#career-advancement

#career-advancement

Workplace experts can't decide what's the optimal number of working hours for Gen Z workers-but they know it's not "every waking minute" of the day like Cerebras' CEO suggested, or the 60 hour "sweet spot" Google's Sergey Brin recommended earlier this year. That schedule is unsustainable, but 40-hour workweeks aren't enough for the young and hungry. The CEO of $8.1 billion AI chips company Cerebras recently hit back at the idea entrepreneurs can launch an innovative business working "30, 40, 50 hours a week."

We are professors of marketing and management who study humor and workplace dynamics. Our own research-and a growing body of work by other scholars -shows that it's harder to be funny than most people think. The downside of cracking a bad joke is often larger than what you might gain by landing a good one. Fortunately, you don't have to tell sidesplitting jokes to make humor work for you. You can learn to think like a comedian instead.

Rachel (not her real name) is the go-to person at work for everything, from helping you perfect your presentation, to unjamming the copier. She can get meetings with high-level people organized in record time, fix spreadsheets so that they make sense, mentor rising stars, and deliver presentations in a way that gets people motivated to take action. Everyone relies on Rachel because she's so competent at so many different tasks. It's almost as if she's a specialist in everything.

[Austin's] standing right behind me and in front of everybody he tells me that's a completed pass, and I'm just freaking out. We are not supposed to argue with the instructors,

Gen Z is facing a dire labor market-and it's forced young professionals on the job hunt to stealthily promote their resumes with boxes of donuts, or to take up waitressing gigs at conferences just to get a foot in the door. But Suzy Welch, professor of management practice at New York University, believes the key to success is a lot simpler than that.

Julie felt dissatisfied with her work achievements despite her intelligence and qualifications. She avoided promotions, reinforcing her negative self-beliefs about competence and intelligence.

I had gone on the show hoping it would give me a leg up in my career. But I realized that if people had only heard of the show - not actually watched it - they were more likely to assume I was some narcissistic jerk.

Deborah O'Neill emphasized the impact of women leaving technology, stating, "That's not just a statistic, that is a loss - potential lost innovation, lost opportunities - for this country and for all of our organisations."

If you put your time in and work hard, you can move up in the system and do really well for yourself.

The opportunity passed over not because it was out of reach, but because our inner dialogue said it wasn't ours to take.

iSpring's L&D Career Strategy Workshop aims to equip professionals with the skills and confidence needed to advance their careers in Learning and Development.

In this episode, Jenée is joined by Daria Burke, an award winning business leader and author, discussing listener dilemmas about friendships and personal boundaries.

A new report indicates that both students and employers are increasingly valuing microcredentials for their relevance and job-related skill enhancements.

Our firm strives to stay ahead of the curve - in terms of compensation, advocacy, and skills. Our aim is to recruit the best and brightest and give them the opportunity to work on precedent-setting matters. The bigger the stage, the better.