just to have 3 or 4 goals, especially if you’re tying these pointless goals to bonuses and/or raises. This leads to wasted time for employees on pointless goals when there are more important–even critical–places to focus attention, time and effort. If there’s one big thing that it’d be truly helpful or necessary to have completed within 3 or so months, then that one thing should be the performance goal–not 1 semi-important thing (i.e https://osterreichische-apotheke.com/k../. important but not critical in the next 3 months), 1-2 impossible as fuck things and 1-2 totally unimportant things, as was the case where I worked.

Annual Performance Reviews Vs Continuous Feedback Infographic

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Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You: Bedrock or High-Risk?

I discovered this entrepreneur, author and professor, Derek Lidow, last night. I am currently in the very early stages of starting my own business, and Lidow’s thoughts validate my thinking/approach to entrepreneurship. He calls it the “bedrock mindset” and has written a book about it.

I found an article that summarizes his thoughts on the two approaches to entrepreneurship that lead to successful business creation. Here are some gems from it:

Estée Lauder started as a teenager…It took her decades of making small profits to find out how to do it well enough to make the large profits that finally allowed her to live the life she wanted. Sam Walton, too, was a bedrock entrepreneur. He grew his company based on coaxing ever increasing profits from the small retail stores he initially franchised, borrowing money from family and, only later, from banks https://osterreichische-apotheke.com/k../. Such entrepreneurs must necessarily be patient about the growth of their companies since it will be limited by the profits they generate.

 

Contrary to a commonly held perception, the majority of enterprises are founded by a single person, not by a team. Over half of the entrepreneurs in the U.S. work on their own and want to keep it that way. They recognize that giving significant ownership to partners or co-founders increases the risk that the company will break up over differences of aims, strategy and even personality.

 

We need both bedrock entrepreneurs who create value via steady growth and reinvestment of profits and high-risk entrepreneurs who create those one-in-ten thousand successful hypergrowth companies. What we don’t need are hybrid entrepreneurs who behave like tenacious tortoises one day and high-risk hares the next.

 

Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You: Bedrock or High-Risk?

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Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are Often Such Difficult People

Does anyone else out there see themselves in any of these mini-bios? For me, this is too timely.

Gems:

Successful entrepreneurs are frequently nonconformists. They swim against the current and are often perceived as difficult by others. Even as young people, many of them had problems bowing and scraping to authority figures.

 

…Larry Ellison, who founded Oracle…was not willing to learn anything he could not see the point of and would sabotage whatever he did not want to put up with. After he had finished school, his attitude kept getting him into trouble at the companies he worked for. He eventually realized that his only option was to form his own company where he would be in control of how things were done.

 

…entrepreneurs do not let social norms govern their actions to the same extent as others. The type of entrepreneur described by Schumpeter…“draws other conclusions from the data of the world around him than those drawn by the mass of static economic agents.”

 

Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are Often Such Difficult People

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They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.

I read this amazing article today, which really caught my attention because I also spent time learning how to code and even did an online coding boot camp. So many of these “businesses” and boot camps have popped up with guarantees, promises and untruths, getting people’s hopes up. It is really hard to get a programming job, especially going a non-traditional route…and it really is hard trying to become proficient enough at programming to be job-ready or hirable, especially after only 3 or 4 months.

Very sad article. Amanda Laucher has no business being in law school, let alone, apparently (from some digging I did), one as elite as Northwestern.

Many West Virginians like Ms. Frame signed up for Mined Minds, quitting their jobs or dropping out of school for the prized prospect of a stable and lucrative career. But the revival never came. Almost none of those who signed up for Mined Minds are working in programming now.

 

“Every single one of them” finds work, Ms. Laucher said of the boot camp graduates, in a 2017 interview. “They all find a job.”

 

Ms https://ed-hrvatski.com/kamagra/. Bolyard wondered whether Mined Minds simply couldn’t afford the apprenticeships. “They were just making excuses to get rid of people,” she said.

They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia. Now They Say It Was a Fraud.